Based On Myths Legends Or Folklore Movies

For tenacious 11-year-old Robin and her loyal band of friends 'The Hoods', the patch of overgrown scrubland at the end of their cul-de-sac is a...

A group of children kidnap the legendary Christmas Witch, and put her on trial as a means of banishing her annual judgments.

Composed of six unconventional vignettes, each one dealing with the late communist period in Romania, a narrative is told through its urban myths...

A film version of a well-known Georgian folk-tale. A young boy has to be immured into the walls of a fortress in order to stop it from crumbling to...

On a college trip to remote Northern forests, one of the students - Marina - encounters a burial site of an ancient witch, and is possessed by the...

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

Peach Kid joins his friends to rescue the princess from the Devil's Apple King of Monster Island.

Haruna Tsunematsu is studying folklore at university and she decides the subject of her graduation thesis will be the "Kisaragi Station" urban legend...

Soviet cartoon, created in 1979 by the director-animator Leonid Nosyrev. Later, he entered the cartoon almanac "Laughter and Grief at The White Sea" ...

Edipo, is appointed mayor of a town plunged in misery and violence. His first mission is to discover and punish the murderers of Layo, a well-known...

Best friends turned soulmates, Fang Hui and Lin Xi dreamed of forever—until their perfect world began to crack.

Urban legend horror film based on the true story of the "Ghost Apartment Incident" that occurred in Gifu Prefecture's Tomika Town in 2000.

Animated short about a love between a heron and a crane.

In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt...

A childless woman adopts an abandoned infant but when disturbing events begin occurring around her, she gets a feeling that the baby is a demon in...

A folklorist researching an 'urban legend' becomes caught up in his task. The film tells its fictional story in documentary style, featuring...

A young man lands in a cut off village in the Swiss mountains and discovers a dark secret from the past, as the villagers made a pact with the...

In 17th century Spain, amidst the Basque mountains, Kattalin flees her husband, escaping from her farmhouse at night. Wandering in the deep forest,...

Animated film based on the story of Alexander Pushkin. The new king's wife wants to get rid of their stepdaughter and expels it to certain death in...