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1. Begotten (1989)
Unrated | 72 min | Fantasy, Horror
Presented in a surreal, gory and entirely visual manner, Begotten tells of the death of religion, the abuse of nature by Man and a nihilistic outlook on what life ultimately is.
Director: E. Elias Merhige | Stars: Brian Salzberg, Donna Dempsey, Stephen Charles Barry, James Gandia
Votes: 11,803
2. The Thief and the Cobbler (1993)
G | 99 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A lonely princess and a poor cobbler fall in love while trying to retrieve three magical orbs that were stolen by a bumbling thief, all while outwitting a powerful sorcerer as adventure and comedic pop culture references abound.
Director: Richard Williams | Stars: Vincent Price, Matthew Broderick, Jennifer Beals, Bobbi Page
Votes: 4,653 | Gross: $0.67M
3. Doodlebug (1997)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Fantasy, Mystery
In his squalid apartment, a man tries to squash with his shoe an insect of some kind that is moving around the room.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Star: Jeremy Theobald
Votes: 19,082
4. 4 (2004)
Not Rated | 126 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Two men and a woman happen to meet in a bar. We learn from their conversations both the intriguing and banal details of their lives. But is anyone really telling the truth? From the meat ... See full summary »
Director: Ilya Khrzhanovskiy | Stars: Yuriy Laguta, Marina Vovchenko, Sergey Shnurov, Andrei Kudriashov
Votes: 2,260
5. The Catcher in the Rye (2008 Video)
Not Rated | 75 min | Drama
This is 75 minutes and 6 seconds of pure blue screen. Nothing less and nothing more. New movie by Nigel Tomm demolishes the boundaries of new absurdism. In 1951, a novel 'The Catcher in the... See full summary »
Director: Nigel Tomm
Votes: 695
6. Down River (2018)
70 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines must confront their fears and desires while finding a way back to their battalion.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Alexander Raye Pimentel, Zachary Greene, Cody Poirot, Nicholas Winand
Votes: 593
7. Joy of Learning (1969)
95 min | Drama
How do we learn? What do we know? Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Jean-Luc Godard, Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Votes: 1,170
8. Life Lessons (2013 Video)
27 min | Short, Drama, Mystery
In this Story by Richard Price, Lionel Dobie is an acclaimed artist who finds himself unable to paint before a gallery exhibition and uses his messy lifestyle to create artwork.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: David Fichtenmayer, Kellie Marie McGhee, Hayley Pendergrass, Alexander Raye Pimentel
Votes: 56
9. The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (1965)
Approved | 10 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A simple line attempts to woo his true love, a dot, away from the unkempt squiggle she prefers. But he'll have to learn to bend before she'll notice him.
Directors: Chuck Jones, Maurice Noble | Star: Robert Morley
Votes: 1,648
10. An Optical Poem (1938)
Not Rated | 6 min | Animation, Short, Music
Mental imagery of music is visualized with two-dimensional shapes dancing to the rhythm of Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.
Director: Oskar Fischinger
Votes: 759
11. Decasia (2002)
Not Rated | 70 min | Documentary
A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score.
Director: Bill Morrison | Stars: Tsuru Aoki, Julia Calhoun, Margaret Cullington, William S. Hart
Votes: 1,061
12. The Directive (2019)
113 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
One year after a catastrophic pandemic wipes out most of humanity, a lone survivor embarks on a journey to find Safe Zone 57 with the help of a broken robot.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Hashim Gari, Paul Askedall, Blaiden D. Cordle, Kyle Abraham
Votes: 1,317
13. I Call First (2015)
70 min | Comedy, Drama, History
A touching love story about a couple unable to bridge the gap between their divergent worlds.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Hannah Richter, Mazen Abdelkareem, Nikkolas Soto, Nicholas Winand
Votes: 70
14. 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: 1,846
15. A Dance in the Rain (1961)
100 min | Drama
Peter is the dark brooding type. Leading a vacuous, shapeless life, he longs for the ideal woman, while at the same time, half heartedly continuing with his habitual girlfriend, Marusa , ... See full summary »
Director: Bostjan Hladnik | Stars: Dusa Pockaj, Miha Baloh, Rado Nakrst, Ali Raner
Votes: 412
16. Waiting for Death (2020)
50 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
To the sorcerer, who believes that he has gained immortality, death itself suddenly comes and informs him that he has only a few hours left to live. Expecting a quick death, the sorcerer ... See full summary »
Directors: Sergey A., Ivan Lachance, Mike Lachance | Stars: Sergey A., Mike Lachance, Ivan Lachance, Mykola Yeriomin
Votes: 1,165
17. Night Music (1986)
1 min | Short
An experimental short film of flashing images made by Stan Brakhage.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 939
18. Tarantella (1940)
Not Rated | 4 min | Animation, Short
Colorful abstract shapes and lines move exuberantly to the syncopated modernistic piano music of Edwin Gershefsky.
Directors: Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth
Votes: 523
19. Aprili (1961)
45 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young happy couple moves from a poor district to a new housing estate. Their relationship gets progressively worse as their comfort and possessions increase.
Director: Otar Iosseliani | Stars: Tatyana Chanturia, Gia Chiraqadze, Akakiy Chikvaidze, V. Maisuradze
Votes: 509
20. Komposition in Blau (1935)
4 min | Animation, Short, Music
This is an abstract film in which every motion is in strict synchronization with music, so the description must be read in terms of the overall impression it gives. Within a deep blue ... See full summary »
Director: Oskar Fischinger
Votes: 594
21. Gray House (2017)
75 min | Documentary
An experimental journey through 5 different places, filled with powerfull scenary and blended with outstanding sound effects, where each place is considered a "home" for the people that is shown in it, whether it is chosen or enforced.
Directors: Matthew Booth, Austin Jack Lynch | Stars: Aurore Clément, Denis Lavant, Dianna Molzan
Votes: 26
22. 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: 467
23. A Million Little Pieces (2008 Video)
70 min | Animation
With no sound, with no dialogue, monologue or action, Nigel Tomm's film adaptation of James Frey's book "A Million Little Pieces" is the transfer of the story to the space of art. Somebody ... See full summary »
Director: Nigel Tomm
Votes: 157
24. Gumbasia (1953)
3 min | Animation, Short
Clay objects of all sizes, shapes and colors contort and reshape themselves to a jazz music score.
Director: Art Clokey
Votes: 185
25. Glassy Ocean: Kujira no Chôyaku (1998)
23 min | Animation, Short, Drama
On what apparently is a parallel world, time flows in a much slower pace than normal. The ocean remains on a solid state of matter as the eccentric individuals who inhabit this land casually wander over it.
Director: Shigeru Tamura | Stars: Hiroyuki Aoki, Eric Jacobsen, Noboru Mitani, Ichirô Nagai
Votes: 216
27. Rainbow Dance (1936)
4 min | Short, Musical, Animation
The film was made by colorful printing of footage combined with drawing directly on film. The bouncy music drives home the message heard at the end of the film, promoting the GPO (General ... See full summary »
Director: Len Lye | Star: Rupert Doone
Votes: 775
29. The Dante Quartet (1987)
6 min | Animation, Short
Dante's Divine Comedy depicted as thousands of abstract paintings by Stan Brakhage himself.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 1,206
30. Allegretto (1936)
3 min | Animation, Short
Short colour animated film showing shapes moving and set to a musical score. The shapes are coloured and primarily geometric in nature.
Director: Oskar Fischinger
Votes: 445
31. Black Ice (1994)
3 min | Short
A lateral descent through the midnight blues and blacks of ice and the refracted colors from absorbed oils.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 1,094
32. Chaos (I) (2019)
126 min | Drama, Fantasy
In our world there is no stability. Our film is one continuous chaos that cannot be controlled.
Director: Sergey A. | Stars: Sergey A., Mykola Yeriomin
Votes: 148
33. I Saw a Little Bird Flying Over a Psychiatric Hospital Near Milan 2 Days Ago and Now it Became So Good that I Drank the Bordeaux Champagne of the Sample in 1771 So That My Soul Would Experience an Incredible Life in This Brutal and Gray World (2018 Video)
239 min | Drama
The surreal director's view at the world of psychiatric hospital unnamed patient.
Director: Marco Romano
Votes: 36
34. Escape (1937)
4 min | Animation, Short, Music
To the toccata portion of Bach's "Toccata and fugue in D minor," we watch a play of sorts. Blue smoke forms a background; a grid of black lines is the foreground. Behind the lines, a ... See full summary »
Director: Mary Ellen Bute
Votes: 198
35. Castro Street (1966)
Not Rated | 10 min | Documentary, Short
A visual documentary inspired by Erik Satie, showcasing the sights and sounds of the industrialized Castro Street in Richmond, California.
Director: Bruce Baillie
Votes: 603
36. Spirals (1926)
6 min | Animation, Short
Experimental short film made in 35mm, which explores geometric abstraction based on black and white in conjunction with figures arranged in dynamic and hypnotizing spirals
Director: Oskar Fischinger
Votes: 199
37. Epilogue (2005 Video)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short
A pure Visual Music experience, Belson has distilled 60 years of visionary sound and images into this 12 minute videofilm, synchronized to a symphonic tone poem "Isle of the Dead Opus 29" ... See full summary »
Director: Jordan Belson
Votes: 77
38. Hallelujah! Gorilla Revival (2008)
5 min | Short
Directors: Jason LaRay Keener, Jeremiah Ledbetter | Stars: Savannah Bobo, Autumn Campbell, Blair Eddings, Jeff Fuller
Votes: 29
39. Rhythm in Light (1935)
5 min | Short
Screen titles introduce the film as a modern artist's impressions of what goes on in the mind while listening to music. Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite" accompanies images of common objects and ... See full summary »
Directors: Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth, Melville Webber
Votes: 131
40. Revenge in the Forest of the Dead Sharks (2019)
50 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
Journalist Max Fadeev investigates the circumstances of the death of Dima Maslennikov. He goes to the place of his death, not suspecting that a real nightmare awaits him. The dead sharks from the forest begin to hunt him.
Director: Sergey A. | Stars: Sergey A., Mykola Yeriomin
Votes: 547
41. ...ere erera baleibu izik subua aruaren... (1970)
75 min | Animation
A set of words without any meaning, forms the title of the first and only feature film in the history of Spanish cinema made entirely by hand-painting directly on celluloid.
Director: José Antonio Sistiaga
Votes: 151
43. Qur'an (2008 Video)
74 min
Seventy-four minutes of an unchanging yellow screen; nothing more, nothing less.
Director: Nigel Tomm
Votes: 95
44. Tower Bawher (2006)
3 min | Animation, Short
A salute to Russian constructivist art.
Director: Theodore Ushev
Votes: 158
45. Kreise (1933)
3 min | Animation, Short
Early abstract colour animation
Director: Oskar Fischinger
Votes: 209
46. Fiddle-de-dee (1947)
3 min | Animation, Musical, Short
A film made without a camera, made by painting directly on the film.
Director: Norman McLaren
Votes: 240
47. The Man with Apple-Shaped Boxing Gloves (2006)
7 min | Short
A series of bizarre, often funny and occasionally disturbing images.
Directors: Jason LaRay Keener, Jeremiah Ledbetter | Stars: Annie Brunson, Jimmy Harville, Casey Howell, Clarence Howell
Votes: 34
48. Hamlet (I) (2008 Video)
63 min
The Prince of Denmark sees a ghost.
Director: Nigel Tomm
Votes: 168
49. Man on a Cross (2009)
M | 45 min
Director: Gregg Grossman | Stars: Betül Alganatay, Sienna Aldridge, Laura Cebrick, Karen Cazine
50. Synchromy No. 2 (1936)
5 min | Short
Screen titles introduce the film as an attempt to see sound. Reinald Werrenrath sings Wagner's "O Evening Song," as the artist creates moods through the eye. The abstract forms are ... See full summary »
Directors: Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth
Votes: 142