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85
7.7
/367752/
76
/9552/
74
/4672/
4.1
/481582/
94
/133/
87
/11347/
90
/36/
cc age 16+

Being John Malkovich (1999)
One day at work, unsuccessful puppeteer Craig finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who enters its mad and controlling world of overtaking another human body.
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Amazon Prime Video
84
8.3
/27989/
82
/1788/
79
/575/
4.2
/84810/
94
85
/41/
cc age 10+

Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)
For more than thirty years, and through his television program, Fred Rogers (1928-2003), host, producer, writer and pianist, accompanied by his puppets and his many friends, spoke directly to young children about some of life's most important issues.
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fuboTV
82
8.0
/1492/
81
/160/
75
/25/
3.9
/6495/
95
/100/
96
/25/
82
/19/
cc age 10+

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (2021)
Take a stroll down Sesame Street and witness the birth of the most influential children's show in television history. From the iconic furry characters to the classic songs you know by heart, learn how a gang of visionary creators changed the world.
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Criterion Channel
82
7.6
/56497/
75
/1017/
75
/870/
4.1
/123546/
86
/36/
91
/958/
86
/10/

The Double Life of Véronique (1991)
Véronique is a beautiful young French woman who aspires to be a renowned singer; Weronika lives in Poland, has a similar career goal and looks identical to Véronique, though the two are not related. The film follows both women as they contend with the ups and downs of their individual lives, with Véronique embarking on an unusual romance with Alexandre Fabbri, a puppeteer who may be able to help her with her existential issues.
poster
82
7.7
/619820/
79
/31300/
77
/7600/
4.2
/3631311/
93
/407/
79
/5711/
81
/55/
cc age 15+

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
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Disney Plus
82
7.5
/171006/
72
/9024/
71
/6145/
3.5
/371170/
100
/64/
73
/6213/
99
/17/
cc age 6+

Pinocchio (1940)
When the gentle woodcarver Geppetto builds a marionette to be his substitute son, a benevolent fairy brings the toy to life. The puppet, named Pinocchio, is not yet a human boy. He must earn the right to be real by proving that he is brave, truthful, and unselfish.
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Disney Plus
80
7.7
/4213/
78
/334/
77
/45/
3.9
/20537/
98
/61/
92
/34/
69
/13/
cc age 10+

Jim Henson Idea Man (2024)
Featuring unprecedented access to Jim Henson's personal archives, filmmaker Ron Howard brings us a fascinating and insightful look at a complex man whose boundless imagination inspired the world.
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Hoopla
78
7.6
/7307/
76
/426/
72
/148/
3.6
/9095/
95
/79/
87
/667/
71
/24/

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey (2011)
Beloved by children of all ages around the world, Elmo is an international icon. Few people know his creator, Kevin Clash, who dreamed of working with his idol, master puppeteer Jim Henson. Displaying his creativity and talent at a young age, Kevin ultimately found a home on Sesame Street. Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, this documentary includes rare archival footage, interviews with Frank Oz, Rosie O’Donnell, Cheryl Henson, Joan Ganz Cooney and others and offers a behind-the-scenes look at Sesame Street and the Jim Henson Workshop.
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Kanopy
77
7.5
/1798/
76
/100/
74
/44/
3.7
/2824/
84
/75/
80
/63/
71
/20/
cc age 10+

I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story (2015)
A documentary about Caroll Spinney who has been Sesame Street's Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch since 1969. At 78-years-old, he has no intention of stopping.
poster
Disney Plus
76
7.0
/182700/
72
/7774/
71
/5263/
3.7
/371332/
80
/111/
71
/3299/
74
/28/
cc age 8+

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
Isolated bell-ringer Quasimodo wishes to leave Notre Dame tower against the wishes of Judge Claude Frollo, his stern guardian and Paris' strait-laced Minister of Justice. His first venture to the outside world finds him Esmeralda, a kind-hearted and fearless Romani woman who openly stands up to Frollo's tyranny.
poster
Hoopla
74
6.6
/8877/
66
/544/
66
/232/
3.4
/37270/
92
/38/
79
/27/

Impetigore (2019)
A woman inherits a house in her ancestral village, but she's unaware that members of the community have been trying to locate and kill her to remove the curse that has plagued them for years.
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Amazon Prime Video
71
6.7
/34220/
69
/1079/
68
/587/
3.4
/70768/
80
/44/
73
/1206/

House on Haunted Hill (1959)
Frederick Loren invites five strangers to the party of a lifetime and offers each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in the reportedly haunted house. Armed with a gun for protection, each guest arrives in a hearse and will either leave in it much richer…Or dead.
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Netflix
69
6.9
/37738/
69
/2357/
66
/324/
3.5
/340671/
77
/255/
83
/372/
60
/46/
cc age 15+

Saturday Night (2024)
At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television forever. This is the story of what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live.
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71
67
6.7
/4909/
66
/200/
64
/142/
3.2
/3284/
93
/69/
64
/333/
84
/15/
cc age 8+

Lassie (2005)
A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on a journey home.
poster
Hulu
67
6.9
/537068/
70
/27026/
72
/10035/
2.9
/1947507/
73
/465/
85
/7339/
60
/65/
cc age 13+

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
Doctor Strange, with the help of mystical allies both old and new, traverses the mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities of the Multiverse to confront a mysterious new adversary.
poster
Kanopy
65
7.0
/1020/
58
/10/
61
/26/
3.4
/607/
73
/40/
65
/30/
67
/21/

Fellini: I'm a Born Liar (2003)
A look at Fellini's creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks a bit about his background and then discusses how he works and how he creates. Several actors, a producer, a writer, and a production manager talk about working with Fellini. Archive footage of Fellini and others on the set plus clips from his films provide commentary and illustration for the points interviewees make. Fellini is fully in charge; actors call themselves puppets. He dismisses improvisation and calls for "availability." His sets and his films create images that look like reality but are not; we see the differences and the results.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
63
7.7
/3325/
70
/61/
75
/87/
3.9
/4132/
87
/1285/

The Children Are Watching Us (1943)
In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the pair’s subsequent work on some of the masterpieces of Italian neorealism, The Children Are Watching Us is a vivid, deeply humane portrait of a family’s disintegration.
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Amazon Prime Video
63
6.1
/3191/
63
/237/
61
/75/
3.1
/4453/
77
/138/
59
/21/
59
/23/
cc age 15+

Judy & Punch (2019)
In the anarchic town of Seaside, nowhere near the sea, puppeteers Judy and Punch are trying to resurrect their marionette show. The show is a hit due to Judy's superior puppeteering but Punch's driving ambition and penchant for whisky lead to an inevitable tragedy that Judy must avenge.
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Kanopy
63
6.1
/9564/
62
/561/
60
/367/
3.0
/3559/
90
/10/
50
/51/

The Last Days (2013)
A mysterious epidemic spreads across the planet. Humanity develops an irrational fear of open spaces that causes instant death. Soon, the world population is trapped inside buildings. As Barcelona descends into chaos, Marc sets off on a quest to find Julia, his missing girlfriend, without ever going outside.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
70
62
7.2
/4393/
68
/60/
66
/59/
3.3
/2713/
75
/8/
81
/96/
65
/5/
cc age 6+

Lili (1953)
Members of a circus troupe "adopt" Lili Daurier when she finds herself stranded in a strange town. The magician who first comes to her rescue already has romantic entanglements and thinks of her as a little girl. Who can she turn to but the puppets, singing to them her troubles, forgetting that there are puppeteers? A crowd gathers around Lili as she sings. The circus has a new act. She now has a job. Will she get her heart's desire?
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MUBI
69
62
6.5
/4290/
58
/53/
61
/55/
3.6
/3391/
82
/89/
60
/337/
86
/23/
cc age 12+

Flight of the Red Balloon (2007)
The first part in a new series of films produced by Musée d'Orsay, 'Flight of the Red Balloon' tells the story of a French family as seen through the eyes of a Chinese student. The film was shot in August and September 2006 on location in Paris. This is Hou Hsiao-Hsien's first Western film. It is based on the classic French short The Red Balloon directed by Albert Lamorisse.
poster
75
62
7.5
/4019/
64
/51/
69
/68/
3.8
/2028/
92
/40/

The Simple-Minded Murderer (1982)
The feeble-minded Sven's mother dies and he gets work as a farm-hand at the rich, affluent Höglund's farm. He has to work without pay and sleeps together with the cows. He meets the disabled Anna who is the first one to treat him as an adult. One day he has had enough of Höglund's maltreatment and moves in with Anna's family. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
poster
The Roku Channel
61
6.6
/52057/
65
/1371/
63
/907/
3.1
/19638/
62
/185/
55
/1580/
60
/40/
cc age 16+

The Beaver (2011)
Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With his father seemingly going insane, adolescent son Porter pushes for his parents to get a divorce.
poster
61
6.7
/98973/
70
/3798/
67
/1959/
3.5
/177170/
68
/65/
68
/5262/
49
/11/

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
A psychiatrist, familiar with the knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger, helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.
poster
76
58
7.0
/2240/
67
/48/
65
/54/
3.9
/3341/
100
/9/
76
/23/

The Puppetmaster (1993)
Master puppeteer Li Tien-lu recalls his life in Japanese-occupied Taiwan during the first half of the 20th century.
poster
Hoopla
78
56
7.5
/1243/
73
/51/
73
/17/
3.8
/1681/
90
/31/
89
/42/
72
/10/

Beauty Is Embarrassing (2012)
Raised in the Tennessee mountains, Wayne White started his career as a cartoonist in NYC. He quickly found success as one of the creators of the Pee-wee's Playhouse TV show which soon led to more work designing some of the most arresting and iconic images in pop culture. Recently his word paintings featuring pithy and and often sarcastic text statements finely crafted onto vintage landscape paintings have made him a darling of the fine art world. The movie chronicles the vaulted highs and crushing lows of an artist struggling to find peace and balance between his professional work and his personal art. This is especially complicated for a man who struggles with the virtues he most often mocks in his art...Vanity, ego and fame.
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Amazon Prime Video
64
55
6.4
/3680/
60
/67/
64
/42/
3.0
/2556/
62
/13/
78
/85/

Still Breathing (1997)
Two lost souls: she a con-artist in L.A.; he a puppeteer in San Antonio have the same dream linking each with the other. He travels to L.A. to find this woman he has become obsessed with. She resists, afraid of his kooky ideas until she travels with him to San Antonio and meets his wise grandmother. Story of two disparate people linked by "fate" gets increasingly interesting as it rolls along.
poster
The Roku Channel
59
55
5.9
/6086/
60
/259/
63
/177/
3.0
/9568/
53
/160/

Puppet Master III (1992)
After hearing that mystical toymaker Andre Toulon has managed to create a troupe of sentient, living puppets, Nazi underling Dr. Hess sets his sights on exploiting Toulon's powers for the glory of the Reich.
poster
Kanopy
53
6.3
/66971/
67
/2010/
64
/1275/
3.0
/20166/
25
/118/
57
/1419/
33
/30/
cc age 18+

Mindhunters (2004)
Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst. Based very loosely on Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
51
5.5
/14382/
58
/653/
58
/376/
2.7
/29805/
44
/9/
40
/536/

Puppet Master (1989)
After being contacted by their mysterious former colleague, four psychics arrive at a secluded hotel where they are stalked by a group of murderous puppets.
poster
49
5.5
/867/
48
/27/
49
/20/
3.1
/1074/
31
/23/

Shanks (1974)
Malcolm Shanks is a sad and lonely man, deaf, mute and living with his cruel sister and her husband, who delight in making him miserable. His only pleasure, it seems, is in making and controlling puppets. Thanks to his skill, he is offered a job as a lab assistant to Dr. Walker, who is working on ways to re-animate dead bodies by inserting electrodes at key nerve points and manipulating the bodies as if they were on strings. When the professor suddenly dies one night, Shanks gets the idea to apply their experimental results to a human body, and then to start exacting some revenge.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
54
49
6.1
/4457/
57
/152/
61
/106/
3.2
/6499/
38
/8/
46
/74/

Mark of the Devil (1970)
In 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the injustice, the falsehood, the torture and the arbitrary killing that go with the job.
poster
MGM Plus
62
48
5.9
/2323/
66
/36/
53
/50/
3.0
/2119/
100
/13/
37
/40/

Bluebeard (1944)
Young female models are being strangled. Will law enforcement be able to stop the crime wave before more women become victims?
poster
61
43
5.9
/2043/
55
/54/
62
/52/
3.6
/5189/
60
/22/

Sombre (1998)
A serial killer stalks a woman he befriended after her car broke down.
poster
Disney Plus
42
5.1
/46153/
58
/2884/
63
/1701/
1.9
/97244/
27
/179/
27
/425/
38
/37/
cc age 8+

Pinocchio (2022)
A wooden puppet embarks on a thrilling adventure to become a real boy.
poster
50
42
5.7
/4697/
62
/135/
53
/70/
2.9
/1561/
51
/104/
24
/6/

Moving Violations (1985)
A group of careless and unlucky drivers are sentenced to attend traffic school to keep their records clean.
poster
JustWatch TV
64
38
6.6
/1224/
59
/20/
65
/36/
3.4
/1549/
60
/5/
71
/13/

Warning Shadows (1923)
During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the marriage by giving all the guests a vision what might happen tonight if the baron stays jealous and the suitors do not reduce their advances towards his beautiful wife. Or was it a vision?
poster
68
37
7.3
/1431/
63
/26/
67
/31/
3.5
/1624/

Wackiki Wabbit (1943)
On a tropical island, a pair of castaways look to Bugs as a source of food.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
48
36
5.2
/3082/
57
/66/
50
/63/
2.7
/2037/
29
/2918/

Attack of the Puppet People (1958)
A deranged scientist creates a ray that can shrink people down to doll size.
poster
76
35
7.3
/382/
53
/3/
72
/11/
83
/12/
100
/7/
76
/13/

The City (1999)
The stories of four Hispanic immigrants living in New York City.
poster
53
33
5.1
/1745/
58
/38/
45
/47/
3.0
/1069/
53
/96/

Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies (2001)
Girls surrounding 17 years old are affected by an illness that make her to be 'Stacies': they feel a strange and momentary happiness until they become zombies.
poster
Plex
74
30
7.6
/602/
71
/19/
76
/17/
3.8
/1686/

Inside the Labyrinth (1986)
A behind-the-scenes look at Jim Henson's 1986 fantasy film, 'Labyrinth', featuring David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly.
poster
61
30
6.6
/1296/
64
/39/
55
/37/
3.3
/258/
57
/43/

Third Man Out: A Donald Strachey Mystery (2005)
Gay detective Donald Strachey is commissioned to protect gay activist John Rutka, known for "outing" prominent citizens.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
35
29
3.8
/3053/
40
/139/
41
/129/
1.9
/4004/
19
/93/

Retro Puppet Master (1999)
Andre Toulon, living a peaceful life as a puppeteer in pre-WWI Paris, encounters the renegade sorcerer Afzel, who has stolen the mysterious secrets of life from the dark god Sutekh.
poster
Disney Plus
48
27
4.9
/1204/
54
/43/
50
/35/
2.4
/1534/
43
/24/
cc age 7+

Hounded (2001)
A teenager ends up being hounded by a well-groomed and seemingly cute and tiny dog that actually turns out to be a nightmare of a beast.
poster
58
24
6.7
/975/
63
/10/
63
/23/
3.4
/672/
31
/93/

The Blackbird (1926)
Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the other to win her heart.
poster
78
23
8.6
/328/
84
/17/
68
/26/
3.8
/711/

The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson (1990)
While the Muppets prepare a tribute to the late Jim Henson, they learn about the life and career of the renowned puppeteer/film maker.
poster
Fandor
63
19
6.0
/592/
61
/19/
65
/26/
3.4
/388/

Bunohan: Return to Murder (2012)
3 brother return to the village of Bunohan with three very different reasons; they will encounter death, deceit and a very grim revelation.


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