Movies: Puppets

Three children visit their friend Bethie's clubhouse where they are encouraged to be as silly as possible as long as they learn and do well in school. Everything is silly at Bethie's clubhouse, the door tells knock-knock jokes, the books jockey to be...

A documentary about Spitting Image (1984) and the impact it had, including clips of the most memorable moments and contributions from many of the cast, crew and some of celebrities portrayed on the show....

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 ...

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....

The Metaliens, alien robots intent on galactic domination, encounter a major setback. Their enormous Space Saucer, 'Compromise', enters a black hole in a strange, uncharted region of Space, and collides with another craft – sending the Kleptonite Bal...

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

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

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

Meet Shavon O'Brien: Her family doesn't understand her, her church ignores her, even Jesus forgets about her. With only the spirit of Sinead O'Connor to guide her, Shavon battles institutional child abuse, narcissistic group think, a talking stomach...

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...

Creating a universe between two small pieces of Cardboard. When Jack and Jill of Cardboard City are separated by Jill's torrid illness, Jack must think outside the box to assure they will be together again....

A documentary about an old animation technique and the film studio that tries to carry on the legacy. The worlds oldest animation studio still making film with stop motion technique is Nukufilm located in Tallinn, Estland. Here we can follow the work...

The Puppeteer tells the story of Evie who experiences a disturbing phenomenon when her past is projected to her in the form of puppetry. This exposes dark secrets about her relationship....

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....

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...

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...

Five years after Diane leaves, Jack's depression reaches its' breaking point. With nothing to lose, Jack sets out on a cross-country journey of forgiveness, a huge ego, and a cast of wisdom seekers, who are willing to share life's little nuggets. For...

A microscopic tale of epic tragedy. One pea-sized pirate quests to slay his golden nemesis in this surrealistic, stop-motion animated retelling of Herman Melville's Moby Dick. A fully realized animation, full of conflict and tension, that makes perfe...

A little covetous breeze makes a pretty melody blowing in the wind. The story of a mysterious journey of tiny creatures intertwine through the hommono wilderness....