Folktale Movies

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

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...

Classic kaidan ghost story set in the Edo period

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

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

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

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

Somewhere in the windy deserts of Rajasthan, a curious little boy from a family of nomadic musicians yearns to change his family’s fate through...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Tom Davenport's realistic adaptation of an old Appalachian story. With nothing more than her plucky spirit and her pocket knife, a mountain girl...

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

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...

Ghost story based on a legendary Thai folk tale.

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