Movies: Based on song poem or rhyme

  • 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!
  • 1962
    Human Zoo

    Human Zoo (1962)

    Human Zoo

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    A montage of scenes that describe how people can be as bad as animals....

    Human Zoo
  • 2023
    Heaven Down Here

    Heaven Down Here (2023)

    Heaven Down Here

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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...

    Heaven Down Here
  • 2000
    Monster Mash

    Monster Mash (2000)

    Monster Mash

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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....

    Monster Mash
  • 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?
  • 2002
    Kunpan

    Kunpan (2002)

    Kunpan

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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...

    Kunpan
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2023
    Time for Her to Come Home for Christmas

    Time for Her to Come Home for Christmas (2023)

    Time for Her to Come Home for Christmas

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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....

    Time for Her to Come Home for Christmas
  • 1959
    The Legend of Tom Dooley

    The Legend of Tom Dooley (1959)

    The Legend of Tom Dooley

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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....

    The Legend of Tom Dooley
  • 2007
    Between the Sunset and the Sea

    Between the Sunset and the Sea (2007)

    Between the Sunset and the Sea

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    On the beach at sunset a man waits for his one true love. When she arrives, a bittersweet romance ensues....

    Between the Sunset and the Sea
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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