Puppetry Movies

The story of how Jim Henson tried to convince broadcasters that The Muppets was a great idea and how he worked to get the characters on air where...

After a series of failed pitches, a has-been TV presenter's attempts to get his old show rebooted are stifled after his puppet goes missing.

Private View Episode Two. A wholesome love story in which nothing strange or untoward happens at all.

Puppeteer Chen Hsi-huang establishes his own troupe and moves out from under the shadow of his father, the legendary Li Tien-lu.

A young girl is playing on some waste ground when she finds a pencil with a face. Whatever she draws with the pencil becomes real. Just an ordinary...

Anxious about a new school and his relationship to his brother, a boy with Cerebral Palsy meets an alien who helps him cope with his fears.

A boy's dog has run off and, with the help of unfortunately named marionette Handy, the kid learns to use a telephone to find him.

'The Mystery in Old Bath bath' is puppet movie created by Quintron and Miss Pussycat as part of the ongoing series 'Trixie and the Treetrunks'. In...

The film is based on a puppet musical which fuses the fantastical and historical, transforming a process of historical research into a...

The crusades come to life in Egyptian artist Wael Shawky’s beautiful Cabaret Crusades. Inspired by the writings of Lebanese writer Amin...

The third of six documentary specials on puppetry presented by Jim Henson. This special features the artistry of American puppeteer Bruce Schwartz,...

Documentary about Jirí Trnka and how he works.

Two strangers. Two personalities. One hand-made secret.

A lucid dream turned nightmarish reality. A ship sinking into a world of fear. A short film that’s mostly puppetry by one of America's...

In the middle of the forest, a bear finds an abandoned hut full of food and sweets and encounters different animals while staying there.

A quiet bus ride home from the city library turns into an aural nightmare for a book-reading commuter. With every stop the bus fills with people and...

Your final attempt to escape your misery sends you on a journey through the wetlands, the ruins of a fascist metropolis and beyond the atmosphere of...

A stop-motion adaptation of the 1981 novel by geologist Dougal Dixon of the same name, which explores the speculative paths of evolution of modern...

A puppets journey to fulfill his legacy.

Constantly covered and unveiled by the tide, the “Shrinking Island” is home only to hermit crabs - except for when human tourists try to...