Screenplay: Timothy Quay

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Timothy 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

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

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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