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Top Short Films

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
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