Poet Movies

Director Sidney Franklin's 1957 remake of his own 1934 film, about the romance of poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.

Docudrama that recounts the astonishing life story of a forgotten genius, English poet Alexander Pope, who lived from 1688 to 1744.

A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her...

Two teenage summer camp counselors struggle with their younger campers, providing a variety of humorous situations and romantic encounters.

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...

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

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

Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse…Samuel Beckett lived a...

A major poet of the early twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is as much part of pop culture as the literary canon. The Austrian writer...

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

A 17th-century Mexican nun defies expectations by becoming a renowned intellectual and writer during the Spanish Inquisition.

About Omar Khayyam of Persia, the poet and mathematician, who wrote the Iranian first solar calendar circa A.D. 1073. His fiancé was forced to...

In 1950s Georgia, a young African American tomboy named Skip seeks solace and self-discovery in a queer-friendly juke joint.

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

Docudrama about American poet Hart Crane, who committed suicide in April 1932 at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.

An aging Southern Belle complicates life for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her own warped views of what life should be.

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...

A British student and a Muscovite poet fall in love in the 1990s.

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...

A womanizing poet falls into the hands of a psychiatrist with a straying wife.