Movies and TvShows featuring "telling-a-tale" theme.

Victorious follows Tori Vega, a talented singer who enrolls at Hollywood Arts High School. She faces challenges, makes friends, and pursues her dreams of becoming a pop star.

In an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, a young girl is kidnapped and transformed into a witch by an ancient spirit. Seeking to understand what it means to be human, she accidentally kills a peasant and assumes the victim's identity. The young witch continues to use her gruesome powers to explore humanity.

Gulliver's Travels is a travel adventure TV show that tells the story of Lemuel Gulliver, a 9-year-old boy who embarks on an epic globetrotting adventure. Along the way, he encounters giants, locked in a cell, and experiences fantasy versus reality. This period drama is filled with costume drama, surrealism, and anthropomorphism.

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 a Year with 13 Moons follows the story of Elvira, a transsexual woman who is struggling with her identity and facing despair. The film explores themes of gender transition, emotional depression, and the search for love and acceptance. As Elvira navigates her life in Frankfurt-am-Main, she encounters various challenges and experiences that further deepen her sense of loneliness and sadness. The film is a powerful exploration of human emotions and the complexities of gender identity.

The Postman's White Nights follows the life of a postman in a remote rural area of Russia. The postman, who is also an alcoholic, navigates through the challenges of alcoholism, theft, illegal fishing, and social decay. He finds solace in telling tales and looking at himself in the mirror. The film explores themes of loneliness and the decay of society in a small community.

In early twentieth-century Brittany, two peasants marry, have a son, and live in traditional Breton ways: three generations under one roof, a division of labor between the sexes, elders' stories at night, politics and religion during their little free time. Times are hard: la Chienne du Monde drives some to suicide; Ankou (death) is close at hand. Pierre is born into this republican family, his lyric childhood interrupted by the outbreak of war and his father's conscription. He learns his catechism and, as a child of a Reds, also reveres school. His grandfather and father often put him on their shoulders, giving him a ride on the horse of pride.

"Since childhood, I've had the good fortune of going through two mini depressions of happiness, and I'm serenely awaiting the third. This alone is enough for me to believe in a certain beauty to life and to have the pleasure of attempting to film it in all its forms (trees, animals, gods, humans...) and to do so when love is intense. The filmmaker has lost a part of innocence. It's so difficult to spot it around you, so difficult not to lose it during a film shoot. I'm grateful to those who you look at on screen. To stand up to time, I've a tactic, which is to dig into my stock of emotions and old images. Not so as to find what will never come back, but to discover the signs of spring in winter. This allows me to begin another day with an easy, light step." (Alain Cavalier)

Tommaso and Arturo are on the run in a remote forest. They hunt for food, trying to survive and find their way through the lush nature. It’s quiet, almost peaceful, until the sound of gunshots… Many years later, this forest has a wolf problem. It’s here where Ariane discovers a strange hole in the ground. Could she be the woman referred to in the valley’s legends?

In a snowy Kurdish mountain village, in the east of Turkey, an old woman Berfé and her granddaughter Jiyan are distressed. The only man in the household, Temo, the son of one and the father of the other, was arrested by the Turkish military. The commanding officer has been told that the villagers are hiding weapons, so he arrested all the men and announced that they will be kept in prison until their families hand over the weapons. The problem is that there are no weapons in the village. Desperate, Berfé and Jiyan embark on a long journey, in search of a gun which they could exchange for their beloved Temo. Will the old woman and her innocent granddaughter find a way out of the inextricable Kurdish identity conflict?

"The Tales of Hoffmann" - The story of the poet Hoffmann, who falls in love with a mechanical doll, loses his mirror image in Venice and finally liberates his lover from the clutches of a sinister doctor.