Folklore Movies

An early hand-tinted adaptation of Ali Baba.

A small independent film crew participating in a 44-Hour Film competition at a state park mysteriously begins to disappear one by one.

In a land of promises and spirits, Mangdavalo's vow binds him as a ghost, while Padmavati's world crumbles with arranged marriage. Their love defies...

A young man calls his friend, goes to war, returns wounded and reunites with his friend.

Isolated and longing for a friend, Young Anneka meets a floating light that takes her to a wide endless wheatfield to play but time flies by and she...

Aarya leaves her family in the city to pursue her passion for the arts. She is gifted a red scarf, and is haunted by a Churail; a demonic and...

A folk festival in the city of Teresina in Piauí, is portrayed with all the elegance in the lens of photographer Pedrinho de Moraes and...

Aruz, who lost his son during migration, one day finds a strange creature with one eye on his head, brings him to the village and raises him as his...

Two farm boys, Isagani and Tomas, accidentally start a catastrophic rumor mill that an old farmer, Nong Anil, is a witch, as they always catch the...

Creature of the Pines is a found footage horror movie set in the legendary New Jersey Pine Barrens, one of the most mysterious and unsettling...

It is based on Perumthachan of the Parayi Petta Panthirukulam, a legend in the Kerala folklore. The problems caused by the generation gap are...

A lonely fisherman drifts into haunted waters in search of food and finds much more than he bargained for. Based on an Inuit folktale.

Barajas Airport comes Natia, the two million tourists, a beautiful Swedish fleeing a disappointment in love. The prize is a trip to Andalucia...

Two Chinese tourists swap their megacity for the Dutch village of Giethoorn where the hosts work hard to provide for them the authentic Dutch...

Fishing, friendship, and wrestling with your new favorite superhero.

Years after the mysterious death of his grandmother, a young boy is stalked by a unknown woman in white, a figure who may have more to do with the...

Two young men relate stories about mystic and historic locations of the Carabobo state in Venezuela. They question the beliefs that revolve around...

As so often, also here it's rather about allusion than description. This also applies to the persons represented. Flat silhouettes of people. Their...

A young boy receives a strange book which sets him on a journey of self-discovery.