Insect Movies

A spot gag cartoon presenting amusing facts about bugs.

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

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...

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...

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

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

Two insects fight over the hand of a beautiful lady.

City of Wax is a 1934 American short documentary film produced by Horace and Stacy Woodard about the life of a bee. It won the Oscar at the 7th...

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

This short film takes a look through a microscope's lens at insect life.

Luis Buñuel’s observation – “You can find all of Shakespeare and de Sade in the lives of insects” – was the...

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...

Dominated by an Insect's totalitarian regime, the staff of a restaurant organizes a plot to knock down the established order.

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...

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...

A disturbed man makes a friend.

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