Stop Motion Movies

Puppet animation of Bert Ambrose and His Orchestra performing. A Puppetoon animated short film.

Several pieces of Frank Zappa's music are set against clay animation by Bruce Bickford.

Reel One of Jon Coley's Jonamation Trilogy; Jonamation referring to the filmmaker's mix of stop-motion animation and live-action. Coley uses the...

A troupe of clowns gather to perform a story about a priest and a refugee, but as their misguided tale unfolds, the boundaries between fiction and...

After escaping from the zoo, a lion poses as a human and climbs the career ladder.

The Seven Lucky Gods (or kami, meaning both "hair" and "gods") live in the Takada’s barber shop in Tokyo—a set based on a real-life...

Stop-motion animated short with experimental sound by Rudolf Pfenninger.

The odd biography of Harvie Krumpet, a man who has Tourette's Syndrome, chronic bad luck, menial jobs, nudist tendencies, and a book of "fakts" hung...

A super-speeding young wizard races across America helping strangers, but after slipping on a banana peel and crashing into a film set, he magically...

Three children make a daring escape from the underground city in which they are slaves of the Evil Emperor, and go in search of the fabled Sky...

On the eve of Christmas, the tears of the poor girl Marusia melted the cold and indifferent heart of the wealthy landlord. Based on the fairy tale...

Short stop motion animation by Nadja Andrasev and Milán Kopasz

A young girl who has caught a nightingale dreams about the songbird and its mate, and comes to realize that birds are not meant to be captive.

A man with social anxiety gets followed by a naive and clumsy creature. Terrified the man tries to escape, unaware that the creature is actually a...

A humorous story-musical about a pumpkin, the host of a vegetable garden, his wife and many relatives and friends. They all live nearby and often...

Set in prehistoric times, this short film was created for the Edison Company by Willis H. O'Brien, a pioneer of American stop-motion animation.

Dog racing is used as a metaphor for the futility of human existence.

A fairy tale about the love of a mermaid and a young fisherman, which had to overcome many adversities before reaching its fulfillment.