Poet Movies

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...

Semi-fictitious biopic of Finnish poet Eino Leino, made with a large budget to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. The film concentrates on...

An account of the life and work of the Spanish poet Luis García Montero; a journey through his experiences, his mentors, his influences and...

A man becomes part of a secret society of people who live in a department store and quickly falls in love with their leader’s young maid.

A posthumous look at the last days of Guenther's life as he, his best friend, and his sister let loose on a four-day binge of alcohol, drugs, and sex.

A loosely structured comedy allowing for a series of vignettes based around an ancient coaching inn. The story was adapted from the 1929 novel by...

A poet in his late 30s, who has spent all his life in Jeju Island, lives off his sturdy wife. Despite his wife's constant nagging about his inability...

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...

Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul, and women love him. But he is in love with...

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

A husband, a wife and another woman. Only three are in the frame.

Italian poet Boccaccio (Louis Jourdan) hides in the court of Fiammetta (Joan Fontaine) and tells three tales of love and lust.

Kahlil Gibran remembers his days as a young poet and artist in Lebanon, and of the young woman (Salma) who ignited his passions.

T. S. Eliot has been considered by many to be the leading American poet of this century. His contemporaries in the 1920s recognized in “The...

The life and work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, a long interview, fragments of some of his most significant verses and dramatizations of...

Heinrich wishes to conquer death through love, and when he meets Henriette, the wife of a business acquaintance, she expresses interest in a suicide...

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

A film that explores the metaphor of human emotions through meteorological phenomena. The story follows a Queen whose feelings influence the weather:...

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

A woman ponders over the strange coincidences that made her forefathers and -mothers meet and create the premises for her becoming the person that...