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Victor and Valentino(2019-2022)

3.2/5 (with 8 votes)

Two half-brothers spend a summer with their grandma in Monte Macabre, a small and mysterious town, where the myths and legends of Latin American folklore come to life.

Mushi-Shi(2005-2014)

4.0/5 (with 91 votes)

Ginko, a Mushi master, travels from place to place researching the Mushi and helping people who are suffering because of it.

Hozuki's Coolheadedness(2014-2018)

3.5/5 (with 13 votes)

Hōzuki is the aide to the great king of Hell, King Enma. Calm and super-sadistic, Hōzuki tries to resolve the various problems in Hell, including a rampaging Momotarō and his companions. However, he also likes spending his free time on his hobbies, such as fawning over cute animals and raising "Goldfish Flowers."

Sleepy Hollow(2013-2017)

FSK: 12+ years
| 45min per episode | Drama, Mystery, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.7/5 (with 468 votes)

Ichabod Crane is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to unravel a mystery that dates all the way back to the founding fathers.

Natsume Yujin-cho(2008-)

FSK: 12+ years
| 24min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Mystery
4.0/5 (with 33 votes)

Natsume Takashi has the ability to see spirits, which he has long kept secret. However, once he inherits a strange book that belonged to his deceased grandmother, Reiko, he discovers the reason why spirits surround him.

Theatre of Darkness: Yamishibai(2013-)

4min per episode | Animation
3.7/5 (with 19 votes)

Yamishibai is a picture-story style of animation whose motif is surrounded and based off the rumors, and urban legends throughout the history of Japan.

Higurashi: When They Cry(2006-2007)

FSK: 16+ years
| 24min per episode | Animation, Drama, Mystery
3.9/5 (with 94 votes)

After moving into the quiet town of Hinamizawa, Maebara Keiichi spends his days blissfully in school often playing games with his local friends. However, appearances can be deceiving. One fateful day, Keiichi stumbles upon news of a murder that had occurred in Hinamizawa. From this point on, horrific events unfold in front of Keiichi, as he soon learns his close friends may not be all that they seem. Based on the amateur mystery game by 07th Expansion, the story is told in a series of different scenarios.

Directed by Chiaki Kon

American Gods(2017-2021)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h per episode | Drama, Mystery, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 748 votes)

An ex-con 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. Based on Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel.

Saiyuki Reload Blast(2017-)

4.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Humans and yokai, science and magic... all exist side-by-side on a peaceful continent free of all order and regulation, widely known as "Shangri-La." The balance there was shattered when the Minus Wave caused all the yokai on the continent to rampage, an event known as the "Calamity." Continuing their journey west to stop Gyumaoh's resurrection experiments, the root of all the evil on the continent, the Three Aspects are finally drawing closer to India. But the closer they get, the more pronounced the influence of the Calamity becomes, and the more intense their battles become.

Gosick(2011)

FSK: 12+ years
| 24min per episode | Animation, Drama, Mystery
3.9/5 (with 21 votes)

Set in a fictional European country in 1924, a Japanese exchange student meets a mysterious, brilliant girl who only leaves the library to sleep. Her brother, a detective, relies on her exceptional mind to solve difficult mysteries.

Directed by Hitoshi Nanba

Interviews with Monster Girls(2017)

FSK: 12+ years
| 24min per episode | Comedy, Animation, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.7/5 (with 18 votes)

The story takes place in an age where "Ajin" (demi-human), more casually known as "Demi," have slowly started to become accepted into human society. Tetsuo Takahashi is a biology teacher who ends up teaching three such Demi, hoping to understand more about them while also managing to catch their attention.

Shurato(1989-1990)

3.8/5 (with 6 votes)

A 16-year-old boy named Shurato and his friend Gai happen to be drawn into a gigantic ball of light while competing in the final match of a martial arts tournament. When they regain their senses, they find themselves transferred to a mystic heavenly sphere with a divine atmosphere. It's soon discovered that Shurato used to be the governing king of this world and that he has only been brought to his original state. Shurato is shocked as Gai suddenly turns hostile. After this unfortunate incident, a spectacular yet fantastic drama develops involving the two.

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Sítio do Picapau Amarelo(2001-2006)

30min per episode | Kids & Family, Kids & Family, Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 6 votes)

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Okami-san and Her Seven Companions(2010)

24min per episode | Animation, Comedy
2.7/5 (with 9 votes)

Ryōko Ōkami is a spunky high school girl who is a member of a "fixer" club called the Otogi High School Bank. She fixes the school's problems with her partner Ringo Akai ("Akazukin-chan").

Directed by Yoshiaki Iwasaki

The Others(2000)

3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

The Others is an American TV series created by John Brancato and Michael Ferris, and produced by Delusional Films, NBC and DreamWorks Television. It ran for 13 40-minute episodes from February 5, 2000 to June 10, 2000, airing on NBC in the US, Five in the UK and on Nine in Australia. It concerned a group of people with various psychic talents as they encountered different, and often evil, paranormal forces, Essentially an ensemble show.

O Auto da Compadecida(1999)

4.6/5 (with 31 votes)

The (mis)adventures of João Grilo and Chicó in Brazil's Northeastern region. The four-chapter miniseries original version of O Auto da Compadecida.

Invisible City(2021-2023)

FSK: 18+ years
| 36min per episode | Mystery, Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.6/5 (with 170 votes)

An environmental police officer uncovers a hidden world of mythological entities from Brazilian folklore when he finds a connection between the mysterious appearance of a dead river dolphin on a Rio de Janeiro beach and the death of his beloved wife.

Okamikakushi: Masque of the Wolf(2010)

24min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure, Mystery
3.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Kuzumi Hiroshi moves with his crippled sister and his father to the remote city of Jouga, which is famous for its hassaku citrus and the rumors that a species of enormous wolves once lived in the area. While some of the residents are more than friendly, when people begin to vanish suddenly, it becomes apparent that something sinister is afoot...

Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum(1994-1997)

27min per episode | Kids & Family, Comedy, Kids & Family
4.1/5 (with 11 votes)

Nino is a 300-year-old boy who lives with his uncle, Dr. Victor, a sorcerer and scientist, and his great-aunt Morgana, a 6,000-year-old witch. The three of them live in a castle in the middle of the city of São Paulo. Apprentice sorcerer, Nino has never attended a school, because of the unusual age of 300 years. His parents left him living with Victor and Morgan, because they needed to travel on an expedition into outer space, taking their two younger brothers. In spite of having animal and supernatural friends in the Castle, Nino, feeling lack of friends like him, decides to do a spell he learned with his Uncle Victor, and ended up bringing to the Castle, three children who had just left school. Free of loneliness, Nino receives the visit of the three daily.

Directed by Anna Muylaert - With Sérgio Mamberti, Rosi Campos, Cássio Scapin, Luciano Amaral, Cinthya Rachel, Freddy Allan, ...

Mythos(2024-)

Mythos is a three-part documentary that consists of a series of lectures given by Joseph Campbell. Campbell conceived of the original lectures, filmed over the last six years of his life, as a summation of what he had learned about the human mythic impulse, in terms of psychology, ethnology and comparative mythology—what he called "the one great story of mankind."

Directed by Robert Walter - With Joseph Campbell

Juan Tamad(2015-2016)

42min per episode | Comedy, Kids & Family

- No description / details available yet. -

American Super\Natural(2014)

40min per episode | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Small town Americana has been haunted for hundreds of years by monsters that weather created and folklore fostered.

JK Is a Snow Woman(2015)

24min per episode | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 1 vote)

A love story between Snow Women sisters and a male high school student.

Marketplaces(2021)

Apart from being a feast for the senses and meeting places for noisy human swarms in search of all kinds of merchandise, the markets contain stories and characters that give them unique characters. This documentary series proposes a journey through thirteen of the most representative of Mexico City to get to know them from within.

Living Dances(2020-)

Around the province of Córdoba and surrounding areas, Emiliano Zerbini will inquire about the value of keeping the native dances alive.