Poetry Movies

  • 2002
    The Hours

    The Hours

    The Hours

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    The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings...

    The Hours
  • 1990
    Bust of a poet

    Bust of a poet

    Bust of a poet

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    In Busto of a poet, the word is the real protagonist: the verses, reflections and texts of José Ángel Valente take shape through the...

    Bust of a poet
  • 2020
    The Waters of the Bug River

    The Waters of the Bug River

    The Waters of the Bug River

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    Dedicated to the poet Paul Celan, the film traces the itinerary of the deportation of Jews from Czernowitz and Bucovina to Mikhailovka camp on the...

    The Waters of the Bug River
  • 1984
    Assaltaram a Gramática

    Assaltaram a Gramática

    Assaltaram a Gramática

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    Through performatic acts and some exposition, a group of poets of that 1980's generation make great use of words, poems and rebellious acts...

    Assaltaram a Gramática
  • 1992
    The Dark Side of the Heart

    The Dark Side of the Heart

    The Dark Side of the Heart

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    Oliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his...

    The Dark Side of the Heart
  • 2016
    Guys Reading Poems

    Guys Reading Poems

    Guys Reading Poems

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    A resourceful boy creatively uses poetry to survive when his mother, a disturbed avant garde painter, locks him in a puppet box and builds an art...

    Guys Reading Poems
  • 1959
    Pull My Daisy

    Pull My Daisy

    Pull My Daisy

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    Based on an incident in the life of Beat icon Neal Cassady and his wife, the painter Carolyn, the film tells the story of a railway brakeman whose...

    Pull My Daisy
  • 1993
    Blue

    Blue

    Blue

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    Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek...

    Blue
  • 1936
    Ma and the Auto

    Ma and the Auto

    Ma and the Auto

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    An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring vocalist Al Shayne. This film features the original song Back Seat Drivers by Loesser & Herscher.

    Ma and the Auto
  • 2009
    A Message from the East

    A Message from the East

    A Message from the East

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    The story of Muhammad Iqbal, a turn of the century poet/philosopher from South Asia. Through Iqbal's work we open a dialog between the East and West,...

    A Message from the East
  • 2004
    Notre Musique

    Notre Musique

    Notre Musique

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    A three-chapter (Hell, Purgatory and Paradise) meditation on the city of Sarajevo in the wake of the Bosnian war, on Palestine and Israel, and on war...

    Notre Musique
  • 2016
    Lemonade

    Lemonade

    Lemonade

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    The second "visual album" (a collection of short films) by Beyoncé, this time around she takes a piercing look at racial issues and feminist...

    Lemonade
  • 1997
    Fall

    Fall

    Fall

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    For Michael Shiver, life as an easy-going cab driver in New York suddenly changes when he picks up supermodel Sarah Easton and falls head over heels...

    Fall
  • 1994
    In Custody

    In Custody

    In Custody

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    Ismail Merchant's feature directorial debut addresses a subject close to his heart: the expressive Urdu language of Northern India, in danger of...

    In Custody
  • 1973
    Sing a Song, Poet

    Sing a Song, Poet

    Sing a Song, Poet

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    About the life and work of the poet Sergei Yesenin, his connection with his native country, its people and nature. Childhood, love, painful searches...

    Sing a Song, Poet
  • 2012
    Florbela

    Florbela

    Florbela

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    Shaken by a divorce in the 1920s, Portuguese poetess Florbela Espanca uses her writing to deal with her tumultuous relationship with men, eroticism...

    Florbela
  • 1981
    Umrao Jaan

    Umrao Jaan

    Umrao Jaan

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    Amiran is sold to a brothel by a corrupt cop after her father testifies against him. Many years later, she grows up to be an accomplished poetess and...

    Umrao Jaan
  • 1974
    A Passion for Churches

    A Passion for Churches

    A Passion for Churches

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    Sir John Betjeman visits and explains the architecture of various churches in the Diocese of Norwich. Among those visited: Sandringham church on the...

    A Passion for Churches
  • 2022
    The Legacy of Othello

    The Legacy of Othello

    The Legacy of Othello

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    A fascinating exploration of the literary — The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, by English playwright William Shakespeare (1604)...

    The Legacy of Othello
  • 2010
    Poetry

    Poetry

    Poetry

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    A South Korean woman in her sixties enrolls in a poetry class as she grapples with her faltering memory and her grandson's appalling wrongdoing.

    Poetry