Movies: Based on song poem or rhyme

  • 2015
    Paradise Lost?

    Paradise Lost? (2015)

    Paradise Lost?

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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...

    Paradise Lost?
  • 2019
    Time for You to Come Home for Christmas

    Time for You to Come Home for Christmas (2019)

    Time for You to Come Home for Christmas

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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....

    Time for You to Come Home for Christmas
  • 1911
    Dante's Inferno

    Dante's Inferno (1911)

    Dante's Inferno

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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....

    Dante's Inferno
  • 2022
    Toldi

    Toldi (2022)

    Toldi

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

    Toldi
  • 1925
    Svatební košile

    Svatební košile (1925)

    Svatební košile

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    Svatební košile
  • 1948
    Trees

    Trees (1948)

    Trees

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    A Walt Disney short film....

    Trees
  • 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
  • 1939
    La vispa Teresa

    La vispa Teresa (1939)

    La vispa Teresa

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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....

    La vispa Teresa
  • 1995
    Hrytsko’s Easter Eggs

    Hrytsko’s Easter Eggs (1995)

    Hrytsko’s Easter Eggs

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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,...

    Hrytsko’s Easter Eggs
  • 2021
    Sœur Sourire: Who Killed the Voice of God?

    Sœur Sourire: Who Killed the Voice of God? (2021)

    Sœur Sourire: Who Killed the Voice of God?

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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...

    Sœur Sourire: Who Killed the Voice of God?
  • 2018
    Sohrab and Rustum

    Sohrab and Rustum (2018)

    Sohrab and Rustum

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    An inspiring English teacher transports her class into the very heart of a Persian poem....

    Sohrab and Rustum
  • 1987
    Music of Revolution

    Music of Revolution (1987)

    Music of Revolution

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    Music of Revolution
  • 2025
    Giving Up World Domination

    Giving Up World Domination (2025)

    Giving Up World Domination

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    Giving Up World Domination
  • 1980
    One Day I Came Home

    One Day I Came Home (1980)

    One Day I Came Home

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    Cartoon about a drunkard husband....

    One Day I Came Home
  • 1972
    And You, Friends, Wherever You Sit…

    And You, Friends, Wherever You Sit… (1972)

    And You, Friends, Wherever You Sit…

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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...

    And You, Friends, Wherever You Sit…
  • 1971
    Jabberwocky

    Jabberwocky (1971)

    Jabberwocky

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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...

    Jabberwocky
  • 1991
    Eneida

    Eneida (1991)

    Eneida

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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....

    Eneida
  • 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
  • 1936
    Annie Laurie

    Annie Laurie (1936)

    Annie Laurie

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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....

    Annie Laurie
  • 2017
    Negative Space

    Negative Space (2017)

    Negative Space

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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....

    Negative Space