Highest-Rated Movies about 'Puppeteer', Sort by Popularity

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (2021), The Double Life of Véronique (1991), Being John Malkovich (1999), Filmed in Supermarionation (2014), The Falcon Strikes Back (1943), The Punch and Judy Man (1962), The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005), Possum (2018) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Puppeteer movies.

#1. Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (2021)

Storyline: Street Gang will take us inside the minds and hearts of the Sesame Street creators to help us understand not only how they produced this groundbreaking show, but also what it was like to be at the center of a cultural and social phenomenon. Street Gang concentrates on the most experimental and groundbreaking period of Sesame Street. The original surviving creators weave together personal narratives, and never before seen behind the scenes footage to reveal how they collaborated to push every boundary that confronted them, changing television, and changing the world.

Plot Keywords: artist, producer, character, puppeteer, writer, inspiring, heartwarming ...

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#3. Being John Malkovich (1999)

Storyline: Puppeteer Craig Schwartz and animal lover and pet store clerk Lotte Schwartz are just going through the motions of their marriage. Despite not being able to earn a living solely through puppeteering, Craig loves his profession as it allows him to inhabit the skin of others. He begins to take the ability to inhabit the skin of others to the next level when he is forced to take a job as a file clerk for the off-kilter LesterCorp, located on the five-foot tall 7½ floor of a Manhattan office building. Behind one of the filing cabinets in his work area, Craig finds a hidden door which he learns is a portal into the mind of John Malkovich, the visit through the portal which lasts fifteen minutes after which the person is spit into a ditch next to the New Jersey Turnpike. Craig is fascinated by the meaning of life associated with this finding. Lotte's trips through the portal make her evaluate her own self. And the confident Maxine Lund, one of Craig's co-workers who he tells about the ...

Plot Keywords: puppeteer, wife, clerk, pretty woman, quirky, offbeat, creative ...

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#4. Filmed in Supermarionation (2014)

Storyline: Directed and co-produced by Stephen La Riviere and hosted by Lady Penelope and Parker themselves, 'Filmed in Supermarionation' is a screen adaptation of his book of the same name and features a wealth of previously unseen archive footage, brand new interviews with the surviving casts and crews and clips from the shows themselves. A highlight of the film are ingenious and accurate recreations of the pioneering techniques used in the productions.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: puppet, puppeteer, expert, creator, inspiring, engaging, fascinating ...

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#7. The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005)

Storyline: Felisberto Fernandez is a piano tuner of exceptional skill, hired by Dr. Emmanuel Droz to come to a remote clinic to clean and refurbish Droz's seven automatons, elaborate mechanical constructs. Droz wants the work done quickly, in time for an opera he's staging for himself. Fernandez's attentions are captured by two women at the clinic, Assumpta, the clinic's manager, and Malvina van Stille, a patient who is also a superb singer. Fernandez works on the machines and is drawn to the women while Droz may be manipulating more than the automatons. Do emotions and choice play any part, or it is all opera?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>

Plot Keywords: opera singer, inventor, love interest, puppeteer, dark, offbeat, stage ...

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#9. Shanks (1974)

Storyline: 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 instering 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.—Jean-Marc Rocher <rocher@fiberbit.net>

Plot Keywords: puppeteer, mad scientist, young girl, alcoholic, sister-in-law, biker, eerie ...

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#12. Puppet Master (1989)

Storyline: Assailed by nightmarish visions, Alex Whitaker (Paul Le Mat) and his fellow psychics descend on the Bodega Bay Inn. There, they discover that their compatriot Neil (Jimmie F. Scaggs) has apparently committed suicide. But, as the gruesome visions continue, they sense that there's still something sinister afoot. When they find themselves hunted by a band of homicidal marionettes created by twisted puppeteer Andre Toulon (William Hickey), they discover they're right.

Plot Keywords: puppet, puppeteer, psychic, man, wife, woman, creepy ...

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