As early as 1881, Carlo Collodi began publishing a serial story about a puppet named Pinocchio. Two years later, in 1883, he collected the stories as a single novel entitled The Adventures of Pinocchio. In the story, an aspiring puppeteer named Geppetto carves a magical tree trunk into a living puppet named Pinocchio, who immediately wreaks havoc in their Tuscan village. A talking cricket tries to help him be a good person, he gets into trouble with a mischievous fox and a cat, he’s frequently rescued by a mysterious blue fairy, and he’s even briefly turned into a donkey. The story was so well received by viewers and other creators that it has been adapted into dozens of plays, television shows and films, the most famous being Disney’s 1940 animated film Pinocchio.
In 2022, Disney also released their live-action Pinocchio based on that original film, starring Tom Hanks as Geppetto and Cynthia Erivo as the Blue Fairy. Then Netflix released a new stop-motion film inspired by the story, Guillermo del Toros Pinocchio, which features an impressive cast that includes Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton and Finn Wolfhard.
Ahead, those are six Pinocchio movies you can stream right now.
