Movies: Folktale

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....

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 discovers that a “terrifying creature” has kidnapped Uncle Joe. At that time, he met a hunter who of...

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

An exuberant story about Askeladden, the hero of Norwegian traditional fairy tales, outwitting the good-natured troll....

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

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...

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

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 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 bedridden, as she has for a long time. Okon enters her home and Itako tells the fox that he is welcome to take...

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

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

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 wanting it back....

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

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

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 outsmart the forest witch Baba Yaga....

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

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...

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

Each one of the poor man’s four sons learns a craft. The dragon kidnaps the princess. The four young men bring the princess back to the king with the help of their crafts. In his thankfulness, the king presents them with four provinces of the country...

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...