Poet Movies

Documentary on the life of the great Romanian-Jewish poet Paul Celan. Tormented by the experiences of the Holocaust, he committed suicide in Paris in...

A film about the Swiss Italian poet Fabio Pusterla and his creative poetic process, his struggle to find an honest language, one which adheres to the...

a young artist tired of his lonely life decides to walk through the city and reunite with someone from his past.

Ron Padgett (1942- ) is a poet and editor whose artistic career took off during his teenaged years in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There, along with Joe Brainard...

Documentary about the life and work of Flemish poet Karel Jonckheere looked at from four perspectives/professions: farmer, fisherman, sheepherder and...

In between growing frustrations toward cleaning up after an endless parade of tourists and reflections on a traumatizing memory, a voice rises from...

The film is an adaptation of the life of 18th-century Armenian poet and troubadour Sayat-Nova.

About a gentle young man, a misunderstood poet whose printed poems the ruffians use to wrap sausages. His misfortune is that he falls in love with 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...

A film about the poet Oscar Lucero during the year 2012 in La Legua.

Examines the career and literary output of Pablo Neruda, who makes his home at Isla Negra on the coast of Chile. Includes views of Mr. Neruda reading...

A Ghanaian fashion student and a Nigerian squash player are among the Africans making a life in 70s Britain.

A day in the life of Swedish poet Karl Holmqvist.

Polish rebel Rafal Wojaczek writes poetry and lives life on the edge before his suicide in 1971.

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...

A moving portrait of one of the most loved and read Danish poets, Halfdan Rasmussen. The film covers both the early years with poverty and wartime on...

Biopic about legendary Turkmen philosopher and poet, Makhtoumkuli, who was also known as Fragi.

A documentary that portrays not only the poet and painter Mario Cesariny but as well his life, his journey and his individuality.

Documentary about the German poet Erich Weinert.