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 1.7
- 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 5.3
- Family Dynamics1.1, average 4.7
- Crime0.9, average 3.7
- Adrenaline2.8, average 5.0
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, Inventorium of Traces, +44 more
Keith GriffithsWriterThis Unnameable Little Broom, Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy, The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer, Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929, The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode, +1 more- 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. KnowlandCinematographerInstitute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life, The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, Eurydice: She, So Beloved
- WWitold SchejbalActorThe Comb, Anamorphosis
Gottfried JohnActorInstitute 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
César SaratxuActorInstitute 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
48Upcoming
1 title
Kieślowski by Quays
Director
2020s
5 titles · average score 70
70
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (2025)
Editor, Screenplay
Ghosts and Whispers (2022)
Animation, Director
VadeMecum (2021)
Director
2010s
5 titles · average score 71
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
71
Maska (2010)
Writer, Director
2000s
14 titles · average score 60
Inventorium of Traces (2009)
Director, Director of Photography
Kinoteka Ident (2009)
Director
Eurydice: She, So Beloved (2007)
Editor, Director
Alice in Not So Wonderland (2007)
Writer, Director
49
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005)
Director, Writer
63
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
67
In Absentia (2000)
Animation, Director
The Sandman (2000)
Director
1990s
8 titles · average score 69
The Summit (1995)
Director
68
Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You (1993)
Animation, Camera Operator
62
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods (1993)
Director, Camera Operator
68
Anamorphosis (1993)
Director, Editor
65
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married? (1992)
Animation, Camera Operator
69
The Comb (1991)
Writer, Director
64
The Calligrapher (1991)
Animation, Director
1980s
14 titles · average score 68
Ex Voto (1989)
Director
68
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1988)
Animation, Decorator
70
Street of Crocodiles (1986)
Production Design, Director
66
This Unnameable Little Broom (1985)
Writer, Director
70
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
1970s
1 title · average score 61
61
Nocturna Artificialia (1979)
Director, Cinematography