Based On Myths Legends Or Folklore Movies

The time: New Year's Eve, late 1800s. The place: Gatineau Valley, Quebec. A group of loggers, working in an isolated winter camp, yearn to celebrate...

The passionate story of the femme fatale, seductive and dangerous, a myth and a fantasy, through her representation in art.

The film spans from before creation to the peaks of Kailash, taking in the rage of Veerabhadra, a being formed from grief, and the devotion of two...

A rudderless hitchhiker and a driven woman avenging her family’s death must stop a motorcycle-riding semi-immortal ghoul that feeds off the...

One of the most frightening of American urban myths is the legend of The Mothman, a red-eyed creature seen by some as a harbinger of doom in 1960s...

This romantic fairy tale, loosely based on an anonymous Arabic story, takes place at the sultan's court, where the evil sisters of the kind sultana...

Animation without dialogue, set with excerpts from Lithuanian folk songs, which tells a traditional Lithuanian tale in black and white images. After...

An old English legend about a poor boy who became mayor of London served as the basis for a television adaptation. The orphan Dick Whittington was...

The massacre occurred 500 years ago. In 1525, the Spanish Royal Council ordered the execution of five members of a cult recently discovered in the...

On this naive and awkwardly narrated fairy tale it is remarkable that it also established the tradition of fairy tale stories in Slovakia. A certain...

In order to win the hand of a princess, a man must defeat an evil dragon and claim its treasured magic stone. Upon his return, Baghdad has been...

A young priest visits a convent in Mumbai where a brutal exorcism has failed—what he finds inside is not just a demon, but a mirror to his own...

When a local writer begins to investigate Oakamoor's mysterious chained Oak, the chance find of a seventeenth-century journal detailing the reasons...

Alvina, an English princess, flees the royal court with her beloved, Ursin, a foundling, to distant Bohemia. However, Ursin soon finds his estate on...