| 2026 | The Thunder Road: Making 'Explorers' | Self - Interviewee |
| 2025 | Ishiro Honda: Memoirs of a Film Director | Self |
| 2025 | The Creeps | Uncle John |
| 2025 | The Vincent Price Legacy | Self - Interviewee |
| 2025 | The Wish Fish | Narrator |
| 2024 | Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters | Self - Film Director |
| 2024 | The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee | Self - Filmmaker & Friend of Christopher Lee |
| 2023 | Sharksploitation | Self |
| 2023 | Ah My Goddess: Bad Goddess Let's Save Vic Morrow | Joe Dante |
| 2022 | Razzennest | Joe Dante |
| 2022 | Blood, Guts and Sunshine | Actor |
| 2021 | Roger Corman: The Pope of Pop Cinema | Self |
| 2021 | Casser la baraque | Self |
| 2020 | The Birth of Hammer Horror | Self |
| 2020 | Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies | Self |
| 2020 | Frankenstein and the Two Faces of Eve | Self |
| 2019 | Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film | Self |
| 2019 | Une Histoire Moderne De La Pop Culture | Actor |
| 2019 | Love, Antosha | Self |
| 2019 | Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters | Self |
| 2018 | Hammer Horror: The Warner Bros Years | Self |
| 2018 | Nightmare Cinema | Director |
| 2017 | Trafficked | Executive Producer |
| 2017 | From the Bridge | Self |
| 2017 | Monstres, Ennemis intérieurs | Self |
| 2017 | Sad Hill Unearthed | Self |
| 2017 | King Cohen | Self |
| 2016 | Long Live the King | Self |
| 2016 | Atomic Shock! Joe Dante on 'Panic in Year Zero!' | Self |
| 2016 | Bit Parts! The Joe Dante Players | Self |
| 2016 | 24x36: A Movie About Movie Posters | Self |
| 2016 | Unspeakable Horrors: The Plan 9 Conspiracy | Self |
| 2015 | Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film | Actor |
| 2015 | Tales of Halloween | Prof. Milo Gottlieb |
| 2015 | 42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street | Self - Director |
| 2015 | Creature Designers - The Frankenstein Complex | Self |
| 2014 | Out of Print | Self |
| 2014 | As Timeless as Infinity: The Twilight Zone Legacy | Self |
| 2014 | Burying the Ex | Director |
| 2014 | That $#!% Will Rot Your Brain: How the Monster Kids Transformed Popular Culture | Self |
| 2013 | Clawing! A Journey Through the Spanish Horror | Self |
| 2013 | Violence, sexe, drogue & rock'n'roll: un voyage avec Joe Dante à travers le cinema d'exploitation | Self |
| 2013 | A Fuller Life | Self - Reader (segment: Sicily Black and Blue) |
| 2013 | Psycho's Sister: Making 'the Name of the Game Is Kill' | Self |
| 2012 | The AckerMonster Chronicles! | Self |
| 2012 | Beast Wishes | Self |
| 2012 | The Flesh and the Fury: X-posing Twins of Evil | Self - Director |
| 2011 | The Legend of Ivan Tors | Self - Interviewee |
| 2011 | Zombies | Actor |
| 2010 | American Grindhouse | Self - Director, 'Gremlins' |
| 2010 | The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry | Self |
| 2010 | Machete Maidens Unleashed! | Self - New World Filmmaker 'Gremlins' |
| 2009 | The Hole | Director |
| 2009 | Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film | Self |
| 2007 | Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman | Self |
| 2007 | To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore | Self |
| 2006 | Trapped Ashes | director |
| 2004 | Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen | Self |
| 2003 | Looney Tunes: Back in Action | Director |
| 2000 | Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre | Self |
| 1998 | Small Soldiers | Director |
| 1994 | The Silence of the Hams | Dying Man |
| 1994 | Beverly Hills Cop III | Jailer |
| 1993 | Matinee | Director |
| 1992 | The Magical World of Chuck Jones | Self |
| 1992 | Sleepwalkers | Lab Assistant |
| 1991 | Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever | based on characters by |
| 1991 | Oscar | Face on the Cutting Room Floor |
| 1990 | Gremlins 2: The New Batch | Director |
| 1990 | Gremlins 2: The New Batch | Grandpa Fred Director (uncredited) |
| 1989 | The 'Burbs | Director |
| 1987 | Innerspace | Director |
| 1987 | Innerspace | Vectorscope Employee (uncredited) |
| 1987 | Amazon Women on the Moon | Director |
| 1986 | The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal | Self |
| 1985 | Explorers | Director |
| 1984 | Gremlins | Director |
| 1984 | Gremlins | Mogwai / Gremlins (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1983 | Twilight Zone: The Movie | Director |
| 1981 | The Howling | Editor |
| 1981 | The Howling | Director |
| 1978 | Piranha | Director |
| 1978 | Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel | Self |
| 1978 | Piranha | Scuba Diver #2 (uncredited) |
| 1978 | Piranha | Editor |
| 1977 | Grand Theft Auto | Editor |
| 1976 | Hollywood Boulevard | Director |
| 1976 | Hollywood Boulevard | Editor |
| 1974 | The Arena | Editor |
| 1968 | The Movie Orgy | Director |
| 1968 | The Movie Orgy | Editor |