The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow (2013), Travelers and Magicians (2003), The Golem (1920), The Field Guide to Evil (2018), Gabbeh (1996), Arabian Nights (1974), Jack the Giant Killer (1962), A Thousand and One Nights (1945) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Folktale movies.
Storyline: Gutsy Smurf falls into a trap set by Gargamel in spooky Smurfy Hollow.
Plot Keywords: animation, comedy, family, fantasy, adventure, halloween, short film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The two men embark on parallel, if separate, journeys. Their yearning is a common one--for a better and different life. Dondup, delayed by the timeless pace of his village, is forced to hitchhike through the beautiful wild countryside of Bhutan to reach his goal. He shares the road with a monk, an apple seller, a papermaker and his beautiful young daughter, Sonam. Throughout the journey, the perceptive yet mischievous monk relates the story of Tashi. It is a mystical fable of lust, jealousy and murder, that holds up a mirror to the restless Dondup, and his blossoming attraction to the innocent Sonam. The cataclysmic conclusion of the monk's tale leaves Dondup with a dilemma--is the grass truly greener on the other side?—Sujit R. Varma
Plot Keywords: journey, magic, fable, rural life, self-discovery, cultural clash, supernatural ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
Plot Keywords: horror, fantasy, silent film, monster, medieval, mysticism, supernatural ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This global anthology of eight narratives explores dark folklore through a series of myths and tales that have captivated, galvanized and frightened communities throughout history.
Plot Keywords: horror, folklore, anthology, supernatural, dark fantasy, mythology, thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An elderly couple go about their routine of cleaning their gabbeh (a intricately-designed rug), while bickering gently with each other. Magically, a young woman appears, helping the two clean the rug. This young woman belongs to the clan whose history is depicted in the design of the gabbeh, and the rug recounts the story of the courtship of the young woman by a stranger from the clan.—Mike Myers <mmyers@ucsd.edu>
Plot Keywords: magical realism, symbolism, love story, cultural heritage, surreal, visual art, tradition vs modernity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this film inspired by the ancient erotic and mysterious tales of Mid-West Asia, the main story concerns an innocent young man who comes to fall in love with a slave who selected him as her master. After his foolish error causes their separation, he travels in search of her. Various other travelers who recount their own tragic and romantic experiences include stories of a young man who becomes enraptured by a mysterious woman on his wedding day, and a man who is determined to free a woman from a demon.—scgary66
Plot Keywords: fantasy, adventure, arabian, mythology, classic, romance, comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The terrible and trecherous Pendragon plans to gain the throne of Cornwall by getting the king to abdicate and to marry his lovely daughter. To help him he has his dreadful witches in his castle and his almost unstoppable sorcery. A giant under his control abducts the princess, but on the way home with her the giant meets farming lad Jack who slays him. This is only the beginning. Be assured Pendragon and his evil magic are far from done.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: fantasy, adventure, family, fairy tale, hero, medieval, kingdom ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On the run after being found sweet-talking the Sultan's daughter, Aladdin comes upon a lamp which, when rubbed, summons up Babs the genie. He uses it to return as a visiting prince asking for the princess's hand. Unfortunately for him, the sultan's wicked twin brother has secretly usurped the throne, someone else is after the lamp for his own ends, and Babs has taken a shine to Aladdin herself and is bent on wrecking his endeavours.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: fantasy, adventure, romance, arabian, mythology, classic, epic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.
Plot Keywords: medieval, allegory, sex comedy, satire, religion, classic adaptation, social critique ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The main story combines bits of Giovanni Boccaccio's own life (maybe and maybe not) with three of his most fabulous stories of love. It has Boccaccio following Fiametta to a country villa where she and five other women---The Contessa, Pampinea and three villa girls are hiding following the rape of their home city, Florance, Italy, by the Duke of Lorenzo. The recently-widowed Fiametta spurns overtures of love offered by the philandering Boccaccio who, in an effort to win her, spins two of his stories: The first is "Paganino the Pirate", a spicy tale of a young wife, married to an elderly gent, who prefers astrology to martial bliss, permits herself to be captured by a young pirate, to teach her husband a lesson. The second tale is "Wager on Virtue", concerning an elderly merchant,who loses faith in his beautiful young wife, on the strength of circumstantial evidence present him by a daring young rogue, who has previously goaded him into a bet on his wife's virtue, or lack thereof. The characters in this segment include Nerina, The Sultan, the Merchant Captain, a Merchant in French Inn and George and Bert Bernard as messengers. The third story, told by Fiametta, is "The Doctor's Daughter," concerning a delicate matter of matrimony when a wife, Isabella , finds herself spurned by the man, Bertrando, who has wed her at the command of his King. Characters include Maria, The Old Witch, Father Francaisco, and Signora Bucca.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: medieval, italy, romance, comedy, drama, anthology, erotic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Non-linear film tells the sexual story of a film director from his life at age 5, 12 and 16, a man embarking on his first film in 1950s Tunisia, and finally to his current life. Along the way, as a teen, he has sexual exploits with an older woman, gets involved with an Italian couple in Tunisia that culminates in the killing of a local boy and the brutal revenge murder of the woman and, ultimately, is married to a cold woman.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: adventure, fantasy, legend, scotland, mystery, monster, folklore ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An old woman's hold on the past puts her family's future in jeopardy.
Plot Keywords: animation, fantasy, adventure, family, children, mythology, magic ...
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