Based On Song Poem Or Rhyme Movies

Jana's beautiful niece arrives in Prague to live with two spinster aunts. Both women wish to marry her off. The son of the court councilor Petr is...

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

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...

Based on an old humorous Belarusian song. A peasant hired by a lord receives his well-deserved pay: for the first summer — a hen with chicks,...

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...

A lyrical story about first love, death and disappointment, based on a poem of the same title.

Ramanan and Madanan are the two shepherds who are bosom pals. Meek and handsome, Ramanan used to sing and play the flute as he led the flock to the...

Following an order of the landowner, the bride of Arsena’s fellow villager gets kidnapped and the bride’s father is relentlessly flogged....

A series of poems.

A kaleidoscopic montage, interpreting the poem "Our Punjabi Market" by Kuldip Gill depicting the vibrance of the Punjabi Market at 49th and Main in...

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

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

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...

Rock star Roddy Usher is confined to an insane asylum after murdering his wife. There, he is given various shock treatments by...

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...

On the beach at sunset a man waits for his one true love. When she arrives, a bittersweet romance ensues.

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

A young woman recalls a day when she was attacked by three men on her way home, but daily life must resume its course.