Folklore Movies

A group of warriors encounters mythical siren in the forest.

A lighthouse keeper prepares his earthly funeral while trying to reconnect with his inner elf. Hulda and Trausti have shared a roof on the Icelandic...

12-year-old Rainbow, who’s left in the care of her grandparents in the Jamaican countryside. Feeling lonely and abandoned, she summons a...

During a moonlit night, Sine vanishes after childbirth, leaving her husband Magnus devastated. A haunting exploration of Sine's past, unearths the...

When Putri's mother suddenly disappeared mysteriously, she decided to trace the available clues to find her mother again, starting from walking...

In the frigid waters off of Russia’s Bering Strait, Inuit and Chukchi hunters today still seek out the giant sea mammals that have provided...

An academic and a private detective investigate mysteries with supernatural roots in the dark side of Mexican folklore.

In a cold January evening, Caraoscura wanders around the streets of a secluded village. Little Carla awakes scared. Lucas, her older brother, tries...

Filmmaker Jamal Ademola documents Akua Shabaka and her mother, Rebecca Henry, the creative minds behind the acclaimed fashion label House of Aama, as...

Video essay on Heart of Stone, folktales and gothic horror by film and literature scholar Mary Going. Included on the Eureka! Entertainment release...

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...

In the early years of 20th century a strange plague a ghost sightings haunt Phoenix City, a small town in China. A group of doctors is sent to the...

Parallel stories of two siblings. One follows a marine biologist searching for a mythical sea creature in Costa Rica, who perhaps has dark...

Two monks on a mission choose very different paths

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

While searching for her mother in the deep woods of 1950s Newfoundland, an isolated daughter comes across a girl straight out of the tales of...

The story of Nisar Ahmed Khan, told through his children and the people he served, a spiritual guide whose followers still visit his tomb on his...

Based on Kazakh fairy tales about the wise scoffer, defender of the poor.

In this highly theatrical TV production, Monteiro again draws on the world of folklore – and, more precisely, on the widespread sexual...