1965 Short Movies

Dislocation in time, time signatures, time as a philosophical concept, and slavery to time are some of the themes touched upon in this 9-minute experimental film, which was written, directed, and produced by Jim Henson. Screened for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in May of 1965, "Time Piece" enjoyed an eighteen-month run at one Manhattan movie theater and was nominated for an Academy Award for Outstanding Short Subject.

Directed by Jim Henson - With Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Juhl, April March, David Bailey

Kustom Kar Kommandos(1965)

3min | Music

3.1/5 (with 28 votes)

A man in tight jeans buffs his car to the strains of The Paris Sisters' "Dream Lover".

Directed by Kenneth Anger

Boy and Bicycle(1965)

27min | Drama

2.8/5 (with 17 votes)

A teenage boy plays truant from school, and spends the day riding around the town and the deserted beach on his bicycle, letting his mind wander as he imagines he is the only person in the world...

Directed by Ridley Scott - With Tony Scott

Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters(1965)

1h 18min | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Science Fiction

1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The adventures of the Lemon Grove Kids in this Bowery Boys inspired kiddie film.

Directed by Ray Dennis Steckler - With Ray Dennis Steckler, Coleman Francis, Bob Burns III, Keith A. Wester, Joseph Bardo, Carolyn Brandt, ...

The Railrodder(1965)

24min | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 18 votes)

After literally swimming across the Atlantic Ocean, an Englishman takes a country trip across Canada on a railcar.

Directed by Gerald Potterton, Buster Keaton, John Spotton - With Buster Keaton

Monsters Crash the Pajama Party(1965)

31min | Horror

1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A group of teenage girls spends the night in an old dark mansion as an initiation into a college sorority. What they don't know is that the building is actually the headquarters for a mad scientist and his hunchbacked assistant, who are experimenting with turning humans into gorillas.

Directed by David L. Hewitt

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The Chicken(1965)

15min | Comedy, Kids & Family

3.3/5 (with 8 votes)

The Chicken [Le Poulet] is a 1965 French short comedy film directed by Claude Berri. The film follows a father, mother, and son who go to visit a chicken farm. The son catches and brings home a chicken. The father plans to eat it if the chicken doesn't lay eggs. The boy aims to save the chicken and comedy ensues. It won an Oscar in 1966 for Best Short Subject.

Directed by Claude Berri - With Jacques Marin

Skaterdater(1966)

17min | Romance / Love, Drama

3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

The film tells a story with no dialogue. The group of boy skaters are suddenly at a point when one of the boys sees a young girl, and becomes interested in her. This causes a rift with the other boys, who challenges him to a skating duel that goes down a hilly street. The young boy loses. However, he gets the girl, and shortly, a few other girls are seen and become interested in the boys, too. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Directed by Noel Black

Two in Love(1965)

37min | Drama, Romance / Love

4.4/5 (with 2 votes)

A young musician courts a beautiful woman who refuses to respond to a word he says despite multiple encounters. Eventually he learns that she is completely deaf. The remainder of the film consists of their beautiful - and beautifully silent - romance.

Directed by Mikhail Bogin - With Victoria Fyodorova, Valentin Smirnitsky, Rudolf Dambran, Luijs Šmits, Voldemārs Akurāters, Vyacheslav Zakharov, ...

Look at Life(1965)

1min | Drama, Documentary

3.0/5 (with 10 votes)

Look at Life is a short student film by George Lucas, produced for a course in animation while Lucas was a film student at USC Film School. The film's running time of exactly one minute was required by the course. This was the first film made by George Lucas and was heavily influenced by Canadian filmmaker Arthur Lipsett.

Directed by George Lucas

Fire of Waters(1965)

10min

2.3/5 (with 6 votes)

Black atmosphere, with depth-enhancing points of light, broken into shades of dim silhouettes by the ephemeral cloud-glow of lightning.

Directed by Stan Brakhage

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Schmeerguntz(1965)

13min | Comedy

3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Schmeerguntz is one long raucous belch in the face of the American Home. A society which hides its animal functions beneath a shiny public surface deserves to have such films as SCHMEERGUNTZ shown everywhere - in every PTA, every Rotary Club, every club in the land. For it is brash enough, brazen enough and funny enough to purge the soul of every harried American married woman.

Directed by Gunvor Nelson

Peyote Queen(1965)

9min

3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

Peyote Queen opens with black-and-white perforations that pulsate to the beat of drumming and escalate to light-bathed split screens and kaleidoscopic effects. Switching to lively organ accompaniment, the film pours out a stream of simple scratchings that rollick across the screen. Fish, breasts, flowers, boats, water, lips, hearts, stars—the hieroglyphs explode with color and celebrate the female creative force. The surge slows with the return of ritual drumming, this time with chanting, and a self-reflective coda. -- National Film Preservation Foundation.

Directed by Storm de Hirsch

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1965 Short Movies

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Time Piece(1965)

Kustom Kar Kommandos(1965)

Boy and Bicycle(1965)

Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters(1965)

The Railrodder(1965)

Monsters Crash the Pajama Party(1965)

The Chicken(1965)

Skaterdater(1966)

Two in Love(1965)

Look at Life(1965)

Fire of Waters(1965)

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Schmeerguntz(1965)

Peyote Queen(1965)

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