Jim Henson — Director (14)
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Labyrinth (1986) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb
Labyrinth
director: Jim Henson actor: David Bowie / Jennifer Connelly …
other title: O Labirinto / Die Reise ins Labyrinth …
When teen Sarah is forced to babysit her half-brother Toby, she summons Jareth the Goblin King to take him away. When he is actually kidnapped, Sarah is given just thirteen hours to solve a labyrinth and rescue him.
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Fraggle Rock (1983) [TV] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Fraggle Rock
director: Jim Henson actor: Gerard Parkes / Jerry Nelson …
other title: Fragglerne / O Mundo dos Fraggles …
The Fraggles are a fun-loving community of creatures who live in a subterranean fantasy land where they love to play, sing and dance their cares away, sharing their world with the tiny Doozers and the giant Gorgs. The series teaches empathy and tolerance and encourages children to understand people different from themselves.
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The Great Muppet Caper (1981) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Great Muppet Caper
director: Jim Henson actor: Jim Henson / Frank Oz …
other title: Giallo in casa Muppet / Os Marretas contra-atacam …
Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace is stolen. Kermit meets and falls in love with her secretary, Miss Piggy. The jewel thieves strike again, and this time frame Miss Piggy. It's up to Kermit and Muppets to bring the real culprits to justice.
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Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (1977) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB TMDB
Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas
director: Jim Henson actor: Jerry Nelson / Frank Oz …
other title: Noël en musique / La banda de Emmet celebra la Navidad
A poor otter family risks everything for the chance to win the cash prize of a talent contest for Christmas.
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The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show (1982) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show
director: Jim Henson actor: Frank Oz / Jim Henson …
Miss Piggy hosts her own variety show, with special guests John Ritter, George Hamilton and Tony Clifton (Andy Kaufman). Under the direction of Kermit the Frog, the Muppets work in the control room and, amidst chaos, manage to keep the show on the air. Throughout the show, a romantic triangle develops among Piggy, Ritter (who is smitten with the pig) and Hamilton (who is deeply uncomfortable with the star's romantic inclinations).
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Hey Cinderella! (1969) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Hey Cinderella!
director: Jim Henson actor: Belinda Montgomery / Robin Ward …
other title: Los Teleñecos: Hey Cinderella! / Hey, Cinderella! …
Hey Cinderella! is a one-hour Jim Henson special which tells a cracked version of the classic fairy tale. Cinderella lives with her wicked stepmother (as everyone who ever read the fairy tale knows), but what part of the story is never told is how Cinderella's fairy godmother had help from monsters, a prince pretending to be a gardener, and none other than Kermit the Frog.
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Ripples (1967) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Ripples
director: Jim Henson actor: Jon Stone
Ripples uses images cut together to visualize the mind's eye of an architect as he considers his next project.
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Time Piece (1965) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Time Piece
director: Jim Henson actor: Jim Henson / Enid Cafritz …
Dislocation in time, time signatures, time as a philosophical concept, and slavery to time are some of the themes touched upon in this 9-minute experimental film, which was written, directed, and produced by Jim Henson. Screened for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in May of 1965, "Time Piece" enjoyed an eighteen-month run at one Manhattan movie theater and was nominated for an Academy Award for Outstanding Short Subject.
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The Cube (1969) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Cube
director: Jim Henson actor: Richard Schaal / Hugh Webster …
An unnamed man, simply called "The Man" is trapped in a cubical white room where anyone else can enter and leave, but which he himself apparently cannot leave. A stool is brought in covered in strawberry jam, the furniture changes throughout the play. The main character, is subjected to an increasingly puzzling and frustrating series of encounters, as a variety of people come through various hidden doors. But, as many remind him, he can only leave through his own door, so he must find it to leave.
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The Paperwork Explosion (1967) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Paperwork Explosion
director: Jim Henson actor: Jim Henson / Frank Oz
Mankind has devoted too much time, too much money and plenty of space on paperwork and more paperwork. In the 1960's, to remove all those obstacles and all that paper, and in order to make life easier, IBM has created a groundbreaking device - a machine that could improve office relations and operations. IBM, through Jim Henson's picture, presents the 'Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriter', a machine that does the work while we do the thinking.