Short movies

Explore films with short genres and themes.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 1,016 films · Page 34.

Don't Lie (1942)

comedy film

Buckwheat's accurate report of a wandering monkey is ignored because of his past fibs, with resulting confusion.

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A group of schoolchildren from London are preparing for evacuation. After a medical examination, they meet at a railway station, uncertain of their destination. The train arrives and their journey to the countryside begins.

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X to Y (2009)

Unborn children control our romantic destiny. Every intuitive nudge we feel on earth comes from one of our potential children, pushing us toward a prospective mate, trying to bring themselves into the world. The Prebirths spend their lives…

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Football Romeo (1938)

comedy film

The gang squares off against Butch's Assassins in a crucial football game. Star player Alfalfa balks at participating, leaving it up to Darla to coerce and cajole him into donning his uniform. The climax of the game finds Alfalfa attemptin…

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Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse (1986)

documentary film

A glimpse of Red and reflection of his humor and humanism on his artwork.

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The Norman Rockwell Code (2006)

mystery film

The plot centers around the murder of the curator of the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The police call in Professor Langford Fife (a pastiche of both Robert Langdon from the book and Barney Fife from The Andy Griffi…

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The Hero of the Dardanelles (1915)

silent film

Will Brown (Guy Hastings) enlists in the Australian Army after the outbreak of World War I. He goes through training at Liverpool, near Sydney, and encourages other men to join up, putting up a recruiting poster. A pacifist tears the poste…

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Zip 'n Zoo (2008)

Fly-fishing expert, prize fiddle player and local school teacher Tom (John Hannah) and his wife Marion (Simone Lahbib) share an idyllic life in the Highlands, with only a baby to wish for. When 19-year-old New Yorker Natalie (Remy Bennett)…

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Glennda and Camille Do Downtown (1993)

short film

The Good Bad Egg (1947)

comedy film

Joe Priggle (Joe DeRita) is an inventor staying at a rest home where he tells the story to its proprietor (Vernon Dent) his strong dislike, eggs. It all starts when he fouls up one of his inventions to a client (Emil Sitka) when he finds a…

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Doin' Their Bit (1942)

comedy film

Hoping to entertain the military troops stationed in Greenpoint, Mr. Wills organizes the gang into a junior USO troupe. In addition to performing a "boot camp" sketch, the gang participates in a brace of production numbers.

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Rescue at Midnight Castle (1984)

family film, fantasy film

The story begins as the peaceful ponies of Dream Valley are attacked by monsters known as Stratadons, led by Scorpan, who kidnap four ponies and take them away to Midnight Castle. Enraged, Firefly, a Pegasus pony, takes to the skies to try…

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Mission Accomplished (1943)

propaganda film

The film opens with a brief history of the B-17, its birth in 1935 and its proven war record at Midway and the Philippines. However, the narration states, the B-17 has yet to prove itself over Europe. The time and range needed for a succes…

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Scat Cats (1957)

George and Joan are going out for the night. George tells Spike to keep an eye on the house while they are away. Butch, who is also owned be George and Joan, telephones his friends to come to a party at his house.

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8 Guys (2003)

independent film

Eight men share a tiny studio apartment in an anonymous American city. Dane angrily reminds his roommates that the apartment was meant for only one person, and that their landlord would evict them if he knew how many people were actually l…

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Farm Hands (1943)

comedy film

Moving out of their standard small-town surroundings, the gang visits the farm owned by Mickey's uncle where the youngsters attempt to milk a cow by placing two bottles under the udders and hoping that nature takes its course. The gang als…

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My Song Goes Forth (1937)

documentary film

The advance publicity booklet on the film when it was entitled "Africa Sings", touted it as showing "what the white man achieved for himself" and "what he has done for he natives." "Africa Sings" was one of the first documentary films from…

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Nocturna Artificialia (1979)

The story is told in eight parts and begins with a man in his apartment. He sees a red tram out his window and leaves his apartment to wait for the next tram to come by. As he sees the next tram approaching him, he puts his arms up to sign…

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Second Nature (2009)

sport film

In an exploration of the abstract and the extreme, Second Nature is an examination of the natural boundaries of the human body. Noah Sakamoto, Patrick Rizzo and J.M. Duran star as the test subjects as they wield skateboards and blue suits …

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Brink of Disaster! (1972)

coming-of-age film

A student is held up in the library while a riot rages outside. As SDS protesters head to burn the library down, he has to fend them off with his baseball bat. This film opens with actual footage of civil disturbances in the 1960s, and mov…

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Three Smart Guys (1943)

comedy film

Mickey, Froggy and Buckwheat devise a scheme to play hooky from school and go fishing. They misbehave in class in hopes that the teacher will expel them but instead are forced to stay after school. The next morning they decide to just play…

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Surprised Parties (1942)

comedy film

Upset because, as a leap year baby (he only has a birthday every four years), Froggy remembers the fact that he has almost never had a birthday party. The gang decides to throw a surprise party in Froggy's honor, but they pretend to throw …

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100,000 Cobbers (1942)

documentary film

Five men enlist in the AIF – laid back Bill; World War I veteran Scotty, who pretends to be 37 years old; an "old school tie" businessman Peter, who is running his dead father's business, and whose secretary Miss Lane leaves for overseas s…

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Jitter Bughouse (1948)

comedy film

Joe and his band practice for their big break in musical commercials. Joe also has a theory that music can cure the mentally imbalanced, and when he learns that his girlfriend Myrtle (Christine McIntyre) is a nurse for the rich, eccentric …

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