List of films based on poems

This is a list of films based on poems.

Poem Film(s)
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)
Film Date Director Country Source
work
Author Date Type
Gunga Din 1939 George Stevens United States "Gunga Din" Rudyard Kipling 1890
Film Date Director Country Source
work
Author Date Type
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
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 [fr] (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: குண்டலகேசி Kuṇṭalakēci, lit. "woman with curly hair") Manthiri Kumari (1950)
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, romanizedKonyok-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 Set-Up (1928), Joseph Moncure March The Set-Up (1949)
Shahnameh (1010), Ferdowsi Shirin Farhad (1931)
Shirin Farhad (1956)
Rustam Sohrab (1963)
Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi (2012)
"The Shooting of Dan McGrew" (1907), Robert W. Service The Shooting of Dan McGrew (1915)
The Shooting of Dan McGrew (1924)
"The Sick Stockrider" (1870), Adam Lindsay Gordon The Sick Stockrider (1913)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (late 14th century), Gawain Poet (anonymous) Gawain and the Green Knight (1973)
Sword of the Valiant (1984)
The Green Knight (2021)
'Song of Songs (Biblical Hebrew: שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים, romanized: Šīr hašŠīrīm; Greek: Άσμα Ασμάτων; Latin: Canticum Canticorum) The Song (2014)
"The Song of the Wage-Slave" (1907), Robert W. Service The Song of the Wage Slave (1915)
The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke (1915), C. J. Dennis The Sentimental Bloke (1919)
"The Spell of the Yukon" (1907), Robert W. Service The Lure of Heart's Desire (1916)
The Spell of the Yukon (1916)
"Sweet and Low" (1849), Alfred, Lord Tennyson Sweet and Low (1914)
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)
Film Date Director Country Source
work
Author Date Type
Under Milk Wood 1972 Andrew Sinclair United Kingdom Under Milk Wood Dylan Thomas 1954
Under Milk Wood 2015 Kevin Allen
Film Date Director Country Source
work
Author Date Type
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
Film Date Director Country Source
work
Author Date Type
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

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