Best 1-5 Minute Movies

A father and son ride the rails in their powerful locomotive. Witnessing a crash between two other engines, they rescue the lone survivor, Berenice, and make her a part of their family. All is well until the father and son become rivals for the girl's affections and perform a series of dare-devil feats to win her heart. She runs off with a zeppelin pilot, and, after Keller mounts a brief kidnapping attempt, the despondent men are left to their bizarre fates.

A frog is called to the help of another frog, whose house is haunted.

A woman's dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.

The Story centers around a child name Yuki, a 10-year old orphan who's being adopted by a family.

An impressionistic series of images inspired by "Tales From the Gimli Hospital".

Much to our amazement, an elegant and masterful illusionist detaches his own head effortlessly from his shoulders for a once-in-a-lifetime performance.

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 turns into a hobgoblin, which shakes its arms at the Sultan. The Sultan seizes his sword and stabs at the feirce looking object, when it turns into Mephistopheles, who seizes the Sultan and places him on a scaffold, and just as they are about to dispatch him, the dream ends; and he finds himself once more on his comfortable couch. Very marvelous mystical changes from start to finish.

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.

A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.

A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.

A bitter self-parody featuring a guy going through a series of excruciating rejections.

Experimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, a light-striped torso, a gyrating eggcrate. One of the first Dadaist films.

A short continuously looping animation of six grotesque human figures vomiting.

A sheep dances proudly in his southwestern landscape, until one day his wool is sheared and he is left naked. He's depressed and shy, until a cheerful jackalope comes along and shows him how to leap proudly and not to be ashamed.

A baker's assistant throws a handful of dough at a rat. The dough sticks to the side of a barrel and the assistant proceeds to sculpt the dough into various faces and shapes. There is some experimental use of stop motion.

A young girl wakes up and tells her sister that their mother has returned home.

Bambi is contentedly nibbling the grass, seemingly unaware of his impending encounter with Godzilla. What will happen when the two finally meet?

Maggie Simpson spends the day in the Ayn Rand School for Tots.

A cartoonist draws faces and figures on a blackboard - and they come to life.

Woody Allen's short film was his contribution to the Concert for New York City in October 2001. The short film features New Yorkers on the street talking about life in the City That Never Sleeps.

A short film about the events following a murder.

As if by magic, a weary traveller trying to undress, is foiled by his mutinous clothes as they teleport and multiply before his eyes, refusing to stay on the clothing rack.

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.

This picture depicts the eruption of the volcano by which over 30,000 souls were hurled into eternity. The numerous explosions which took place during the eruption are plain to be seen. Thousands upon thousands of tons of molten lava, sand, rocks and steam are thrown high in the air and descend with crushing force upon the unfortunate inhabitants of the doomed city of St. Pierre. This is the worst calamity which occurred since a similar eruption by Mt. Vesuvius when Pompeii was destroyed.

With the title as a reference to Pabst's heroine in "Pandora's Box," this short is a kaleidoscope of swirling images. Lulu is a party girl, at the center of a spinning roulette wheel; chips fall where they may. She gives seductive looks; she travels by train, taking lovers; mushrooms sprout, giving phallic counterpoint to the wheels. Then, like Pabst's Lulu, she faces extreme danger. Are these the wages of sin?