Movies: Based on song poem or rhyme

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

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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....

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

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...

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

Based on the epic "Phra Aphai Mani" written by Sunthon Phu, สุดสาคร –Thailand's first cell animation– tells the heroic adventure of Sudsakorn, the son of a minstrel prince and a beautiful mermaid. During his many encounters he fights animals, ghosts ...

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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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 Méliès' early cinematic treatment likely got away with simply offering a fancifully illustrated late epi...

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A man walks into a bar and warns to the clients that Death will come at midnight....

"Afloat" is a short animated film on domestic abuse based on the poem "A Smile to Remember’"by Charles Bukowski. This is a story about courage, a story about staying afloat....

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....

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A tragedy strikes the family of widow Svetlana and her two sons, Jan and Maxmilián. The villagers believe that the hated nobles surrounded by myths and superstitions - Madam and Sir De Blois - are responsible for it....

What does a drone pilot operating on a peacekeeping mission in an unnamed country see on his monitor? We are slowly getting used to the stream of variously distorted images of so-called strategic targets. Along with the ability to see human beings, a...

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