Poetry Movies

Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitaï offers a look impressionist long history of armed conflict in their nation.

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most famous American authors. And probably the most abysmal. In his texts, he deals with the dark side of humanity like...

Ismail Merchant's feature directorial debut addresses a subject close to his heart: the expressive Urdu language of Northern India, in danger of extin...

This is the about the most admired poet in the History of Urdu and Persian writings, Mirza Ghalib

A peculiar portrait of the Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) drawn by the extravagant and original look of the Spanish writer Fernando...

Director Sidney Franklin's 1957 remake of his own 1934 film, about the romance of poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.

A poet's muse calls on his inner child to save their relationship.

A conceptual art project exploring poetry in an alternative, modern way. Similar to a collection of short stories this project assembles a series of v...

A short film, based on a series of poems, about childhood, the break with parental, and war.

An experimental visual poem combining film, animation, photography, and archival footage inviting people to occupy the Black Body and examine the live...

A film-poem created for Counterclock Journal's 2023 Patchwork: Film x Poetry fellowship, featuring an original poem by Mackenzie Duan and animation by...

Películas is the name of a poetry book by Luís Miguel Nava, a homosexual poet, born in Viseu, who died in Brussels and whose magnificent poetic work r...

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

A biography of the poet W. B. Yeats and his contribution to the Irish independence movement as a Protestant nationalist.

A New York teacher indulges a mad high school poet who sees himself as a mythic hero.

Duras narrates a short story while the camera travels through the streets of Paris with short interludes of solemn music.

Submersed in "bro" culture, a fraternity brother's obsession with a poem and its poetess begin to inform him more about himself than he is ready to ac...

Seamus Murphy’s documentary examines Irish writer Pat Ingoldsby’s unique world. Ingoldsby’s poems and candid anecdotes bear witness to a visceral rela...