Poet Movies
- 1994
Paul Robeson: 20th Century Renaissance Man, Entertainer & Activist
Paul Robeson: 20th Century Renaissance Man, Entertainer & Activist01994HD
Paul Robeson was a celebrated African-American Actor, Athlete, Singer, Writer, and Civil Rights Activist. Robeson's many achievements are chronicled...
- 1987
Santa Fe
Santa Fe7.91987HD
After arriving in 1940 New York, Freddy struggles to find work. His world of refugee acquaintances includes the depressed daughter of a...
- 2000
The Books and the Night
The Books and the Night5.52000HD
A dramatized approach to the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) through the recreation of some of his works and the staging of various...
- 1983
Reuben, Reuben
Reuben, Reuben6.51983HD
A drunken Scottish poet who has not written a word in years feels compelled to regain control of his life and work after meeting a beautiful young...
- 2002
Man on the Train
Man on the Train6.6812002HD
A man, Milan steps off a train, into a small French village. As he waits for the day when he will rob the town bank, he runs into an old retired...
- 1996
Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told
Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told01996HD
A two-part biography of the Irish writer Samuel Beckett. The first part covers the traumas of his formative years: his ill-fated love affair with his...
- 2018
Softness of Bodies
Softness of Bodies4.6252018HD
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...
- 1990
I, the Worst of All
I, the Worst of All5.751990HD
Assumpta Serna stars as the brilliant and beautiful poet Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz in this magnificent portrayal of 17th Century Mexico. In...
- 1999
Jorge Luis Borges, the Mirror Man
Jorge Luis Borges, the Mirror Man01999HD
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...
- 2020
The Three
The Three6.22020HD
A husband, a wife and another woman. Only three are in the frame.
- 2005
Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man, Celebrated Writer
Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man, Celebrated Writer3.22005HD
Ralph Ellison was an African-American writer and essayist, who's only novel Invisible Man (1953) gained a wide critical success. Ellison's ambitious...
- 2013
Doll
Doll7.72013HD
The rise and fall of the most distinguished Polish-Gypsy poetess Bronislawa Wajs, widely known as Papusza, and her relationship with her discoverer,...
- 1949
Poet's Pub
Poet's Pub6.61949HD
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...
- 1969
The Degenerates
The Degenerates6.71969HD
A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imperial Rome. Like the more famous version made by...
- 1953
Decameron Nights
Decameron Nights51953HD
Italian poet Boccaccio (Louis Jourdan) hides in the court of Fiammetta (Joan Fontaine) and tells three tales of love and lust.
- 1967
Herostratus
Herostratus6.21967HD
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...
- 2023
A Little Love
A Little Love102023HD
Through interspersed conversation and prose, this experimental documentary follows a poet and a neuroscientist as they explore the definition of...
- 1987
Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence
Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence01987HD
The elusive author of Waiting for Godot cooperated in the production of this portrait, which traces Beckett’s artistic life through his prose,...
- 2021
The Bad Poet
The Bad Poet6.12021HD
1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mission: to surveil aging national poet Gabriele...
- 1978
Interiors
Interiors6.8341978HD
When Eve, an interior designer, is deserted by her husband of many years, Arthur, the emotionally glacial relationships of the three grown-up...