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List of films based on poems

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This is a list of films based on poems. {{inc-film|date=October 2021}}

A

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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)

rowspan="3" | Argonautica (3rd century BC), Apollonius Rhodius

| Hercules ({{langx|it|Le Fatiche di Ercole}}) (1958)

The Giants of Thessaly (1960)
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
Aniara ({{langx|sv|Aniara: en revy om människan i tid och rum}}) (1956), Harry Martinson

| Aniara (2018)

"Ashik Kerib" ({{Langx|ru|Ашик Кериб}}) (1837), Mikhail Lermontov

| Ashik Kerib (1988)

B

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rowspan="2" | Ballad of Mulan (386–535 CE)

| Mulan (1998)

Mulan (2020)
rowspan="2" | Banović Strahinja ({{lang-sr-cyr|Бановић Страхиња}})

| The Falcon (1981)

As Far as I Can Walk (2021)
rowspan="5" | 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)

C

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rowspan="3" | "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)
rowspan="4" | "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)

rowspan="4" | Cilappatikāram ({{langx|ta|சிலப்பதிகாரம்}}, {{langx|ml|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)

D

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De reditu suo (5th century), Rutilius Claudius Namatianus

| The Voyage Home ({{Langx|la|De reditu}}; {{Langx|it|Il ritorno|lit=The Return}}) (2004)

rowspan="5" | Divine Comedy ({{langx|it|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)

E

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rowspan="4" | Enoch Arden (1864), Alfred, Lord Tennyson

| Enoch Arden (1914)

The Bushwhackers (1925)
Nirmon (1966)
Taqdeer (1967)
rowspan="3" | Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie (1847), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

| Evangeline (1914)

Evangeline (1919)
Evangeline (1929)

G

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Gunga Din (1890), Rudyard Kipling

| Gunga Din (1939)

H

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rowspan="4" | Heer Ranjha ({{langx|pnb|{{Nastaliq|ہیر رانجھا}}}} {{small|(Shahmukhi)}}, ਹੀਰ ਰਾਂਝਾ {{small|(Gurmukhi)}}) (17th century), Waris Shah

| Heer Ranjha (1932)

Heer Sial (1938)
Heer Raanjha (1970)
Heer Ranjha (1992)
The Highwayman (1906), Alfred Noyes

| The Highwayman (1951)

rowspan="2" | The Song of Hiawatha (1855), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

| Hiawatha (1913)

Hiawatha (1952)
Howl (1956), Allen Ginsberg

| Howl (2010)

I

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rowspan="5" | Iliad (c. 8th century BC), Homer

| Helena (1924)

Helen of Troy (1956)
The Fury of Achilles ({{langx|it|L'ira di Achille}}) (1962)
Hector the Mighty ({{langx|it|Ettore lo fusto}}) (1972)
Troy (2004)
"Invitation to the Voyage" ({{langx|fr|L'Invitation au voyage}}) (1857), Charles Baudelaire

| {{ill|L'Invitation au voyage (film)|lt=L'Invitation au voyage|fr}} (1927)

J

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"Jabberwocky" (1871), Lewis Carroll

| Jabberwocky (1977)

John the Valiant ({{langx|hu|János vitéz}}) (1844), Sándor Petőfi

| Johnny Corncob ({{langx|hu|Kukorica Jancsi}}) (1973)

rowspan="2" | Jerusalem Delivered ({{langx|it|La Gerusalemme liberata}}) (1581), Torquato Tasso

| The Crusaders (1918)

The Mighty Crusaders (1957)

K

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Kaliyachan (1959), P. Kunhiraman Nair

| Kaliyachan (2015)

Kein Hüsung (1858), Fritz Reuter

| Kein Hüsung (1954)

Kumārasambhava ({{langx|sa|कुमारसम्भवम्}}, "The Birth of Kumāra"), Kālidāsa

| Kumara Sambhavam (1969)

Kundalakesi ({{langx|ta|குண்டலகேசி}} Kuṇṭalakēci, lit. "woman with curly hair")

| Manthiri Kumari (1950)

L

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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)

rowspan="4" | The Little Humpbacked Horse ({{langx|ru|Конёк-Горбуно́к|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" ({{langx|de|Lützows wilde verwegene Jagd}}), Theodor Körner

| Lützow's Wild Hunt (1927)

M

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rowspan="3" | 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)

rowspan="2" | Mattie the Goose-boy ({{langx|hu|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)

N

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rowspan="4" | Nibelungenlied (c. 1200)

| Die Nibelungen (1924)

The Dragon's Blood ({{langx|it|Sigfrido}}) (1957)
Die Nibelungen (1966–67)
Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King (2004)

O

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rowspan="7" | Odyssey (8th century BC), Homer

| The Odyssey ({{langx|it|L'Odissea}}) (1911)

Ulysses (1955)
The Odyssey (1987)
Nostos: The Return ({{langx|it|Nostos: Il ritorno}}) (1989)
Ulysses' Gaze ({{langx|el|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 ({{langx|it|I Paladini: Storia d'armi e d'amori}}) (1983)

rowspan="2" | Over the Hill to the Poorhouse (1872), Will Carleton

| Over the Hill to the Poorhouse (1920)

Over the Hill (1931)

P

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Padmavat (1540), Malik Muhammad Jayasi

| Padmaavat (2018)

rowspan="2" | 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 ({{langx|fr|Perceval ou le Conte du Graal}}) (1182–90), Chrétien de Troyes

| Perceval le Gallois (1978)

rowspan="2" | Phra Aphai Mani ({{langx|th|พระอภัยมณี}}) (1870), Sunthorn Phu

| The Adventure of Sudsakorn (1979)

Legend of Sudsakorn ({{langx|th|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)

R

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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)

S

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The Set-Up (1928), Joseph Moncure March

| The Set-Up (1949)

rowspan="4" | Shahnameh (1010), Ferdowsi

| Shirin Farhad (1931)

Shirin Farhad (1956)
Rustam Sohrab (1963)
Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi (2012)
rowspan="2" | "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)

rowspan="3" | 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 ({{langx|hbo|{{Script/Hebrew|שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים}}|translit=Šīr hašŠīrīm}}; {{langx|el|Άσμα Ασμάτων}}; {{langx|la|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)

rowspan="2" | "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)

T

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"The Tale of the Priest and of his Workman Balda" ({{langx|ru|Сказка о попе и о работнике его Балде}}) (1830), Alexander Pushkin

| The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda (1933–36)

rowspan="2" | The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of His Son the Renowned and Mighty Bogatyr Prince Gvidon Saltanovich, and of the Beautiful Princess-Swan ({{langx|ru|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)
rowspan="2" | Terje Vigen (1862), Henrik Ibsen

| A Man There Was ({{langx|sv|Terje Vigen}}) (1917)

The Lake Calls ({{langx|de|Das Meer ruft}}) (1933)
"Trees" (1913), Joyce Kilmer

| Melody Time (1948)

Typhoid Sufferers (Serbo-Croatian: Tifusari) (1950), Jure Kaštelan

| Typhoid Sufferers (1963)

U

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rowspan="2" | Under Milk Wood (1954), Dylan Thomas

| Under Milk Wood (1972)

Under Milk Wood (2015)

V

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Valayapathi ({{langx|ta|வளையாபதி}})

| Valayapathi (1952)

The Vampire (1897), Rudyard Kipling

| The Vampire (1913)

rowspan="2" | 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)

W

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The White Cliffs (1940), Alice Duer Miller

| The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)

A Bouquet of Folk Legends ({{langx|cs|Kytice z pověstí národních}}) (1853), Karel Jaromír Erben

| Wild Flowers ({{langx|cs|Kytice}}) (2000)

The Wild Party (1926), Joseph Moncure March

| The Wild Party (1975)

The Wind Will Carry Us ({{langx|fa|باد ما را خواهد برد}}, Bād mā rā khāhad bord) (1964), Forough Farrokhzad

| The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)

{{nihongo|Winter Days|冬の日|Fuyu no Hi}} (1684), Matsuo Bashō

| Winter Days (2003)

rowspan="2" | The Wreck of the Hesperus (1842), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

| The Wreck of the Hesperus (1927)

The Wreck of the Hesperus (1948)

Notes

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See also

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