Movies: Based on myths legends or folklore

  • 2021
    Damien

    Damien (2021)

    Damien

    22021HD

    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?...

    Damien
  • 1987
    Child of Peach

    Child of Peach (1987)

    Child of Peach

    6.11987HD

    Peach Kid joins his friends to rescue the princess from the Devil's Apple King of Monster Island....

    Child of Peach
  • 1959
    Black Orpheus

    Black Orpheus (1959)

    Black Orpheus

    6.91959HD

    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 ...

    Black Orpheus
  • 1958
    Hercules

    Hercules (1958)

    Hercules

    5.01958HD

    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...

    Hercules
  • 2017
    Devil's Trail

    Devil's Trail (2017)

    Devil's Trail

    5.02017HD

    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....

    Devil's Trail
  • 1987
    Yeelen

    Yeelen (1987)

    Yeelen

    6.61987HD

    A young man with magical powers journeys to his uncle to request help in fighting his sorcerer father....

    Yeelen
  • 2011
    Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend

    Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend (2011)

    Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend

    5.82011HD

    Tells the story of the greatest natural disaster of the ancient world, an event that experts believe inspired the legend of Atlantis....

    Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend
  • 1951
    The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights

    The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights (1951)

    The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights

    7.21951HD

    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...

    The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights
  • 1924
    Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge

    Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924)

    Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge

    7.41924HD

    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....

    Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge
  • 1952
    The Scarlet Flower

    The Scarlet Flower (1952)

    The Scarlet Flower

    6.61952HD

    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...

    The Scarlet Flower
  • 1966
    Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy

    Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy (1966)

    Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy

    6.41966HD

    A young hero defeats a dragon to find acceptance to the court of burgundy....

    Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy
  • 1911
    Dante's Inferno

    Dante's Inferno (1911)

    Dante's Inferno

    6.61911HD

    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...

    Dante's Inferno
  • 1979
    The Magic Ring

    The Magic Ring (1979)

    The Magic Ring

    8.21979HD

    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....

    The Magic Ring
  • 1981
    Zorro, The Gay Blade

    Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981)

    Zorro, The Gay Blade

    5.91981HD

    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...

    Zorro, The Gay Blade
  • 2002
    Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

    Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2002)

    Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

    6.92002HD

    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...

    Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
  • 1974
    The Heron and the Crane

    The Heron and the Crane (1974)

    The Heron and the Crane

    6.91974HD

    Animated short about a love between a heron and a crane....

    The Heron and the Crane
  • 1969
    Death of Robin Hood

    Death of Robin Hood (1969)

    Death of Robin Hood

    01969HD

    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 ...

    Death of Robin Hood
  • 1994
    Faust

    Faust (1994)

    Faust

    7.51994HD

    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...

    Faust
  • 1980
    A Story of the Forest: Mavka

    A Story of the Forest: Mavka (1980)

    A Story of the Forest: Mavka

    6.11980HD

    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...

    A Story of the Forest: Mavka
  • 1985
    The Legend of Suram Fortress

    The Legend of Suram Fortress (1985)

    The Legend of Suram Fortress

    6.71985HD

    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....

    The Legend of Suram Fortress