In the 2002 film 24 Hour Party People, the character Tony Wilson (played by Steve Coogan) quotes William Wordsworth's The Prelude ("Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, / But to be young was very heaven!”) and William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ("The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom").

In one of the opening scenes of the 2020 film I'm Thinking of Ending Things (written and directed by Charlie Kaufman, based on the book of the same title by Iain Reid), two characters -- Jake (Jesse Plemons) and Young Woman (Jessie Buckley) -- discuss William Wordsworth. The Young Woman quotes "the child is father to the man," and Jake mentions "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" and the Lucy poems.

In Disney's film version of Mary Poppins (1964), the titular nanny quotes the opening lines of John Keats's Endymion.

In the 1996 film Independence Day, "When Captain Hiller [Will Smith] is talking to General Grey [Robert Loggia] about returning to El Toro, the giant screen behind them is displaying some sort of night vision display and the bottom of the screen is endlessly rotating through various numbers and stats.

In the Netflix film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), the section entitled "Meal Ticket" features a character billed as "The Artist" (played by Harry Melling), a man without arms or legs who performs as "The Wingless Thrush, Celebrated Thespian, Orator, and Entertainer." The opening reading from his performance is Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias."