Screenplay: Don Hertzfeldt

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Don Hertzfeldt. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


It's Such a Beautiful Day (Film)

2012 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Don Hertzfeldt

Plot Compilation movie who includes Everything Will be OK (2006), I Am So Proud of You (2008) y It's Such a Beautiful Day (2011). The newly unified trilogy is titled IT'S...

7.7

2K votes

7.7

2K votes

Direction Don Hertzfeldt

Cast Julia Pott · Jack Parrett

Plot David floats through the traffic of deep space on a cramped ship that’s barely any larger than his body. Suddenly a message appears — a memory that was buried deep...

7.7

46 votes

7.7

46 votes

It's Such a Beautiful Day (S)

2011 · Movie · 23 min. · United States

Direction Don Hertzfeldt

Plot Bill wakes to find himself in a hospital struggling with memory problems, in this third and final chapter to Don Hertzfeldt's EVERYTHING WILL BE OK.

7.5

1K votes

7.5

1K votes

I Am So Proud of You (S)

2008 · Movie · 22 min. · United States

Direction Don Hertzfeldt

Plot I Am So Proud Of You is a 2008 animated short film by Don Hertzfeldt. It is the second chapter of a planned three-part story about the character Bill and...

7.3

993 votes

7.3

993 votes

World of Tomorrow (S)

2015 · Movie · 16 min. · United States

Direction Don Hertzfeldt

Plot A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

Direction Don Hertzfeldt

Plot Emily Prime is talking to herself as she draws on the floor, until she is visited by a third-generation clone of herself.

7.1

263 votes

7.1

263 votes

Everything Will Be Ok (S)

2006 · Movie · 17 min. · United States

Direction Don Hertzfeldt

Plot Everything Will Be OK is a 2006 animated short film by Don Hertzfeldt. It is the first chapter of a planned three-part story about Bill, the main character. Hertzfeldt released...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

Genre (S)

1996 · Movie · 5 min. · United States

Direction Don Hertzfeldt

Plot Genre is a 1996 Live-action/animated short film by animator Don Hertzfeldt, his second student film, preceded by Ah, L'Amour (1995). The 16mm short combines traditional animation, pixilation, and stop-motion animation...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

Lily and Jim (S)

1997 · Movie · 13 min. · United States

Direction Don Hertzfeldt

Plot Lily and Jim (1997) is a 16mm animated short film by Don Hertzfeldt. It is Hertzfeldt's third student film from UC Santa Barbara, for which he single-handedly animated over 10,000...

6.4

679 votes

6.4

679 votes

Rejected (S)

2000 · Movie · 9 min. · United States

Direction Don Hertzfeldt

Plot An animator's commissioned works, rejected because of their increasingly absurd and violent tone (reflecting the animator's own progressive breakdown), eventually find their entire animated world collapsing in upon itself.

6.4

2K votes

6.4

2K votes

Billy's Balloon (S)

1998 · Movie · 6 min. · United States

Direction Don Hertzfeldt

Plot A balloon wraps itself around a young child's hand, bringing him higher and higher, much to the child's delight... but... |

6.1

2K votes

6.1

2K votes

The Meaning of Life (S)

2005 · Movie · 12 min. · United States

Direction Don Hertzfeldt

Plot The Meaning of Life is a 35mm animated short film, written and directed by Don Hertzfeldt in 2005. The epic twelve minute film is the end result of almost four...

6.1

756 votes

6.1

756 votes

Ah, L'Amour (S)

1995 · Movie · 2 min. · United States

Direction Don Hertzfeldt

Plot Ah, L'Amour (1995) is Don Hertzfeldt's first 16mm student animated short film, completed at the age of 18 at UC Santa Barbara. Though produced for a beginning film class, the...

6.1

1K votes

6.1

1K votes

Direction Don Hertzfeldt

Plot A "trilogy" of surreal and funny cartoons, produced exclusively to book-end the first year of The Animation Show's travelling theatrical tour.

5.7

427 votes

5.7

427 votes

The Simpsons: Don Hertzfeldt Couch Gag (TV) (S)

2014 · Movie · 2 min. · United States

Direction Don Hertzfeldt

Plot A surreal depiction of a future episode of the show created by Don Hertzfeldt

5.6

1K votes

5.6

1K votes

Wisdom Teeth (S)

2010 · Movie · 6 min. · United States

Direction Don Hertzfeldt

Plot Nigel recently had his wisdom teeth removed.

5.0

662 votes

5.0

662 votes

On Memory (S)

2022 · Movie · 10 min. · United States

Direction Don Hertzfeldt

Cast Don Hertzfeldt

Plot Don Hertzfeldt tells stories about the nature of memory, in this animated special feature -kind of video essays- included on the World of Tomorrow: The First Three Episodes Blu-ray.

Not rated

Not rated

Me (S)

2024 · Movie · min. · United States

Direction Don Hertzfeldt

Not rated

Not rated