Movies: Puppets

Little Willy McBean joins up with a Mexican monkey named Pablo to travel back in time and stop the evil Prof. von Rotten from changing history....

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A group of singing, child-friendly puppets' world is shaken up when they graduate from letters and numbers and are transferred to an inner-city high school filled with drugs, gangs, and violence....

Shari Lewis, Lamb Chop, and the gang discover the true meaning of Chanukah in this special holiday program. The story of the special holiday and all its traditions are celebrated with music and song along with Lloyd Bochner, Alan Thicke and Pat Morit...

William Shakespeare, without saying a word, gives a quick run through of all his plays in a very special audition....

With harpsichord music in the background, a dandy, seated at a table, plucks a quill pen from a ceiling full of them above him, dips it in ink, thinks, then draws a straight line down the page in front of him, out of which sprout six more quill pens,...

Misfit Heights is a film about an apartment building populated by puppets who have to struggle for survival when a mad scientist's plan to rule the world with an army of undead goes awry. It's up to the last few survivors to fight their way into his ...

A hero stuck in an ancient cycle of death and rebirth unknowingly cheats his destiny....

A misfit band of monsters finds meaning in the most mystical holiday of the year. A vampire and his monster minions run an obscure Transylvanian television station with the improbable power to reanimate dead TV shows. World domination is just around ...

The tale of the brave warrior Dobrynya Nikitich and his fight against the three-headed dragon, Zmey Gorynych....

Jim Henson and Rowlf the Dog explain the art and history of puppetry, and let the viewer in on some of the secrets in performing his own act, the Muppets....

A colourful yet sinister mix of painting, puppets, and real people. A puppet maker shrinks people, then sends them down a conveyer belt to be married and later used as figures on a wedding cake. Our minds, although not clock-work, are forced to live ...

Directed by Paul Andrejco and based on the familiar North American folksong, I Knew an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly tells a story of gluttony, obsession and veterinary gastronomy, wherein a monstrous series of events inevitably blankets the disquiete...

Staged by the Salzburger Marionettentheater. Wagner's great epic condensed into two hours — compact, humorous and very exciting! Marionettes encounter actors and take us into a time tunnel of mythological entanglements....

Evil rules the night. It spreads its black hand across the land. No one is safe from its wrath and sooner or later it will devour everyone. One man has made it his purpose to journey into the heart of hell and face the devil himself to take back what...

Dr Frankenstein obsesses over his creation in Blackeyed Theatre’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s masterpiece, in which The Creature is brought to life through puppetry. Captured live at Wilde Theatre, Bracknell, in 2022, this production features ensem...

Seraphim Cloud grows up near a desert retirement community in the Dinétah (Navajo Nation) There Seraphim meets Howie Heehaw; a wandering rodeo show clown from Tibet seeking a flowering blue cactus seen in a powerful vision. This is a prequel feature ...

AJ, a little monster awake past their bedtime, has made a terrifying discovery: There's a human under their bed! But humans, it turns out, aren't actually all that scary. In fact, this one seems to have a lot in common with AJ. There's just one thing...

A child, a cat, a starry night but, in this world of innocence, dream and magic, obscure forces of evil awaken. This animated short revolves around the adventures of a young, horned boy and a group of six devil-like vermin that can combine themselves...

A woman is convinced to shoplift by a talking sweater....