Movies: Based on song poem or rhyme

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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...

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 greedy king and his army....

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A traditional Hungarian poetic fairytale that describes the epic adventures of a young shepherd through love, war, magic and death....

Humorous tales about the life of a little boy. About how he was born without a father and mother, how he was hit by a snow lying on the oven in his hut, how he walked into the woods being a kid, and the miraculous things he had seen there. In his fan...

A Walt Disney short film....

A beautiful and hard-working girl lived in a Ukrainian village. She fell in love with a guy, but he was destined to die, and the girl has to hide from courtship and matchmaking of bothersome suitors. Her heart did not lie to any of them, and she deci...

This cartoon is based on a humorous Ukrainian folk song about how wives decided to sell their disgraced husbands. One wife wants to get rid of the reveler, the other - from the drunkard, the young woman is tired of the old man, the worker is lazy, an...

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 school trip to the beach counterpoint one teen boy’s introspective sexual awakenings and questionings. Ma...

Since he was a child, Orpheus has imagined stories about an abandoned villa across the street from his house. A solitary and visionary pianist, during an evening at the Polypus — the club where he plays — he meets Eura’s gaze. An unconditional love b...

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In the Canadian province of Acadia, young Evangeline is betrothed to Gabriel. But before their wedding can take place, the British imprison the men and send them into exile with their lands forfeit to the Crown Evangeline follows the exiled men in ho...

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...

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A short silent film based on the poem "The Courtship of Miles Standish" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...

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...

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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....