Poetry Movies

Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached...

It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads:...

An American writer moves to Paris to be closer to his daughter and finds himself falling immediately on hard times.

Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.

The plot begins with them and ends with humanity. This author wanted to show continuity: the first love and the supposed last is an indivisible whole...

All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.

A popular high school girl is harassed by a delinquent boy until they are placed in creative writing class together. Through written words, they...

Released on April 11, 1920. Directed & produced by Burton Holmes.

Kang Sai, a reserved and talented artist, has long seen his cheerful friend Xiao Xi as his muse. After college, he journeys to the serene Arxan...

Carta a Uma Jovem Escritora is a reflection on memory and forgetting, presented through five striking portraits of five Portuguese women writers:...

The confluence of words and movement propels this multi-layered collaboration by Atlas, choreographer Douglas Dunn, and poets Anne Waldman and Reed...

Relationship issues arise between a researcher with a theory to explain away all his failed dating experiments, a player who wants out of the game, a...

The tumultuous life of Arthur Rimbaud, the cursed poet, who completed his masterwork at the age of twenty, became an arms dealer and died at...

Trapped in routine, a Jeju poet finds himself drawn to a boy—and to emotions he’s never dared name.

Poems by some of the greatest writers of all time are brought to life through lyrical animation and readings by some of today’s most respected...

A group of beatniks unwittingly harbor a serial rapist. A cop goes after him after his wife is attacked.

The rise and fall of the most distinguished Polish-Roma poetess Bronislawa Wajs, widely known as Papusza, and her relationship with her discoverer,...

In between growing frustrations toward cleaning up after an endless parade of tourists and reflections on a traumatizing memory, a voice rises from...