4 min · English · Comedy · Thriller
Alex Brooks's four-minute comedy-thriller: two criminals discover they've picked the same hiding place.
English thriller short films
33 English thriller short films in the cafe, running 4 to 31 minutes. Many are suspenseful or thought-provoking. Each is a complete standalone short film, chosen by the cafe and played through its original video provider.
8 min · English · Horror · Thriller
Dylan Clark's eight-minute horror: a young woman giving a presentation on a religious painting starts to doubt what she can see in it.
4 min · English · Science fiction · Thriller
A four-minute English sci-fi thriller in which an office worker's daily routine slowly becomes something unsettling.
20 min · English · Science fiction · Thriller
A selfish executive is trapped in a restroom time loop and has to face other versions of himself to get out. Twenty minutes of clever, funny sci-fi.
16 min · English · Science fiction · Thriller · Action · Fantasy
A rescue mission crosses into the spirit world. Try Kodama for an action-fantasy short about a samurai SWAT officer fighting to bring his father home.
16 min · English · Science fiction · Thriller · Drama
An English sci-fi thriller: two estranged brothers caught in a repeating chain of events try to stop a tragedy. Fifteen tense, emotional minutes.
12 min · English · Science fiction · Thriller
Mark Slutsky's English sci-fi for DUST: a struggling lawyer wakes in a doorless room, chosen to negotiate for the whole human race. Eleven tense minutes.
18 min · English · Science fiction · Horror · Thriller
A missing body leads a physician to a secret experiment on the edge of life and death. A seventeen-minute English sci-fi horror.
6 min · English · Thriller · Drama
A game of chess between two strangers opens old wounds and becomes a struggle for power. A six-minute English thriller.
7 min · English · Horror · Thriller
A family has one rule: keep ignoring the dangerous presence in the house. A seven-minute English horror that tests your nerves.
14 min · English · Horror · Comedy · Thriller
A locksmith desperate for a good review finds something alarming behind a wardrobe door. A fourteen-minute English horror-comedy.
14 min · English · Drama · Thriller
An ordinary school day becomes a child's fight for safety. Watch for a restrained, emotionally difficult perspective on the people at the centre of gun violence.
15 min · English · Drama · Thriller · Comedy
A parlour game becomes a test of belonging. Watch this dark comedy-mystery for sharp class satire and a family whose polished manners hide something troubling.
16 min · English · Horror · Thriller
A couple receive a mysterious box with instructions that make looking away dangerous. A sixteen-minute English horror that plays with what you can't see.
23 min · English · Drama · Thriller
A college student who feels threatened seeks shooting lessons and a sense of control from a survivalist. A twenty-two-minute English drama about fear and power.
27 min · English · Comedy · Drama · Thriller
A grieving man's train journey is hijacked by a volatile, unpredictable young stranger. Twenty-six minutes of very dark comedy that turns unexpectedly tender.
17 min · English · Science fiction · Thriller
Nguyen-Anh Nguyen's sci-fi thriller for DUST: two astronauts wake adrift in space and return to their ship to learn why the mission failed.
7 min · English · Comedy · Drama · Thriller
Two brothers' robbery is interrupted by an unexpected visitor. A six-minute English comedy-thriller.
19 min · English · Science fiction · Thriller
Two isolated brothers barely surviving after a mysterious attack meet a stranger who threatens their fragile world. A nineteen-minute English sci-fi thriller.
4 min · English · Thriller · Horror
A walk to the car becomes a confrontation with fear. Try Afraid for a three-and-a-half-minute thriller about the anxieties that can follow women through ordinary routines.
21 min · English · Science fiction · Thriller
A routine repair turns into a family rescue in space. Try Icarus for a science-fiction short that puts a mother and son's bond under pressure.
12 min · English · Horror · Thriller
A man living a quiet, peaceful life in a secluded cabin in the woods finds his world upended when three dangerous travellers arrive and lay siege to his home.
32 min · English · Science fiction · Thriller
A disaster cuts a couple off from the world they built underwater. Try this for a science-fiction survival story with an ocean setting.
14 min · English · Science fiction · Thriller
A search for riches becomes a test of a daughter's resourcefulness. Try the original Prospect short for a tense science-fiction journey on a hostile planet.
14 min · English · Horror · Thriller
Lost in the woods is only the beginning. Choose Sticks for a short horror encounter with something beyond the couple's awareness.
22 min · English · Science fiction · Thriller
Alone on the red planet, one commander starts questioning what happened to his crew. Try Thalamos for a compact science-fiction mystery about isolation and an uncertain mission.
20 min · English · Thriller · Horror · Science fiction
Two students create a short-cut to induce hallucinogenic visions of God, and find themselves hunted by a deadly religious sect.
14 min · English · Horror · Thriller
Some doors are kept closed for a reason. Try this horror short for an isolated community's encounter with something it was meant to keep locked away.
18 min · English · Science fiction · Thriller
A man returns to the Midwestern farm of his childhood on a desperate mission to unearth the horrifying truth of what landed there in the summer of 1960. View trailer: https://vimeo.com/55338337
30 min · English · Drama · Thriller
The promise of belonging can come at a terrible cost. Try this British crime drama for a young person's struggle with loyalty, loss and exploitation.
23 min · English · Thriller
An Irish thriller from Martina McGlynn and Gar O'Brien: a surgeon is told her secret will be auctioned unless she buys it back first. Twenty-two tense minutes in a sinister underground trade.
11 min · English · Horror · Thriller
Ryan Doris's English horror for Dark Fun: a single father hears his daughter come home late and starts to wonder whether the voice is really hers. Ten tense minutes.
21 min · English · Thriller
Reeling from the sudden death of her brother, Beth retreats to her family's cottage in New England hoping for peace and quiet. The retreat soon proves deceptive, and as grief closes in the cottage becomes a dangerous place in this tense psychological thriller.
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