Movies: Based on myths legends or folklore

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Water Lily, an invented japanese tale about the birth of the lotus flower, made in Supinfocom Valenciennes (2015) !...

Even children in an over-technified civilization need fairy tales, and Mrs. Fairy Tale invites them into her world. The woodcutter goes to the forest with his children, Hansel and Gretel. While their father works, the children pick strawberries. Howe...

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The film told the Māori legend of Hinemoa and Tutanekai. It is the first dramatic feature film produced in New Zealand....

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The second installment in the Mahavatar Cinematic Universe, to focus on the sixth avatar of Lord Vishnu, Parashurama. Plot TBA....

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A profound human-animal and human-nature relationship is represented by a painted world filled with a camel’s emotion and tears...

In 2010, Four documentary filmmakers travel to Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada in search of clues regarding the ancient myth of Nanabijou, and missing persons cases. Their journey brings them to the Sleeping Giant Provincial park, where they find themse...

Long ago, four extraordinary beings of dual male and female spirit, led by Kapaemahu, brought certain healing arts from Tahiti to Hawaii and were loved by the people for their gentle ways and the miraculous cures they performed....

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

A reimagining of the Greek classic story of the twelve labors of Hercules, set in 1920s Mississippi, where Hercules is reenvisioned as a former sharecropper fighting to regain his freedom....

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A stranger promises to one greedy man to fulfill his every wish. And he desires to be able to turn everything he touches into gold....

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A fairytale about the mice and the raven, which is stronger and which is cleverer....

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Seals were believed to be former human beings who voluntarily sought death in the ocean. Once a year, on the Thirteenth night, they were allowed to come on land, strip off their skins and amuse themselves as human beings, dancing and enjoying themsel...