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Joe Dante

Actor · 109 credits · 40 in highly-rated films

Best known for Gremlins (1984)

Frequent collaborators: John Landis, John Carpenter, Steven Spielberg, Roger Corman, Rick Baker

Movies (79 total, ranked by score)

  1. Ray Harryhausen: Working with Dinosaurs

    1999 · ★ 7.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    31

  2. Boorman and the Devil

    2026

    Documentary

    32

  3. Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen

    2004 · ★ 6.0 (5 votes)

    Documentary

    33

  4. The Hatching of Spider Baby

    2007

    Documentary

    34

  5. Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film

    2019 · ★ 6.8 (11 votes)

    Documentary

    35

  6. Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation

    2000 · ★ 6.8 (5 votes)

    Documentary

    36

  7. Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins

    2014 · ★ 6.5 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    37

  8. Hollywood Rated 'R'

    1997 · ★ 5.1 (8 votes)

    Documentary, Horror, Science Fiction

    38

  9. Hitchcocked!

    2006 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    39

  10. Welcome to Werewolfland

    2004

    Documentary

    40

  11. Making a Monster Movie: Inside 'the Howling'

    1981

    Documentary, Horror, TV Movie

    41

  12. Sharksploitation

    2024 · ★ 6.7 (3 votes)

    Documentary

    42

  13. The Wolf Man: From Ancient Curse to Modern Myth

    2010 · ★ 7.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    43

  14. Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon

    2006 · ★ 7.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    44

  15. Long Live the King

    2016 · ★ 5.2 (4 votes)

    Documentary

    45

  16. Hammer Horror: The Warner Bros. Years

    2018 · ★ 7.4 (11 votes)

    Documentary

    46

  17. Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern

    2026

    Documentary

    47

  18. To Be... A Film Favorite

    2012

    Documentary

    48

  19. Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema

    2021 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    49

  20. Ishiro Honda: Memoirs of a Film Director

    2024 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary, History

    50

  21. Out of Print

    2014 · ★ 5.7 (9 votes)

    Documentary

    51

  22. Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX

    2008 · ★ 7.0 (4 votes)

    Documentary

    52

  23. Soylent Green and Red Alert: When Reality Catches Up with Fiction

    2022 · ★ 7.2 (7 votes)

    Documentary, History, TV Movie

    53

  24. The Vincent Price Legacy

    2025

    Documentary

    54

  25. Class of '79: 40 Years of Rock 'N' Roll High School

    2019

    Documentary

    55

  26. Direct Your Own Damn Movie!

    2009 · ★ 5.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    56

  27. There Goes the Neighborhood: The Making of The 'Burbs

    2014 · ★ 4.1 (4 votes)

    Documentary

    57

  28. The Art of Crime

    2004 · ★ 8.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    58

  29. Hollywood Boulevard

    1976 · ★ 5.5 (46 votes)

    Comedy, Thriller

    59

  30. Monsterland

    2009 · ★ 6.5 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    60

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 31, 2026.