Movies: Based on myths legends or folklore

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How our representation of dinosaurs has evolved over time, from the medieval imaginary dragon to the latest feats of scientific imagery, via the bestiary of "fantasy", from "Lord of the Rings" to "Game of Thrones"....

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An intimate and bucolic portrait of a young girl and her role within her family that reconstructs the biblical myth of Judith and Holofernes....

Local fisherman Mylo claims to have been attacked by the Loch Ness monster, and who runs a tourist show on the banks of the loch. His teenage daughter Kellina doesn’t believe his stories, nor does she believe in any of the myths of Loch Ness... but t...

A tale about the Swiss folk hero....

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When a local writer begins to investigate Oakamoor's mysterious chained Oak, the chance find of a seventeenth-century journal detailing the reasons for the Oaks chaining throws a new and terrifying light on the popular legend. Accounts of human sacri...

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The first film ever broadcasted in Roma language on Czech public TV without Czech subtitles. Good Heart is an adaptation of a Roma folk tale recounting an evening in a little cottage house in the countryside....

A young priest visits a convent in Mumbai where a brutal exorcism has failed—what he finds inside is not just a demon, but a mirror to his own darkest desires....

A reclusive woman holds the secret to a series of mysterious child disappearances in a small northern community....

A reimagining of the Greek classic story of the twelve labors of Hercules, set in 1920s Mississippi, where Hercules is reenvisioned as a former sharecropper fighting to regain his freedom....

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The time: New Year's Eve, late 1800s. The place: Gatineau Valley, Quebec. A group of loggers, working in an isolated winter camp, yearn to celebrate New Year's Eve with their loved ones. But the river is frozen, the sky is dark, and swirling snow mak...

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The animation was shot based on the folk tale about Ayu-Dag (Bear Mountain)....

Oral legend of the Amazonian nationality Secoya del Ecuador. Tells the story of Ñañe (the moon) and how it created the world....

Water Lily, an invented japanese tale about the birth of the lotus flower, made in Supinfocom Valenciennes (2015) !...