Movies: Based on myths legends or folklore
- 2021
Damien (2021)
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Whilst making a documentary on their friend, the crew uncover a dark secret which leads to friction, betrayal and puts their lives in danger. Can you ever truly know a ginger?...
- 1987
Child of Peach (1987)
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Peach Kid joins his friends to rescue the princess from the Devil's Apple King of Monster Island....
- 1959
Black Orpheus (1959)
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Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu's vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between moments of fantasy and stark reality. This impressionistic retelling of ...
- 1958
Hercules (1958)
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In this melange of characters and events from separate mythological stories, Hercules, demigod and superman, arrives in the ancient Greek kingdom of Iolcus to tutor Iphitus, son of king Pelias; immediately on arrival, he falls in love with the king's...
- 2017
Devil's Trail (2017)
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Two reality TV stars are experts at survival, but when they decide to embark upon the legendary home of the Jersey Devil can they survive? Reality TV just got real....
- 1987
Yeelen (1987)
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A young man with magical powers journeys to his uncle to request help in fighting his sorcerer father....
- 2011
Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend (2011)
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Tells the story of the greatest natural disaster of the ancient world, an event that experts believe inspired the legend of Atlantis....
- 1951
The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights (1951)
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Animated film based on the story of Alexander Pushkin. The new king's wife wants to get rid of their stepdaughter and expels it to certain death in the forest. Princess finds refuge in the forest in the seven bogatyrs. The queen, finds out about it a...
- 1924
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924)
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When Kriemhild, thirsty for revenge, marries to Etzel, king of the Huns, she invites King Gunther and his court to visit them, intending to finally take the life of the man responsible of her disgrace....
- 1952
The Scarlet Flower (1952)
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Before going on an overseas journey, a merchant father asks his three daughters what they would like him to bring back for them. The eldest asks for a shining tiara, the middle asks for a frame through which her face would always appear young, and th...
- 1966
Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy (1966)
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A young hero defeats a dragon to find acceptance to the court of burgundy....
- 1911
Dante's Inferno (1911)
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The classic tale of Dante's journey through hell, loosely adapted from the Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré. This historically important film stands as the first feature from Italy and the oldest fully-surviving feature...
- 1979
The Magic Ring (1979)
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Soviet cartoon, created in 1979 by the director-animator Leonid Nosyrev. Later, he entered the cartoon almanac "Laughter and Grief at The White Sea" with other Nosyrev's films based on Pomor fairy tales and legends....
- 1981
Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981)
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In 19th century Mexico, legendary swordsman Zorro has passed on his weapon and his sense of duty to his noble son, Diego, a dashing swashbuckler like his father. But after an injury sidelines Diego, he is forced to hand the mask over to his twin, Ram...
- 2002
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2002)
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Based on a local legend and set in an unknown era, it deals with universal themes of love, possessiveness, family, jealousy and power. Beautifully shot, and acted by Inuit people, it portrays a time when people fought duels by taking turns to punch e...
- 1974
The Heron and the Crane (1974)
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Animated short about a love between a heron and a crane....
- 1969
Death of Robin Hood (1969)
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A darker reimagining of the classic Robin Hood tale, which will see the character as a battleworn loner grappling with his past after a life of crime and murder, and who finds himself gravely injured and in the hands of a mysterious woman who offers ...
- 1994
Faust (1994)
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A very free adaptation of Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus", Goethe's "Faust" and various other treatments of the old legend of the man who sold his soul to the devil. A nondescript man is lured by a strange map into a sinister puppet theatre, where he find...
- 1980
A Story of the Forest: Mavka (1980)
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Mavka, a water nymph, loves Lukash, a country youth. Their brief happiness ends when Lukash is forced to marry the shrewish Kilina. The Spirit of the Forest turns Lukash into a wolf as punishment for his infidelity. The strength of Mavka's love break...
- 1985
The Legend of Suram Fortress (1985)
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A film version of a well-known Georgian folk-tale. A young boy has to be immured into the walls of a fortress in order to stop it from crumbling to pieces....