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
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
Select a genre to see those titles.
Recurring tags
- Experimental Film 5
- Psychological Exploration 3
- Visually Haunting 3
- Dark Fantasy 3
- Artistic 3
- Stop-Motion 2
- Surreal Imagery 2
- Abstract Narrative 2
- Historical Context 2
- Avant-Garde 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, The Doll's Breath, Inventorium of Traces, +44 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 SchejbalActorAnamorphosis, The Comb
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)
- SSimon LaurieEditorThe Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, The Sandman
- AAlan PassesWriterThe Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
Movies and TV shows
10Good
Score 70 to 79
1 title
Good
Score 70 to 79
70
Street of Crocodiles (1986)
Production Design, Director
Decent
Score 60 to 69
3 titles
Decent
Score 60 to 69
69
The Comb (1991)
Writer, Director
68
Anamorphosis (1993)
Director, Editor
64
The Calligrapher (1991)
Animation, Director
Bad to mediocre
Score 30 to 59
1 title
Bad to mediocre
Score 30 to 59
58
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (2025)
Screenplay, Editor
Not rated yet
5 titles
Not rated yet
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) (2011)
Editor, Director
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H. (2013)
Animation, Director
Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy (1981)
Animation, Director
A Fratricide (1981)
Director, Animation
Ghosts and Whispers (2022)
Animation, Director