Directing
Stephen Quay
- Titles
- 54movies
- Career
Active from 1979 to 2025, with up to 3 main titles a year.
- Directed
- 48titles as director
- Average score
67/100
- 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
Select a genre to see those titles.
Recurring tags
- Experimental Film 5
- Psychological Exploration 3
- Visually Haunting 3
- Dark Fantasy 3
- Artistic 3
- Abstract Narrative 2
- Avant-Garde 2
- Stop-Motion 2
- Surreal Imagery 2
- Historical Context 2
Works often with
People in at least two of their main titles.
Timothy QuayActorInstitute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life, The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, The Doll's Breath, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, The Falls, +44 more
Keith GriffithsDirectorPunch 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, The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode, Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929, A Fratricide
- NNicholas D. KnowlandCinematographerInstitute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life, The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, Eurydice: She, So Beloved
- PPeter LovstromActorInstitute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life, Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy
César SaratxuActorInstitute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life, The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes- WWitold SchejbalActorAnamorphosis, The Comb
Gottfried JohnActorInstitute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life, The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes- TTimothy NelsonComposerSanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
- SSimon LaurieEditorThe Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, The Sandman
- AAlan PassesWriterInstitute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life, The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
Movies and TV shows
151980s
15 titles · average score 68
Ex Voto (1989)
Director
68
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1988)
Director, Cinematography
Rain Dance (1988)
Director
70
Street of Crocodiles (1986)
Production Design, Writer
65
This Unnameable Little Broom (1985)
Writer, Director
69
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer (1984)
Director, Director of Photography
Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy (1981)
Director, Animation
The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode (1981)
Writer, Director
A Fratricide (1981)
Animation, Director
72
The Falls (1980)
as Ipson Fallari