Last Updated on 7 May 2025
Movies about Jack and the Beanstalk from throughout cinema history. Sometimes called Jack the Giant Killer. No fully animated movies are included. The list is also on IMDb.

1902 – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000399/
a short, silent film that uses animation, double exposure, and trick photography

1912 – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0484622/
an early short film starring Gladys Hulette as Jack

1913 – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0484623/
a very early version that keeps close to the original story, starring Leland Benham and Helen Badgley

1917 – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0008144/
a very early black-and-white from Fox

1924 – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015021
directed by Alfred J. Goulding, starring Jack Earle and Blanche Payson

1952 – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044762/
Abbott and Costello’s musical version of the story

1962 – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056112/
produced by Edward Small after The 7th Voyage of Sinbad and starring Kerwin Mathews and Torin Thatcher from that Sinbad movie

1967 – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061830/
a combination of live action and animation, starring Gene Kelly, with Ted Cassidy (Lurch) as the voice of the giant and Marni Nixon as the singing voice of the princess

1970 – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173937/
a “groovy” 1960s style retelling of the story

1998 – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166666/
a light-hearted version starring Neil Morrissey (Bob the Builder) as Jack, that also includes “Jack and Jill,” Goldilocks, and the Fairy Godmother

2001 – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264262/
“The Real Story,” a mini-series starring Matthew Modine, Vanessa Redgrave, Mia Sara, Daryl Hannah, John Voigt, Honor Blackman, and Richard Attenborough

2009 – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1079968/
an Avalon Family Entertainment version starring Christopher Lloyd, Chloƫ Grace Moretz, and Colin Ford, and including Rapunzel, Hansel & Gretel, Sleeping Beauty, Prince Charming, Red Riding Hood, and more

2013 – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2552498/
Jack the Giant Killer is a low-budget version of the story with … dinosaurs?

2013 – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1351685/
Jack the Giant Slayer is an action-packed retelling of the original story that stars Nicholas Hoult, Eleanor Tomlinson, Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci, Ian McShane, Warwick Davis, and Bill Nighy

2014 – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11861154/
a British version by the Epstein Theatre Company