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1970s Short Movies

Public list by WPS with 135 movies or TV shows/series

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Hedgehog in the Fog(1975)

3.7/5 (with 95 votes)

A little hedgehog, on the way to visit his friend the bear, gets lost in thick fog, where horses, dogs and even falling leaves take on a terrifying new aspect...

Directed by Yuri Norstein

The Telephone Box(1972)

3.6/5 (with 52 votes)

A man gets trapped inside a telephone box and nobody is able to free him.

Lucifer Rising(1981)

29min | Fantasy, Horror
3.4/5 (with 41 votes)

Egyptian gods summon the angel Lucifer, in order to usher in a new occult age.

The Small One(1978)

3.4/5 (with 32 votes)

Ordered by his father to sell his old, small donkey, Small One, a Hebrew boy in ancient Israel takes the donkey to the Jerusalem market. Finding no buyers there, the boy is about to give up when he meets a kind man named Joseph. Joseph buys Small One and uses him to take his pregnant wife Mary to Bethlehem.

Directed by Don Bluth

Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too(1974)

4.0/5 (with 21 votes)

Rabbit is tired of Tigger always bouncing him, so he gets Pooh and Piglet together to come up with an idea to get the bounce out of Tigger. Then, Tigger and little Roo go out for a bounce and get caught in a tree.

Directed by John Lounsbery

Rabbit's Moon(1971)

16min | Drama, Fantasy
3.0/5 (with 24 votes)

A Japanese fairy tale meets commedia dell'Arte. All in white, the naïf Pierrot lies in a wood. Doo-wop music plays as he rises, stares about, and reaches for the moon. Although music abounds and the children of the wood are there at play, Pierrot is melancholy and alone. Harlequin appears, brimming with confidence and energy. He conjures the lovely Colombina. Pierrot is dazzled. But can the course of true love run smooth? Filmed in France in 1950, it was not completed nor released until 1971.

Directed by Kenneth Anger

Rendezvous(1976)

3.6/5 (with 33 votes)

A high-speed drive through the streets of Paris.

Directed by Claude Lelouch

Christopher's Christmas Mission(1975)

3.9/5 (with 21 votes)

"Christopher's Christmas Mission"- A tale about a boy who steals Christmas gifts from the wealthy to give to the poor people of Stockholm, while working in a post office on Christmas Eve.

Directed by Per Åhlin

Within the Woods(1978)

32min | Horror
2.9/5 (with 28 votes)

The low budget film starring the young Bruce Campbell that influenced the Evil Dead films.

Atman(1975)

12min | Horror, Animation
3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

ĀTMAN is a visual tour-de-force based on the idea of the subject at the centre of the circle created by camera positions (480 such positions). Shooting frame-by-frame the filmmaker set up an increasingly rapid circular motion. ĀTMAN is an early Buddhist deity often connected with destruction; the Japanese aspect is stressed by the devil mask of Hangan, from the Noh, and by using both Noh music and the general principle of acceleration often associated with Noh drama.

Directed by Toshio Matsumoto

Great(1975)

3.3/5 (with 8 votes)

An animated film about the British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who spearheaded numerous engineering marvels of the early 19th century - including the Thames Tunnel, the Great Western Railway, and the Great Eastern steamship (for 40 years the world's largest steamship). Various styles of animation are used to depict events in his colorful life.

Directed by Bob Godfrey

A Christmas Carol(1971)

3.5/5 (with 17 votes)

Ebenezer Scrooge, a skinflint visited by the spirits of Christmas past, present and future one fateful Christmas Eve. It's up to them to help the old crab see the error of his ways. And they do, to the delight of Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim.

Directed by Richard Williams
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Hardware Wars(1978)

3.0/5 (with 14 votes)

Hardware Wars (1978) is a short film parody of the classic science fiction film Star Wars. The thirteen-minute film, which premiered in theatres only seven months after Star Wars, consisted of little more than inside jokes and visual puns that heavily depended upon audience familiarity with the original. The theme song is Richard Wagner's famous "Ride of the Valkyries". The tagline was "You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll kiss three bucks goodbye.".

Directed by Ernie Fosselius - With Scott Mathews

The Heron and the Crane(1974)

10min | Animation
3.4/5 (with 13 votes)

Animated short about a love between a heron and a crane.

Directed by Yuri Norstein

Powers of Ten(1977)

3.9/5 (with 30 votes)

A scientific film essay, narrated by Phil Morrison. A set of pictures of two picnickers in a park, with the area of each frame one-tenth the size of the one before. Starting from a view of the entire known universe, the camera gradually zooms in until we are viewing the subatomic particles on a man's hand.

Directed by Charles Eames, Ray Eames - With Philip Morrison

The Street(1976)

2.8/5 (with 11 votes)

This film deals with a Jewish family in Montreal, Canada as they care for a dying grandmother and the young boy who is impatient to get the room he was promised as soon as she kicks the bucket.

Directed by Caroline Leaf

How the Cossacks Played Football(1970)

3.6/5 (with 20 votes)

A group of cossacks travels around Europe, playing football against the teams of different countries, each of which has their very unique playing style.

Directed by Volodymyr Dakhno

The Girl Chewing Gum(1976)

12min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 15 votes)

At Stamford Road in Dalston Junction of east London, the camera follows pedestrians, cars and birds while a narrator, who appears to be the director behind the camera, seems to instruct the objects.

Directed by John Smith

Dog's Dialogue(1979)

22min | Crime, Drama
3.5/5 (with 11 votes)

A charming tale of murder, perversity and narrative echoes told through shots of barking dogs and a La jetée-like series of stills.

The Sand Castle(1977)

3.1/5 (with 11 votes)

On a sandy desert, a man made of sand constructs other sand creatures to help make a beautiful sand castle for themselves.

Directed by Co Hoedeman

Handicapped Future(1971)

43min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 8 votes)

A documentary by Werner Herzog exploring the different treatment accorded to the disabled in Germany and the USA.

Directed by Werner Herzog - With Werner Herzog

A Tale of Two Critters(1977)

2.8/5 (with 5 votes)

A bear cub and a raccoon become fast friends when they're swept away down a river, away from their families.

Hunger(1974)

10min | Animation
3.1/5 (with 15 votes)

In this animated short, director Peter Foldès depicts one man’s descent into greed and gluttony. Rapidly dissolving and ever-evolving images create a contrast between abundance and want. One of the first films to use computer animation, this satire serves as a cautionary tale against self-indulgence in a world still plagued by hunger and poverty.

Directed by Peter Foldes

The Battle of Kerzhenets(1971)

10min | Animation
3.4/5 (with 11 votes)

The story is based on the legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh, which disappears under the waters of a lake to escape an attack by the Mongols.

Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story(1971)

25min | Comedy, TV Movie
2.8/5 (with 10 votes)

Dr. Harvey Wallinger is one of Nixon's aides who rises through the ranks to become the "real" power behind the president.

Closed Mondays(1974)

3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

A man visiting a museum sees the works of art come to life.

Directed by Bob Gardiner, Will Vinton

The Absent-Minded Waiter(1977)

NR
| 7min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 9 votes)

Bernie Cates requests the services of the most absent-minded waiter he's ever seen, who pours water before setting the glasses, endlessly repeats questions, brings wrong orders, and ruins everything- but the bill.

Salome(1973)

18min | Horror
2.9/5 (with 6 votes)

A stylised interpretation of Oscar Wilde's play "Salome".

Directed by Clive Barker

London(1971)

29min | Comedy

Five comedy vignettes: 1) Churchill, 2) Swinging London, 3) Tailors, 4) Stately Homes, 5) Tailors.

Jabberwocky(1971)

3.4/5 (with 14 votes)

In stop-motion animation, a wardrobe moves through the countryside. It arrives in a house, a child's voice recites Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky," and various objects, such as toys and dolls, move about, disintegrate, and play out archetypal scenes. Like Carroll's verse, the images are at once familiar and unfamiliar. A child's play suit, hanging in the wardrobe, becomes the adventure's protagonist.

Directed by Jan Švankmajer
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