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Stephen Quay

Director · 58 credits · 19 in highly-rated films

Best known for Anamorphosis (1993)

Frequent collaborators: Timothy Quay, Keith Griffiths

Best Stephen Quay movies by genre

Directed movies (48 total, ranked by score)

  1. Anamorphosis

    1993 · ★ 6.5 (22 votes)

    Animation, Documentary, History

    1

  2. The Comb

    1991 · ★ 6.7 (29 votes)

    Animation, Fantasy

    2

  3. Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life

    1995 · ★ 7.8 (48 votes)

    Drama

    3

  4. The Doll's Breath

    2019

    Animation, Drama, Fantasy

    4

  5. Street of Crocodiles

    1986 · ★ 6.6 (82 votes)

    Animation, Fantasy

    5

  6. The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer

    1984 · ★ 6.9 (42 votes)

    Animation

    6

  7. Maska

    2010 · ★ 7.0 (10 votes)

    Animation, Fantasy, Science Fiction

    7

  8. The Sandman

    2000 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)

    Drama

    8

  9. Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy

    1981 · ★ 5.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary, Animation

    9

  10. Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You

    1993 · ★ 6.9 (16 votes)

    Animation, Horror, Mystery

    10

  11. This Unnameable Little Broom

    1985 · ★ 6.2 (25 votes)

    Animation, Fantasy, Horror

    11

  12. Nocturna Artificialia

    1979 · ★ 5.8 (20 votes)

    Animation

    12

  13. The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

    2005 · ★ 6.3 (33 votes)

    Romance, Fantasy, Drama

    13

  14. Wonderwood: Comme des garçons

    2010 · ★ 6.0 (2 votes)

    Animation

    14

  15. Stille Nacht V: Dog Door

    2001 · ★ 6.0 (4 votes)

    Animation, Music

    15

  16. Stille Nacht I: Dramolet

    1988 · ★ 6.4 (33 votes)

    Mystery, Animation, Horror

    16

  17. Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers

    2007 · ★ 9.0 (1 votes)

    17

  18. Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?

    1992 · ★ 6.1 (30 votes)

    Animation, Mystery, Horror

    18

  19. Kinoteka Ident

    2009

    19

  20. Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods

    1993 · ★ 6.1 (17 votes)

    Animation, Horror, Mystery

    20

  21. Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies

    1988 · ★ 6.6 (22 votes)

    Animation

    21

  22. In Absentia

    2000 · ★ 6.5 (27 votes)

    Animation

    22

  23. Ex Voto

    1989 · ★ 4.0 (1 votes)

    Animation

    23

  24. The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode

    1981 · ★ 6.7 (3 votes)

    Fantasy

    24

  25. VadeMecum

    2021 · ★ 7.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    25

  26. Inventorium of Traces

    2009 · ★ 5.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    26

  27. Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

    2025 · ★ 5.7 (10 votes)

    Animation, Fantasy, Drama

    27

  28. Tales of the Brothers Quay

    1987 · ★ 6.9 (7 votes)

    Animation, Horror

    28

  29. The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection

    2003 · ★ 6.4 (9 votes)

    Animation

    29

  30. Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)

    2011 · ★ 6.4 (8 votes)

    Documentary, History

    30

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 29, 2026.