Poet Movies
- 1992
Hedd Wyn
Hedd Wyn5.3331992HD
'Hedd Wyn' is a 1992 Welsh anti-war biopic. Ellis Humphrey Evans, a farmer's son and poet living at Trawsfynydd in the Meirionydd countryside of uplan...
- 2012
The Broken Tower
The Broken Tower5.12012HD
Docudrama about American poet Hart Crane, who committed suicide in April 1932 at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.
- 2006
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man6.42006HD
Poet, singer / songwriter and ladies man Leonard Cohen is interviewed in his home about his life and times. The interview is interspersed with archive...
- 1997
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Keep the Aspidistra Flying61997HD
Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits...
- 1934
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
The Barretts of Wimpole Street5.91934HD
Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her siblings, especially her youngest sister, Henriet...
- 1967
Herostratus
Herostratus6.21967HD
When a young poet hires a marketing company to turn his suicide into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly dilut...
- 2018
Softness of Bodies
Softness of Bodies5.82018HD
An American poet living in Berlin hopes to win a prestigious grant while dealing with her former relationships, a rival poet, and her own penchant for...
- 1948
Quartet
Quartet61948HD
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."
- 2009
Pink Motherland
Pink Motherland02009HD
A documentary about Néstor Perlongher. His life, his poems, and his activism in Argentina's Frente de Liberación Homosexual (homosexual liberation fro...
- 2016
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise7.92016HD
A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her exube...
- 2008
Rumi: The Dance of Love
Rumi: The Dance of Love4.12008HD
A dramatised documentary about the life of Rumi, a Persian mystical poet whose images of universal love and divine mystery continue to be celebrated m...
- 1973
Belle
Belle5.71973HD
A married, middle-aged professor meets a mysterious woman in the woods and has an affair with her.
- 2009
The Consul of Sodom
The Consul of Sodom5.92009HD
Fascinating journey through the life and work of the prestigious Catalan poet Jaime Gil de Biedma, both marked by sexuality and eroticism. Charismatic...
- 2017
The Poet and the Boy
The Poet and the Boy5.72017HD
A married poet meets a teenage boy working at a donut shop and helplessly develops feelings for him.
- 1938
If I Were King
If I Were King6.81938HD
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash...
- 2008
Falling Angels
Falling Angels5.82008HD
The daughter of two famous writers, Helena upholds her late father's reputation, reciting his poems on various occasions and cherishing the memory of...
- 2000
The Books and the Night
The Books and the Night5.52000HD
A dramatized approach to the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) through the recreation of some of his works and the staging of various a...
- 1975
The Romantic Englishwoman
The Romantic Englishwoman5.51975HD
A marriage crisis between a writer and his wife leads her to flee to Germany and eventually return with another man, through whom the writer is going...
- 2016
Santa Maria della Salute
Santa Maria della Salute102016HD
The film narrates a tormented love story between one of the most famous poets of Serbian literature, Laza Kostic, renowned for his sublime poetic puns...
- 1966
Elsa the Rose
Elsa the Rose61966HD
Images and poems of the celebrated couple Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet. Elsa’s youth as recalled by Aragon, with commentary by Elsa.