Folk Tale Movies

Korean Ghost Story was a popular TV series telling tales of the eerie and the uncanny. This episode took its inspiration from a legend that...

During a severe storm in southern Chile, two tourists are helped by an elderly man who offers them shelter from the rain in his home; left with no...

Ten-year-old Ti-Jean's feats dwarf those of even the strongest lumberjack as he fells timber, cuts, carries and piles heavy logs, and comes out the...

Maanish belongs to a group of tree cutters. While returning home, he accidentally lost an axe he was supposed to hold onto. Despite all his efforts,...

After contact with the ghost of a murdered young girl, Pretty becomes obsessed with uncovering what happened. But as strange occurences plague her...

Drought has struck. Father pushes his wife away from the family dinner of termites. In anger, when mother challenges him, he digs a pit with a brutal...

A young transgender woman takes a hike through the English countryside in an attempt to resolve her spiritual crisis - but an ancient evil strives to...

About an artful Fox who gets caught in snare while stealing grapes, and uses her wits to escape. Based on a Ukrainian folk tale.

At a party, a girl tells a group of people an old tale about a boy who encounters a mysterious man carrying a lantern and a picnic basket on a rural...

On a full moon night, a ten-year-old girl from a farming family in a remote village is lured by Moosina into a cave in the mountains, where she...

Based off the Khmer folktale of Tonsay, a trickster rabbit. Produced by legendary Cambodian artist Nhek Dim, who on a scholarship for cartoon...

Tuscany, 1890. In the woods near a village, a mummy is found in the trunk of a tree. The priest has the brilliant idea of passing it off as the relic...

A young lad delves into the local folk tale of a murderous monk for an upcoming exhibition. While out taking stills for the project, he disappears...

In Celtic and Norse mythology, selkies, meaning ‘seal-folk’, are beings capable of therianthropy: changing from seal to human form....