Folktale Movies

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

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

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

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

Tang Bohu is smitten by the stunning beauty of Qiuxiang, the maid of Grand Tutor Hua, during his visit to a monastery in Suzhou. Stalking the maid,...

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...

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...

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...

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

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.

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

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

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

The tale of an old ghost story - A disheveled mariner is haunted by an ominously fervorous bed-sheet ghost

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

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...

During a tour of his country, King Matthias the just, comes across a sign in a village: The judge of this village does not have a care in the world!...

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...

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.