The 41 Greatest Short Films

A newly wedded couple attempts to build a house with a prefabricated kit, unaware that a rival sabotaged the kit's component numbering.

Chronicles a variety of stories, but the main one follows Henry Sugar, who is able to see through objects and predict the future with the help of a book he stole.

A woman enters a restaurant one morning - only to be met with silence instead of people talking.

A drifter at an amusement park finds himself both the bodyguard and hit man of a man targeted by a criminal gang.

David, an orderly at a hospital, tells his horrific story of being kidnapped and forced to play a vile game of survival.

Jimmy Smith wakes up 5 minutes late for his own wedding with 4 blocks between him and the rest of his life.

A bizarre comedy short by Terry Gilliam telling various absurdly comic stories.

Two inventive farmhands compete for the hand of the same girl.

A 30-minute follow-up piece for Roger & Me, this was first shown when that film was broadcast as part of the PBS series P.O.V. Moore briefly re-examines the economic collapse of Flint and the changes that have taken place in the earlier movies' major figures, from Roger Smith down to the evicted tenants, as well as collateral material about the celebrity status of himself and the film.

A professional cellist has an encounter with a stranger on the subway, which has unexpected and far-reaching ramifications on his life.

A series of adventures begins when an accident during photographing causes Buster to be mistaken for Dead Shot Dan, the local bad guy.

A man who died accidently goes to the heaven of dogs.

Two different families claim the body of a woman killed in a catastrophe.

A series of mishaps manages to make a young man get chased by a big city's entire police force.

It's the Christmas season. With her mom's help, Lynne, a girl of perhaps eight, dresses up; her younger brother Steven plays with a toy car. The children leave with their dad, who's affectionate with them. They walk down a railroad track where an unkempt woman waits with two children, about the same age as Lynne and Steven. The children go with them. They're all headed to a holiday party at a pub. Lynne notices that the girl acts all too familiar with her dad. What's going on?

Filleann an feall is short for the Irish language saying: Filleann an feall ar an bhFeallaire - Treachery rebounds on the Treacherous (or the Traitor); L'Arroseur arrosé. Two small time Dublin criminals, Don Wycherley and Cillian Murphy, travel to Conemara to do a deal on Poteen. They practice speaking in Irish, the language of the Poteen seller, as they go along. Don Wycherley's character is better at Irish, and corrects the Cillian Murphy character every so often. They stop for a picnic, lose their car keys, get hospitality from an old lady living in a camper van. Cillian helps her out by taking down the winning lottery numbers as they're called out on the television, and by matching them to her numbers ...

Finding an unfinished script written by Alfred Hitchcock himself, Martin Scorsese attempts to recreate it himself as Hitchcock would have.

After a bad deed, a man is haunted by an unusual type of fiend.

A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.

A short comedy animation about human endeavors in flight.

After being mistakenly certified as an electrical engineer, Buster is hired to wire a house.

A fisherman becomes entangled in his line when he catches something unexpected.

A man looking for "confidence" finds himself stranded in a desert town populated by himself and a Volvo station wagon. This short film is the long form of a commercial made during a time when "story ads" were in vogue.

A young couple who live next to each other in tenement apartments do everything they can to be together despite of their feuding families.