Poetry Movies

Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitaï offers a look impressionist long history of armed conflict in their nation.

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most famous American authors. And probably the most abysmal. In his texts, he deals with the dark side of humanity like...

Ismail Merchant's feature directorial debut addresses a subject close to his heart: the expressive Urdu language of Northern India, in danger of extin...

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

A poet's muse calls on his inner child to save their relationship.

An experimental visual poem combining film, animation, photography, and archival footage inviting people to occupy the Black Body and examine the live...

James Franco interviews three experts on the poet Hart Crane, whose life was the subject of his feature The Broken Tower (2011).

A New York teacher indulges a mad high school poet who sees himself as a mythic hero.

Duras narrates a short story while the camera travels through the streets of Paris with short interludes of solemn music.

Submersed in "bro" culture, a fraternity brother's obsession with a poem and its poetess begin to inform him more about himself than he is ready to ac...

Seamus Murphy’s documentary examines Irish writer Pat Ingoldsby’s unique world. Ingoldsby’s poems and candid anecdotes bear witness to a visceral rela...

A short documentary on the River Ouse, following it downstream from Lewes to Newhaven, meditating on the surrounding area.

As queer trans and gender non-conforming children of the Vietnamese diaspora, we are fragmented at the crossroads of being displaced from not only a s...

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

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 inst...

Six poems written by six young prisoners animated to tell their stories, thoughts, fears and hopes.

A psychiatrist attempts to cure a patient who thinks he's the son of Zeus, while dodging the mental ward himself.

A group of beatniks unwittingly harbor a serial rapist. A cop goes after him after his wife is attacked.