This list contains films that are under 60 minutes long. The Decalogue (1988), Flash Gordon (1936), and Les Vampires (1915) are not on this list because the collections are much longer than 60 minutes even though the individual segments are under 60 minutes.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Sherlock, Jr. | 1924 | Buster Keaton | 226 |
| 2 | Un chien andalou | 1929 | Luis Buñuel | 369 |
| 3 | Voyage to the Moon | 1902 | Georges Méliès | 473 |
| 4 | Zero for Conduct | 1933 | Jean Vigo | 518 |
| 5 | A Day in the Country | 1936 | Jean Renoir | 604 |
| 6 | La Jetée | 1962 | Chris Marker | 687 |
| 7 | Meshes of the Afternoon | 1943 | Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid | 906 |
| 8 | The Navigator | 1924 | Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton | 989 |
| 9 | The Wrong Trousers | 1993 | Nick Park | 1011 |
| 10 | Night and Fog | 1955 | Alain Resnais | 1066 |
| 11 | Wavelength | 1967 | Michael Snow | 1168 |
| 12 | The Great Train Robbery | 1903 | Edwin S. Porter | 1191 |
| 13 | The Blood of a Poet | 1930 | Jean Cocteau | 1504 |
| 14 | Land without Bread | 1933 | Luis Buñuel | 1596 |
| 15 | Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat | 1895 | Auguste and Louis Lumière | 1649 |
| 16 | A Grand Day Out | 1989 | Nick Park | 1677 |
| 17 | The War Game | 1965 | Peter Watkins | 1700 |
| 18 | The Cheat | 1915 | Cecil B. DeMille | 1752 |
| 19 | The Red Balloon | 1956 | Albert Lamorisse | 1794 |
| 20 | A Close Shave | 1995 | Nick Park | 1803 |
| 21 | Listen to Britain | 1942 | Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister | 1838 |
| 22 | The Music Box | 1932 | James Parrott | 1882 |
| 23 | Fantomas | 1913 | Louis Feuillade | 1971 |
| 24 | Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story | 1987 | Todd Haynes | 1987 |
| 25 | Flaming Creatures | 1963 | Jack Smith | 2131 |
| 26 | What's Opera, Doc? | 1957 | Chuck Jones | 2241 |
| 27 | Why We Fight 1: Prelude to War | 1943 | Frank Capra and Anatole Litvak | 2265 |
| 28 | À Propos de Nice | 1930 | Jean Vigo | 2266 |
| 29 | Lessons of Darkness | 1992 | Werner Herzog | 2311 |
| 30 | Night Mail | 1936 | Harry Watt and Basil Wright | 2378 |
| 31 | The House Is Black | 1963 | Forugh Farrokhzad | 2407 |
| 32 | Big Business | 1929 | James W. Horne and Leo McCarey | 2516 |