Poetry Movies
- 2002
The Hours
The Hours7.2682002HD
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...
- 1990
Bust of a poet
Bust of a poet01990HD
In Busto of a poet, the word is the real protagonist: the verses, reflections and texts of José Ángel Valente take shape through the...
- 2020
The Waters of the Bug River
The Waters of the Bug River82020HD
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...
- 1984
Assaltaram a Gramática
Assaltaram a Gramática01984HD
Through performatic acts and some exposition, a group of poets of that 1980's generation make great use of words, poems and rebellious acts...
- 1992
The Dark Side of the Heart
The Dark Side of the Heart7.31992HD
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...
- 2016
Guys Reading Poems
Guys Reading Poems5.32016HD
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...
- 1959
Pull My Daisy
Pull My Daisy61959HD
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...
- 1993
Blue
Blue7.11993HD
Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek...
- 1936
Ma and the Auto
Ma and the Auto01936HD
An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring vocalist Al Shayne. This film features the original song Back Seat Drivers by Loesser & Herscher.
- 2009
A Message from the East
A Message from the East02009HD
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,...
- 2004
Notre Musique
Notre Musique6.72004HD
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...
- 2016
Lemonade
Lemonade8.42016HD
The second "visual album" (a collection of short films) by Beyoncé, this time around she takes a piercing look at racial issues and feminist...
- 1997
Fall
Fall6.41997HD
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...
- 1994
In Custody
In Custody4.81994HD
Ismail Merchant's feature directorial debut addresses a subject close to his heart: the expressive Urdu language of Northern India, in danger of...
- 1973
Sing a Song, Poet
Sing a Song, Poet3.71973HD
About the life and work of the poet Sergei Yesenin, his connection with his native country, its people and nature. Childhood, love, painful searches...
- 2012
Florbela
Florbela52012HD
Shaken by a divorce in the 1920s, Portuguese poetess Florbela Espanca uses her writing to deal with her tumultuous relationship with men, eroticism...
- 1981
Umrao Jaan
Umrao Jaan6.11981HD
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...
- 1974
A Passion for Churches
A Passion for Churches01974HD
Sir John Betjeman visits and explains the architecture of various churches in the Diocese of Norwich. Among those visited: Sandringham church on the...
- 2022
The Legacy of Othello
The Legacy of Othello82022HD
A fascinating exploration of the literary — The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, by English playwright William Shakespeare (1604)...
- 2010
Poetry
Poetry7.5692010HD
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.