Take the Tour: "Short films"
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France - 1902
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- Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow: Six brave astronomers plan a voyage from Earth to the Moon. They build a space capsule in the shape of a bullet and a ...
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France - 1929
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- Un Chien Andalou is Bunuel's first film and collaboration with Salvador Dali, a surreal exploration of desire and passion. L'Age D'or is another collaboration with Dali, ...
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Brazil - 1989
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- Isle of Flowers (Portuguese: Ilha das Flores) is a 1989 Brazilian short film by Jorge Furtado. It tracks the path of a tomato from garden to dump with the help of a ...
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France - 1962
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- The world is in ruins in the aftermath of a nuclear war. A team of scientists realise that the only way to save humanity from extinction is to send someone into the past ...
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United States - 1920
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- Buster gets married, and as a wedding present his uncle gives him and his new bride some land and a house to go with it, but only when they get to the lot do they ...
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United States - 1878
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- Sallie Gardner at a Gallop is a series of photographs consisting of a galloping horse, the result of a photographic experiment by Eadweard Muybridge on June 15, 1878. ...
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United States - 2007
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- A short prologue of one heartbreaking history of love and the prologue of the travel told in Viaje a Darjeeling.
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Iran - 1963
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- The House is Black is an acclaimed Iranian documentary medium-legth film directed by Forugh Farrokhzad. The film is a look at life and suffering in a leper colony and ...
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United Kingdom - 2013
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- A prisoner discovers a magical box with a baneful secret that he falls foul to.
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United Kingdom - 1983
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- In the bleak days of 1983, the Crimson Permanent Assurance, an accountancy staffed by elderly workers much like a slave ship, has been taken over by efficiency-minded ...
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Spain - 2003
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- Two friends in a Strange place begin a game of words that leads to an unexpected twist
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United Kingdom - 1972
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- The Philosophers' Football Match is a Monty Python sketch depicting a football match in the Olympiastadion at the 1972 Munich Olympics between philosophers representing ...
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France - 1896
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- Another of the Lumiere Brothers' one-shot films, this time showing a steam train arriving at a station.
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United States - 1982
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- Young Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams which annoys his mother.
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Spain - 1991
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- A man comes into a bar in which there's only one other customer and asks the bartender to serve him a Mirinda (a Spanish orange drink). But then he refuses to pay for it, ...
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United States - 1943
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- Meshes of the Afternoon is one of the most influential works in American experimental cinema. A non-narrative work, it has been identified as a key example of the "trance ...
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United States - 2004
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- After his experience with Hollywood on the RoboCop sequels, Miller did not want to release the film rights, fearing a similar result. Rodriguez, a long-time fan of the ...
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United States - 1928
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- Mickey Mouse, piloting a steamboat, delights his passenger, Minnie, by making musical instruments out of the menagerie on deck.
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Canada - 2000
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- Two brothers, mortician Nikolai and actor Osip (playing Christ in a Passion play), love the same woman—scientist Anna, who studies the earth's core, or the "heart of the ...
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Spain - 1995
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United States - 2007
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United States - 1967
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- In the process of shaving, a young man cuts himself. A lot.
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France - 1962
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- During the Civil War, a Southern civilian is about to be hanged for attempting to sabotage a railway bridge. When the execution takes place from the bridge, the rope ...
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United States - 1986
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- Captain Eo and his rugged crew set out on a mission to deliver a special gift to a wicked queen who lives on a dark, desolate world. Getting there is half the fun, ...
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Australia - 2003
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- David, an orderly at a hospital, tells his horrific story of being kidnapped and forced to play a vile game of survival.
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Canada - 1997
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France - 1963
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- Early new wave effort from Rohmer which was the first of his six moral tales. It concerns a young man who approaches a girl in the street, but after several days without ...
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United States - 2012
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- At the lowest point of his life, Richie gets a call from his estranged sister, asking him to look after his nine-year old niece, Sophia, for a few hours.
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France - 1930
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- What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Cote d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.
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United States - 1920
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- The Romeo and Juliet story played out in a tenement neighborhood with Buster and Virginia's families hating each other over the fence separating their buildings.
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United States - 2008
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- The epic story of one man's encounter with what could be the most relentless murderer of all time.
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Spain - 2004
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- Soon a man will find out that his destiny is already written and that he can't do anything to change it.
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Iran - 1972
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- When the breaktime bell rings, young Dara leaves school; he has been sent home as a punishment for breaking a window with his football. On his way home he comes across ...
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India - 1965
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- This short film is about a bored rich Indian kid who, upon seeing a kid in the garden in front of his house play a flute, immediately engages in a competition with him to see who owns the better toys.
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United States - 1968
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- Against a backdrop of bizarre shapes and textures, a small organic figure gives birth to the letters of the alphabet while a mixture of children's voices and an operatic ...
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United States - 1937
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- Animation
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- A triumph of mood over plot, the short shows the inhabitants of an ancient, abandoned mill preparing for nightfall and an approaching storm. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Spain - 1996
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- Antonio and Concha, a couple who are constantly fighting about money, win the Christmas Lottery first prize. Concha, who is very bossy, starts making decisions about how ...
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United States - 1929
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- Two escaped convicts (Laurel & Hardy) change clothes in the getaway car, but wind up wearing each other's pants. The rest of the film involves their trying to exchange ...
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United States - 1903
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- This picture, directed and scripted by Edwin S. Porter, introduced the first cinematic cowboy star, Bronco Billy Anderson. Anderson plays several roles in this ...
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Germany - 2004
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- The phone rings, startling Tomas, who is seated in front of the computer. He feels for the telephone receiver. Tomas is blind. His girlfriend, Francine, tells him that ...
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United States - 2009
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- At the height of the Great Depression, the showman of a renowned circus leads his troupe through the devastated American landscape, lifting the spirits of audiences along ...
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France - 1895
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- The 'plot' is outlined by the title: the film consists of a single shot of workers leaving the Lumiere factory, and the film would be of virtually no interest (except to ...
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United States - 1999
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- 1967 film student George Lucas has writer's block trying to finish his "Space Wheat" script, until a beautiful fellow student with a familiar hairstyle teaches him that ...
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Canada - 1969
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- Bambi is contentedly nibbling the grass, seemingly unaware of his impending encounter with Godzilla. What will happen when the two finally meet?
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Spain - 2009
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- This short film is part of the film-within-the-film Girls and Suitcases (Chicas y maletas), the film being shot in Broken Embraces (Los abrazos rotos). "The Cannibalistic ...
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United Kingdom - 1997
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- In a ratty flat, a man is on his hands and knees, holding a shoe by its toe, trying to kill a bug of some sort that so far has managed to evade him. He keeps up the chase ...
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Canada - 2005
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- An eerie tale of a close encounter of the third kind in Johannesburg.
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France - 1957
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- During the hot summer, 5 kids, "Les Mistons", spy on two lovers. They follow Gérard and Bernadette everywhere.
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Spain - 2004
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United Kingdom - 1903
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- Alice dozes in a garden, awakened by a dithering white rabbit in waistcoat with pocket watch. She follows him down a hole and finds herself in a hall of many doors. A key ...
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United States - 2003
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- The Joker has escaped from Arkham and Batman must once again bring him in - once and for all. Unfortunately for the bat, there is something even more sinister than the ...
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Czechoslovakia - 1978
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United States - 1922
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- Botany major Buster mistakenly graduates in electrical engineering and is hired to wire a new home. He installs lots of fanciful gadgets. The one who should have received ...
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Spain - 2003
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- A woman enters a restaurant one morning - only to be met with silence instead of people talking.
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United States - 2010
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- A library assistant plods through an ordinary life in LA until a chance meeting opens his eyes to a the power of creativity and ultimately, love. When this new life and ...
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United States - 1993
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- This shortcut repeats the structure of Coffee and Cigarettes. This time, Iggy Pop and Tom Waits meet in a bar. But, again, we don't know why they agreed to do that in the ...
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Poland - 1959
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- A church bell chimes. An old woman stops to feed pidgins on her way to work in the men's lavatory in the basement of a public building. She sits all day by the lavatory ...
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Spain - 1995
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Denmark - 1980
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- It's night. Perhaps after a dream of an intruder crashing through a window, a woman who's sensitive to light has a telephone conversation with a friend. The woman has a ...
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Uruguay - 2009
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- Giant robots and UFOs attack Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay.
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France - 1976
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- A high-speed drive through the streets of Paris.
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Italy - 1947
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- A non-fiction documentary made between 1943 and 1947 about a barge trip down the Po River, looking at the relationship between individuals and their environment.
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United States - 1942
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- The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened.
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Spain - 2005
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- Fernando awakens to the sound of his wife shutting the door when she leaves him. He wakes their son, Joaquin, a young man. It's quickly clear why she left: they live like ...
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Thailand - 2009
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- A fluorescent tube illuminates an empty playground in the evening. Nearby a flash of light is projected on a makeshift screen. This outdoor movie is a portrait of a ...
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France - 1908
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France - 2001
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- Michael Gondry's examination of childhood love is replete with his trademark surreality. One evening at the turn of the century, Stephane discusses with his brother the ...
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United States - 1910
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- Chased off by the antics of Hank the Mule, Dorothy ends up in her cornfield, where she realizes her family's Scarecrow is alive. She helps him down and he takes a tumble ...
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United States - 1967
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- While monitored and pursued, a man races to escape through a futuristic labyrinth.
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New Zealand - 1989
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- A suburban housewife discovers a horrifying surprise at the end of a pesky hair lodged in her sink.
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