Movies: Folktale

The story takes place in modern-day eastern Serbia, still fertile ground for various forms of superstition and prejudice. Zorica is a village girl who carries a curse. Ever since her first boyriend mysteriously drowned in the river, men around her ar...

After getting trapped in an isolated woodland, a hunter is tormented by his former prey....

Based on the traditional story of a girl who makes her blind father see by donating 300 bags of rice to Bongwon Temple....

Tang Bohu is smitten by the stunning beauty of Qiuxiang, the maid of Grand Tutor Hua, during his visit to a monastery in Suzhou. Stalking the maid, Tang's affections are finally reciprocated with three charming smiles. To approach the fair maid, Tang...

Firefly Marsh is a fog-enshrouded corner of the world, steeped in mystery. Stories of what lurks in the dark waters date back to Indian lore. But could Firefly Marsh really hide a prehistoric creature like the one in Loch Ness? Twelve year-old Charli...

Short animated version of the Chinese folktale, Nüwa Mends the Heavens...

Ghost story based on a legendary Thai folk tale....

A collection of stories compiled from the English dub of the Madhouse anime series Manga Fairy Tales of the World....

Sidney is walking her dog in the forest when she loses track of him. While searching for him she uncovers notes and remains that imply something strange is happening in the woods....

The Queen's cat goes on an adventure in the countryside where he discovers that love, in its many forms, surrounds him....

Wanting to destroy the Archer and marry his wife, the King comes up with tests for the hero....

An old Hispanic folktale about a child-stealing witch becomes real in the life of a little girl who's caught between her parent's crumbling marriage and the creatures that torment her....

How Death Came to Earth is a 14 minute cutout animation film by Ishu Patel produced in 1971 by the National Film Board of Canada. The film deals with an Indian myth of creation, and is notable for its trippy visual style....

A collection of stories compiled from the English dub of the Madhouse anime series Manga Fairy Tales of the World....

A woman encounters a hitchhiker in the middle of the night while driving. From there, things spiral into absurdity, blurring the lines between what's real -and what isn't....

A collection of stories compiled from the English dub of the Madhouse anime series Manga Fairy Tales of the World....

Tom Davenport's realistic adaptation of an old Appalachian story. With nothing more than her plucky spirit and her pocket knife, a mountain girl outwits a witch and an ogre to save herself and her sisters. Part of the PBS series "From the Brothers Gr...

The breeze we feel everywhere is an ancient drunk man destroying everything as he goes by, until he was turned into the wind....

A woman has 12 daughters and they were so cheeky that once their mother said in anger: "I wish you turned into jackdaws". Immediately the 12 girls turned into jackdaws and flew away. Later on, a son was born to the woman, who heard the story of his s...

There's a "silver lining in every cloud" as Donald O'Neary turns every misfortune his two neighbours can engineer into gold coins. Against the background of the Irish countryside, the customary "rich but dumb" characters meet their match in the "poor...