Based On Song Poem Or Rhyme Movies

The classic tale of Dante's journey through hell, loosely adapted from the Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré. ...

A visceral descent into depths of a depraved mind, Paranoid takes the viewer on a dark trail into the roots of insanity where only fragments of...

After being kidnapped and escaping, young drummer boy Aaron searches for his camel and finds him in the Nativity of the Baby Jesus. Aaron gives Baby...

Renowned Japanese poet Shuntaro Tanikawa teams with former "rock chick" Wakako Kaku to craft this pensive love story told almost entirely in still...

A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help.

In a 1940’s dark and eerie setting, the story delves into Guy's descent into madness mere hours after the burial of his loved one, as he is...

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...

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...

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...

Fragile in Love is an experimental short that rebels against the suppression of electronic music culture and gay house parties.

Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself...

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...

Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel countess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man...

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

In 1948, aspiring songwriter Tony works as a bar pianist; he meets aspiring star Lola, and is immediately smitten. At Manhattan's Copacabana lounge,...

A poetic road trip through Pulitzer prize-winning CK Williams' life over the course of 40 years.

In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident....

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...