Folktale Movies

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

Chang E was chosen to become the bride of a god and forced to separate with Hou Yi, the man that she loves. However, they refuse to accept their fate...

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

Loosely inspired by folk tales, this film chronicles the mystical journey of a quartet of ageing animals fleeing their fates to find a place free...

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...

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.

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

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...

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

Two star-crossed lovers must battle the forces which try to keep them apart at different timelines and at different world's.

Osen, a dance teacher who hates men, refuses to become the concubine of a rich merchant, but falls in love with the thief Sojiro, unaware that he is...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...