Movies and TvShows featuring "dark-fairy-tale" theme.
A psychiatric ward caregiver crosses paths with an eccentric children's book writer, leading to a journey of love, healing, and self-discovery.
Pan's Labyrinth is set in 1944 Spain, where a young girl named Ofelia discovers a labyrinth in the woods near her new home. She encounters a faun who tells her that she is the long-lost princess of a magical underworld and must complete three tasks to prove her identity and escape the horrors of the Spanish Civil War. As Ofelia faces the challenges of the labyrinth, she navigates a world of fantasy and reality, encountering mythical creatures, magical objects, and dangerous situations. Along the way, she learns about bravery, sacrifice, and the power of imagination.
Snow White, whose mother died in childbirth, has been raised alone by her father. Her stepmother, the evil Claudia, is jealous of her beauty and plots to kill her. Snow White must escape Claudia's wrath and survive the dangerous woods to find her true love.
In a surreal dream world, a young girl navigates the dangerous forest, encountering werewolves and dark secrets. She must unravel the mysteries and face her fears to survive.
In Puppet Master, a professor and an anthropologist come across a group of evil puppets with supernatural powers. As they delve deeper into the mystery, they uncover dark secrets and face horrifying encounters with murder, widow, and the occult.
Siren is a dark fairy tale about a seductress who arrives in a small town and starts causing chaos. As she uses her pheromone powers to manipulate the residents, suicides become rampant and secrets begin to unravel. A young man must uncover the truth behind the siren's power before it consumes everyone he knows.
Cám offers a horror reimagining of the Vietnamese Folk Talke "Tấm Cám". Two sisters living under the same wicked stepmother are raised in a village plagued by the presence of a demon which demands the sacrifice of a young girl every 10 years. Can they escape a horrible fate set generations before their birth?
Six children begin their journey at the top of a gothic fairytale tower. They work together as a team to complete the challenges, but to escape each floor they must uncover the saboteur among them.
A tyrannical landlady in Hemet, California lords it over her tenants, pitting them against each other in a web of paranoia spun for deadly results.
Entrapped by a fractured mental state, A heartbroken young woman is greeted by the presence of something sinister in her mirror. Encased desires and the sickly sweetness of apples are enough to unearth her.
In this stop-motion animated film, the Pied Piper uses his magical pipe to rid a medieval town of its rat infestation, but when the town refuses to pay him, he seeks revenge by luring away all of the town's children.
Cinderella finds freedom from her wicked stepmother with the help of her fairy godmother. Only this time, they unleash a plan of bloody vengeance.
upcoming Philippine series based from the 2020 Korean drama of the same name
In this stop-motion animation, the Sandman is depicted as a trickster creature lurking in the shadows, instilling fear of darkness in innocent victims. With symbolism and visual metaphors, the film explores themes of fear, darkness, and the power of imagination. The story follows a mouse who encounters the Sandman and goes on a dark and eerie adventure through a scary house, encountering various creatures and legends along the way. The film is brought to life through stunning puppet animation and claymation, inspired by the German Expressionism movement.
Described as 'a fairytale with its roots in the worlds of dadaism and surrealism'.
The real price of youth.
A boy is thrown into the middle of an increasingly bizarre local disturbance.
Simultaneously sumptuous and gorgeous, garish and grim, this is a re-working of Pinocchio for the neo-liberal era. Rachel Maclean’s dark fairytale, which represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale 2017, depicts a brash and baroque binary world of poverty and riches where the prospect of easy wealth tempts even good boys like Pic into bad ways. But if everyone believes the lie, what’s the problem?
An experimental fairy tale about life, death, and spreading your wings. After Cecilia witnesses a bird smashing into her window, she begins to notice her body transforming. Her skin starts to peel and little feathers start to grow out of her back. Will she fly away or end up like that poor little bird?