Movies: Based on myths legends or folklore

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An inspiring English teacher transports her class into the very heart of a Persian poem....

A poor fisherman catches the golden fish that promises him to fulfil three wishes if he sets her free again. He does so and the fish fulfils two of his three wishes. However, she refuses to fulfil the third one, the last one in which the fisherman’s ...

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Oldřich Daňek's play tells a love story from our ancient times about the beautiful convent inmate Jitka and the brave Břetislav, the son of the Bohemian prince Oldřich and the simple laundress Božena. This witty apocryphal uses semi-historical, semi-...

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On her way to the Promised Land, a blind girl meets a gangster and they fall in love. Their love makes a miracle: the girl regains her sight. This romantic story ends tragically....

The Korean legend of Ungnyeo, a bear reborn as a woman, becomes a percussive and mesmerizing riff on the themes of transformation and quarantine. Produced as part of the 13th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship....

Based on Russian folk tale "The Little Magic Mill"...

In 15th century Scotland, a woman of an outlaw clan tries to rescue both her father and her lover when they're captured by the king's men....

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A priest tells the story of a man who arrived late one night to confess his sins related to a tragic love triangle. Inspired by the Guatemalan folkloric legend of El Sombrerón....

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

XIX century peasants' revolt and the life story of bandit Arsena Odzelashvili....

Ram's active visit to his nephew Eswar's place turns into thrilling and scary incidents which no one ever witnessed or experienced. The endearing screenplay and enlightening twists will make you sit edge of the seat....

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Done in the style of an African folk tale, this film, a collaboration between European and African countries, is said to be among the most elaborate, high tech film in African film. Exquisitely photographed and filled with archetypal figures to creat...

A rudderless hitchhiker and a driven woman avenging her family’s death must stop a motorcycle-riding semi-immortal ghoul that feeds off the carnage it causes on desert highways by decapitating it and getting its head far enough away, long enough, fro...