Surreal/Absurd/Psychedelic/Experimental/ETC Films & TV Series
by funkybrother65 | created - 16 Sep 2011 | updated - 1 month ago | PublicThese are my personal favorites. New titles been added, when I find something new that I like. Open for suggestions.
- Instant Watch Options
- Genres
- Movies or TV
- IMDb Rating
- In Theaters
- Release Year
- Keywords
1. A Nightmare (1896)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Horror
In this fantastic scene, a man who is eager to retire has a difficult time finding peace, as his nocturnal illusions come to life out of thin air.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Jehanne d'Alcy, Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,986
2. The Astronomer's Dream; or, the Man in the Moon (1898)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
An astronomer falls asleep and has a strange dream involving a fairy queen and the Moon.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Jehanne d'Alcy, Georges Méliès
Votes: 4,725
3. A Mysterious Portrait (1899)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short
A magician has a picture frame set up. He then proceeds to make a second version of himself appear inside it.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 598
4. Oh! What a Night; or, The Sultan's Dream (1900)
3 min | Short, Fantasy
The picture opens with the Sultan lying down to rest on his luxurious cushioned couch. The scene changes to the grounds around the palace. An odd-looking tree appears in the foreground and ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 414
5. A Fantastical Meal (1900)
Not Rated | 2 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
A man and two women sit down to eat dinner, but several unexpected surprises prevent them from their repast: the legs of the table grow, the table disappears into the floor, and a ghostly spirit appears and takes possession of the man.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 420
6. The Fat and the Lean Wrestling Match (1901)
Not Rated | 2 min | Short, Comedy
Right in front of our very eyes, two attractive and feminine women metamorphose into two professional wrestlers who begin a no-holds-barred wrestling match.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Jehanne d'Alcy, Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,164
7. A Trip to the Moon (1902)
TV-G | 13 min | Short, Action, Adventure
A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Georges Méliès, Victor André, Bleuette Bernon, Brunnet
Votes: 55,755
8. The Damnation of Faust (1903)
6 min | Short, Fantasy
Scenes. 1. The Route to the Depths of Perdition (a Dazzingly Sensational New Effect.) 2. The Fantastical Ride. 3. The Gloomy Pass. 4. The Stream. 5. The Entrance to the Lower Regions. 6. ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 464
9. The Ballet Master's Dream (1903)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Fantasy
A ballet master dreams of ballerinas.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Georges Méliès, Zizi Papillon
Votes: 263
10. The Magic Lantern (1903)
Not Rated | 5 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
In this brief "trick film" two clowns assemble an enormous magic lantern which first projects moving images, then emits dancing girls.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Zizi Papillon
Votes: 811
11. Alcofribas, the Master Magician (1903)
Not Rated | 4 min | Short
A prince is in need of a fiancee, so he visits a well-known sorcerer and asks for help. However, the prince does not exactly get what he bargained for.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Jehanne d'Alcy, Georges Méliès
Votes: 235
12. Alice in Wonderland (1903)
9 min | Short, Family, Fantasy
This is the first movie version of the famous story. 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.
Directors: Cecil M. Hepworth, Percy Stow | Stars: May Clark, Cecil M. Hepworth, Blair, Geoffrey Faithfull
Votes: 2,886
13. An Impossible Voyage (1904)
Not Rated | 24 min | Short, Action, Adventure
Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Georges Méliès, Fernande Albany, Jehanne d'Alcy, May de Lavergne
Votes: 3,998
14. The Clock Maker's Dream (1904)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Fantasy
A weary clock-maker dozes off in a chair. While he is asleep, three women suddenly appear in the midst of his shop. They proceed to show the sleeping clock-maker some new kinds of clocks that they know how to make.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 264
15. A Moonlight Serenade; or, The Miser Punished (1904)
3 min | Short
Pierrot comes to a miser's house to serenade his lover but he kicks him out. The lady on the moon offers him her hand. He serenades her till the greedy miser comes out and attempts to ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: André Deed, Georges Méliès
Votes: 273
16. Decapitation in Turkey (1904)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
In a public place in Constantinople at the corner of a bazaar, the executioner is seated upon a stone and is resting from his daily labors while eating a crust of bread. Suddenly there come... See full summary »
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 509
17. The 400 Tricks of the Devil (1906)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
Two travelers are tormented by Satan from inn to inn and eventually experience a buggy ride through the heavens courtesy of the Devil.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,368
18. Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906)
Not Rated | 7 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
The fiend faces the spectacular mind-bending consequences of his free-wheeling rarebit binge.
Directors: Wallace McCutcheon, Edwin S. Porter | Star: Jack Brawn
Votes: 1,990
19. A Crazy Composer (1906)
Not Rated | 5 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
A composer alone in his music room has a better imagination while asleep than awake.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 306
20. The '?' Motorist (1906)
3 min | Fantasy, Short, Comedy
A British trick film in which a motorist ends up driving around the rings of Saturn.
Director: Walter R. Booth
Votes: 1,280
21. The Mysterious Retort (1906)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Fantasy, Mystery
Sound asleep in his comfortable armchair next to a high-pressure retort, a mystic silver-haired alchemist can't even notice the strange manifestations emerging from the vessel's bottom. Is this a dream, or a cornucopia of secreted desires?
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 700
22. The Luny Musician (1906)
Not Rated | 4 min | Short, Comedy
Professor Do-mi-sol-do is trying to practice music, but his instruments and music stand begin to provoke him.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 202
23. The Chimney Sweep (1906)
Not Rated | 10 min | Short
A young enslaved chimney sweep named Jack finds a box of jewels in a chimney which restores his well-being.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Emile Gajean, Georges Méliès, The Ping-Pongs
Votes: 196
24. Japanese Magic (1907)
Not Rated | 1 min | Animation, Short
This subject presents n remarkably clever series of illusions in which a Japanese lantern, several dolls, chickens, mice and grasshoppers play a very prominent part. Mystifying and highly ... See full summary »
Director: Émile Cohl
Votes: 110
25. The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon (1907)
Not Rated | 9 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
As the clock strikes twelve, a weary astronomer attempts to answer the impertinent enquiries of his young students by scrutinising an impending lunar eclipse, as an effeminate and delicate moon caresses the mighty sun's hungry cosmic rays.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Mlle. Bodson, Manuel, Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,406
26. Sightseeing Through Whisky (1907)
Not Rated | 6 min | Short
John is one of a group of sightseers who loves the bottle a little too much. Too drunk to follow the party, the reeling drunkard remains on a ruin site where he starts having hallucinations... See full summary »
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Fernande Albany, Manuel
Votes: 287
27. The Skipping Cheese (1907)
Not Rated | 5 min | Short, Comedy
A group of passengers are enjoying their ride on a trolley when a cheese-seller climbs aboard. The odor of her wares are so strong it disturbs the passengers, and when they find the source ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 223
28. A Fantasy (1908)
2 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The first all-animated film in history, a series of scenes without much narrative structure, but morphing into each other.
Director: Émile Cohl
Votes: 2,834
29. The Puppet's Nightmare (1908)
Not Rated | 2 min | Animation, Short
The nightmare of Émile Cohl's chalk animation is one of unreliable appearances. Fishermen catch fish which eat them whole. Ladders transform into coils which just as suddenly take the form ... See full summary »
Director: Émile Cohl
Votes: 289
30. Hallucinations pharmaceutiques ou Le truc de potard (1908)
Not Rated | 13 min | Short
An alchemist owns a pharmacy for the rich. His assistants play a trick on him and put a drug in his medicine, leading to ghostly visions experienced by the alchemist, who goes to a wizard ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 184
31. The Dream of an Opium Fiend (1908)
Not Rated | 4 min | Short
The opium fiend is seen in a den, puffing on this terrible narcotic. He then falls fast asleep and dreams that he is at home with his wife. He asks for something to drink and he is given ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Mlle. Bodson, Georges Méliès
Votes: 226
32. The New Lord of the Village (1908)
Not Rated | 9 min | Short, Fantasy
A rich lord is led by a gypsy to a cave, where a spirit makes him poor and the two poor men that accompanied him are made rich. Later the lord is spared and turned back to his former rich self.
Directors: Manuel, Georges Méliès | Stars: Fernande Albany, Mlle. Bodson, Georges Méliès
Votes: 148
33. Affaires de coeur (1909)
Not Rated | 4 min | Animation, Short
A near-abstract animation telling a simple romantic story through drawings almost entirely composed of heart shapes.
Director: Émile Cohl
Votes: 144
34. Princess Nicotine; or, the Smoke Fairy (1909)
Unrated | 5 min | Comedy, Short, Fantasy
A drowsy pipe-smoker attempts to nap, only to be tormented relentlessly by the mischievous Princess Nicotine and her fairy companion.
Director: J. Stuart Blackton | Stars: Paul Panzer, Gladys Hulette
Votes: 1,025
35. Magic Cartoons (1909)
3 min | Animation, Short
An old and learned doctor discovers the secret of spontaneous generation and makes a microscopic germ which in its growth gives birth to the following people who dissolve into one another ... See full summary »
Director: Émile Cohl
Votes: 66
36. A Bad Case (1909)
5 min | Animation, Short
A scientist is studying microbes under a microscope when his friend enters the room. He explains all the microbes that his friend is infected with.
Director: Émile Cohl
Votes: 194
37. Les locataires d'à-côté (1909)
Not Rated | 5 min | Animation, Short
Two nosy neighbors who drill a hole through their wall to spy on the canoodling couple next door get more than they bargained for when the man discovers their plan and casts a magic spell. ... See full summary »
Director: Émile Cohl
Votes: 89
38. Les transfigurations (1909)
Not Rated | 6 min | Animation, Short
A showman invites patrons to step up to his Kinetoscope-style magic box and glimpse the answers to their most burning questions. Émile Cohl's irreverent animation takes over from here, ... See full summary »
Director: Émile Cohl
Votes: 99
39. The Man in the Moon (1909)
4 min | Animation, Short
Two lovers perform a fandango dance. A jealous quarrel follows and the heart-broken swain decides to end it all. He throws himself from the window of his room, but instead of being killed ... See full summary »
Directors: Étienne Arnaud, Émile Cohl
Votes: 165
40. X-Ray Glasses (1909)
5 min | Animation, Short
Grandfather gets a pair of magic spectacles, which he claims to possess the miraculous power of showing the tastes and inclinations of the person who puts them on. There are present at the ... See full summary »
Director: Émile Cohl
Votes: 102
41. The Hasher's Delirium (1910)
5 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
Four customers are having a peaceful game of cards in a quiet café. The atmosphere bring heavy, the waiter falls asleep and has a beautiful dream in which two angels come and play to him on... See full summary »
Director: Émile Cohl
Votes: 529
42. Rêves enfantins (1910)
6 min | Animation, Short
A young girl dreams her teddy bear comes to life.
Director: Émile Cohl | Star: Alphonsine Mary
Votes: 70
43. The Comedy-Graph (1910)
5 min | Animation, Short
Short film that is a mixture of live-action and animation. A clown comes upon a stage and presents a projector-like device that throws animated objects on the wall. Several animated faces and the likes are shown.
Director: Émile Cohl
Votes: 114
44. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910)
Not Rated | 13 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Short
An early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel.
Director: Otis Turner | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Hobart Bosworth, Eugenie Besserer, Robert Z. Leonard
Votes: 1,639
45. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1910)
10 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Film "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" based on the novel "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll.
Director: Edwin S. Porter | Stars: Gladys Hulette, Yale Boss
Votes: 166
46. Dante's Inferno (1911)
71 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Loosely adapted from Dante's Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré the original silent film has been restored and has a new score by Tangerine Dream.
Directors: Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, Giuseppe de Liguoro | Stars: Salvatore Papa, Arturo Pirovano, Giuseppe de Liguoro, Pier Delle Vigne
Votes: 3,454
47. The Hallucinations of Baron Munchausen (1911)
Not Rated | 11 min | Short, Fantasy
After an evening of excessive wining and dining Baron Munchausen must be helped to bed by his servants. Once asleep, he has bizarre and frightening dreams.
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 556
48. Brains Repaired (1911)
7 min | Animation, Short
A doctor has an unusual method of examining someone's brains.
Director: Émile Cohl
Votes: 112
49. À la conquête du pôle (1912)
Not Rated | 33 min | Short, Adventure, Horror
Aboard the futuristic flying machine of his own invention, Professor Mabouloff and his team of intercultural explorers set off on yet another impossible expedition to North Pole's vast landscapes. What wonders await the bold adventurers?
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Georges Méliès, Fernande Albany
Votes: 1,198
50. Alice in Wonderland (1915)
Not Rated | 52 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Alice goes with her sister to a picnic and then she falls asleep and starts dreaming about a wonderland full of talking animals and walking playing cards.
Director: W.W. Young | Stars: Viola Savoy, Herbert Rice, Elmo Lincoln, Harry Marks
Votes: 722
51. Bobby Bumps Puts a Beanery on the Bum (1918)
5 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A little boy and his beloved puppy find themselves in and out of mischief.
Director: Earl Hurd
Votes: 111
52. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Not Rated | 67 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.
Director: Robert Wiene | Stars: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover
Votes: 70,047
53. Genuine: The Tragedy of a Vampire (1920)
88 min | Horror
Genuine is an ancient and cruel divinity, who seduces men and induce them to kill as a proof of love.
Director: Robert Wiene | Stars: Fern Andra, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Ernst Gronau, Harald Paulsen
Votes: 1,130
54. Lichtspiel Opus 1. (1921)
13 min | Animation, Short, Music
Against a dark background, several bright, curved or rounded shapes pulse towards the center of the screen, one at a time. They are followed by many other shapes, some irregular, some ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Ruttmann
Votes: 966
55. Opus II (1921)
4 min | Animation, Short
As early as 1909, Walter Ruttmann explored the artistic properties of the film. His theoretical and practical work led in 1919 to the first "absolute film", Opus I. Ruttmann placed "painting more time" halfway between painting and music.
Director: Walter Ruttmann
Votes: 434
56. Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: The Pet (1921)
Not Rated | 11 min | Animation, Short
After eating a rarebit, a man has an odd dream in which his wife takes in a strange-looking animal that eats everything in sight and keeps growing until it threatens the entire city.
Director: Winsor McCay
Votes: 473
57. Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: The Flying House (1921)
11 min | Animation, Short
After eating rarebit, a woman has a strange dream in which her husband converts their home into a flying machine to escape having to pay the exorbitant interest on the mortgage. It takes them around the world and to the moon.
Director: Winsor McCay
Votes: 420
58. Häxan (1922)
Not Rated | 91 min | Documentary, Fantasy, Horror
Fictionalized documentary showing the evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in Eastern Europe.
Director: Benjamin Christensen | Stars: Benjamin Christensen, Elisabeth Christensen, Maren Pedersen, Clara Pontoppidan
Votes: 16,720
59. Bubbles (1922)
7 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
Max and the Inkwell Clown compete to see who can blow the largest bubble.
Director: Dave Fleischer | Star: Max Fleischer
Votes: 121
60. Jumping Beans (1922)
12 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
Koko the Clown plants a jumping bean that becomes a beanstalk. Later, he creates duplicates of himself and attacks his creator.
Director: Dave Fleischer | Star: Max Fleischer
Votes: 131
61. Das Wunder (1922)
3 min | Animation, Short
Animated short subject advertising the Kantorowicz distillery, a Polish based family business specializing in liquids, spirits and fruit juices.
Director: Walter Ruttmann
Votes: 207
62. Rhythmus 21 (1921)
3 min | Animation, Short
Black and white rectangular images fade in and out of the screen. Their movement make them sometimes look like they're panning from side to side. Their movement also make the black and ... See full summary »
Director: Hans Richter
Votes: 1,453
63. Rhythmus 23 (1923)
2 min | Animation, Short
Rhythm 23 (Rhythmus 23, 1923) is an extension of the same film but with more angles and overlays added, and adding lines rather than adhering to the squares of the original. It looks so ... See full summary »
Director: Hans Richter
Votes: 464
64. Bed Time (1923)
9 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
Max goes to bed, leaving Ko-Ko at the peak of a steep mountain. Ko-Ko doesn't stay perched for long, and soon finds himself battling strong winds and upsetting a giant, before entering the real world to exact his revenge on a sleeping Max.
Director: Dave Fleischer | Star: Max Fleischer
Votes: 141
65. Return to Reason (1923)
3 min | Short
Experimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, a light-striped torso, a gyrating eggcrate. One of the first Dadaist films.
Director: Man Ray | Star: Kiki of Montparnasse
Votes: 2,202
66. Trip to Mars (1924)
7 min | Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Max sends Ko-Ko on a rocket toward the moon, but Ko-Ko crash lands on Mars, where he encounters bizarre creatures and contraptions. Meanwhile, Max himself is blasted into outer space.
Director: Dave Fleischer | Star: Max Fleischer
Votes: 197
67. The Cure (1924)
9 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
Max has a toothache, and it's up to The Clown and a bespectacled rabbit to pull out the aching tooth.
Director: Dave Fleischer | Star: Max Fleischer
Votes: 54
68. The Cartoon Factory (1924)
Not Rated | 8 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
This 1924 cartoon features an animated KoKo the Clown and a live-action Max Fleischer. Max has invented a new, electric, drawing device. He uses this to finish the drawing and then, with a ... See full summary »
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Max Fleischer | Star: Max Fleischer
Votes: 212
69. Entr'acte (1924)
22 min | Short
An absolute dada movie. Somebody gets killed, his coffin gets out of control and after a chase it stops. The person gets out of it and let everybody who followed the coffin dissapear.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Jean Börlin, Inge Frïss, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp
Votes: 4,196
70. Ballet mécanique (1924)
19 min | Short
A pulsing, kaleidoscope of images set to an energetic soundtrack. A young women swings in a garden; a woman's face smiles. The rest is spinning cylinders, pistons, gears and turbines, ... See full summary »
Directors: Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy | Stars: Kiki of Montparnasse, Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy, Katherine Murphy
Votes: 3,294
71. Opus III (1924)
3 min | Animation, Short
Third instalment in a series of short, abstract animations, featuring bright shapes moving against a dark background. The shapes move across the screen in harmony with the music.
Director: Walter Ruttmann
Votes: 419
72. Diagonal Symphony (1924)
7 min | Animation, Short, Music
A tilted figure, consisting largely of right angles at the beginning, grows by accretion, with the addition of short straight lines and curves which sprout from the existing design. The ... See full summary »
Director: Viking Eggeling
Votes: 1,479
73. The Fugitive Futurist (1924)
10 min | Comedy, Short
A habitual loser at the race-track is approached by a man who claims to be an inventor with a machine that can see into the future; but can it predict the winner of tomorrow's race? And just whom is the 'inventor' trying to escape anyway?
Director: Gaston Quiribet
Votes: 95
74. Felix Trifles with Time (1925)
8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Felix, the cartoon cat, travels back in time and encounters prehistoric monsters.
Director: Otto Messmer
Votes: 67
75. Alice Gets Stung (1925)
8 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
Julius the cat is chasing a rabbit. The rabbit escapes down one of a pair of holes, and teases the cat for a while; the cat finally catches the rabbit by leaving his face to watch one hole ... See full summary »
Director: Walt Disney | Star: Virginia Davis
Votes: 207
76. Das wiedergefundene Paradies (1925)
4 min | Animation, Short
A celebration of how red flowers bring happiness back to Adam and Eve, after they have been driven away by bolts of yellow lightning from paradise.
Directors: Walter Ruttmann, Lotte Lendesdorff
Votes: 121
77. Opus IV (1925)
4 min | Animation, Short
Walter Ruttmann's (Metropolis 1927) fourth abstract animated short in the series. In this the last film he has found a cohesion between the music and the action. The synergy between the music and the on screen action can be felt.
Director: Walter Ruttmann
Votes: 414
78. A Page of Madness (1926)
Not Rated | 70 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.
Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa | Stars: Masuo Inoue, Ayako Iijima, Yoshie Nakagawa, Hiroshi Nemoto
Votes: 4,573
79. Filmstudie (1926)
Not Rated | 7 min | Short
Entertaining Dadaist experimental short, similar to Man Ray's work, full of shifting geometric shapes, stock footage of seagulls, flying eyeballs, and glaring floating heads.
Director: Hans Richter | Star: Stella F. Simon
Votes: 839
80. Spiel der Wellen (1926)
3 min | Animation, Short
In this animated promotional short for the German electronics company AEG ,the music of a black performer in Africa is spread to other continents through the "play of waves" (Radio).
Directors: Walter Ruttmann, Lotte Lendesdorff
Votes: 93
81. Fadeaway (1926)
9 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
Max adds Fade-Out Powder to his ink, and Ko-Ko and Fitz must deal with objects in their world disappearing before their eyes. Escaping into the real world, the duo float away on a balloon and sprinkle the vanishing powder on objects below.
Director: Dave Fleischer | Star: Max Fleischer
Votes: 54
82. Alice's Mysterious Mystery (1926)
6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A mouse and his boss pose as dogcatchers and grab a schoolhouse full of dogs; they use several other ruses to round up dogs for, as we discover, a sausage factory. Alice and Julius are on ... See full summary »
Director: Walt Disney | Star: Margie Gay
Votes: 282
83. Alice in the Wooly West (1926)
7 min | Comedy, Animation, Short
Julius is out for a ride on his horse; he does some rope tricks. Some bad guys rob a stagecoach; one of the passengers is Alice, who finds herself stuck between the head bad guy and a ... See full summary »
Director: Walt Disney | Star: Margie Gay
Votes: 213
84. Alice's Balloon Race (1926)
Not Rated | 8 min | Comedy, Family, Animation
Alice and Julius, as a team, are one of four entrants in a $10,000 balloon race. The bad guy takes out one balloon quickly. It's not clear what kind of balloons these are, since they are ... See full summary »
Director: Walt Disney | Star: Margie Gay
Votes: 236
85. Anemic Cinema (1926)
Not Rated | 7 min | Short
A spiral design spins dizzily. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labelled and can be read as ... See full summary »
Director: Marcel Duchamp
Votes: 1,841
86. Metropolis (1927)
Not Rated | 153 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Votes: 185,494 | Gross: $1.24M
87. Ko-Ko Explores (1927)
6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
As Max types a scenario for Ko-Ko and Fitz, a cartoon cannibal headhunter steals his head. Ko-Ko and Fitz leap into Max's globe in search of the cannibals, while Max's headless body fumbles around in his office.
Director: Dave Fleischer | Star: Max Fleischer
Votes: 27
88. Ko-Ko Back Tracks (1927)
9 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
Ko-Ko and Fitz find that everything in their cartoon world is moving backwards. After entering the real world, they go inside a clock and move the hands backward, causing life all around the city to run in reverse.
Director: Dave Fleischer | Star: Max Fleischer
Votes: 61
89. The Mechanical Cow (1927)
6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Oswald wakes up grumpy and takes it out on his alarm clock, afterward trying his best to wake up the mechanical cow sleeping in the bed beside him, with limited success. They finally do get... See full summary »
Director: Walt Disney
Votes: 353
90. The Ocean Hop (1927)
6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Oswald the Rabbit enters an airplane race with a makeshift aircraft and ends up riding a dachshund lifted into the air by balloons. Meanwhile, his peg-legged rival tries to cheat his way to victory.
Directors: Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks
Votes: 256
91. Great Guns (1927)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Oswald's country is at war, like many other volunters he joins the army and finds himself soon in the trenches. A short battle leaves him wounded, but at least in the field hospital where his girlfriend is working.
Director: Walt Disney
Votes: 299
92. Emak-Bakia (1926)
18 min | Short
A long series of unrelated images, revolving, often distorted: lights, flowers, nails. A lightboard appears from time to time carrying the news of the day. Then, an eye. A woman in a car ... See full summary »
Director: Man Ray | Stars: Kiki of Montparnasse, Jacques Rigaut
Votes: 1,408
93. Ko-Ko's Earth Control (1928)
6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Koko the Clown and his dog Fitz walk into a building where levers that control various aspects of the Earth are located. After Fitz presses a particular lever, the world goes topsy-turvy and out-of-control.
Director: Dave Fleischer
Votes: 508
94. Ghosts Before Breakfast (1928)
6 min | Short
Hans Richter, noted for his abstract shorts, has everyday objects rebelling against their daily routine.
Director: Hans Richter | Stars: Werner Graeff, Walter Gronostay, Paul Hindemith, Darius Milhaud
Votes: 1,977
95. The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
Unrated | 13 min | Short, Horror
An avant-garde take on Poe's classic story of a traveller taking shelter at a household under a mysterious curse.
Directors: James Sibley Watson, Melville Webber | Stars: Herbert Stern, Hildegarde Watson, Melville Webber, Friedrich Haak
Votes: 1,433
96. The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (1928)
Not Rated | 11 min | Short, Drama, Horror
A wannabe movie star experiences the surreal horrors of dehumanization at the bottom of Hollywood's social ladder as his hopes for success vanish and his identity is reduced to a number.
Directors: Robert Florey, Slavko Vorkapich | Stars: Jules Raucourt, Voya George, Robert Florey, Adriane Marsh
Votes: 1,426
97. The Love of Zero (1928)
15 min | Short
While playing his trombone one Sunday, the enthusiastic Zero sees Beatrix and falls in love. He returns the next week to express his feelings, and it's mutual. Over the next few months, ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Joseph Marievsky, Tamara Shavrova, Anielka Elter, Marco Elter
Votes: 326
98. The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928)
40 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Obsessed with a general's woman, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.
Director: Germaine Dulac | Stars: Alex Allin, Lucien Bataille, Genica Athanasiou
Votes: 2,285
99. Ko-Ko's Haunted House (1928)
6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
An artist creates a model haunted house for Ko-Ko, where there's a ghost behind every door. Ko-Ko and Fitz face a variety of spooks and are tormented by the actions of the artist, before Ko-Ko repays him in kind (with Max's help).
Director: Dave Fleischer | Stars: Dave Fleischer, Max Fleischer
Votes: 68
100. The Fox Chase (1928)
5 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Oswald is with his mates in a fox hunt, but he finds his horse is stubborn and won't let him ride at first. Meanwhile, the sly fox outwits the dogs and riders in pursuit at every turn.
Director: Walt Disney
Votes: 221
Tell Your Friends