Movies: Puppets

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...

The Muppets of Sesame Street and the cast of The Electric Company take over the ABC Nightly News when the newsroom staff takes a lunch break....

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 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....

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

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....

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

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...

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

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 ...

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 ...

An experimental, mixed-media retelling of the Biblical story of Adam and Eve. Of course, when a story this old is told countless times throughout the centuries, a few important details are bound to get lost in translation......

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...

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On a stormy night Caleb decides to box away his past but little does he know what power lies inside the box that risk him and his friends lives....

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 ...

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,...

The film follows Gergasha, a renowned media entrepreneur who runs a firmly established and humorous media studio and faces daily challenges in light comedy situations and action-packed adventures....

When a star, bored of its endless existence, hears music coming from a distant speck, it shoots down to find itself on planet Earth. On their quest to find music, they are helped by an ex-dance champion and a jaded musician, and faced with the imperm...