Directing
Stephen Quay
- Titles
- 53movies
- Career
Active from 1979 to 2025, with up to 3 main titles a year.
- Directed
- 47titles as director
- Average score
66/100
- Highest rated
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life89/100
What stands out
Compared with the average well-known movie, over 5 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.
- Uncanny8.2average 2.5
- Wonder7.5average 3.4
- Fantasy5.2average 1.8
- Absurdist Humor5.0average 2.0
- Tech & Humanity3.9average 1.6
- Mystery6.3average 4.1
- Melancholy6.4average 4.7
- Spiritual3.6average 2.0
Rarely in their work
- Contemporary Realism1.4, average 5.2
- Family Dynamics1.1, average 4.7
- Crime0.9, average 3.7
- Adrenaline2.8, average 5.1
Main genres
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Recurring tags
- Experimental Film 5
- Psychological Exploration 3
- Visually Haunting 3
- Dark Fantasy 3
- Artistic 3
- Abstract Narrative 2
- Avant-Garde 2
- Historical Context 2
- Stop-Motion 2
- Surreal Imagery 2
Works often with
People in at least two of their main titles.
Timothy QuayActorThe Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, Eurydice: She, So Beloved, Inventorium of Traces, +43 more
Keith GriffithsWriterPunch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy, The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer, This Unnameable Little Broom, The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode, Janáček: Intimate Excursions- LLarry SiderDirectorInstitute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life, Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy, Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929, The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode, A Fratricide
- NNicholas D. KnowlandCinematographerThe Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life, Eurydice: She, So Beloved
- WWitold SchejbalActorThe Comb, Anamorphosis
Gottfried JohnActorThe Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
César SaratxuActorThe Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life- PPeter LovstromActorInstitute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life, Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy
- TTimothy NelsonComposerSanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
- AAlan PassesWriterThe Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
- SSimon LaurieEditorThe Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, The Sandman
Movies and TV shows
11970s
1 title · average score 61
61
Nocturna Artificialia (1979)
Director, Cinematography