Poem Movies
- 2017
Afterword
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Approaching the microphone in a small room, a young woman prepares to make the speech of her life. Desperate to find her voice in the wake of an...
- 2021
Wè
Wè72021HD
As Black and LGBTQ+ History Month begin this February, material science clothing brand PANGAIA leads celebrations with a poetic film that honors...
- 2010
For Colored Girls
For Colored Girls6.7032010HD
About existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of...
- 2023
When You Finish Saving the World
When You Finish Saving the World5.8982023HD
Evelyn and her oblivious son Ziggy seek out replacements for each other. As Evelyn tries to parent an unassuming teenager at her shelter, Ziggy...
- 1966
Elsa the Rose
Elsa the Rose6.11966HD
Images and poems of the celebrated couple Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet. Elsa’s youth as recalled by Aragon, with commentary by Elsa.
- 1986
Hovering Over the Water
Hovering Over the Water7.41986HD
Laura Rossellini, a widow from Rome, vacations on the Algarve coast one hot summer. One day while sunbathing, she finds a wounded man named Robert...
- 2017
Dear Basketball
Dear Basketball7.2182017HD
An animated telling of Kobe Bryant's titular poem, signaling his retirement from the sport that made his name.
- 2004
Pourvu qu'ils me laissent le temps
Pourvu qu'ils me laissent le temps72004HD
- 2017
Kobzar 2015
Kobzar 20157.32017HD
In the adaptation of a poem by Taras Shevchenko in the last third of XVIII a small fraction of 300 Cossacks who were enslaving their own people for...
- 1936
Ma and the Auto
Ma and the Auto01936HD
An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring vocalist Al Shayne. This film features the original song Back Seat Drivers by Loesser & Herscher.
- 1935
The Scout Master
The Scout Master01935HD
A poetic Gem from Edgar A. Guest. This film features Al Shayne singing A Real True Pal by Frank Loesser and Lou Herscher.
- 1939
John, the Hero
John, the Hero01939HD
1938 screen adaptation of the 1904 musical version of the classic Hungarian fairy tale poem by Sándor Petőfi about the romantic...
- 1986
Shades of Fern
Shades of Fern51986HD
Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most resembles the philosophical fairy tales and fables...
- 2013
Dobrisa Cesaric - Selected Poems
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Narrated collection of the greatest Dobrisa Cesaric's poems.
- 1935
Boyhood
Boyhood01935HD
An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring the song Down the Lane to Yesterday with a vocal by Al Shayne.
- 1935
Early in the Mornin'
Early in the Mornin'01935HD
Based on the Edgar A. Guest poem of the same name, this is photographic ode to the American South, featuring representative scenery. Mendelsohn's...
- 2024
A Carcass
A Carcass02024HD
From his book, Les Fleurs du Mal, an adaptation of Charles Baudelaire’s famous poem, Une Charogne.
- 2015
Billie, Jasmine and the Poet
Billie, Jasmine and the Poet22015HD
An interpretive visual to accompany the spoken word poem by Nikki Lorenzo, shot in one day on a hiking trail in Malibu, California.
- 2014
O Poeta Americano
O Poeta Americano02014HD
The boy runs after the ball. The worker builds concrete dreams between buildings and soccer balls in a lowland field in Recife. The poet receives a...
- 2012
My Mirror is the Door
My Mirror is the Door02012HD
The ten anthologies and eight long poems of the Sangam age are the oldest and most distinguished body of secular poetry extant in India, of which...