Insect Movies

A story about a caterpillar undergoing metaphorphosis in a too-small cocoon.

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...

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...

A strong-willed woman not only dominates her family of California winegrowers, but also has a strange hold on a colony of bees in her vineyard.

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

Big sister Krista angrily wishes her little brother Tyler would just turn into a bug and buzz off. She gets her wish, courtesy of Mrs. Pickle Nickle,...

Erik is a Dutch ten year-old schoolboy who is studying insects at school, and gets shown and explained a bit about them by his kind and knowledgeable...

We all have hobbies regarding the world of insects, they are very annoying with their buzzing, their pecking and even their horrifying appearance,...

A jilted husband takes his revenge by filming his wife and her lover and showing the result at the local cinema. This was one of Starewicz' first...

This classic from Rolf Forsberg, in the style of Fellini and Bergman, tells the story of a gardener who decides to introduce ants to his garden,...

A teenager's infatuation with the new bad boy at school leads him onto a dark path.

A Documentary on the Creation of OVO, by Cirque du Soleil

In 1908, amateur naturalist and pioneering filmmaker Percy Smith stunned early cinema goers with his footage of the juggling fly. Hailed as the...

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...

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...

Dot, an Australian girl, seeks the magical green root that will give her the ability to talk to animals. She eats a red root by mistake, and is...

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

Seemingly at random, the wings and other bits of moths and insects move rapidly across the screen. Most are brown or sepia; up close, we can see...