Animated films based on poems

1940 American animated film

The Nightmare Before Christmas is a 1993 American stop-motion musical fantasy film directed by Henry Selick and written by Caroline Thompson. It tells the tale of Jack Skellington, King of Halloween Town, who stumbles upon Christmas Town and becomes obsessed with celebrating the holiday himself. Danny Elfman wrote the songs and score and provided the singing voice of Jack. The principal voice cast includes Chris Sarandon, Ken Page, Catherine O'Hara, Glenn Shadix, William Hickey, Paul Reubens and Ed Ivory.

1947 animated film directed by Ivan Ivanov-Vano

2014 animated drama film adapted from Kahlil Gibran's book The Prophet

2018 Ukrainian computer-animated film

1933 film by Wilfred Jackson

1929 animated film by Mikhail Tsekhanovsky

1937 Silly Symphonies cartoon directed by David Hand

2003 film by Kihachirō Kawamoto

2024 animated film directed by Sérgio Machado

1938 film by Graham Heid