Directed by Gordon Douglas • 1954 • United States
Starring James Whitmore, James Arness, Joan Weldon

Man has split the atom and ushered in a new era. But how could he know he would also create THEM? Boasting remarkable, ahead-of-their-time special effects, this science-fiction landmark begins in...

Directed by Mark Lewis • 1988 • Australia
Starring Tip Byrne, Glen Ingram, H. W. Kerr

Mark Lewis takes the nature documentary into new realms of the humorous, surreal, and downright bizarre with this stranger-than-fiction tale of the ultimate environmental self-own. The cane toad—Bufo marinus, a...

Directed by Saul Bass • 1974 • United Kingdom, United States
Starring Nigel Davenport, Michael Murphy, Lynne Frederick

The sole feature directed by graphic-design visionary Saul Bass is a brain-warping science-fiction freak-out in which a mysterious cosmic force turns a colony of ants in the Ari...

Directed by Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou • 1996 • France
Starring Jacques Perrin, Kristin Scott Thomas

Experience the strange, beautiful, surreal world of insects as never before in this singular, artful nature documentary, which employs specially created cameras and lenses—developed over...

Directed by Mark Lewis • 2000 • United States

While most know chicken as a dinner-plate staple, few pause to consider this bird’s many virtues. In this fascinating and gently comic documentary, director Mark Lewis delves into the under-recognized complexities of this seemingly simple animal. Thr...

Directed by Jean Painlevé • 1933 • France

Jean Painlevé’s classic underwater short THE SEA HORSE uses dreamlike imagery to detail the lives of the titular upright-swimming creatures.

Directed by Jean Painlevé • 1945 • France

Jean Painlevé’s short THE VAMPIRE draws the connection between the movie monsters of the same name and the South American vampire bat. The animal’s gruesome feeding habits are on full display.

Directed by Jean Painlevé • 1960 • France

Through a combination of underwater, time-lapse, and microscopic photography, Jean Painlevé creates a beautiful study of the reproduction cycle of jellyfish.

Directed by Jean Painlevé • 1967 • France

The mating rituals and reproductive cycle of the octopus are the subject of this short documentary by Jean Painlevé.

Directed by Isabella Rossellini • 2008 • United States
Starring Isabella Rossellini

Anchovy orgies, sadomasochistic snails, and hermaphrodite worms—Isabella Rossellini reveals the wacky, kinky, confounding mating rituals of insects and marine life in this blissfully bonkers, utterly singular sho...

Directed by Isabella Rossellini • 2009 • United States
Starring Isabella Rossellini

Anchovy orgies, sadomasochistic snails, and hermaphrodite worms—Isabella Rossellini reveals the wacky, kinky, confounding mating rituals of insects and marine life in this blissfully bonkers, utterly singular sho...

Directed by Isabella Rossellini • 2010 • United States
Starring Isabella Rossellini

Isabella Rossellini’s follow-up to her one-of-a-kind GREEN PORNO delves further into the surprising, eccentric mating rituals of the animal, marine, and insect worlds. From the anything-goes free love practiced b...