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
102020s
2 titles · average score 57
57
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (2025)
Editor, Screenplay
Ghosts and Whispers (2022)
Animation, Director
2010s
2 titles
1990s
3 titles · average score 67
68
Anamorphosis (1993)
Director, Editor
69
The Comb (1991)
Writer, Director
64
The Calligrapher (1991)
Animation, Director
1980s
3 titles · average score 70
70
Street of Crocodiles (1986)
Production Design, Director
Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy (1981)
Director, Animation
A Fratricide (1981)
Director, Animation