This list contains films that are under 60 minutes long. Some films like The Decalogue (1988) 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 | 281 |
| 2 | Voyage to the Moon | 1902 | Georges Méliès | 377 |
| 3 | Un chien andalou | 1929 | Luis Buñuel | 382 |
| 4 | La Jetée | 1962 | Chris Marker | 474 |
| 5 | Night and Fog | 1956 | Alain Resnais | 490 |
| 6 | The Great Train Robbery | 1903 | Edwin S. Porter | 777 |
| 7 | Meshes of the Afternoon | 1943 | Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid | 823 |
| 8 | The Red Balloon | 1956 | Albert Lamorisse | 1172 |
| 9 | Seven Up! | 1964 | Paul Almond | 1227 |
| 10 | Scorpio Rising | 1963 | Kenneth Anger | 1331 |
| 11 | Tongues Untied | 1989 | Marlon Riggs | 1347 |
| 12 | Seven Plus Seven | 1970 | Michael Apted | 1394 |
| 13 | Zero for Conduct | 1933 | Jean Vigo | 1499 |
| 14 | A Day in the Country | 1946 | Jean Renoir | 1625 |
| 15 | The War Game | 1966 | Peter Watkins | 1749 |
| 16 | Duck Amuck | 1953 | Chuck Jones | 1783 |
| 17 | The Blood of a Poet | 1932 | Jean Cocteau | 1831 |
| 18 | The House Is Black | 1963 | Forugh Farrokhzad | 1921 |
| 19 | Wavelength | 1967 | Michael Snow | 2036 |
| 20 | Lessons of Darkness | 1992 | Werner Herzog | 2145 |
| 21 | Un chant d'amour | 1950 | Jean Genet | 2173 |
| 22 | Land without Bread | 1933 | Luis Buñuel | 2236 |
| 23 | The Music Box | 1932 | James Parrott | 2315 |
| 24 | Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat | 1896 | Auguste and Louis Lumière | 2351 |
| 25 | The Wrong Trousers | 1993 | Nick Park | 2422 |
| 26 | The Navigator | 1924 | Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton | 2475 |
| 27 | Listen to Britain | 1942 | Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister | 2549 |
| 28 | Seven Chances | 1925 | Buster Keaton | 2712 |
| 29 | The Impossible Voyage | 1904 | Georges Méliès | 2762 |
| 30 | Flaming Creatures | 1963 | Jack Smith | 2799 |
| 31 | What's Opera, Doc? | 1957 | Chuck Jones | 2825 |
| 32 | The Immigrant | 1917 | Charles Chaplin | 2848 |
| 33 | Suspense | 1913 | Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber | 2851 |
| 34 | The Smiling Madame Beudet | 1923 | Germaine Dulac | 2866 |
| 35 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas! | 1966 | Chuck Jones | 2870 |
| 36 | Looking for Langston | 1989 | Isaac Julien | 2913 |
| 37 | One Week | 1920 | Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton | 2925 |
| 38 | The Cheat | 1915 | Cecil B. DeMille | 2941 |
| 39 | Ménilmontant | 1926 | Dimitri Kirsanoff | 3037 |