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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 261
2 Un chien andalou 1929 Luis Buñuel 410
3 La Jetée 1962 Chris Marker 480
4 Voyage to the Moon 1902 Georges Méliès 517
5 Zero for Conduct 1933 Jean Vigo 595
6 A Day in the Country 1936 Jean Renoir 696
7 Night and Fog 1955 Alain Resnais 744
8 Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid 1020
9 The Great Train Robbery 1903 Edwin S. Porter 1237
10 The Wrong Trousers 1993 Nick Park 1253
11 Wavelength 1967 Michael Snow 1303
12 The Red Balloon 1956 Albert Lamorisse 1306
13 The War Game 1965 Peter Watkins 1408
14 The Navigator 1924 Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton 1415
15 The Blood of a Poet 1930 Jean Cocteau 1528
16 Listen to Britain 1942 Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister 1559
17 Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat 1896 Auguste and Louis Lumière 1561
18 The Music Box 1932 James Parrott 1678
19 Scorpio Rising 1964 Kenneth Anger 1791
20 Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story 1988 Todd Haynes 1965
21 A Close Shave 1995 Nick Park 2003
22 Land without Bread 1933 Luis Buñuel 2013
23 A Grand Day Out 1989 Nick Park 2046
24 Seven Chances 1925 Buster Keaton 2125
25 Fantomas 1913 Louis Feuillade 2162
26 What's Opera, Doc? 1957 Chuck Jones 2175
27 Big Business 1929 James W. Horne and Leo McCarey 2227
28 Why We Fight 1: Prelude to War 1942 Frank Capra and Anatole Litvak 2316
29 Seven Up! 1964 Paul Almond 2318
30 Flaming Creatures 1963 Jack Smith 2340
31 The Cheat 1915 Cecil B. DeMille 2371
32 Un chant d'amour 1950 Jean Genet 2381
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