This is a list of films based on poems.
A
Poem | Film(s) |
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The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace (1488), Blind Harry | Braveheart (1995) |
Aeneid (29–19 BC), Publius Vergilius Maro | The Avenger (1962) |
"Annabel Lee" (1850), Edgar Allan Poe | The Avenging Conscience (1914) |
Argonautica (3rd century BC), Apollonius Rhodius | Hercules (Italian: Le Fatiche di Ercole) (1958) |
The Giants of Thessaly (1960) | |
Jason and the Argonauts (1963) | |
Aniara (Swedish: Aniara: en revy om människan i tid och rum) (1956), Harry Martinson | Aniara (2018) |
"Ashik Kerib" (Russian: Ашик Кериб) (1837), Mikhail Lermontov | Ashik Kerib (1988) |
B
Poem | Film(s) |
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Ballad of Mulan (386–535 CE) | Mulan (1998) |
Mulan (2020) | |
Banović Strahinja (Serbian Cyrillic: Бановић Страхиња) | The Falcon (1981) |
As Far as I Can Walk (2021) | |
Beowulf (c. 700–1000 AD) | Grendel Grendel Grendel (1981) |
Beowulf (1999) | |
Beowulf & Grendel (2005) | |
Grendel (2007) | |
Beowulf (2007) | |
"Bright Star" (1838), John Keats | Bright Star (2009) |
C
Poem | Film(s) |
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"Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888" (1888), Ernest Thayer | Casey at the Bat (1916) |
Casey at the Bat (1927) | |
Make Mine Music (1946) | |
"The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1854), Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Balaclava (1928) |
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1912) | |
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) | |
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) | |
"The City in the Sea" (1845), Edgar Allan Poe | City Under the Sea (1965) |
Cilappatikāram (Tamil: சிலப்பதிகாரம், Malayalam: ചിലപ്പതികാരം, IPA: ʧiləppət̪ikɑːrəm, lit. "the Tale of an Anklet"), Ilango Adigal | Kannagi (1942) |
Poompuhar (1962) | |
Kodungallooramma (1968) | |
Paththini (2016) | |
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Courtship of Miles Standish (1923) |
D
Poem | Film(s) |
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De reditu suo (5th century), Rutilius Claudius Namatianus | The Voyage Home (Latin: De reditu; Italian: Il ritorno, lit. 'The Return') (2004) |
Divine Comedy (Italian: Divina Commedia) (1321), Dante Alighieri | L'Inferno (1911) |
Dante's Inferno (1924) | |
Dante's Inferno (1935) | |
The Deep and Dreamless Sleep (2006) | |
Dante's Inferno (2007) | |
Don Juan (1819–24), Lord Byron | Don Juan (1926) |
"Dui Bigha Jomi", Rabindranath Tagore | Do Bigha Zamin (1953) |
E
Poem | Film(s) |
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Enoch Arden (1864), Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Enoch Arden (1914) |
The Bushwhackers (1925) | |
Nirmon (1966) | |
Taqdeer (1967) | |
Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie (1847), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Evangeline (1914) |
Evangeline (1919) | |
Evangeline (1929) |
G
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
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Gunga Din | 1939 | George Stevens | United States | "Gunga Din" | Rudyard Kipling | 1890 |
H
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
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Heer Ranjha | 1932 | Abdul Rashid Kardar | British India | Heer Ranjha (Punjabi: ہیر رانجھا (Shahmukhi), ਹੀਰ ਰਾਂਝਾ (Gurmukhi)) | Waris Shah | 17th century | |
Heer Ranjha | 1992 | Harmesh Malhotra | India | ||||
Heer Raanjha | 1970 | Chetan Anand | |||||
Heer Sial | 1938 | Kishan Dev Mehra | |||||
The Highwayman | 1951 | Lesley Selander | United States | "The Highwayman" | Alfred Noyes | 1906 | |
Hiawatha | 1913 | Edgar Lewis | United States | The Song of Hiawatha | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1855 | Epic |
Hiawatha | 1952 | Kurt Neumann | |||||
Howl | 2010 | Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | United States | "Howl" | Allen Ginsberg | 1956 |
I
Poem | Film(s) |
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Iliad (c. 8th century BC), Homer | Helena (1924) |
Helen of Troy (1956) | |
The Fury of Achilles (Italian: L'ira di Achille) (1962) | |
Hector the Mighty (Italian: Ettore lo fusto) (1972) | |
Troy (2004) | |
"Invitation to the Voyage" (French: L'Invitation au voyage) (1857), Charles Baudelaire | L'Invitation au voyage (1927) |
J
Poem | Film(s) |
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"Jabberwocky" (1871), Lewis Carroll | Jabberwocky (1977) |
John the Valiant (Hungarian: János vitéz) (1844), Sándor Petőfi | Johnny Corncob (Hungarian: Kukorica Jancsi) (1973) |
Jerusalem Delivered (Italian: La Gerusalemme liberata) (1581), Torquato Tasso | The Crusaders (1918) |
The Mighty Crusaders (1957) |
K
Poem | Film(s) |
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Kaliyachan (1959), P. Kunhiraman Nair | Kaliyachan (2015) |
Kein Hüsung (1858), Fritz Reuter | Kein Hüsung (1954) |
Kumārasambhava (Sanskrit: कुमारसम्भवम्, "The Birth of Kumāra"), Kālidāsa | Kumara Sambhavam (1969) |
Kundalakesi (Tamil: குண்டலகேசி Kuṇṭalakēci, lit. "woman with curly hair") | Manthiri Kumari (1950) |
L
Poem | Film(s) |
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Lady Clare (1842), Alfred, Lord Tennyson | The Lady Clare (1919) |
The Lady of the Lake (1810), Sir Walter Scott | The Lady of the Lake (1928) |
Lalla Rookh (1817), Thomas Moore | Lala Rookh (1958) |
"The Law of the Yukon" (1907), Robert W. Service | The Law of the Yukon (1920) |
The Light of Asia (1879), Edwin Arnold | Prem Sanyas (1925) |
The Little Humpbacked Horse (Russian: Конёк-Горбуно́к, romanized: Konyok-Gorbunok) (1834), Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov | The Little Humpbacked Horse (1941) |
The Little Humpbacked Horse (1947) | |
The Little Humpbacked Horse (1975) | |
Upon the Magic Roads (2021) | |
"Little Orphant Annie" (1885), James Whitcomb Riley | Little Orphant Annie (1918) |
"Lützow's Wild Hunt" (German: Lützows wilde verwegene Jagd), Theodor Körner | Lützow's Wild Hunt (1927) |
M
Poem | Film(s) |
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The Man from Snowy River (1890), Banjo Paterson | The Man from Snowy River (1920) |
The Man from Snowy River (1982) | |
The Man from Snowy River II (1988) | |
Martín Fierro (1872), José Hernández | Fierro (2007) |
Mattie the Goose-boy (Hungarian: Lúdas Matyi) (1817), Mihály Fazekas | Mattie the Goose-boy (1950) |
Mattie the Goose-boy (1977) | |
"Maud" (1855), Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Naked Hearts (1916) |
The Monkey's Mask (1994), Dorothy Porter | The Monkey's Mask (2000) |
"My Madonna" (1907), Robert W. Service | My Madonna (1915) |
Mysooru Mallige (1942), K. S. Narasimhaswamy | Mysore Mallige (1992) |
N
Poem | Film(s) |
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Nibelungenlied (c. 1200) | Die Nibelungen (1924) |
The Dragon's Blood (Italian: Sigfrido) (1957) | |
Die Nibelungen (1966–67) | |
Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King (2004) |
O
Poem | Film(s) |
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Odyssey (8th century BC), Homer | The Odyssey (Italian: L'Odissea) (1911) |
Ulysses (1955) | |
The Odyssey (1987) | |
Nostos: The Return (Italian: Nostos: Il ritorno) (1989) | |
Ulysses' Gaze (Greek: Το βλέμμα του Οδυσσέα, To Vlemma tou Odyssea) (1995) | |
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | |
Odysseus and the Isle of the Mists (2007) | |
The Old Swimmin' Hole (1883), James Whitcomb Riley | The Old Swimmin' Hole (1921) |
Orlando Furioso (1516), Ludovico Ariosto | Hearts and Armour (Italian: I Paladini: Storia d'armi e d'amori) (1983) |
Over the Hill to the Poorhouse (1872), Will Carleton | Over the Hill to the Poorhouse (1920) |
Over the Hill (1931) |
P
Poem | Film(s) |
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Padmavat (1540), Malik Muhammad Jayasi | Padmaavat (2018) |
Pan Tadeusz (1834), Adam Mickiewicz | Pan Tadeusz (1928) |
Pan Tadeusz (1999) | |
Paterson (1946–58), William Carlos Williams | Paterson (2016) |
Perceval, the Story of the Grail (French: Perceval ou le Conte du Graal) (1182–90), Chrétien de Troyes | Perceval le Gallois (1978) |
Phra Aphai Mani (Thai: พระอภัยมณี) (1870), Sunthorn Phu | The Adventure of Sudsakorn (1979) |
Legend of Sudsakorn (Thai: สุดสาคร) (2006) | |
"The Pied Piper of Hamelin" (1842), Robert Browning | The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957) |
Poema de Fernán González (1250–66) | The Castilian (1963) |
Prithviraj Raso, Chand Bardai | Samrat Prithviraj (2022) |
The Prophet (1923), Kahlil Gibran | The Prophet (2014) |
Pumpkinhead, Ed Justin | Pumpkinhead (1988) |
R
Poem | Film(s) |
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Ramanan (Malayalam: രമണന്) (1936), Changampuzha Krishna Pillai | Ramanan (1967) |
"The Raven" (1845), Edgar Allan Poe | The Raven (1963) |
"A Revery in the Station House" (1916), Ella Wheeler Wilcox | The Beautiful Lie (1917) |
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), Samuel Taylor Coleridge | The Ancient Mariner (1925) |
S
T
Poem | Film(s) |
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"The Tale of the Priest and of his Workman Balda" (Russian: Сказка о попе и о работнике его Балде) (1830), Alexander Pushkin | The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda (1933–36) |
The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of His Son the Renowned and Mighty Bogatyr Prince Gvidon Saltanovich, and of the Beautiful Princess-Swan (Russian: Сказка о царе Салтане, о сыне его славном и могучем богатыре князе Гвидоне Салтановиче и о прекрасной царевне Лебеди) (1831), Aleksandr Pushkin | The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1966) |
The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1984) | |
Terje Vigen (1862), Henrik Ibsen | A Man There Was (Swedish: Terje Vigen) (1917) |
The Lake Calls (German: Das Meer ruft) (1933) | |
"Trees" (1913), Joyce Kilmer | Melody Time (1948) |
Typhoid Sufferers (Serbo-Croatian: Tifusari) (1950), Jure Kaštelan | Typhoid Sufferers (1963) |
U
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
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Under Milk Wood | 1972 | Andrew Sinclair | United Kingdom | Under Milk Wood | Dylan Thomas | 1954 | |
Under Milk Wood | 2015 | Kevin Allen |
V
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
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Valayapathi | 1952 | T. R. Sundaram, Masthan | India | Valayapathi (Tamil: வளையாபதி) | Epic | ||
The Vampire | 1913 | Robert G. Vignola | United States | "The Vampire" | Rudyard Kipling | 1897 | |
The Village Blacksmith | 1917 | Arthur Rooke, A.E. Coleby | United Kingdom | "The Village Blacksmith" | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1840 | |
The Village Blacksmith | 1922 | John Ford | United States | ||||
The Night Before Christmas | 1994 | Hazel Morgan, Diane Eskenazi (uncredited) | United States | "A Visit from St. Nicholas" | Clement Clarke Moore | 1823 |
W
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
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The White Cliffs of Dover | 1944 | Clarence Brown | United States | The White Cliffs | Alice Duer Miller | 1940 | Verse novel |
Wild Flowers (Czech: Kytice) | 2000 | F. A. Brabec | Czech Republic | A Bouquet of Folk Legends (Czech: Kytice z pověstí národních) | Karel Jaromír Erben | 1853 | |
The Wild Party | 1975 | James Ivory | United States | The Wild Party | Joseph Moncure March | 1926 | Narrative |
The Wind Will Carry Us | 1999 | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran | The Wind Will Carry Us (Persian: باد ما را خواهد برد, Bād mā rā khāhad bord) | 1964 | Forough Farrokhzad | |
Winter Days | 2003 | Kihachirō Kawamoto | Japan | Winter Days (冬の日, Fuyu no Hi) | 1684 | Matsuo Bashō | Renku |
The Wreck of the Hesperus | 1927 | Elmer Clifton | United States | "The Wreck of the Hesperus" | 1842 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Narrative |
The Wreck of the Hesperus | 1948 | John Hoffman |