Movies: Insect

In 1908, amateur naturalist and pioneering filmmaker Percy Smith stunned early cinema goers with his footage of the juggling fly. Hailed as the father of Natural History film, Smith was a hugely influential visual pioneer, inventing many techniques t...

An exterminator discovers a strange, out-of-the-ordinary world full of insect-animal hybrids after falling through a large crack while he was doing his job....

The Hidden World is a 1958 American science documentary film produced by Robert Snyder and narrated by Gregory Peck. The film is about insects. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature....

The story is about Haruki, an eleven-year-old boy who is also the prince of all insects. It is possible he can shrink himself to any size. But that isn't important right now....

Marcos, a prosthetic creator with a traumatic past, finds a corpse in his laboratory. While deciding what to do with the corpse he will have to juggle his strange family life, a zombie movie, the possibility of new love and creating the perfect prost...

Luís, a married sculptor, starts to make a clay reproduction of his neighbor. He can’t help but spy on her ever since he uncovered a hole in their shared wall....

A small insect falls in love with a distraught housewife whose husband has just walked out on her. The bug is unable to gain her affection until he finds a book of magic spells. But his problems are not over yet....

The utterings of a faceless narrator are intercut with the tale of an estranged woodland inhabitant, who makes a peculiar discovery....

Untangling the web of cultural and historical ties underlying Japan's deep fascination with insects....

Propped upon the tail-end of a match, a housefly performs astonishing feats, alternately juggling a series of objects - a blade of grass, a cork, a miniature dumbbell… Most extraordinary of all is the sequence in which the fly spins a ball twice its ...

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Ages before man proclaimed himself a superior being, the tiny ant had developed the art of agriculture — a practice which was later to be the backbone of human society....

Luis Buñuel’s observation – “You can find all of Shakespeare and de Sade in the lives of insects” – was the inspiration for this experimental horror movie, in which human actors wordlessly enact the life-cycles of wasps and bees. Its purpose is to de...

Simultaneously an exploration of nature and psyche, ‘In The Pines’ documents a young woman’s hunt for extraterrestrial meaning. Part science fiction, part psychothriller, part poetry - this film crafts a scene viewers will be eager to revisit....

La vispa Teresa (“Lively Theresa”) is based on a well known song; a girl, ten, catches a butterfly and all the other insects intervene to save it....

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The courtship rituals of animals and plants are compared to those of contemporary society, with educational and frequently humorous results....

In this playful essay film, the filmmaker investigates our culture's discomfort with all things many-legged....

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UNIVERSUM cameraman Wolfgang Thaler and Bert Hoelldobler, a leading authority on ants, bring us face-to-face with the mysterious world of these social insects....