Folktale Movies

A stop-motion gothic folktale. A starving young boy eats a human toe that he finds in the ground. Later that night, something comes to his bedroom...

The story takes place in modern-day eastern Serbia, still fertile ground for various forms of superstition and prejudice. Zorica is a village girl...

Kareem’s family has lived in Jerusalem for many generations. Him and his best friend, Elias, travel around villages and giving ghost tours,...

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

Osen, a dance teacher who hates men, refuses to become the concubine of a rich merchant, but falls in love with the thief Sojiro, unaware that he is...

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...

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

A lonely prospector’s son discovers a shadowy creature that offers a tempting — but deadly — way out of his impoverished town.

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

Classic kaidan ghost story set in the Edo period

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

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...

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...

To preserve family history and rectify a family myth, an eccentric 80-something-year-old man needs to prove his long-lost sister can fly.

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...