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 Life74/100
What stands out
Compared with the average well-known movie, over 4 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.
- Uncanny8.5average 2.5
- Fantasy6.7average 1.8
- Absurdist Humor6.2average 2.0
- Wonder7.4average 3.4
- Mystery6.7average 4.1
- Spiritual4.1average 2.0
- Melancholy6.8average 4.7
- Psychological7.6average 5.6
Rarely in their work
- Contemporary Realism1.2, average 5.2
- Family Dynamics1.5, average 4.7
- Crime0.9, average 3.7
- Situational Comedy0.6, average 2.7
Main genres
Select a genre to see those titles.
Recurring tags
- Psychological Exploration 3
- Visually Haunting 2
- Artistic 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, Eurydice: She, So Beloved, +43 more- LLarry SiderEditorInstitute 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
Keith GriffithsEditorThe Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer, Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy, This Unnameable Little Broom, The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode, Janáček: Intimate Excursions- 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- PPeter LovstromActorInstitute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life, Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy
César SaratxuActorThe Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life- SSimon LaurieEditorThe Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, The Sandman
- AAlan PassesWriterThe Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
- TTimothy NelsonComposerSanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
Movies and TV shows
472020s
5 titles · average score 57
57
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (2025)
Editor, Screenplay
Ghosts and Whispers (2022)
Animation, Director
VadeMecum (2021)
Director
2010s
5 titles
The Doll's Breath (2019)
Director
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H. (2013)
Animation, Director
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) (2011)
Editor, Director
Maska (2010)
Director, Writer
2000s
14 titles · average score 62
Inventorium of Traces (2009)
Director, Director of Photography
Kinoteka Ident (2009)
Director
Alice in Not So Wonderland (2007)
Writer, Director
Eurydice: She, So Beloved (2007)
Editor, Director
61
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005)
Director, Writer
62
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection (2003)
as Librarian
Songs for Dead Children (2003)
Director
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door (2001)
Director, Writer
The Sandman (2000)
Director
In Absentia (2000)
Director
1990s
8 titles · average score 67
The Summit (1995)
Director
68
Anamorphosis (1993)
Director, Editor
69
The Comb (1991)
Writer, Director
64
The Calligrapher (1991)
Animation, Director
1980s
14 titles · average score 68
Ex Voto (1989)
Director
Stille Nacht I: Dramolet (1988)
Director
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1988)
Director, Cinematography
70
Street of Crocodiles (1986)
Production Design, Director
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)
Director, Writer
A Fratricide (1981)
Director, Animation
1970s
1 title
Nocturna Artificialia (1979)
Director, Cinematography