Folktale Movies

Classic kaidan ghost story set in the Edo period

Once upon a time there was a king who had a beautiful daughter. A sky-high tree stood in the middle of their garden. One day the wind caught the...

Sidney is walking her dog in the forest when she loses track of him. While searching for him she uncovers notes and remains that imply something...

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...

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

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...

The poor man’s three sons wanted to get married but their father allowed marrying first only that boy who obtains the most beautiful flower,...

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

The son of a poor man allows their three piglets to graze at the foot of the King's garden. The princess likes the piglets. The boy refuses to accept...

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...

The stepmother sends the hard-working girl to serve somebody. After a year she returns home with gold, silver and other treasures. As the bad-hearted...

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

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...

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...

In the old days it was all murder and mayhem around Llanymawddwy as this renactment of an old legend shows but, never fear, peace now reigns.

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...

A young Palestinian man living in Jerusalem must save his family after a Ghouleh, a female demon from his grandmother’s folktales, arrive in...

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

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