Topic: Puppets

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The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance (TV Series)

2019 · Series · 50 min. · United States

Direction Jeffrey Addiss · Will Matthews · Louis Leterrier

Plot TV Series (2019). 10 Episodes. The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance returns to the world of Thra with an all new adventure. When three Gelfling discover the horrifying secret behind...

7.9

4K votes

7.9

4K votes

31 Minutes (TV Series)

2003 · Series · 31 min. · Chile

Direction Alvaro Díaz · Pedro Peirano

Cast Alvaro Díaz · Pedro Peirano · Daniel Castro · Rodrigo Salinas

Plot This award winning Chilean program kicks a$$!!. With simultaneously hysterically strange but lovable characters. Its a fresh bucket of water when it comes to television shows, maybe because it doest...

7.6

367 votes

7.6

367 votes

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared (TV Series)

2022 · Series · 23 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Joseph Pelling · Becky Sloan · Baker Terry

Plot Based of the popular YouTube web series, follow Red Guy, Yellow Guy and Duck, who live in the sunny town of Clayhill, who will continue their dark and surreal learning...

7.5

53 votes

7.5

53 votes

Fimfárum Jana Wericha

2002 · Movie · 100 min. · Czech Republic

Direction Aurel Klimt · Vlasta Pospísilová

Plot Czech puppet animated adult film based in some stories by Czech actor and writer Jan Werich.The film is a collection of 5 short tales: When the Leaves Fall from the...

7.3

21 votes

7.3

21 votes

La bola de cristal (TV Series)

1984 · Series · 90 min. · Spain

Direction Lolo Rico · Ernesto Quintana · Emilio Arribas

Cast Olvido Gara "Alaska" · Isabel Bauza · Miguel Ángel Valero · Javier Gurruchaga

Plot This program for kids was composed by four parts. The first part was titled "Los electroduendes" and was a puppet show for kids. This part was hosted by Isabel Bauza....

7.3

4K votes

7.3

4K votes

The Pied Piper of Hamelin (Krysar)

1985 · Movie · 53 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Jirí Barta

Plot The story is a dark retelling of the Pied Piper, a traditional folk story.

7.3

570 votes

7.3

570 votes

Labyrinth

1986 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jim Henson

Cast Jennifer Connelly · David Bowie · David Goelz · Toby Froud

Plot 15-year-old Sarah accidentally wishes her baby half-brother, Toby, away to the Goblin King Jareth who will keep Toby if Sarah does not complete his Labyrinth in 13 hours.

7.2

31K votes

7.2

31K votes

Fraggle Rock (TV Series)

1983 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Jim Henson · Eric Till · George Bloomfield · Terry Maskell

Plot TV Series (1983-1987). 5 Seasons. 96 Episodes. Doc and his dog Sprocket have a hole in their wall, behind which live little furry creatures known as Fraggles in a place...

7.2

25K votes

7.2

25K votes

The World of The Dark Crystal (TV)

1983 · Documentary · 57 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Goldsmith

Cast Brian Froud · Frank Oz · Gary Kurtz · Oswald Morris

Plot The World of the Dark Crystal is a behind-the-scenes documentary detailing the technological innovations in the field of animatronics, art design, film making, and Henson magic. Requiring over two years...

7.2

24 votes

7.2

24 votes

Jim Henson Idea Man

2024 · Documentary · 108 min. · United States

Direction Ron Howard

Plot "Jim Henson Idea Man" takes us into the mind of this singular creative visionary, from his early years puppeteering on local television to the worldwide success of Sesame Street, The...

7.2

197 votes

7.2

197 votes

The Story of the Fox

1937 · Movie · 65 min. · France

Direction Wladyslaw Starewicz · Irene Starewicz

Plot In the kingdom of animals, Master Fox is used to trick and fool everyone. So the King, the Lion, receives more and more complaints about him. He orders that Master...

7.2

371 votes

7.2

371 votes

The Hand (S)

1965 · Movie · 18 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Jirí Trnka

Plot A powerful allegory of the artist laboring under oppressive censorship.

7.2

926 votes

7.2

926 votes

Sesame Street (TV Series)

1969 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Jim Henson · Joan Ganz Cooney · Jon Stone · Lisa Simon

Plot TV Series (1969-Today). Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series for preschoolers and is a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both education and entertainment. Sesame...

Max

7.1

34K votes

7.1

34K votes

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

2021 · Documentary · 107 min. · United States

Direction Marilyn Agrelo

Cast Jim Henson · Jon Stone · Joan Ganz Cooney

Plot Based on Michael Davis’s best-selling book of the same name, Marilyn Agrelo's film Street Gang explores how creator Joan Ganz Cooney, original series director Jon Stone, and legendary Muppets creator...

7.1

22 votes

7.1

22 votes

Strings

2004 · Movie · 87 min. · Denmark

Direction Anders Rønnow Klarlund

Plot Strings is a mythological story about the son of a king, Hal Tara, who sets out on a journey to revenge the death of his father. To his surprise he...

7.1

642 votes

7.1

642 votes

Che cosa sono le nuvole? (S)

1967 · Movie · 22 min. · Italy

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Totò · Ninetto Davoli · Laura Betti · Franco Franchi

Plot Some puppets come to life in a theater with no windows. This time the puppets interpret William Shakespeare's Othello.

7.0

21 votes

7.0

21 votes

Prince Bajaja

1950 · Movie · 74 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Jirí Trnka

Cast Detsky pevecky sbor Jana Kuhna

Plot Bayaya, a young peasant, protected by the spirit of his dead mother, arrives at the castle of the King, where he entertains his three daughters. He soon realizes that the...

7.0

21 votes

7.0

21 votes

The Dark Crystal

1982 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Jim Henson · Frank Oz

Plot Another planet, another time. 1000 years ago the Dark Crystal was damaged by one of the Urskeks and an age of chaos began. Now the time of the great conjunction...

7.0

15K votes

7.0

15K votes

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 6 (S)

2016 · Movie · 8 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Joseph Pelling · Becky Sloan

Plot All alone, Yellow Guy tries to stop a lamp from teaching him about dreams. While Red Guy finds out the truth about the puppet's existence.

7.0

337 votes

7.0

337 votes

Muppets Tonight (TV Series)

1996 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Gary Halvorson · Greg V. Fera · Tom Trbovich · Brian Henson

Cast Brian Henson · The Muppets

Plot Kermit, Clifford and friends struggle to put on a weekly TV variety show.

6.9

178 votes

6.9

178 votes