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Once upon a time, a miller attempted to marry his daughter off to the King by promising she could spin straw into gold. With the help of a demonic imp, she completes the task, but the King becomes greedy and wants more. So, she promises the imp her firstborn in return for yet more favours. But when it comes time to honour her bargain, dark forces merge when the Imp makes a deal with the devil.

A musical version of the classic story about a miller's daughter who recieves help from a mischievous dwarf, then ends up over her head. Now, she and a mute servant girl may be the only hope for her baby son, John.

In the 1400's, Rumpelstiltskin is imprisoned inside a small jade figurine. In modern-day Los Angeles, the recently widowed wife of a police officer, with baby in tow, finds her way into a witch's shop and purchases a certain figurine, resulting in the cackling beast being freed and demanding possession of the baby.

Desperate to save her own life, a miller's daughter makes a bargain with a strange elf-like character. When she cannot cover her debt she is faced with a challenge.

Rumpelstiltskin is a twenty-four minute animated feature depicting the famous Brothers Grimm story of a miller's daughter and a little man who can spin straw into gold. Family Home Entertainment was the distributor, in association with several Canadian animation firms. The film is making its first trip to DVD on October 30, 2007 coupled with "The Tin Man" in a Holiday two-pack.

Marionette puppet version of the tale about a little man who grants a miller's daughter the gift of spinning straw into gold.

Fantasy was central in RUMPELSTILTSKIN--A FAIRY STORY, "a Mutual Master Picture" in four reels with Raymond B. West directing. RUMPLESTILSKIN sought to prove that virtue always wins against wiles, according to a concluding title card, with a narrative centering on Rumpelstiltskin=s magical deeds that make life difficult for two young lovers, who overcome him with the aid of a beneficent wood nymph.

Filmmaker Ethan Fuirst turns the camera onto himself to examine why all his hook-ups keep turning into friends instead of developing into something more.

East German adaptation of Grimm‘s fairy tale "Rumpelstiltskin". A boastful miller pretends that his daughter Marie can spin straw into gold, and so she is locked into a room full of straw and ordered to spin it into gold by the next morning. A little man appears and offers his help in exchange for Marie's necklace. The greedy treasurer makes Marie spin twice more until the only thing she has left to give the little man is the promise of her first-born child…

Rumpelstiltskin Aided by a mysterious little troll, the millers daughter has spun straw into gold, thus gaining the good Kings hand and heart, and saving her fathers life. But now, the nasty troll wants compensation. He demands her first-born child, unless she can guess his name before the sun has risen three times and it's not an ordinary name, that's for sure! The Valiant Little Tailor A tailor tells everyone he has killed seven in one blow. They believe that the seven were robbers, knights or wild beasts, when all he did was send seven houseflies to heaven! Then he must deal with a family of gruesome giants, a malicious unicorn, and a terrible wild boar, and only by defeating them all can he win the hand of the beautiful princess.

An experimental fairy tale film where a mother is in constant fear of losing her son to an evil gnome.

A greedy king tells a young daughter that she must spin a room full of straws into gold by morning... or die. Then a little man tells her anything she please.

A goblin helps a miller's daughter spin straw into gold, asking in return for her first child, in this amusing 'teaching play' about greed, envy and helpfulness.

An alliance of evil-doers, led by Frieda, looks to take over Fairy Tale Land. But when Ella realizes her stepmother is out to ruin her storybook existence, she takes a dramatic turn and blossoms into the leader of the resistance effort.

Comic artist Brösel trades a magic pen that helps him come up with funny stories for the promise to fulfill one of Rumpelstiltskin's wishes. The resulting animated films show episodes of the life of Werner, a plumber apprentice and motorbike enthusiast and his friends. They are interspersed with the live-action portions.

When Rumpelstiltskin destroys the Magic Mirror and escapes to the modern world, the four princesses of "Once Upon a Time"-Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, and Rapunzel-are sucked through the portal too. Well-trained and endowed with magical powers, the four women must fight Rumpelstiltskin and his army of thralls before he enslaves everyone on Earth.