Poet Movies

Based on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti is prosecuted and sentenced to prison for the love...

Based on a true story, renowned Korean poet, Yun Dong-ju, is detained and abused by the Japanese for participating in the Korean Independence...

The story of the love triangle of real-life actress Hasegawa Yasuko, poet Nakahara Chuya, and critic Kobayashi Hideo.

In 1244, Jelaluddin Rumi, a Sufi scholar in Konya, Turkey, met an itinerant dervish, Shams of Tabriz. A powerful friendship ensued. When Shams died,...

Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil painter. When a series of hardships befall her...

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

In the early 1960s two artistic giants, conductor Herbert von Karajan and director Franco Zeffirelli, joined forces to create this milestone...

Eugene Devlin, a once famous, now reclusive poet, searches through his past, looking for redemption and peace.

Ariel, an insecure writer tortured by her own desires, can’t seem to stop seeing “The Poet,” an older, volatile cinematographer who...

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...

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

In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social criticism. For nearly 27 years he was a monk of the...

What does a bankrupt poet with no desire to live have to say about life?

Images and poems of the celebrated couple Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet. Elsa’s youth as recalled by Aragon, with commentary by Elsa.

During the course of one night, two strangers, a lonely waif and a prodigal poet, form an unexpected connection.

How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.

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...

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...

After arriving in 1940 New York, Freddy struggles to find work. His world of refugee acquaintances includes the depressed daughter of a...