Best Short Movies — Top Rated Films
These are the highest-rated films in the catalog — each one rated 4.0 or above out of 5 by Letterboxd members, and each short enough to finish in an evening.
25 films, drawn from a catalog of 3,647 — every title rated 3.0 or higher by Letterboxd members, with at least 5,000 ratings, and no longer than 110 minutes.
- Stop Making Sense — 1h 28m · 1984 · Jonathan Demme · 4.7/5
- 12 Angry Men — 1h 37m · 1957 · Sidney Lumet · 4.6/5
- No Other Land — 1h 32m · 2024 · Rachel Szor · 4.6/5
- Night and Fog — 32 min · 1956 · Alain Resnais · 4.5/5
- Paris Is Burning — 1h 18m · 1991 · Jennie Livingston · 4.5/5
- La Haine — 1h 38m · 1995 · Mathieu Kassovitz · 4.5/5
- Autumn Sonata — 1h 33m · 1978 · Ingmar Bergman · 4.5/5
- Grave of the Fireflies — 1h 29m · 1988 · Isao Takahata · 4.5/5
- Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion — 1h 27m · 1997 · Kazuya Tsurumaki · 4.5/5
- Michael Jackson's Thriller — 14 min · 1983 · John Landis · 4.5/5
- The Cranes Are Flying — 1h 37m · 1957 · Mikhail Kalatozov · 4.5/5
- Paths of Glory — 1h 28m · 1957 · Stanley Kubrick · 4.5/5
- Sunset Boulevard — 1h 50m · 1950 · Billy Wilder · 4.4/5
- Whiplash — 1h 47m · 2014 · Damien Chazelle · 4.4/5
- The Passion of Joan of Arc — 1h 21m · 1928 · Carl Theodor Dreyer · 4.4/5
- Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father — 1h 34m · 2008 · Kurt Kuenne · 4.4/5
- Close-Up — 1h 38m · 1990 · Abbas Kiarostami · 4.4/5
- The Voice of Hind Rajab — 1h 29m · 2025 · Kaouther Ben Hania · 4.4/5
- Nights of Cabiria — 1h 50m · 1957 · Federico Fellini · 4.4/5
- Paper Moon — 1h 42m · 1973 · Peter Bogdanovich · 4.4/5
- For Sama — 1h 40m · 2019 · Waad al-Kateab · 4.4/5
- It's Such a Beautiful Day — 1h 2m · 2012 · Don Hertzfeldt · 4.4/5
- In the Mood for Love — 1h 39m · 2000 · Wong Kar-Wai · 4.4/5
- Perfect Blue — 1h 21m · 1998 · Satoshi Kon · 4.4/5
- Persona — 1h 25m · 1966 · Ingmar Bergman · 4.4/5