Folklore Movies

A filmmaker investigates the legend of the Black Shuck, a ghost dog terrorizing the Suffolk area.

Doina, a shepherd’s wife in ancient Romania, turns her daily routine into ritual. When nature foretells his death, her journey through grief...

A powerful cultural documentary about a Caribbean father and son who return to Grenada to reclaim ancestral stories. Blending folklore, myth, and...

There is a series of Buddha statue thefts in Kyoto. Beniko, a high school girl, gets the Buddha statue at her family's temple stolen and has her...

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

When a folklore-obsessed Instagrammer livestreams her visit to a haunted wood, her viewers get a glimpse of the truth behind the legends.

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...

A devoted wife dies waiting for her husband's return but her love refuses to fade, turning into a haunting obsession that he cannot escape.

A woman is forced to continue working while one of her colleagues lies unconscious on the floor due to the long, hot work days. This fact causes...

Ilyukha the prospector dreams of finding his happiness. In the end, he discovers that it’s not in money, but in kindness and love.

In the forest two gold digger saw a fire nymph, foreshadowing is rich in gold deposits, and had a fight. This greatly angered the nymph. This story...

Aboard their cart, Dr. Rhubarb and assistant Cough travel from house to house to cure absurd diseases with their innovative remedies. Loosely...

Individual political policies and regimes used and abused the national costume of Slovenia. Despite the fact that the individual details of the...

Documentary about the concerts of the Russian Osipov ensemble of folk instruments in Czechoslovakia

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...

Female college student Lin Meishan disappeared after attending the Gongliao Ocean Music Festival. After her father found her for many days...

The Mother is one of Monteiro’s first essays on the universe of Portuguese oral culture, folktales and obscure colloquialisms. The plot...

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

8mm experimental film directed by Minoru Shinojima. Shot and edited by Kenji Onishi. For 40 years, Minoru Shinojima has been opposed to mining Mt....