folktale movies page 2

The Darkling Fox (2024)
0 / 10

Horror, Comedy

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

Vasilisa the Beautiful (1977)
5.8 / 10

Animation

Young prince meets a talking frog who turns out to be a beautiful but cursed princess. To remove the curse, he must go on a quest to find and...

CRICKET (1969)
10 / 10

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...

The Tale of Fedot, the Shooter (1988)
8.3 / 10

Comedy

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

Weak-kneed from Fear of Ghost-Cat (1954)
6 / 10

Drama, Horror

Classic kaidan ghost story set in the Edo period

About the Old Dog Bodřík (1969)
0 / 10

Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy

Night after night, Bodřík dutifully protects his master's humble farm and livestock from prowling wolves. But when his master decides it’s time...

How Death Came to Earth (1971)
7 / 10

Animation, Fantasy

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...

The Magic Ballad (1982)
5 / 10

Animation

The 25 minute film tells the tale of an ailing elderly woman named Itako who encounters a fox named Okon. The story opens with Itako lying...

Southern Folktale (2018)
0 / 10

Horror

Joe, a high school boy, travels to the South. To reveal the truth about a mysterious death thirty years ago. Until, on the night of the halo moon, he...

A Story-A Story (1973)
0 / 10

Animation, Family

Ananse the Spider Man climbs up to the sky to buy stories from the Sky God in this folktale from Africa.

Canada Vignettes: Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary (1978)
0 / 10

Animation

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...

Ayapaneco. El viento (2015)
0 / 10

Animation

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

Tír na nÓg (2008)
7 / 10

Fantasy

a woman's spiritual journey in Ireland on All Hallow-Een

Nu Wa Patches Up Sky (1985)
5 / 10

Fantasy, Animation

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

Goddess Chronicles Showcase (1987)
0 / 10

Horror

Ghost story based on a legendary Thai folk tale.

Suba sang Malogo (2017)
0 / 10

Horror, Drama

Oscar is a man whose sorrow echoes at the river. He laments the death of his wife by disproving an urban legend, and he is ready for whatever crosses...

Dreams into Drawing (2019)
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Animation

The painter Kuwagata Keisai lived over 200 years ago. He created 'Ways to Sketch', a series of picture books illustrating humans and animals, all...

The Lady's Tale (2019)
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Drama

A record in moving images of a timeless dimension, the tragedy takes place in a dark void where the voiceless ones enact their drama in a theatre of...

Kris The Cat (1969)
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Animation, Family

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

Bandits of Mawddwy (1936)
0 / 10

Documentary

In the old days it was all murder and mayhem around Llanymawddwy as this renactment of an old legend shows but, never fear, peace now reigns.