Folktale Movies

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...

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

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

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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

A record in moving images of a timeless dimension, the tragedy takes place in a dark void where the voiceless ones enact their drama in a theatre of...

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

Ghost story based on a legendary Thai folk tale.

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

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

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!...

When asked by her father, the youngest daughter of the king answers: I love you like people love salt. The king is very annoyed and chases his...

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

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

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