List of films based on poems

This is a list of films based on poems.

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• Padmaavat (2018, India)
• The Adventure of Sudsakorn (1979, Thailand)
• Arabian Nights (1974, Pasolini) (Abu Nuwas)
• Aniara (2018, Sweden)
• Ashik Kerib (1988, USSR)
• Beowulf (1999, USA)
• Beowulf (2007, USA)
• Beowulf & Grendel (2005, Iceland, United Kingdom, Canada)
• Braveheart (1995, USA), from The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace, by Blind Harry
• Bright Star (2009, UK/Aus/France), named in reference to a sonnet by John Keats
• Casey at the Bat (1927, USA)
• The Color of Pomegranates (1969, Armenian SSR)
• El Cid (1961, USA, Spain, Charlton Heston)
• The Full Monteverdi (2007, UK)
• Grendel Grendel Grendel (1981, Australia)
• Gunga Din (1939, United States)
• The Hangman (1964, USA, short)
• Helen of Troy (1956, USA/Italy)
• Howl (2010, USA) based on the Allen Ginsberg's poem and events surrounding its publication.
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000, USA)
• The Humpbacked Horse (1947, USSR)
• The Humpbacked Horse (1976, USSR)
• Il Postino: The Postman (1994, Italy) inspired by the poetry of Pablo Neruda
• L'Invitation au voyage (film) (1927, France)
• Jabberwocky (1977, UK)
• Jackanory: The Story of Beowulf (1966, UK, serial)
• Kytice (Wild Flowers) (2000, Czech Republic)
• The Man from Snowy River (1982, Australia)
• The Man from Snowy River II (US title: "Return to Snowy River" — UK title: "The Untamed") (1988, Australia)
• The Monkey's Mask (2000, Australia)
• Mulan (1998, USA)
• My Heart Is Mine Alone (1997, Germany)
• The Night Before Christmas (1941, USA, short)
• The Night Before Christmas: A Mouse Tale (2002, United States, short, made-for-TV)
• The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993, United States)
• O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000, United States), loosely based on The Odyssey
• Paterson (film) (2016, United States), inspired by Paterson by William Carlos Williams
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957, United States), loosely based on The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning
• Pumpkinhead (1988, United States), loosely based on Pumpkinhead by Ed Justin
• Ramanan (1967, India)
• The Raven (1963, United States) based on references to The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Sentimental Bloke (1919, Australia) based on the poem The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke by C. J. Dennis
• The Set-Up (1949, United States) based on the narrative poem The Set-Up by Joseph Moncure March
• The Shooting of Dan McGrew (1924, United States)
• The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda (1933-1936, USSR)
• Tale of Tales (1979, USSR) named after the poem Tale of Tales by Nazım Hikmet, but based on the Russian lullaby Bayu Bayushki Bayu
• The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1984, USSR) based on the poem The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of His Son the Renowned and Mighty Bogatyr Prince Gvidon Saltanovich, and of the Beautiful Princess-Swan by Aleksandr Pushkin
• Taniel (2018, UK and Armenia) based on Armenian poet Taniel Varoujan's poems
• Troy (2004, United States), from the poem The Iliad by Homer
• Ulysses (1954, Italy) based on the epic poem Odyssey by Homer
• Under Milk Wood (1972, United Kingdom) based on Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
• The White Cliffs of Dover (1944, United States) based on the poem The White Cliffs by Alice Duer Miller with additional poetry by screenwriter Robert Nathan.
• The Wind Will Carry Us (1999, Iran) is titled after the poem The Wind Will Carry Us by Forough Farrokhzad, and the film references the ideas of life and death in the poem Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyám and Farrokhzad's.
• Winter Days (2003, Japan)

See also

• Lists of film source material
• List of films based on Greco-Roman mythology