Movies: Based on song poem or rhyme

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....

Nobel Laureate Harry Martinson's famous poem consists of 103 cantos and relates the tragedy of a space ship which, originally bound for Mars with a cargo of colonists from the ravaged Earth, is ejected from the solar system after an accident and into...

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The film is based on the words of a song performed by Iza Kremer in Odessa....

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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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...

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...

A five-part story based on Birger Sjöberg's ballad collection "Fridas bok"....

Juan, a young guitarrist that has inherited his father's business, meets Sofía, a girl who's about to get married. Together they start a road trip through Northern Chile, where they could seek answers to their destinies....

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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....

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

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An experimental movie based on a poem of the French writer and director Jean Cocteau about a servant who fantasises about killing the lady of the house....

Porto (Portugal), beginning of the 80s. A film crew seeks to understand if there's really the figure of Chico Fininho, immortalized in the popular song of the same name. A bunch of people are interviewed taking us to Boavista - where we find him in a...

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

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

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....