Folk movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant folk movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, atmospheric, suspenseful, realistic, weird and suspense films and TV shows about / with folklore, supernatural, family relations, danger, village, musician, female nudity, magic realism, supernatural power and death plots mostly in Drama, Horror and Music genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as folk: Flight of the Conchords (2007), Garfunkel and Oates (2014), I Used to Be Darker (2013), The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack (2000), Our Beloved Month of August (2008), The Wind Journeys (2009), Violeta Went to Heaven (2011), Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Transylvania (2006).

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Flight of the Conchords (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Musical
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: The trials and tribulations of a two man, digi-folk band who have moved from New Zealand to New York in the hope of forging a successful music career. So far they've managed to find a manager (whose "other" job is at the New Zealand ...
Style: surreal, sitcom, humorous, funny, atmospheric ...
Plot: musician's life, musician, aspiring singer, folklore, roommate, buddies, music band, artists and showbiz, goofy hero, lifestyle, odd couple, rock ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, new zealand, usa
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Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Recently dumped by his girlfriend, underachiever Alex (O'Nan) embarks on an impromptu road trip with his new bandmate, the eccentric Jim (Michael Weston). By channeling their inner children and giving a new meaning to the term ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, light ...
Plot: musician's life, partner, self discovery, direction and purpose, introspection, odd couple, folklore, down on your luck, cross country, music, unsuccessful, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Garfunkel and Oates (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Garfunkel and Oates stars Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci as both themselves and their musical comedy alter-egos, "Garfunkel and Oates," following the pair as they try to expand the reaches of their meager celebrity. Well-known on the ...
Style: humorous, not serious, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: artists and showbiz, music band, musician's life, music, friends, folklore, comedian, women, rivalry, society, housemates, girl power ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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I Used to Be Darker (2013)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When Taryn, a Northern Irish runaway, finds herself in trouble in Ocean City, MD, she seeks refuge with her aunt and uncle in Baltimore. But Kim and Bill have problems of their own: they’re trying to handle the end of their marriage gracefully for ...
Style: realistic, contemplative, touching, sincere, serious ...
Plot: love and romance, family problems, introspection, looking for love, couples, crumbling marriage, folklore, unfulfillment, runaway, couple relations, past, family relations
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, maryland, baltimore
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The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack (2000)
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: With the help of her mother, family, friends, and fellow musicians, Aiyana Elliott reaches for her father, legendary cowboy troubadour, Ramblin' Jack Elliott. She explores who he is and how he got there, working back and forth between archival ...
Style: melancholic, suspenseful, touching, sincere, serious ...
Plot: music, father daughter relationship, musician's life, prodigy, rising to stardom, character study, estrangement, family relations, parents and children, relationship vs career, showbiz, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 50s
Place: usa, new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city
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Our Beloved Month of August (2008)
Genre: Music, Romance
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 147 min.
Story: In the heart of Portugal, amid the mountains, the month of August is abuzz with people and activity...
Style: uplifting, semi serious, feel good, realistic, atmospheric
Plot: countryside, music band, youth, love and romance, love affair, family relations, folklore, hopes, young lovers, village life, parents and children, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: portugal, europe
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The Wind Journeys (2009)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Colombia, Germany, Argentina, Netherlands
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Ignacio Carrillo (Marciano Martínez) is a vallenato singer from Majagual, Sucre, who decides, after his wife's sudden death, to stop playing and return his accordion, which is said to be cursed, to his master. He is joined by Fermín Morales ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, sincere, road movie
Plot: folklore, couples, elderly, artists and showbiz, musician's life, teachers and students, social relations, lifestyle, on the road, small town life, tradition, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia, latin america, south america
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Violeta Went to Heaven (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Chile, Argentina, Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A portrait of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra filled with her musical work, her memories, her loves and her hopes.
Style: serious, sincere, sentimental, realistic, touching ...
Plot: music, museum, folklore, follow your dream, loss of daughter, hopes, lifestyle, musician's life, performer's life, rising to stardom, artists and showbiz, musical tour ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 60s, 1940s, 1930s
Place: chile, latin america, geneva switzerland, paris france, santiago chile ...
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Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Drawn from elements of West African folk tales, it depicts how a newborn boy, Kirikou, saves his village from the evil witch Karaba.
Style: anime, experimental, educational, claymation, artsy ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: african, folklore, good versus evil, jungle, sorcery, witch, magic, love story, mad doctor, black, boy, lgbt ...
Place: africa
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Music
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them. On their journey they come across many comical characters and incredible situations. Based upon Homer's ...
Style: road movie, funny, dark comedy, slapstick comedy, surreal ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: prison escape, blues, on the run, treasure hunt, small town, music, great depression, obsessive quest, country music, on the road, runaway, dark humor ...
Time: 1930s, year 2000, 20th century, y2k, 2000s ...
Place: mississippi, ancient greece, america, greece, persia ...
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 6.7
 3K
Transylvania (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Zingarina arrives in Transylavania, accompanied by her close friend Marie and her guide and interpreter Luminitsa. She is not there only to visit this region of Romania but to trace her lover Milan, a musician who has made her pregnant and who left ...
Style: psychological, captivating, touching, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: self discovery, obsessive quest, couple relations, love and romance, pregnancy, on the road, gypsy, family relations, travel, european, infidelity, couples ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: romania, europe
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 7.9
 20K
Kwaidan (1964)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 183 min.
Story: Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his ...
Style: anthology, disturbing, suspense, scary, bleak ...
Plot: samurai, ghost, supernatural, macabre, snow, spirit, naval battle, japanese mythology, surrealism, folk horror, betrayal, visceral ...
Time: 19th century, 17th century, 11th century, 13th century, 1900s ...
Place: japan, asia, kyoto japan
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a Carpathian village, Ivan falls in love with Marichka, the daughter of his father's killer. When tragedy befalls her, his grief lasts months; finally he rejoins the colorful life around him, marrying Palagna. She wants children but his mind ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, stylized, emotional, psychedelic ...
Plot: curses spells and rituals, wedding, medieval, true love, marriage, religion, friendship, rivalry, forbidden love, couple relations, couples, rain ...
Time: 19th century, year 1965, medieval times
Place: ukraine, soviet union, ussr, europe
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Marketa Lazarov? (1967)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 162 min.
Story: Mikolás and his brother Adam rob travelers for their tyrannical father Kozlík. During one of their "jobs" they end up with a young German hostage whose father escapes to return news of the kidnapping and robbery to the King. Kozlik ...
Style: art house, surreal, philosophical, experimental, black and white ...
Plot: medieval, brother sister incest, folk horror, rape, knight, winter, kidnapping, renaissance, magic realism, female nudity, highwayman, christianity ...
Time: middle ages, near future, year 1967, 13th century
Place: eastern europe, czechoslovakia, balkan, slovakia, czech republic ...
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 7.5
 91K
The Wicker Man (1973)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.
Style: twist ending, creepy, controversial, psychotronic, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: folk horror, religion, paganism, ritual, occult, disappearance, investigation, island, female nudity, human sacrifice, secret society, nudity ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place: scotland, fictional island, europe, united kingdom, scottish highlands
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The Legend of Suram Fortress (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story: 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.
Style: art house, spiritual, contemplative, surreal, poetic ...
Plot: fortress, legends and myths, surrealism, camel, mythology, magic realism, folklore, spirituality, gay subtext, heroic mission, escapades, danger ...
Time: year 1985, middle ages
Place: georgia, ussr, caucasus, soviet union, europe
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The She-Butterfly (1973)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 63 min.
Story: Story follows young man Strahinja who is in love with a local beauty Radojka, but their relationship has an obstacle - her father Zivan, who considers Strahinja as nothing but a loser. To prove that he's able to take care of himself and his ...
Style: gothic horror, spooky, phantasmagoric, gothic, splatter ...
Plot: vampire, folk horror, dracula, supernatural, folklore, witch, fear, pagan, scared, steampunk, virus, female vampire ...
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 7.2
 6K
November (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Estonia, Poland, Netherlands
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In a pagan Estonian village where werewolves, the plague, and spirits roam, the villagers’ main problem is how to survive the cold, dark winter. And, to that aim, nothing is taboo. People steal from each other, from their German manor lords, and ...
Style: bleak, art house, surreal, suspenseful, mind bending ...
Plot: folklore, paganism, witch, folk horror, love triangle, witchcraft, unrequited love, deal with the devil, medieval, werewolf, snowman, peasant ...
Time: middle ages, 19th century
Place: estonia, italy, venice
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 7.1
 396K
Midsommar (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden
Duration: 148 min.
Story: A young couple travels to Sweden to visit their friend’s rural hometown and attend its mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly descends into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
Style: disturbing, psychedelic, brutal, enigmatic, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: paganism, ritual, religious cult, folk horror, community, nervous breakdown, pagan, rite, isolated community, burned alive, female protagonist, hallucinogenic drug ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: new york, europe, scandinavia, eastern europe
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Our Shiny Days (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
TV show
Story: A musical journey follows Chen Jing, her guy friend and a group of female musicians who are passionate about traditional Chinese music. Together, they start a band to challenge the norm and go on an all-out war against the students of Western music.
Style: dramatic, serious, atmospheric, captivating
Plot: student, musician's life, music band, competition, folklore, artist, music, music industry, apprentice, musician
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 7.2
 6K
Pee Mak (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Romance, War
Country: Thailand
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Some time during the Rattanakosin Kingdom, Mak becomes a soldier and has to leave his pregnant wife Nak at home in Phra Khanong. In the distant frontline he meets four soldiers who become his best friends. Menwhile his wife Nak struggles to give ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, touching, suspense, horror comedy ...
Plot: ghost, true love, supernatural, childbirth, friendship, couples, couple relations, gossip and rumors, folklore, serial killer, supernatural romance, village life ...
Time: 19th century, 1850s
Place: asia, thailand
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Barbarous Mexico (2014)
Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Eight tales based on the most brutally terrifying Mexican traditions and legends, an anthology of haunting stories woven into the fabric of the Mexican culture, some told through the centuries and some new, but all equally frightening. Bogeymen, ...
Style: anthology, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, dark ...
Plot: urban legend, folklore, legend, rape, day of the dead, creature, murder, ritual, brother sister relationship, sister sister relationship, blood, sex scene ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
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The Era of Vampires (2003)
Genre: Action, Horror
Country: Hong Kong, Japan, Netherlands
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In 17th century China, zombies and vampires roamed the lands, feeding on the unsuspecting. A group of martial artists / vampire hunters find themselves employed by a very rich - and very insane - old man who has kept everyone of his relatives ...
Style: atmospheric, scary, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: vampire, supernatural, martial arts, danger, vengeance, gory, rivalry, clergy, escapades, zombie, hidden treasure, treasure hunt ...
Time: 19th century, 17th century
Place: china, asia
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 7.1
 1K
Skinwalkers (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Faced with the murder of three medicine men, Navajo police must find the culprit. That the murders appear to be the work of a Skinwalker, or bad medicine man, complicate and illuminate the detective's work.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, mind bending
Plot: native american, serial killer, murder, vengeance, police investigation, supernatural ability, danger, law enforcement, curses spells and rituals, native, murder investigation, indians ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, utah, arizona, phoenix arizona
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 7.6
 92K
American Gods (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Based on Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel about an ex-con who becomes the traveling partner of a conman who turns out to be one of the older gods trying to recruit troops to battle the upstart deities.
Style: tense, psychedelic, serious, supernatural thriller, mind blowing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: supernatural ability, supernatural, legends and myths, road trip, danger, deity, ex convict, mysterious character, mythology, travel, folklore, death ...
Time: future, 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
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 5.7
 18K
The Hallow (2015)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A family who moved into a remote mill house in Ireland finds themselves in a fight for survival with demonic creatures living in the woods.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, creepy, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot: folk horror, supernatural, creature, monster, forest, woods, legend, survival horror, transformation, survival, family in danger, folklore ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland
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Tales From The Dark 1 (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In the first of a two-part film project, three short stories from acclaimed Hong Kong horror writer Lilian Lee are adapted for the big screen in this horror anthology.
Style: scary, anthology, bleak, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural power, supernatural, society, chase, victim, demon, monster, loss, evil, death, exorcism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong
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 4.6
 1K
Blood Moon (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Western
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A stagecoach full of passengers and an enigmatic gunslinger are held hostage by two outlaws on the run from the law but events take an unexpected turn when the travelers are stalked by a mythical beast that only appears on the night of a blood red ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, gothic, dark, wild
Plot: werewolf, supernatural, monster, creature, lycanthropy, traveler, gunslinger, death, deadly creature, supernatural ability, danger, mysterious character ...
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 8.5
 75K
Twin Peaks (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 1032 min.
TV show
Story: Picks up 25 years after the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town are stunned when their homecoming queen is murdered.
Style: psychological, surreal, mind bending, offbeat, atmospheric ...
Plot: small town, twists and turns, surrealism, small town life, supernatural, mysterious event, interdimensional travel, law enforcement, evil spirit, time, good versus evil, anger ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 80s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa, new mexico, washington d.c.
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Under the Shadow (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Jordan, Qatar, Iran
Duration: 84 min.
Story: As a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post-revolution, war torn Tehran of the 80s, a mysterious evil begins to haunt their home.
Style: suspense, intense, stylized, creepy, post-horror ...
Audience: date night
Plot: supernatural, brutality, danger, war, ghost, supernatural power, mother daughter relationship, djinn, haunted house, paranormal, paranormal activity, female warrior ...
Time: 80s
Place: middle east, iran, maghreb, jordan, tehran ...
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