Movies: Based on song poem or rhyme

The people of a town are condemned to die one by one by a mysterious stranger who erects a gallows in the town square....

Juan, a young guitarrist that has inherited his father's business, meets Sofía, a girl who's about to get married. Together they start a road trip through Northern Chile, where they could seek answers to their destinies....

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The German legend of a scholar's unholy pact with the Devil would have been very familiar to most moviegoers (at least European ones), so Georges Méliès' early cinematic treatment likely got away with simply offering a fancifully illustrated late epi...

Short film by Harry Kümel based upon a poem by Jean Cocteau....

A humorous story-musical about a pumpkin, the host of a vegetable garden, his wife and many relatives and friends. They all live nearby and often solve some of their living problems. Cucumbers want to play, and the carrot-girls are waiting for worthy...

A Charles Bukowski poem is put to animation. Four kids who are friends are drawn to a strange house that their parents tell them to avoid. One day they see a man of about 30 step outside, cigar and whiskey bottle in hand. He becomes a symbol for them...

A man walks into a bar and warns to the clients that Death will come at midnight....

An experimental movie based on a poem of the French writer and director Jean Cocteau about a servant who fantasises about killing the lady of the house....

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A short film for the song 'แบตสำรอง' by BOY PEACEMAKER....

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A young woman recalls a day when she was attacked by three men on her way home, but daily life must resume its course....

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Prince Ihor is going to confront the enemy army from the Polovtsian Land. The solar eclipse foreshadows the fateful finale of the battle... Epic in content and stylized as Byzantine icons in form, the animation is inspired by Kyiv myths and the maste...

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Film adaptation of the earliest known poem in the English language (written in the 8th century) which examines the ancient and heroic tradition from which the feudal system started to grow. The film, as in the poem, is an elegy lamenting the not only...

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A kaleidoscopic montage, interpreting the poem "Our Punjabi Market" by Kuldip Gill depicting the vibrance of the Punjabi Market at 49th and Main in East Vancouver, BC....