Poet Movies

A poetic road trip through Pulitzer prize-winning CK Williams' life over the course of 40 years.

Disgraced poet Ted Wallace is summoned to his friend's country manor to investigate a series of unexplained miracles.

From a lonely childhood to literary fame, her life was shaped by devotion to nature, paying attention, and the long journey toward learning to love...

A marriage crisis between a writer and his wife leads her to flee to Germany and eventually return with another man, through whom the writer is going...

Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."

In the 16th century, poet, playwright and part-time actor Miguel de Cervantes has been arrested, together with his manservant, by the Spanish...

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

A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performances, and politics.

King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the...

A fragmented biography, inconclusive, partial, of the brilliant Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, based on different testimonies: his links with...

Through dramatic reconstruction and documentary asides, the spirit of Italian poet, playwright, journalist, aristocrat and army officer Gabriele...

A young poet suffering from a heartbreak, embarks alone on a journey in search of his happiness.

An inspiring and timely tale about a 12-year-old Syrian refugee girl named Lamya. When she flees the violence of her country, she is given a book of...

Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the first half of the 20th-century...

Polish rebel Rafal Wojaczek writes poetry and lives life on the edge before his suicide in 1971.

An intimate documentary about the life and times of Swiss poet and folk singer Mani Matter (1936-1972), seen from his friends' perspective.

The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.

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

The movie describes the last remaining years of the great Azerbaijani poet, Huseyn Javid who was the victim of 1937-1938 USSR repression.

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