Movies: Based on song poem or rhyme

  • 2007
    The Raven

    The Raven (2007)

    The Raven

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    In this update to Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale, it's time for the biggest gay party of the year. Unfortunately, the host has chosen the site of the infamous Ravenswood Massacre to stage his blowout gala, where a mass murder happened fifty years ago...

    The Raven
  • 1975
    Eskimo Nell

    Eskimo Nell (1975)

    Eskimo Nell

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    Three young men, a scriptwriter, a producer and a director are called in by Benny U Murdoch, an exotic movie producer. He wants to make a new erotic movie starring a big woman - the "Eskimo Nell" of the title. However problems start from the beginnin...

    Eskimo Nell
  • 1960
    Aniara

    Aniara (1960)

    Aniara

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    Nobel Laureate Harry Martinson's famous poem consists of 103 cantos and relates the tragedy of a space ship which, originally bound for Mars with a cargo of colonists from the ravaged Earth, is ejected from the solar system after an accident and into...

    Aniara
  • 2022
    Toldi

    Toldi (2022)

    Toldi

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    Animated version of a famous Hungarian epic tale by János Arany....

    Toldi
  • 2020
    Time for Us to Come Home for Christmas

    Time for Us to Come Home for Christmas (2020)

    Time for Us to Come Home for Christmas

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    Five guests are mysteriously invited to an inn to celebrate Christmas. With the help of the owner Ben, Sarah discovers that an event from the past may connect them and change their lives forever....

    Time for Us to Come Home for Christmas
  • 2002
    The Fall of the Louse of Usher

    The Fall of the Louse of Usher (2002)

    The Fall of the Louse of Usher

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    Rock star Roddy Usher is confined to an insane asylum after murdering his wife. There, he is given various shock treatments by Nurse Smith and Dr Calahari, resulting in a series of bizarre and nightmarish adventures....

    The Fall of the Louse of Usher
  • 1923
    Arsena, the Brigand

    Arsena, the Brigand (1923)

    Arsena, the Brigand

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    Following an order of the landowner, the bride of Arsena’s fellow villager gets kidnapped and the bride’s father is relentlessly flogged. Arsena tries to rescue the woman but fails and goes to the mountains with his newly married wife. Above all, Ars...

    Arsena, the Brigand
  • 2003
    Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me

    Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me (2003)

    Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me

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    A series of poems....

    Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me
  • 1998
    Animated Epics: Beowulf

    Animated Epics: Beowulf (1998)

    Animated Epics: Beowulf

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    Swords fly as Beowulf battles the evil Grendel in this exciting animated adaptation of the epic poem. Incorporating fascinating sketch art and featuring the voice of Joseph Fiennes as Beowulf. found....

    Animated Epics: Beowulf
  • 2017
    My Giraffe

    My Giraffe (2017)

    My Giraffe

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    Dikkertje Dap was born on the same day as Raf the giraffe. Dikkertje can often be found at the zoo, because Raf is his best friend. They are inseparable, until Dikkertje goes to school for the first time and finds out giraffes can’t go to school. Dik...

    My Giraffe
  • 1943
    The Passengers of Ursa Major

    The Passengers of Ursa Major (1943)

    The Passengers of Ursa Major

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    A futuristic cruise ship with a crew of robots is ready to take its first flight. A boy follows his curious dog on board of the ship, but then the ship takes off. The robots sees the boy as a blind passenger and try to get him off the flying ship....

    The Passengers of Ursa Major
  • 2025
    Giving Up World Domination

    Giving Up World Domination (2025)

    Giving Up World Domination

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    Giving Up World Domination
  • 1973
    Johnny Corncob

    Johnny Corncob (1973)

    Johnny Corncob

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    A traditional Hungarian poetic fairytale that describes the epic adventures of a young shepherd through love, war, magic and death....

    Johnny Corncob
  • 1917
    A Man There Was

    A Man There Was (1917)

    A Man There Was

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    Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on his benevolence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself....

    A Man There Was
  • 1976
    Ode to Billy Joe

    Ode to Billy Joe (1976)

    Ode to Billy Joe

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    Set in sultry 1950s Mississippi, two teenagers grapple with surging hormones and the enticing promise of love, unknowing of the tragedy that looms ahead....

    Ode to Billy Joe
  • 2008
    Yah Chayka!

    Yah Chayka! (2008)

    Yah Chayka!

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    Renowned Japanese poet Shuntaro Tanikawa teams with former "rock chick" Wakako Kaku to craft this pensive love story told almost entirely in still photographs. After steering a suicidal man away from the brink of despair, an astronomical observatory ...

    Yah Chayka!
  • 1969
    Adventures of the Cossack Aeneas

    Adventures of the Cossack Aeneas (1969)

    Adventures of the Cossack Aeneas

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    A story about an agile Cossack named Aeneas. His free and peaceful life was disturbed by the goddess Juno, who did not like our hero and tried with all her might to torment him. Driven by her, Aeneas managed to cope with many difficulties, pass throu...

    Adventures of the Cossack Aeneas
  • 1989
    Naughty Mom

    Naughty Mom (1989)

    Naughty Mom

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    A story about a naughty mother, based on a poem by Alan Alexander Milne....

    Naughty Mom
  • 1929
    Evangeline

    Evangeline (1929)

    Evangeline

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    A young Acadian woman spends years searching for her lost love after the two are separated and forcibly relocated by the British....

    Evangeline
  • 1971
    Conquest

    Conquest (1971)

    Conquest

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    La Araucana is a Chilean film based on an epic poem in Spanish about the Spanish conquest of Chile, by Alonso de Ercilla; it is also known in English as The Araucaniad. It is considered the national epic of the Kingdom of Chile and one of the most im...

    Conquest