Orpheus (1950), Bukowski: Born Into This (2003), Love Jones (1997), Cyrano, My Love (2018), The Tales of Hoffmann (1951), The Doors (1991), Brother to Brother (2004), If I Were King (1938) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Poet movies.
Storyline: 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: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and animation that echoes the poem's surreal style. All three coalesce in hybrid that dramatizes the birth of a counterculture.
Plot Keywords: biography, history, drama, literature, courtroom, trial, art ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: JR has broken up with her professor. She enlists her nervous and obnoxious younger brother Colin to take a short road trip in order to help move out her belongings. They bicker and fight, with one another and pretty much anybody they encounter, before being brought to a place of togetherness and understanding as a result of being pushed away by everybody in their lives except one another.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, poet, literature, usa, independent film, art ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1871, Paul Verlaine (1844-1896), an established poet, invites boy genius Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) to live with Paul and his young pregnant wife, Mathiltde, in her father's home in Paris. Rimbaud's uncouth behavior disrupts the household as well as the insular society of French poets, but Verlaine finds the youth invigorating. Stewed in absinthe and resentment, Verlaine abuses Mathiltde; he and Rimbaud become lovers and abandon her. There are reconciliations and partings with Mathiltde and partings and reconciliations with Rimbaud, until an 1873 incident with a pistol sends one of them to prison. Codas dramatize the poets' final meeting and last illnesses.
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, history, romance, lgbt, literature, poet ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Student Johann Wolfgang von Goethe falls in love with Lotte, but Albert has feelings for her also.
Plot Keywords: biography, historical, drama, romance, literary, german film, 18th century ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the early 1940s, Allen Ginsberg is an English major at Columbia University, only to learn more than he bargained for. Dissatisfied by the orthodox attitudes of the school, Allen finds himself drawn to iconoclastic colleagues like Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Together, this gang would explore bold new literary ideas that would challenge the sensibilities of their time as the future Beat Generation. However, for all their creativity, their very appetites and choices lead to more serious transgressions that would mark their lives forever.
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, lgbt, history, literature, crime, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, biography, history, literary adaptation, victorian era, poet ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1956, aspiring American poet Sylvia Plath (Gwyneth Paltrow) meets fellow poet Edward James "Ted" Hughes (Daniel Craig) at Cambridge, where she is studying. Enthralled with the genius of his writing, Sylvia falls in love with him even before meeting him, and he quickly falls in love with her. They eventually marry. Sylvia quickly learns that others are also enthralled with her husband, for a combination of his good looks, charisma, fame, and success. Sylvia lives in her husband's professional shadow as she tries to eke out her own writing career, which doesn't come as naturally to her as it does to Ted. She also suspects him of chronic infidelity. Both issues affect Sylvia's already fragile emotional state, she, who once tried to commit suicide earlier in her life. Through her pain and her anger, she does gain minor success as a writer, with a completed semi-autobiographical novel and a few well received collection of poems. Following, she tries to regain some happiness in her life with Ted, but has an alternate plan if that does not work out as she wants.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, romance, poet, marriage, literature, depression ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Berlin, the Romantic Era. Young poet Heinrich wishes to conquer the inevitability of death through love, yet is unable to convince his skeptical cousin Marie to join him in a suicide pact. It is whilst coming to terms with this refusal, ineffably distressed by his cousin's insensitivity to the depth of his feelings, that Heinrich meets Henriette, the wife of a business acquaintance. Heinrich's subsequent offer to the beguiling young woman at first holds scant appeal, that is until Henriette discovers she is suffering from a terminal illness—Cannes Film Festival
Plot Keywords: love, death, marriage, melancholy, 19th century, poet, romanticism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1660, with the return of Charles II to the English throne, theater, the visual arts, science and sexual promiscuity flourish. Thirteen years later, in the midst of political and economical problems, Charles II orders the return of his friend John Wilmot, aka the second Earl of Rochester, from exile back to London. John is a morally-corrupt drunkard and a debauched, cynical poet. When the King asks John to prepare a play for the French ambassador so as to please him, John meets the aspiring actress Elizabeth Barry in the playhouse and decides to make her into a great star. He falls in love with her and she becomes his mistress. During the presentation to the King and the French ambassador, John falls into disgrace with the court. When he is thirty-three years old and dying of syphilis and alcoholism, he converts to being a religious man.
Plot Keywords: biography, history, drama, british, 18th century, poet, sexuality ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both. The passion and pathos of legendary poet Dylan Thomas is told through the lives of two extraordinary women. Vera Phillips and Dylan were teenage loves; fast forward ten years and the two reconnect in London. She's working as a singer whilst he's churning out scripts for government propaganda films and living off the last in a long line of infatuated women. The two former lovers feel the thunderbolt once more, but Thomas is now married to the adventurous Caitlin. Despite their love-rival status, the women form a surprising friendship. Caitlin indulges in her own infidelities, and recognises a similar adventurous spirit in her husband. But she knows his connection with Vera is something different, not to mention dangerous. Romantic turmoil continues in Vera's life. She marries her devoted admirer William Killick, but she can't deny the chemistry between herself and Dylan, nor does she ...
Plot Keywords: romance, war, biography, drama, historical, british, poet ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: London, June 29th, 1613. The Globe Theatre, ran by the famous playwright William Shakespeare, accidentally burns to ashes. Seriously affected, he stops writing and returns to his hometown, where his wife Anne and daughters Judith and Susanna get surprised to hear he intends to stay there definitively, after two decades working in the capital, neglecting his sincere affections for them.
Plot Keywords: biography, history, drama, shakespeare, british, literature, theatre ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The film is situated in the time when Mary Shelley wrote her novel "Frankenstein". It describes the relationship between Lord Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley during various voyages through different European countries in that period. Although Frankenstein is just an invention strange things happen to the people Mary does not like.—Volker Boehm
Plot Keywords: history, biography, drama, romance, literary adaptation, 19th century, england ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A rebellious stoner named Moondog lives life by his own rules.
Plot Keywords: comedy, adventure, drama, absurd, free spirit, nonconformist, drug culture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Detectives Munro and Sanders are assigned to investigate the murder of an adult film star named Buddy Blue. The hunk was actually killed during the shooting of an orgy scene. Munro finds out the victim was hated by almost everyone including smart blondie co-star Ivy Saxon. For a guy who is divorced and had no sex for a year, the porn industry is not the safest environment for those who need to be objective.—Marcelo Hargreaves
Plot Keywords: biography, crime, documentary, drama, history, mystery, political ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A visiting geologist (Allan Hawco) from Canada falls in love with an Irish barmaid (Sarah Greene) who plans to become a nun.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, canada, ireland, music, poet, destiny ...
Movie Details Click Here !