Insect Movies

An ant works to prepare for winter while a drunken grasshopper plays his violin and dances away his time. When the snow arrives, the grasshopper...

A Father Christmas ornament climbs down from a decorated tree, and goes to the forest. There he creates and decorates a Christmas tree for the forest...

Struggling with a mid-life crisis, Robert Oelman leaves his psychology career in the early 1990s to photograph rare and exotic insects. After moving...

Anita'’s beauty and popularity are unable to hide her from major problems, which lead her to escape from a world of incomprehension into an...

A five minute film noir animated short, Luna depicts the flirtatious dance between a charming and debonair caterpillar (Silky) and the stunning and...

Brightheart and her insect buddies form a task force called the Firefly Action Brigade to protect and serve their village. One day their peace is...

The film shows Shiva in a very traditional representation--in bronze and standing within a circle of bronze flames. Suddenly, a fly lands on Shiva's...

This film was produced as an extension of a research film on the metamorphosis of the fly. It successively shows the hatching of the eggs, the...

The World's Biggest and Baddest Bugs, follows host Ruud Kleinpaste, as he embarks on an entomological odyssey around the globe in search of the...

A spider attempts to lure a ladybug into his web. When she manages to escape and hide in a tulip, a storm comes that batters the spider, while the...

After eating a cheesecake given to him by a kind-hearted lady, a hobo goes to sleep and has a bizarre dream in which insects are putting on a...

Satoshi Kuribayashi and his team filmed the insects for over an astonishing 430 days, resulting in breathtaking images and scenes from a still fairly...

Travelling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes to find that he's been transformed into a giant insect. This particular Franz Kafka adaptation is seen from...

Hai, a little boy, catches a bird. Long, a cyclo driver, takes a carp for a ride on behalf of the mysterious Mr. Chu. All across Vietnam, people are...

Simultaneously an exploration of nature and psyche, ‘In The Pines’ documents a young woman’s hunt for extraterrestrial meaning....

A 1983 short film directed by Eduard Nazarov about an ant who gets blown away with the wind from its home and the adventures it goes through in...

Ant colonies are one of the wonders of nature: complex, organised… and mysterious. This programme reveals the secret, underground world of the...

A mercenary team is assembled to steal the genetically modified food research of Dr. Fielding. His daughter fed a cockroach some of the food mutating...

How did our world come into being? Beneath our feet lies a class of animals far more numerous than any other. Let us embark on a journey through time...