Poet Movies

An influential Serbian poet decides to leave Nazi-occupied Belgrade and join partisans in the country. A young resistance activist, however, is not...

The film reflects the life and work of Ashiq Alasgar through artistic images.

Carta a Uma Jovem Escritora is a reflection on memory and forgetting, presented through five striking portraits of five Portuguese women writers:...

A fictionalised documentary about the great Japanese poet Bashô (1644–1694), the spiritual father of haiku poetry. A monk, portraying the...

When the superintendent of the Canadian insane asylum, Dr. Maurice Bucke, meets poet Walt Whitman, his life and that of his wife and patients is...

Set in 1930s New York, the film follows Margaret Wise Brown as she discovers her gift for writing children’s stories and pioneers a new,...

Deraldo, a popular poet from Northeast Brazil, arrives in the capital of São Paulo, making a living only from his poetry and pamphlets. All is...

He is considered the greatest European poet of the Middle Ages and his work unfolds the whole panopticon of occidental education – theology,...

A repressed poetess and an embittered war hero help each other cope with their problems.

A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from some of Britain's greatest poets.

For a poet with a gift for crafting words into barbs, Stevie Smith lives a relatively conventional life. Sheltered in a London suburb, she spends her...

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...

The young Friedrich Schiller begins his life as a poet with a dramatic escape. After the sensational success of his first drama "The Robbers", he...

The extraordinary life of the great poet Alda Merini: from mental illness to motherhood, from impossible loves to access to culture and fame. An...

The lifetime of the great Argentinian man of letters Jorge Luis Borges through narration and interviews of such key players in his life as Leonor de...

The film narrates a tormented love story between one of the most famous poets of Serbian literature, Laza Kostic, renowned for his sublime poetic...

The poet and painter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is among the world's living monuments to arts and letters. For well over a half century, Ferlinghetti...

Half blind and half deaf, ostraziced Cuban writer Rafael Alcides tries to finish his unpublished novels to discover that after several decades, the...

A nobleman poet embarks on boat trip with two local fishermen. As they hop the bucolic islands he recalls his youthful tragic love, his artistic...