Movies: Folklore

Small-town criminal Jos (55) has, to his great frustration, been completely sidelined. His daughter disrespects him, his wife doesn't trust him, and his friends laugh at him openly. As he scrambles to fix a drug deal that went catastrophically wrong,...

"Man in Red Bandana" is about Welles Remy Crowther, an extraordinary 9/11 hero. However, how his heroics became known is even more remarkable. Eight months after the disaster, his parents learned about how their son spent his last hour due to an ord...

Chan Kwai-sheung visits the brothel with So Tung-bo while his wife, Lau Yuk-ngo, is sleeping. As this is the first time Sheung did this, Ngo wants him to suffer and so makes him wear a lamp on his head. During the Lantern Festival, the Emperor has fu...

A magic realist fable about invisible elves, financial collapse and the surprising power of belief, told through the story of an Icelandic woman - a real life Lorax who speaks on behalf of nature under threat....

During a moonlit night, Sine vanishes after childbirth, leaving her husband Magnus devastated. A haunting exploration of Sine's past, unearths the traumatic events that connected her to the selkie realm - a world of mythical creatures who transform f...

An old man Kokovanya took to live to itself in a forest hut orphan Darenka. In the forest they saw an unusual goat who had a silver hoof. At what point will he stamped with his hoof — there will be a gemstone....

In Africa there is a fable that explains the creation of the tides. When a hyaena challenged a mudskipper to a drinking contest to decide who should own the shore, the god Mungu tilted the earth so the sea flowed inland, and neither could win....

There was at the plant the solitary man Ilya, the guy is young and handsome. All his relatives died, leaving only the grandmother Lukerya, and she soon gathered to the light. Left grandmother Ilya sieve full of feathers and a mandate for the richness...

She has waited 300 years for the other to be born again. Can their relationship find a new start when one is a fox spirit, and the other a priestess?...

An Asian-American high school football player is forced to confront his deepest fears after a strange encounter with a mysterious figure....

A young drag queen from Andalusia exposes the difficulties of adding aspects of her homeland culture to her artistic expression....

Kamakalawa (The Day Before Yesterday) explores the folklore of the prehistoric Philippines in an adventure of mortals in the world filled with gods and mythological creatures....

Following her recent coronation as Demeter’s Harvest Festival Queen, Lilith Hammond has been reported missing. Calliope, concerned for her friend, and Finn, wary of the town’s unexplained past, delve into the nearby woods. In the face of winding wood...

During a winter storm, a man staggers home after a long night of drinking. Some time later, there is a ruckus that echoes through-out the house. The man is awoken to hear that something is on the roof....

The peculiar Fanoš Mikulecký is the originator of many well-known songs from Podluží, generally considered folk songs. Next to him, the other main protagonist of the story is Honza, a musician and an uneducated journalism student. On one of his journ...

Two monks on a mission choose very different paths...

Bisera spends the day waiting for her sweetheart Ognyan the Zmei to arrive and ask for her hand in marriage....

Legend tells of a girl named Palmira. A teenager, becoming a beautiful woman, her normal small town life took an unexpected turn. A demon expelled from paradise falls in love with her, causing great misfortune; only one can defeat him....

A trip through the diversity of black and native Peruvian music. Character-driven film, one where the characters are integral to the nation itself. This movie delves into music and musicians, yet it's not strictly a musical; rather, it's a tapestry o...

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