Movies: Based on song poem or rhyme

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A sumptuous short film of friendship and adoration between boys, based on a poem by Peter LeBerge. Moments of joy, bonding and roughhousing on a school trip to the beach counterpoint one teen boy’s introspective sexual awakenings and questionings. Ma...

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

Humorous tales about the life of a little boy. About how he was born without a father and mother, how he was hit by a snow lying on the oven in his hut, how he walked into the woods being a kid, and the miraculous things he had seen there. In his fan...

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A king hides an embarrassing secret - and it causes him to execute every barber who cuts his hair....

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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...

A free composition on the poem by Lambros Porfyras....

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Based on a Belarussian folk song, movie tells a story of a poor peasant who goes to serve the landlord and is not successful in it....

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The people of a town are condemned to die one by one by a mysterious stranger who erects a gallows in the town square....

Porto (Portugal), beginning of the 80s. A film crew seeks to understand if there's really the figure of Chico Fininho, immortalized in the popular song of the same name. A bunch of people are interviewed taking us to Boavista - where we find him in a...

Children role play Ogden Nash's poem about Custard the pet dragon, who shows that he is not always a coward....

Cartoon about a drunkard husband....

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