Poet Movies

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

A tribute to the poet Patrizia Cavalli

A day in the life of Swedish poet Karl Holmqvist.

The film narrates a tormented love story between one of the most famous poets of Serbian literature, Laza Kostic, renowned for his sublime poetic...

A documentary about Néstor Perlongher. His life, his poems, and his activism in Argentina's Frente de Liberación Homosexual (homosexual...

Documentary on the life of the great Romanian-Jewish poet Paul Celan. Tormented by the experiences of the Holocaust, he committed suicide in Paris in...

A biography about Ahmed Fouad Negm, the famous poet of the Egyptian colloquial, depicting the important historical and revolutionary stages, from his...

Short experimental movie about sea, love and trust.

The film is a novelized biography of François Villon (1431-1463), known as the Wandering Poet, who led a troubled life due to the fact that he...

This American Experience tells Whitman's life story, from his working-class childhood in Long Island, to his years as a newspaper reporter in...

Documentary tracing the extreme life of outlaw writer, performance artist and punk icon, Kathy Acker. Through animation, archival footage, interviews...

By ending the life of Jean Senac on August 30, 1973 in Algiers, his assassins believed they would silence him forever. They were wrong since his...

Humorous, melancholy documentary about copywriter, photo model and poet Frans Vogel (1935-2016). A handsome kid who became involved in the art world...

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...

Based on the real life story, the director turned his camera towards the real world of Âşık Veysel, the great poet who wandered...

Biography and in-depth look of Beckett and his work.

The intricate relations between an Artist, an Actress and a Poet are seen against the background of one of the most dramatic events in the recent...

The film tells the story of Pir Sultan Abdal, a famous folk poet in Turkey, who criticized some Ottoman governors, Hizir Pasha in particular and as a...

The elusive author of Waiting for Godot cooperated in the production of this portrait, which traces Beckett’s artistic life through his prose,...

Sangwoon lives in Gajeong-dong, an old neighborhood in Incheon. He works in Cheongna, a new city beyond the overpass. Sang-woon, who gets off work...