Screenplay: Stephen Quay
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Stephen Quay. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Street of Crocodiles (S)
1986 · Movie · 21 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay
Plot A man closes up a lecture hall; he reaches into a box and snips the string holding a gaunt puppet. Released, the puppet warily explores the darkened rooms about him....
7.1
547 votes
7.1
547 votes
Institute Benjamenta
1995 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay
Cast Mark Rylance · Alice Krige · Gottfried John · Daniel Smith
Plot Brilliant English animators The Brothers Quay create their first feature-length live-action film in this tale of a dilapidated boarding school for the teaching of servants run by a brother and...
6.4
180 votes
6.4
180 votes
The Comb (S)
1990 · Movie · 18 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay
Cast Joy Constaninides
Plot THE COMB opens in the shadowy bedroom of a sleeping beauty and seems to enter her mind and burrow into her dreams. Based on a fragment of text by the...
6.4
120 votes
6.4
120 votes
The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (S)
1987 · Movie · 14 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay · Keith Griffiths
Plot In Prague, a professorial puppet, with metal pincers for hands and an open book for a hat, takes a boy as a pupil. First, the professor empties fluff and toys...
6.3
194 votes
6.3
194 votes
Songs for Dead Children
2003 · Movie · 24 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay
6.3
35 votes
6.3
35 votes
Anamorphosis (S)
1993 · Documentary · 15 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay
Cast Witold Scheybal
Plot The Quay Brothers explore the technique of Anamorphosis (a type of visual trickery where a picture seen at certain angles can reveal a hidden image that is not noticeable when...
6.3
52 votes
6.3
52 votes
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (S)
1991 · Movie · 14 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay
Plot Oscillating hands each hold a pen; a man made of wire has a malevolent look and an oscillating eye as he pokes at a bump on his forehead
6.2
81 votes
6.2
81 votes
In Absentia (S)
2000 · Movie · 20 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay
Cast Marlene Kaminsky
Plot A woman sits alone on a chair at a table in a room on one of the top floors of an asylum. Bright spot lights dot the night, sometimes shining...
6.2
140 votes
6.2
140 votes
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
2005 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay
Cast Amira Casar · Gottfried John · Assumpta Serna · César Sarachu
Plot The story concerns Malvina (Amira Casar), a famous opera singer abducted on the eve of her wedding by the obsessive Dr. Droz (Gottfried John), who takes her away to the...
6.1
150 votes
6.1
150 votes
This Unnameable Little Broom (S)
1987 · Movie · 10 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay · Keith Griffiths
Plot A red-clothed puppet lives in a room with a missing wall. He rides a tricycle. Gadgets surround him. He eats dandelion tufts. A painting lies on a table in the...
6.0
71 votes
6.0
71 votes
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection (S)
2003 · Movie · 12 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay
Cast Billy Ray Gallion · Stephen Quay
5.6
47 votes
5.6
47 votes
Nocturna Artificialia
1979 · Movie · 21 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay
Plot An enigmatic story told in seven chapters, each introduced by an elliptical sentence on a title card. A man is in an apartment. He goes outside where a red tram...
5.6
115 votes
5.6
115 votes
Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929
1982 · Movie · 30 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay
Plot Comrade Mayakovsky, the Bolshevic poet and dramatist, visits fellow Russian and great composer Igor Stravinsky at his pianola workshop in Paris. Then with the poet Cocteau, this trio of individualists...
5.5
35 votes
5.5
35 votes
Eurydice... She, So Beloved (S)
2007 · Movie · 13 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay
5.4
29 votes
5.4
29 votes
Maska (S)
2010 · Movie · 23 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay
Cast Magdalena Cielecka
Plot Beautiful Duenna was created in order to carry out a certain mission. However, she will be forced to choose...
5.3
68 votes
5.3
68 votes
Stille Nacht I (Dramolet) (S)
1988 · Movie · 2 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay
5.2
173 votes
5.2
173 votes
The Calligrapher (TV) (S)
1991 · Movie · 1 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay
Plot With harpsichord music in the background, a dandy, seated at a table, plucks a quill pen from a ceiling full of them above him, dips it in ink, thinks, then...
5.0
87 votes
5.0
87 votes
Stille Nacht III (Tales from the Vienna Woods) (S)
1992 · Movie · 4 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay
4.7
120 votes
4.7
120 votes
Alice (in not so Wonderland) (S)
2009 · Movie · 3 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Stephen Quay · Timothy Quay
4.5
138 votes
4.5
138 votes
Rain Dance (TV) (S)
1990 · Movie · 2 min. · United States
Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay
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