Movies: Folktale

  • 1987
    Legend of Firefly Marsh

    Legend of Firefly Marsh (1987)

    Legend of Firefly Marsh

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    Firefly Marsh is a fog-enshrouded corner of the world, steeped in mystery. Stories of what lurks in the dark waters date back to Indian lore. But could Firefly Marsh really hide a prehistoric creature like the one in Loch Ness? Twelve year-old Charli...

    Legend of Firefly Marsh
  • 1986
    Tales of Magic: Volume 3

    Tales of Magic: Volume 3 (1986)

    Tales of Magic: Volume 3

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

    Tales of Magic: Volume 3
  • 2019
    The Lady's Tale

    The Lady's Tale (2019)

    The Lady's Tale

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    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 infatuation, power and vengeance. The force of the roar reverberates as insanity erupts from total st...

    The Lady's Tale
  • 1969
    Hungarian Folk Tales: The Jackdaw Girls

    Hungarian Folk Tales: The Jackdaw Girls (1969)

    Hungarian Folk Tales: The Jackdaw Girls

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    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 turned into jackdaws and flew away. Later on, a son was born to the woman, who heard the story of his s...

    Hungarian Folk Tales: The Jackdaw Girls
  • 1969
    Hungarian Folk Tales: The Astronomer, the Thief, the Huntsman and the Tailor

    Hungarian Folk Tales: The Astronomer, the Thief, the Huntsman and the Tailor (1969)

    Hungarian Folk Tales: The Astronomer, the Thief, the Huntsman and the Tailor

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    Each one of the poor man’s four sons learns a craft. The dragon kidnaps the princess. The four young men bring the princess back to the king with the help of their crafts. In his thankfulness, the king presents them with four provinces of the country...

    Hungarian Folk Tales: The Astronomer, the Thief, the Huntsman and the Tailor
  • 2019
    Toe

    Toe (2019)

    Toe

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    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 wanting it back....

    Toe
  • 2008
    Tír na nÓg

    Tír na nÓg (2008)

    Tír na nÓg

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

    Tír na nÓg
  • 1936
    Bandits of Mawddwy

    Bandits of Mawddwy (1936)

    Bandits of Mawddwy

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    In the old days it was all murder and mayhem around Llanymawddwy as this renactment of an old legend shows but, never fear, peace now reigns....

    Bandits of Mawddwy
  • 2017
    Suba sang Malogo

    Suba sang Malogo (2017)

    Suba sang Malogo

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    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 his path --- even death....

    Suba sang Malogo
  • 1985
    Nu Wa Patches Up Sky

    Nu Wa Patches Up Sky (1985)

    Nu Wa Patches Up Sky

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    Short animated version of the Chinese folktale, Nüwa Mends the Heavens...

    Nu Wa Patches Up Sky
  • 1978
    Canada Vignettes: Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary

    Canada Vignettes: Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary (1978)

    Canada Vignettes: Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary

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    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 background of the Irish countryside, the customary "rich but dumb" characters meet their match in the "poor...

    Canada Vignettes: Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary
  • 1969
    Abigail's Giant

    Abigail's Giant (1969)

    Abigail's Giant

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    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 and the creatures that torment her....

    Abigail's Giant
  • 1969
    To Fair Winds & Followed Waters

    To Fair Winds & Followed Waters (1969)

    To Fair Winds & Followed Waters

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    The tale of an old ghost story - A disheveled mariner is haunted by an ominously fervorous bed-sheet ghost...

    To Fair Winds & Followed Waters
  • 2025
    Hitch

    Hitch (2025)

    Hitch

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    A woman encounters a hitchhiker in the middle of the night while driving. From there, things spiral into absurdity, blurring the lines between what's real -and what isn't....

    Hitch
  • 1969
    Hungarian Folk Tales: The Diligent Girl and the Lazy Girl

    Hungarian Folk Tales: The Diligent Girl and the Lazy Girl (1969)

    Hungarian Folk Tales: The Diligent Girl and the Lazy Girl

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    The stepmother sends the hard-working girl to serve somebody. After a year she returns home with gold, silver and other treasures. As the bad-hearted woman sees this she sends also her own daughter to serve somebody, but she is lazy therefore she ret...

    Hungarian Folk Tales: The Diligent Girl and the Lazy Girl
  • 1980
    Magyar népmesék 2. A Csillagszemű Juhász

    Magyar népmesék 2. A Csillagszemű Juhász (1980)

    Magyar népmesék 2. A Csillagszemű Juhász

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    Magyar népmesék 2. A Csillagszemű Juhász
  • 2018
    Southern Folktale

    Southern Folktale (2018)

    Southern Folktale

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    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 discovers that a “terrifying creature” has kidnapped Uncle Joe. At that time, he met a hunter who of...

    Southern Folktale
  • 1969
    Hungarian Folk Tales: Jack Crow

    Hungarian Folk Tales: Jack Crow (1969)

    Hungarian Folk Tales: Jack Crow

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    Jack Crow sets out in search of a job as a servant. He helps the ant, the crow and the fish on the way. For his help, each one of them gives him a whistle as a present; when he needs them he should just blow the whistles. He hires himself out to the ...

    Hungarian Folk Tales: Jack Crow
  • 1969
    Hungarian Folk Tales: The Princess Three Pigs and Three Birthmarks

    Hungarian Folk Tales: The Princess Three Pigs and Three Birthmarks (1969)

    Hungarian Folk Tales: The Princess Three Pigs and Three Birthmarks

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    The son of a poor man allows their three piglets to graze at the foot of the King's garden. The princess likes the piglets. The boy refuses to accept money for them, and asks the princess to pull up her dress. One day the boy hears that the princess ...

    Hungarian Folk Tales: The Princess Three Pigs and Three Birthmarks
  • 1969
    Hungarian Folk Tales: The Witch

    Hungarian Folk Tales: The Witch (1969)

    Hungarian Folk Tales: The Witch

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    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, shawl and girl....

    Hungarian Folk Tales: The Witch