Films

An attempt at listing every piece of media about Bluebeard, which mentions Bluebeard or inspired by Bluebeard.

Animation

  • 1936: Barbe-bleue (Jean Painlevé)
  • 1949: Bye, Bye Bluebeard (Arthur Davis)
  • 1976: Manga Sekai Mukashi Banashi "Aohige"
  • 1979: Ochen’ siniya boroda [Very Blue Beard] (Vladimir Samsonov)
  • 1987: Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics
  • 2009: Sandra the Fairytale Detective "The Forbidden Room".

    Films


    1898
  • Bluebeard (Georges Hatot)
    1906
  • Bluebeard (Pathé Frères S.A.)
    1907
  • Bluebeard (Etienne Arnaud)
    1901
  • Barbe-bleue (Georges Méliès)
    1909
  • Bluebeard (James Searle Dawley)
    1923
  • Bluebeard’s 8th Wife, starring Gloria Swanson (Sam Wood)
    1925
  • Miss Bluebeard, starring Bebe Daniels (Frank Tuttle)
    1938
  • Bluebeard (Jean Painlevé, René Bertrand)
  • Bluebeard’s 8th Wife, starring Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper (Ernst Lubitsch)
    1940
  • Rebecca, starring Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier (Alfred Hitchcock)
    1941
  • Suspicion, starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine (Alfred Hitchcock)
    1944
  • Bluebeard, starring John Carradine (Edgar G. Ulmer)
    1944
  • Gaslight, starring Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman (George Cukor)
    1947
  • Monsieur Verdoux, starring Charles Chaplin (Charles Chaplin)
    1948
  • Secret Beyond the Door, starring Michael Redgrave and Joan Bennett (Fritz Lang)
    1950
  • Bluebeard’s Six Wives, starring Totò (Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia)
    1951
  • Barbe-Bleue, starring Hans Albers (Christian-Jaque)
  • Juliette, or Key of Dreams (Marcel Carné)
    1955
  • Los lios de Barba Azul, staring Germán Valdés, Amanda del Llano & Verónica Loyo (Gilberto Martínez Solares)
    1960
  • Bluebeard’s Ten Honeymoons, starring George Sanders (W. Lee Wilder)
    1963
  • Herzog Blaubarts Burg, (Michael Powell)
  • Landru, starring Charles Denner, Michèle Morgan, and Danielle Darrieux (Claude Chabrol)
    1966
  • Bluebeard’s Last Wife staring Luciana Arrighi, Meg Wynn Owen & John Preston (John Stoddart)
    1972
  • Bluebeard, starring Richard Burton, Joey Heatherton, Raquel Welch, and Virna Lisia (Edward Dmytryk)
    1986
  • La Barbe-bleue (Alain Ferrari)
    1988
  • Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, staring Robert Lloyd, Elizabeth Laurence & John Woodvine (Leslie Megahey)
    1993
  • The Piano, starring Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel and Sam Neill (Jane Campion)
    2005
  • Bluebeard’s Wife, staring Joan Barber, Norm Golden & Isabel Irene Bass (Bobby Webster)
    2008
  • Blue Beard, starring Anatoly Kotenev, Oleg Kharitonov, Anna Miklosh and Dmitry Isaev (Roman Fokin)
    2009
  • Barbe Bleue, starring Dominique Thomas and Lola Créton (Catherine Breillat)
    2013
  • Barbazul, starring Jac Avila, Mila Joya, Amy Hesketh and Veronica Paintoux (Amy Hesketh)
    2015
  • Crimson Peak, starring Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston and Jessica Chastain (Guillermo del Toro)
  • Ex Machina, starring Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander and Oscar Isaac (Alex Garland)
    2018
  • Elizabeth Harvest, starring Abbey Lee and Matthew Beard (Sebastian Gutierrez)

    Television

  • 1951: Bluebeard was the subject of the pilot episode of an aborted television series, Famous Tales, created by and starring Burl Ives with music by Albert Hague.
  • 2011: Bluebeard is featured in Scary Tales, produced by the Discovery Channel, Sony and IMAX, episode one, in 2011.
  • 2011: The TV series Grimm, episode 4, season 1, "Lonely Hearts", is based on Bluebeard.
  • 2013: Hannibal, S03E12 "The Number of the Beast is 666" (Bryan Fuller, 2013)
  • 2015: You, season 1 episode 10 is called "Bluebeard's Castle", and the heroine Guinevere Beck compares the character Joe Goldberg to Bluebeard and his glass box to Bluebeard's castle.
  • 2017: A Korean stage play of the Bluebeard story serves as the backstory and inspiration for the antagonist, a serial kidnapper, in the South Korean television show, Strong Woman Do Bong-soon (2017).
  • 2020: It's Okay to Not Be Okay is a South Korean Drama in which this tale is narrated in episode 6.
  • 2023: Succession, season 2, episode 9 when Rhea called Logan 'bluebeard' because she thinks he is trying to kill her by putting her up for the CEO position and takes the fall for the cruise ship coverup.