Films using stop-motion animation

1984 film by James Cameron

1991 film by James Cameron

1980 American epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner

2015 film directed by J. J. Abrams

2014 film directed by Wes Anderson

Ghostbusters is a 1984 American supernatural comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. It stars Bill Murray, Aykroyd, and Ramis as Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler, three eccentric parapsychologists who start a ghost-catching business in New York City. It also stars Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis, and features Annie Potts, Ernie Hudson, and William Atherton in supporting roles.

RoboCop is a 1987 American science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner. The film stars Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Daniel O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, and Miguel Ferrer. Set in a crime-ridden Detroit in the near future, RoboCop centers on police officer Alex Murphy (Weller) who is murdered by a gang of criminals and revived by the megacorporation Omni Consumer Products as the cyborg law enforcer RoboCop. Unaware of his former life, RoboCop executes a campaign against crime while coming to terms with the lingering fragments of

1933 American monster adventure film

1982 film directed by John Carpenter

Beetlejuice is a 1988 American gothic horror comedy film directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay by Michael McDowell and Warren Skaaren based on a story by McDowell and Larry Wilson. The film stars Michael Keaton as Betelgeuse, along with Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, Catherine O'Hara and Winona Ryder.

1981 film by Sam Raimi

1954 film directed by Ishirō Honda

2002 film directed by Julie Taymor

Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High!) is a 1980 American comedy film written and directed by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker in their directorial debut, and produced by Jon Davison. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Lorna Patterson, Stephen Stucker, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. It is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows the plot, central characters, and some dialogue. It also draws many elements from Airport 1975 and other films in

2004 adventure film directed by Brad Silberling

Gremlins is a 1984 American black comedy horror film directed by Joe Dante, written by Chris Columbus and starring Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, Polly Holliday and Frances Lee McCain, with Howie Mandel providing the voice of Gizmo the Mogwai. It draws on legends of folkloric mischievous creatures that cause malfunctions—"gremlins"—in the British Royal Air Force going back to World War II. The story follows Billy Peltzer, who receives Gizmo as a pet, who then spawns more of his kind that evolve into the titular imp-like monsters that wreak havoc on Billy's hometown during Christmas E

1989 film directed by Ivan Reitman

Elf is a 2003 American Christmas comedy film directed by Jon Favreau and written by David Berenbaum. It stars Will Ferrell as Buddy the Elf, a human raised by Santa's elves, who learns about his origins and heads to New York City to meet his biological father. James Caan, Zooey Deschanel, Mary Steenburgen, Ed Asner and Bob Newhart appear in supporting roles.

2023 film directed by Ángel Manuel Soto

1993 film directed by Sam Raimi

1987 film by Sam Raimi

1987 film by Wes Craven, Chuck Russell

1988 film directed by Ron Howard

2024 film directed by Tim Burton

2023 film directed by Wes Anderson

1990 film directed by Irvin Kershner

1963 film by Stanley Kramer

1994 film directed by Peter Segal

1989 film directed by Joe Johnston

1990 film directed by Joe Dante

1956 science fiction movie directed by Fred M. Wilcox

1963 film by Don Chaffey

2004 film by Wes Anderson

1966 film by Don Chaffey, Ray Harryhausen

1981 film by Desmond Davis

1925 film directed by Harry O. Hoyt

1986 film directed by Willard Huyck

1958 film by Ray Harryhausen, Nathan H. Juran

1960 film by George Pal

1973 film by Gordon Hessler

Moonwalker is a 1988 American anthology musical film starring Michael Jackson. Rather than featuring one continuous narrative, the film expresses the influence of fandom and innocence through a collection of short films about Jackson, several of which are long-form music videos from Jackson's 1987 album Bad. The film is named after the dance technique known as the moonwalk, which Jackson was known for performing.

1962 film directed by Ishirō Honda

1992 film by Peter Jackson

2014 film directed by Jennifer Kent

Häxan (, The Witch; Heksen , The Witch; English: The Witches; released in the US in 1968 as Witchcraft Through the Ages) is a 1922 Swedish-Danish silent horror essay film written and directed by Benjamin Christensen. Consisting partly of documentary-style storytelling as well as dramatized narrative sequences, the film purports to chart the historical roots and superstitions surrounding witchcraft, beginning in the Middle Ages through the 20th century. Based partly on Christensen's own study of the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th-century German guide for inquisitors, Häxan proposes that such witch

1991 film directed by Joe Johnston

2022 film directed by Akiva Schaffer

1988 film directed by Stephen Chiodo

1996 animated film directed by Henry Selick

1981 film by Joe Dante

1983 film by Steven Spielberg, John Landis, George Miller, Joe Dante

1993 film by Steve Barron

1953 horror film directed by Eugène Lourié, Ray Harryhausen

1983 film by Peter Yates

1977 film by Ray Harryhausen, Sam Wanamaker

1984 film by John Korty

2006 film by Michel Gondry

1985 film by Barry Levinson

1923 film by Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline

1985 film directed by Walter Murch