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Oh, man. I don't think most of the "movies" my friends and I attempted when we were kids still exist, but that's probably for the better. I had one of those big, clunky video cameras from the late 80's. Some of the stories are amusing, so here goes:

One movie involved a lot of toy weaponry, monster masks, endless fight scenes, and attempted forced perspective with puppets (which sometimes kinda worked, believe it or not). Plot was nonexistent. Boomboxes were off to the side for the soundtrack, which would be Weird Al, or Metallica or something, whatever we had at age 13. There was one scene that was nothing but a decapitation involving a fake head with a mask on it and my shirt pulled up over my head to simulate a hunchback. This was high tech stuff, folks. The wardrobe consisted of weird combinations of various clothing, bathrobes, a Batman cape and cowl, my old Tae Kwon Do uniform, a sheep costume from when I was in a church play as a child, Halloween masks, and random objects. What would happen in a scene was discussed vaguely before filming and then improvised on the spot, which led to some unintentionally funny stuff. My favorite line was when my friend Jesse points his sword in one direction and says to Michael: "Let's split up that way!"

My favorite was the scifi movie we made. The opening scene was in a bar, and we made this alien that had passed out on the bar that was reffered to as Mikey. His visible body was a hoody with pillows inside it, his head was a vinyl puppet that I could never decide was supposed to be a snake or a frog, and his hands were gloves from a Jurassic Park raptor costume. He had a drink in one hand that was green (we decided all alien beverages had to be green), a giant comical joint in his mouth, and a bunch of lines in front of his face and white powder all over his nose that we made from baking soda. We didn't know anything about drugs except that they could be employed in adult humor we weren't supposed to delve in yet. Jesse was the main protagonist again, I guess because he was handsome and egotistical. He walks into the bar (which I should mention was our kitchen table) and says hi to Mikey, who just grunts and moves a little when I push him from underneath the table. My friend DJ then tells him that my character is looking for him. He couldn't remember the weird alien name we had come up with, so he just says "Your boy is looking for you". So I'm sitting there in a werewolf mask with a green drink I keep pouring back and forth between these two glasses during the entire conversation, because uhh... why not? There's some scenes with spaceships flying around where we took little rocket ships and Star Wars vehicles and had them on the end of bottle rocket sticks that were extremely visible because they were bright pink. The background was a piece of black paper with holes poked in it so light would shine through and look like stars. A ship had to explode at one point, and we stuck it onto the background and had firecrackers on the opposite side. I told DJ something like "When I tell you to light it, you light it, okay?" and he thought I told him to light it then, and it blew a hole in the background (dubbed The Hole in Space and Time) before we even started filming. Lacking another piece of black paper, we had to make a highly visible fold in the middle to cover it (dubbed The Fold in Space and Time). More improvised dialogue followed, including my favorite exchange in all our films:

(protagonist's ship is flying through space with a noticable fold in it and suddenly another ship comes roaring into view)
ME: RAAAAAHHH!!!
JESSE: Who the heck are you?
ME: I'm the... space.... pirate!
JESSE: Oh, I guess I'll have to kill you, too.
ME: YEAH!

You might of had to be there, but boy did we laugh when we watched that part. By the time we viewed anything, we had no idea what we had said or how ridiculous it might sound since it was all more or less improvised. I don't remember a lot of the rest other than a fight scene in the garage. I mean, what planet did he land on? Was it in the garden hose nebula?
None of our films had titles except for an aborted project called Attack of the Fifty Foot House Pets which would have involved miniatures, my parakeet, and Michael's iguana. I even made a title card for it, but we never filmed anything.
Other than those, we just did a lot of random short stop motion films with my toys. There was a monster fight I did in one of those where I had stretched out cotton balls on the ground that I moved a little each frame so it looked like foggy mist around their feet. It kind of worked, but it was still stretched out cotton balls, you know?