Poetry Movies

The romantic relationship between a man and a woman.

An exiled poet returns to his native homeland of Pangasinan province after many years of absence. Through a mystical soul journey, he reclaims his...

"Taniel" looks at the last months of poet Taniel Varoujan's life, who was murdered in the Armenian Genocide of 1915. The film's narrative is heard in...

With £2.50 in their bank accounts, two friends Saoirse and Emma vow to have the greatest night of their lives at a punk poetry party. They...

A lone wind ensemble musician photographs an ongoing performance as she's suddenly joined by a past lover.

Réne Manzor's debut short, a surreal story about a tramp trying to build a road through the desert.

She is a full-length documentary about writer Aimée Baker and her award-winning poetry collection Doe. Doe is her quest to give voice to the...

He stood, in pain, near the rope, in tears, while his creator hung.

Amiran is sold to a brothel by a corrupt cop after her father testifies against him. Many years later, she grows up to be an accomplished poetess and...

Two teenage pseudo-intellectual hipsters spend the day driving around their hometown in search of culture and adventure

Based on the idea that drugs have influenced some of our greatest minds (Poe, Baudelaire etc.), this film documents just how influential drug...

The story of Ana and Diego, a couple who decide to go live on the coast in Chile. There, they meet Vicente, with whom Diego secretly begins a...

James Franco interviews three experts on the poet Hart Crane, whose life was the subject of his feature The Broken Tower (2011).

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

17-year-old Asher is split between his charismatic teacher and his brash father, who wants him to take over his scaffolding business.

Erwin Romulo, the late Alexis Tioseco’s best friend, recalls the events after the critic and his girlfriend Nika Bohinc’s untimely death...

When a marriage is threatened by a long excursion for work, domestic trouble is buffeted by family and friends.

Set in the Taisho era, Hana no ran is a story about fashionable people without impulse control. Much of the action centers on a popular woman writer,...

The director's father, Professor Horst E.M. Schüppel - a 23 year old teacher in the Soviet occupied zone of East Germany - was a founding member...