Insect Movies

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

An adaptation of Franz Kafka's classic story about Gregor Samsa, a man who awakes and sees himself suddenly turned into a repulsive insect.

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

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...

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,...

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

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 ladybird is being chased by a black-faced spider.

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...

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

A spot gag cartoon presenting amusing facts about bugs.

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

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...

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

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...

Short film claymation by Lee Hardcastle. About a farm of worms.

Two insects fight over the hand of a beautiful lady.

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,...

Killer murder hornets attack America.