Movies: Based on song poem or rhyme
- 2008
Yah Chayka! (2008)
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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 ...
- 1962
Human Zoo (1962)
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A montage of scenes that describe how people can be as bad as animals....
- 2023
Heaven Down Here (2023)
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Inspired by Mickey Guyton’s song of the same name, “Heaven Down Here” tells the story of four disparate people who find themselves stranded in a local diner on Christmas Eve when a snowstorm hits the town. Imani is a widowed mother of two who’s havin...
- 2000
Monster Mash (2000)
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When old-school monsters Frank, Drac and Wolf are deemed "fun" by a court of elders, they're ordered to scare a suburban family or risk a sentence of party entertainers for eternity....
- 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...
- 2002
Kunpan (2002)
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Based on the famous Thai epic poem, Kun Pan is the magical and tragic love story of Kun Pan's life. A jealous king sends Kun Pan to war believing he could win his beautiful wife, while Kun Pan dies on the battlefield. After a long time passes, the wi...
- 2017
My Giraffe (2017)
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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...
- 1929
Evangeline (1929)
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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....
- 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....
- 1998
Animated Epics: Beowulf (1998)
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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....
- 2023
Time for Her to Come Home for Christmas (2023)
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Carly heads to a small town to lead a church choir at Christmastime, facing her first holiday season without her mother. While there, she connects with a man back in town after serving in the Army....
- 1959
The Legend of Tom Dooley (1959)
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Tom Dooley and Country Boy are on the run after killing an enemy soldier not knowing the war is over. The Command refuses to give them some slack for making this tragic but honest mistake and sends a lawman after them....
- 2007
Between the Sunset and the Sea (2007)
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On the beach at sunset a man waits for his one true love. When she arrives, a bittersweet romance ensues....
- 2007
The Raven (2007)
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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...
- 2003
Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me (2003)
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A series of poems....
- 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....
- 1971
Conquest (1971)
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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...
- 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....
- 1943
The Passengers of Ursa Major (1943)
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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....
- 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....