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This is a list of films based on poems .
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This is a list of films based on poems .
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| 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) |
| Poem | Film(s) |
|---|---|
| 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) |
| Poem | Film(s) |
|---|---|
| "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) |
| Poem | Film(s) |
|---|---|
| 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) |
| Poem | Film(s) |
|---|---|
| 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) |
| Poem | Film(s) |
|---|---|
| "Gunga Din" (1890), Rudyard Kipling | Gunga Din (1939) |
| Poem | Film(s) |
|---|---|
| Heer Ranjha (Punjabi : ہیر رانجھا(Shahmukhi), ਹੀਰ ਰਾਂਝਾ (Gurmukhi)) | Heer Ranjha (1932) |
| Heer Sial (1938) | |
| Heer Raanjha (1970) | |
| Heer Ranjha (1992) | |
| "The Highwayman" (1906), Alfred Noyes | The Highwayman (1951) |
| "Howl" (1956), Allen Ginsberg | Howl (2010) |
| Poem | Film(s) |
|---|---|
| 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) |
| Poem | Film(s) |
|---|---|
| "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) |
| Poem | Film(s) |
|---|---|
| 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 : குண்டலகேசிKuṇṭalakēci, lit. "woman with curly hair") | Manthiri Kumari (1950) |
| Kytice (A Bouquet of Folk Legends (Czech : Kytice z pověstí národních)) (1853), Karel Jaromír Erben | Wild Flowers (Czech : Kytice) (2000) |
| Poem | Film(s) |
|---|---|
| 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) |
| Poem | Film(s) |
|---|---|
| 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) |
| Poem | Film(s) |
|---|---|
| Nibelungenlied (c. 1200) | Die Nibelungen (1924) |
| The Dragon's Blood (Italian : Sigfrido) (1957) | |
| Die Nibelungen (1966–67) | |
| Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King (2004) |
| Poem | Film(s) |
|---|---|
| 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) |
| Poem | Film(s) |
|---|---|
| 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) |
| Poem | Film(s) |
|---|---|
| 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) |
| Poem | Film(s) |
|---|---|
| "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) |
| Poem | Film(s) |
|---|---|
| Under Milk Wood (1954), Dylan Thomas | Under Milk Wood (1972) |
| Under Milk Wood (2015) |
| Poem | Film(s) |
|---|---|
| Valayapathi (Tamil : வளையாபதி, romanized: Vaḷaiyāpati, lit. 'Unbending Man'; transl. Strong Man) | Valayapathi (1952) |
| "The Vampire" (1897), Rudyard Kipling | The Vampire (1913) |
| "The Village Blacksmith" (1840), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Village Blacksmith (1917) |
| The Village Blacksmith (1922) | |
| "A Visit from St. Nicholas" (1823), Clement Clarke Moore | The Night Before Christmas (1994) |
| Poem | Film(s) |
|---|---|
| The White Cliffs (1940), Alice Duer Miller | The White Cliffs of Dover (1944) |
| The Wild Party (1926), Joseph Moncure March | The Wild Party (1975) |
| The Wind Will Carry Us, Forough Farrokhzad | The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) |
| Winter Days (冬の日, Fuyu no Hi) (1684), Matsuo Bashō | Winter Days (2003) |
| "The Wreck of the Hesperus" (1842), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Wreck of the Hesperus (1927) |
| The Wreck of the Hesperus (1948) |
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