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, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, The Doll's Breath, 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, Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929, +1 more- 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
- WWitold SchejbalActorThe Comb, Anamorphosis
César SaratxuActorInstitute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life, The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes- PPeter LovstromActorInstitute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life, Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy
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)
- AAlan PassesWriterInstitute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life, The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
- SSimon LaurieEditorThe Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, The Sandman
Movies and TV shows
392020s
4 titles · average score 70
70
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (2025)
Editor, Screenplay
VadeMecum (2021)
Director
2010s
5 titles · average score 72
73
Quay (2015)
Thanks
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H. (2013)
Animation, Writer
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) (2011)
Editor, Director
71
Maska (2010)
Writer, Director
2000s
10 titles · average score 65
Kinoteka Ident (2009)
Director
Eurydice: She, So Beloved (2007)
Editor, Director
Alice in Not So Wonderland (2007)
Writer, Director
63
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection (2003)
as Librarian
67
In Absentia (2000)
Animation, Director
The Sandman (2000)
Director
1990s
7 titles · average score 69
68
Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You (1993)
Animation, Director
62
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods (1993)
Director, Animation
68
Anamorphosis (1993)
Director, Editor
65
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married? (1992)
Animation, Director
69
The Comb (1991)
Writer, Art Direction
64
The Calligrapher (1991)
Director, Animation
1980s
12 titles · average score 68
68
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1988)
Animation, Decorator
70
Street of Crocodiles (1986)
Production Design, Writer
66
This Unnameable Little Broom (1985)
Writer, Director
70
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer (1984)
Director, Director of Photography
72
The Falls (1982)
as Ipson Fallari
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
1970s
1 title · average score 61
61
Nocturna Artificialia (1979)
Director, Cinematography