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) | |
| The Avenger (1962) | ||
| "Annabel Lee" (1850), Edgar Allan Poe | The Avenging Conscience (1914) | |
| Argonautica (3rd century BC), Apollonius Rhodius | Hercules (it|Le Fatiche di Ercole) (1958) | |
| The Giants of Thessaly (1960) | ||
| Jason and the Argonauts (1963) | ||
| Aniara (sv|Aniara: en revy om människan i tid och rum) (1956), Harry Martinson | Aniara (2018) | |
| "Ashik Kerib" (1837), Mikhail Lermontov | Ashik Kerib (1988) |
| Poem | Film(s) | |
|---|---|---|
| Ballad of Mulan (386–535 CE) | Mulan (1998) | |
| Mulan (2020) | ||
| Banović Strahinja (Serbian: 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 (ta|சிலப்பதிகாரம், 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) |
| Poem | Film(s) | |
|---|---|---|
| De reditu suo (5th century), Rutilius Claudius Namatianus | The Voyage Home (;) (2004) | |
| Divine Comedy (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) |
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heer Ranjha | 1932 | Abdul Rashid Kardar | British India | Heer Ranjha (pnb|{{Nastaliq|ہیر رانجھا, ਹੀਰ ਰਾਂਝਾ) | 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 (it|L'ira di Achille) (1962) | ||
| Hector the Mighty (it|Ettore lo fusto) (1972) | ||
| Troy (2004) | ||
| "Invitation to the Voyage" (fr|L'Invitation au voyage) (1857), Charles Baudelaire | (1927) |
| Poem | Film(s) |
|---|---|
| "Jabberwocky" (1871), Lewis Carroll | Jabberwocky (1977) |
| John the Valiant (hu|János vitéz) (1844), Sándor Petőfi | Johnny Corncob (hu|Kukorica Jancsi) (1973) |
| Jerusalem Delivered (it|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 (1954) | ||
| Kumārasambhava (sa|कुमारसम्भवम्, "The Birth of Kumāra"), Kālidāsa | Kumara Sambhavam (1969) | |
| Kundalakesi (ta|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 (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" (de|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 (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) |
| Poem | Film(s) |
|---|---|
| Nibelungenlied (c. 1200) | Die Nibelungen (1924) |
| The Dragon's Blood (it|Sigfrido) (1957) | |
| Die Nibelungen (1966–67) | |
| (2004) |
| Poem | Film(s) |
|---|---|
| Odyssey (8th century BC), Homer | The Odyssey (it|L'Odissea) (1911) |
| Ulysses (1955) | |
| The Odyssey (1987) | |
| (it|Nostos: Il ritorno) (1989) | |
| Ulysses' Gaze (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 (it|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 (2016) | ||
| Perceval, the Story of the Grail (fr|Perceval ou le Conte du Graal) (1182–90), Chrétien de Troyes | Perceval le Gallois (1978) | |
| Phra Aphai Mani (th|พระอภัยมณี) (1870), Sunthorn Phu | The Adventure of Sudsakorn (1979) | |
| Legend of Sudsakorn (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) |
| 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 (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 (hbo|{{Script/Hebrew|שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים; el|Άσμα Ασμάτων; 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) | |
| "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" (ru|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 (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) | ||
| Terje Vigen (1862), Henrik Ibsen | A Man There Was (sv|Terje Vigen) (1917) | |
| The Lake Calls (de|Das Meer ruft) (1933) | ||
| Melody Time (1948) | ||
| 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 (ta|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 | 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 (cs|Kytice) | 2000 | F. A. Brabec | Czech Republic | A Bouquet of Folk Legends (cs|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 (fa|باد ما را خواهد برد, Bād mā rā khāhad bord) | 1964 | Forough Farrokhzad | |
| Winter Days | 2003 | Kihachirō Kawamoto | Japan | 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 |