Direction: Henry Selick

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Henry Selick. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The Nightmare Before Christmas

1993 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Henry Selick

Synopsis Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king of Halloween Town, is bored with doing the same thing every year for Halloween. One day he stumbles into Christmas Town, and is so taken with the idea of Christmas that he tries to get...

7.7

102K votes

7.7

102K votes

Coraline

2009 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Henry Selick

Synopsis Based on Neil Gaiman's short children's novel of the same name, Coraline is a young bored girl who discovers that bricked-up wall behind a door in her flat leads to another world, with another mother, and another father. It all...

7.1

50K votes

7.1

50K votes

James and the Giant Peach

1996 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Henry Selick

Cast Paul Terry · Pete Postlethwaite · Miriam Margolyes · Joanna Lumley

Synopsis An orphan with terrible aunts for guardians, befriends human like bugs who live inside a giant peach, who take the boy on a journey to New York City.

6.4

9K votes

6.4

9K votes

Direction Henry Selick

Synopsis A pair of clay animated conjoined twin sisters get out of bed only to see live action Slow Bob get transported to another dimension. In this dimension, people are alive in pictures, and scissors are attacking the town. Bob stops...

6.0

134 votes

6.0

134 votes

Wendell and Wild

2022 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Henry Selick

Synopsis Two demon brothers face off against a nun and a pair of goth teens.

5.9

976 votes

5.9

976 votes

Moongirl (S)

2005 · Movie · 8 min. · United States

Direction Henry Selick

5.8

229 votes

5.8

229 votes

Monkeybone

2001 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Henry Selick

Cast Brendan Fraser · Bridget Fonda · Chris Kattan · Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis The comedy revolves around a cartoonist and the incredible fantasy world that takes place in his mind after he slips into a coma. Trapped in this outrageous land nestled between life and death, he must somehow find the means to...

3.8

3K votes

3.8

3K votes

Seepage (S)

1982 · Movie · 9 min. · United States

Direction Henry Selick

Not rated

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Tube Tales (S)

1975 · Movie · 3 min. · United States

Direction Henry Selick

Synopsis An animated parody of television commercials and the television audience.

Not rated

Not rated

Phases (S)

1977 · Movie · 6 min. · United States

Direction Henry Selick

Synopsis A walking figure emerges from a changing, circular cycle; his inner self emerges and precipitats a series of violent struggles with himself, adapting various animal forms along the way.

Not rated

Not rated