Puppet films

1999 film directed by George Lucas

1980 American epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner

The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise from a screenplay written by Ernest Lehman. It is based on the 1959 stage musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Lindsay and Crouse, itself based on the 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. The film stars Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, and Eleanor Parker. Set in Salzburg, Austria, it is a fictional retelling of Maria von Trapp's experiences as governess to seven children, her eventual marriage with their father Captain Georg von Trapp, and their escape during the Anschluss in 1938.

2017 film directed by Rian Johnson

1988 film directed by Robert Zemeckis

1984 film by David Lynch

2001 film directed by Steven Spielberg

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.

1999 film by Spike Jonze

2017 film by David Soren

1986 film directed by Leonard Nimoy

Spaceballs is a 1987 American space opera parody film co-written, produced and directed by Mel Brooks. It primarily parodies the original Star Wars trilogy, but also other popular franchises such as Star Trek, Alien, The Wizard of Oz, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Planet of the Apes, and Transformers. The film stars Bill Pullman, John Candy, Rick Moranis and Daphne Zuniga, with the supporting cast including Dick Van Patten, George Wyner, Lorene Yarnell, and the voice of Joan Rivers. In addition to Brooks playing a dual role, the film features Brooks regulars Dom DeLuise and Rudy De Luca in cameo appe

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

2015 film directed by Rob Letterman

2021 film directed by Jason Reitman

1993 film directed by Sam Raimi

1979 film directed by Steven Spielberg

1993 film directed by Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel

1984 film directed by Wolfgang Petersen

2001 film directed by Lawrence Guterman

1990 film directed by Steve Barron

1986 film directed by Jim Henson

1990 film directed by Joe Dante

1999 film by Miloš Forman

1986 film directed by John Carpenter

1994 film directed by Brian Levant

1993 film directed by Simon Wincer

The Santa Clause is a 1994 American Christmas fantasy comedy film directed by John Pasquin and written by Leo Benvenuti and Steve Rudnick. The first installment in The Santa Clause franchise, it stars Tim Allen as Scott Calvin, a divorced marketing executive who accidentally causes Santa Claus to fall from his roof to his presumed death on Christmas Eve, inadvertently agreeing to a contract that forces him to take up the mantle.

1986 film directed by Randal Kleiser

2009 fantasy drama film directed by Spike Jonze

1982 film directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz

Caddyshack is a 1980 American sports comedy film directed by Harold Ramis, written by Brian Doyle-Murray, Ramis and Douglas Kenney, and starring Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Michael O'Keefe and Bill Murray with supporting roles by Sarah Holcomb, Cindy Morgan, and Doyle-Murray. It tells the story of a caddie, vying for a caddie scholarship, who becomes involved in a feud on the links between one of the country club's founders and a nouveau riche guest. A subplot involves a greenskeeper who uses extreme methods against an elusive gopher.

2004 film directed by Trey Parker

1986 film directed by John Badham

1990 film directed by Nicolas Roeg

2018 film directed by Ari Sandel

2010 film by Brad Peyton

1991 film by Kristine Peterson

1986 film directed by Willard Huyck

2022 film directed by Robert Zemeckis

2007 film by Zach Helm

1991 film directed by David Cronenberg

1986 film directed by Stephen Herek

1999 film directed by David Kellogg

1991 US science fiction/martial arts live-action film directed by Michael Pressman

1993 film directed by Stuart Gillard

1985 film by John Hughes

1988 film directed by Stephen Chiodo

2022 film directed by Akiva Schaffer

2021 musical film by Leos Carax

2005 film by Roohullah

1986 film directed by Frank Oz

2002 film directed by Michael Lembeck

1990 film directed by Renny Harlin

1995 film by Dwight H. Little

1985 film by Wolfgang Petersen

1953 film by Charles Walters

1955 Japanese film directed by Motoyoshi Oda

1979 film directed by Gary Nelson