Poet
The Edge of Love
HDTwo feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both.
Lope
HDA chronicle of the life of Lope de Vega, the Spanish playwright who dominated Spain's early Golden Age of theater.
The Broken Tower
HDA biography of American poet Hart Crane who committed suicide at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.
War Requiem
HDA movie with no spoken dialogue, it is set against the music and lyrics of Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" which includes poetry by World War I soldier Wilfred Owen reflecting the horrors of war. There is no linear story or dialo...
Dead Poets Society
HDMaverick teacher John Keating uses poetry to embolden his boarding school students to new heights of self-expression.
Forced March
HDBen Kline is a successful television actor looking for a meaningful role to make him a movie star. When he sets out to play a hero who died in the Holocaust, he is forced to face the reality of those victimized by the war. In assu...
The Color of Time
HDA poetic road trip through Pulitzer prize-winning CK Williams' life.
The Butterfly's Dream
HDIn a small Turkish town, two young tuberculous poets try to survive while publishing their poems. As they both fall in love, their life would never be the same.
Poetic Justice
HDGrieving hairdresser, Justice, goes on a road trip from South Central L.A. to Oakland on a mail truck alongside her friend and a postal worker which she cannot stand
So I Married an Axe Murderer
HDA San Francisco poet who fears commitment suspects his girlfriend may have a knack for killing off her significant others.
The Postman
HDA simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet, and then uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
Total Eclipse
HDYoung, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
Big Sur
HDA recounting of Jack Kerouac's three sojourns to the cabin in Big Sur owned by his friend, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Before Night Falls
HDEpisodic look at the life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), from his childhood in Oriente province to his death in New York City. He joins Castro's rebels. By 1964, he is in Havana. He meets the wealthy Pepe, an early lover; a love-hate relationship lasts for years. Openly gay behavior is a way to spite the government. His writing and homosexuality get him into trouble: he spends two years in prison, writing letters for other inmates and smuggling out a novel. He befriends Lázaro Gomes Garriles, with whom he lives stateless and in poverty in Manhattan after leaving Cuba in the Mariel boat-lift. When asked why he writes, he replies cheerfully, "Revenge."
Possession
HDRoland Michell is an American scholar trying to make it in the difficult world of British Academia. He has yet to break out from under his mentor's shadow until he finds a pair of love letters that once belonged to one of his idols, a famous Victorian poet. Michell, after some sleuthing, narrows down the suspects to a woman not his wife, another well known Victorian poet. Roland enlists the aid of a Dr. Maud Bailey, an expert on the life of the woman in question. Together they piece together the story of a forbidden love affair, and discover one of their own. They also find themselves in a battle to hold on to their discovery before it falls into the hands of their rival, Fergus Wolfe.
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
HDLegendary poet, singer/songwriter and alleged ladies man Leonard Cohen is interviewed in his L.A. home about his extraordinary life and times, interspersed with old footage from his private photo collection and lavish praise plus elaborately performed Cohen cover songs from a motley crew of colleague musicians, amongst whom Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Rufus & Martha Wainwright, Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker and U2's Bono and The Edge. By way of dessert the latter two and their band mates even get to back up the man for a special performance of his own.
Date with Love
HDDavid Rogers, a senior at J.W. Hughes High School in Arlington Heights, Illinois, does not run among the popular kids but aspires to do so, he wanting to make a name for himself before graduation. Exhausting all the popular girls as potential prom dates, most who don't even know who he is, he comes across the idea to make a prom-posal video to ask his favorite Hollywood actress, Alex Allen, to be his date. Using the stolen words from a published book of poetry by his English teacher Vincent Walsh, David is able to secure that prom date with Alex. In reality, Alex was convinced by her friend and publicist Paige Sumner, as Alex needs some positive publicity after a recent incident on the red carpet which not only led to the break-up with her leading man and boyfriend Colin Hartling - she coming to the conclusion that he was just the latest to use her to get ahead in the business - but movie producers now not wanting to hire her. Alex and Paige find that David unwittingly has his own people who will make sure that Alex does not hurt him in the process, namely his younger sister Devyn Rogers who could be his publicist if she wanted, and David's best friend since the first grade, Heidi Watts, who is secretly hurt that she was the one girl David did not ask to the prom. In the process of the getting ready for the prom, Alex may find that she has her own idea of a new leading man in her life, namely Mr. Walsh, who had no idea who Alex was before her arrival into the midst of J.W. Hughes. However, some people may have their own motive in ensuring that Alex and Vincent do become an item, and they love each other no matter what they may come across some problems but in the end they will always be together no matter what happens .
Neruda
HDAn inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.
A Quiet Passion
HDThe story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.
Maya Dardel
HDAn internationally lauded poet/novelist announces that she is going to end her life and that young male writers may compete to become executor of her estate. The man who wins will inherit her home, land, books, unpublished manuscripts, and be expected to protect and promote her posthumous reputation.
Last Call
HDThe last days of the poet Dylan Thomas as he dreams and drinks.
Wild Nights with Emily
HDIn the mid 19th century, Emily Dickinson was writing prolifically and in a passionate romantic relationship with her sister-in-law, yet she is still popularly believed to be a fridge recluse. Informed by Dickenson's private letters, this film is a light-hearted, humorous and bold take on the American poet who found herself facing male literacy gatekeepers too confused by her genius to take her work seriously, and instead attracts the attention of an ambitious female editor, named Mabel, who also sees Emily as a convenient cover for her bizarre love triangle.
Softness of Bodies
HDAn American poet living in Berlin hopes to win a prestigious grant while dealing with her former relationships, a rival poet, and her own penchant for stealing things.