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 | 198 |
| 2 | Un chien andalou | 1929 | Luis Buñuel | 304 |
| 3 | Voyage to the Moon | 1902 | Georges Méliès | 337 |
| 4 | La Jetée | 1962 | Chris Marker | 350 |
| 5 | Night and Fog | 1956 | Alain Resnais | 390 |
| 6 | The Great Train Robbery | 1903 | Edwin S. Porter | 688 |
| 7 | Meshes of the Afternoon | 1943 | Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid | 713 |
| 8 | The Red Balloon | 1956 | Albert Lamorisse | 921 |
| 9 | A Day in the Country | 1946 | Jean Renoir | 1001 |
| 10 | Zero for Conduct | 1933 | Jean Vigo | 1071 |
| 11 | Scorpio Rising | 1963 | Kenneth Anger | 1122 |
| 12 | Seven Up! | 1964 | Paul Almond | 1196 |
| 13 | Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat | 1896 | Auguste and Louis Lumière | 1229 |
| 14 | The War Game | 1966 | Peter Watkins | 1369 |
| 15 | Tongues Untied | 1989 | Marlon Riggs | 1374 |
| 16 | Seven Plus Seven | 1970 | Michael Apted | 1431 |
| 17 | Duck Amuck | 1953 | Chuck Jones | 1469 |
| 18 | Listen to Britain | 1942 | Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister | 1481 |
| 19 | Wavelength | 1967 | Michael Snow | 1526 |
| 20 | Land without Bread | 1933 | Luis Buñuel | 1602 |
| 21 | The Blood of a Poet | 1932 | Jean Cocteau | 1659 |
| 22 | The Music Box | 1932 | James Parrott | 1691 |
| 23 | Seven Chances | 1925 | Buster Keaton | 1840 |
| 24 | The House Is Black | 1963 | Forugh Farrokhzad | 1870 |
| 25 | Flaming Creatures | 1963 | Jack Smith | 1880 |
| 26 | The Navigator | 1924 | Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton | 1886 |
| 27 | The Wrong Trousers | 1993 | Nick Park | 1954 |
| 28 | Un chant d'amour | 1950 | Jean Genet | 2075 |
| 29 | Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory | 1895 | Louis Lumière | 2230 |
| 30 | Prelude: Dog Star Man | 1962 | Stan Brakhage | 2241 |
| 31 | Lessons of Darkness | 1992 | Werner Herzog | 2287 |
| 32 | Ménilmontant | 1926 | Dimitri Kirsanoff | 2297 |
| 33 | The Crazy Ray | 1924 | René Clair | 2362 |
| 34 | Dog Star Man: Part IV | 1964 | Stan Brakhage | 2368 |
| 35 | Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story | 1988 | Todd Haynes | 2374 |
| 36 | Le Sang des bêtes | 1949 | Georges Franju | 2394 |
| 37 | The Immigrant | 1917 | Charles Chaplin | 2450 |
| 38 | The Impossible Voyage | 1904 | Georges Méliès | 2473 |
| 39 | Dog Star Man: Part II | 1963 | Stan Brakhage | 2482 |
| 40 | Les Maîtres fous | 1957 | Jean Rouch | 2486 |
| 41 | Dog Star Man: Part I | 1962 | Stan Brakhage | 2499 |
| 42 | Dog Star Man: Part III | 1964 | Stan Brakhage | 2506 |
| 43 | The Smiling Madame Beudet | 1923 | Germaine Dulac | 2595 |
| 44 | A Movie | 1958 | Bruce Conner | 2618 |
| 45 | A Charlie Brown Christmas | 1965 | Bill Melendez | 2640 |
| 46 | Fantomas | 1913 | Louis Feuillade | 2682 |
| 47 | The Kiss | 1896 | William Heise | 2709 |
| 48 | What's Opera, Doc? | 1957 | Chuck Jones | 2744 |
| 49 | Gertie the Dinosaur | 1914 | Winsor McCay | 2776 |