Poet Movies

An internationally respected poet announces she is going to kill herself and needs an heir and executor. Young writers drive up the mountain to...

Short experimental movie about sea, love and trust.

Documentary about Charles Olson, exploring his life and the significance of Gloucester, Massachusetts.

A two-part biography of the Irish writer Samuel Beckett. The first part covers the traumas of his formative years: his ill-fated love affair with his...

A tv play about the Swedish poet Gustaf Fröding. Flashbacks from his life in a mental hospital.

In the early 1920s, Yasuko, a budding actress, crosses paths with Chūya Nakahara, a young poet destined to be revered as a genius. Drawn to each...

A ghostly meeting with Luís de Camões, the one-eyed adventurer, widely considered Portugal’s greatest poet. Luís de...

In the desolate countryside, haunted by recurrent dreams, a young drifter finds himself at the borderlands between the living and the dead.

Biography and in-depth look of Beckett and his work.

Ralph Ellison was an African-American writer and essayist, who's only novel Invisible Man (1953) gained a wide critical success. Ellison's ambitious...

It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, musician and diagnosed paranoid...

Blanca Luz Brum traveled an unusual path, through twentieth-century Latin America, actively participating in the intellectual, political and artistic...

The first Georgian full-length documentary follows the trip of the “king of Georgian poetry”, Akaki Tsereteli, to Racha and Lechkhumi,...

Documentary tracing the extreme life of outlaw writer, performance artist and punk icon, Kathy Acker. Through animation, archival footage, interviews...

At a glittering party in 18th-century Paris, the poet Andréa Chenier delivers an impassioned denunciation of Louis XVI. Five years later, the...

February 1954: ten mass graves with over 500 bodies are found in the region of Sofia, Bulgaria. Experts say they were killed and the deaths occurred...

How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.

Fascinating journey through the life and work of the prestigious Catalan poet Jaime Gil de Biedma, both marked by sexuality and eroticism....

Libyan film based on a work by Ahmad Ibrahim al-Faqih. The film's events revolve around an Arab woman, her status and varying roles, examined through...

The story puts İlhan Çomak at the center, even though he is not physically present in the film. It focuses on the 21 years that...