Based On Song Poem Or Rhyme Movies

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

An avant-garde montage of a boxing match, based on a poem by Paul Werrie.

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...

Children role play Ogden Nash's poem about Custard the pet dragon, who shows that he is not always a coward.

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...

Filmed on 16mm film, this visual expression is rooted in its archival materials and backed up by the poem by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. It speaks of...

Hand-drawn animation in ink and pencil-crayon of the poem Jupiter by Diana Syder

The weather was beautiful. Princess was awful. At two o'clock in the afternoon princess get lost in the woods. Or maybe it was the other way around?

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...

Sangria is intended to discuss the women's role in Brazil since colonization until nowadays, once the females have been silenced and battered for...

Screen adaptation of Dmytro Pavlychko's tale-poem of the same name. The shepherd Vasylko saves his friend, the magical golden-horned deer, from the...

A sumptuous short film of friendship and adoration between boys, based on a poem by Peter LeBerge. Moments of joy, bonding and roughhousing on a...

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

The last leaf of a poplar tree falls as a man sails alone out at sea. Inspired by the George Seferis poem of the same title.