Movies: Based on song poem or rhyme

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

A story about a girl during the war who could not have been a child, but she is hiding from bombs in a ruined house, who never got to know her culture and all the beauty of the world. Where her soul and body early takes away death in the war....

There is a man by the door in a raincoat smoking a cigarette....

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

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 the forgotten people, their lives and their deeds. These two Archives have been found on the flea mark...

The historical musical made in the Inca citadel in 1981 with texts by Pablo Neruda and music of The Jaivas. Special Guest: Mario Vargas Llosa in the presentation....

A first-person narrative from the diary of a person with paranoid schizophrenia. Based on the Stephen King poem of the same name....

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

Whispered to by an ancient tree, a young shepherd dreams of more than his simple existence among grass and sheep. The journey he embarks on brings him into contact with golden birds, a dragon and a fair damsel....

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....

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

Inspired by the poem Hamza by the great Palestinian poet Fadwa Tuqan, compares and connects the mystery of the fertility of the Palestinian land to the mysterious power of it's women....

Colourful puppets illustrate the old French song about Cadet Rousselle, who falls down a ladder, who trips on battlements, and whose dogs will not obey him. The animated figures carry our hero through his predicaments with colour and verve....

Based on Lokomotywa, a poem by Julian Tuwim. Made with the use of classical cartoon animation and combined photographs....

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...

"Afloat" is a short animated film on domestic abuse based on the poem "A Smile to Remember’"by Charles Bukowski. This is a story about courage, a story about staying afloat....

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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...

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