Movies: Based on song poem or rhyme
- 2015
Paradise Lost? (2015)
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After discovering that John Milton is buried within London's Barbican grounds, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard reimagined his epic poem ‘Paradise Lost’ as part of Doug Aitken's Station to Station project. The piece uses the architecture and atmosphere of...
- 2019
Time for You to Come Home for Christmas (2019)
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A recent widow travels with her son to her Virginia hometown for Christmas. On the way they meet a man who is also heading to the same destination. As they continue to spend time together, the pair grows closer....
- 1911
Dante's Inferno (1911)
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A two-reel adaptation of Dante Alighieri's Inferno from the Divine Comedy by Helios Film. It is less well-known than the five-reel feature produced the same year by Milano Films, but it was released earlier in 1911....
- 2022
Toldi (2022)
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Animated version of a famous Hungarian epic tale by János Arany....
- 1925
Svatební košile (1925)
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- 1948
Trees (1948)
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A Walt Disney short film....
- 1973
Johnny Corncob (1973)
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A traditional Hungarian poetic fairytale that describes the epic adventures of a young shepherd through love, war, magic and death....
- 1939
La vispa Teresa (1939)
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La vispa Teresa (“Lively Theresa”) is based on a well known song; a girl, ten, catches a butterfly and all the other insects intervene to save it....
- 1995
Hrytsko’s Easter Eggs (1995)
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In anticipation of the great Christian holiday of Easter, one of the boys wanted to get ready for it by making painted eggs himself, as required by a long-standing tradition. But he took eggs from a hen that was hatching her children. Falling asleep,...
- 2021
Sœur Sourire: Who Killed the Voice of God? (2021)
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1962. A crystalline voice becomes a planetary tube. A Belgian nun jostles Elvis and the Beatles on the world charts. Her name: Sister Smile. A popstar with the trajectory of a comet who understands her success no more than the double meaning of her w...
- 2018
Sohrab and Rustum (2018)
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An inspiring English teacher transports her class into the very heart of a Persian poem....
- 1987
Music of Revolution (1987)
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- 2025
Giving Up World Domination (2025)
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- 1980
One Day I Came Home (1980)
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Cartoon about a drunkard husband....
- 1972
And You, Friends, Wherever You Sit… (1972)
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One boy had a coherent musical quartet of bunnies that skillfully and beautifully played their instruments. However, a bear, a donkey, a monkey and a goat came, replacing the old members. But will they take the place of previous masters only by force...
- 1971
Jabberwocky (1971)
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In stop-motion animation, a wardrobe moves through the countryside. It arrives in a house, a child's voice recites Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky," and various objects, such as toys and dolls, move about, disintegrate, and play out archetypal scenes. L...
- 1991
Eneida (1991)
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A mock-heroic 1798 poem Eneida is magnum opus of the first modern Ukrainian writer Ivan Kotliarevsky. It's a parody of Virgil's Aeneid, where Kotliarevsky transformed the Trojan heroes into Ukrainian Cossacks....
- 1989
Naughty Mom (1989)
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A story about a naughty mother, based on a poem by Alan Alexander Milne....
- 1936
Annie Laurie (1936)
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In late 18th century Scotland, Annie Laurie and William Douglas love each other, but their clans are on opposite sides of the country's civil war. Their love is made immortal through the title song of this film....
- 2017
Negative Space (2017)
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Even though Sam's father is hardly ever home because he is often away on business trips, he is able to connect with his son by teaching him how to pack a suitcase....