Poetry Movies

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize...

William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenly mid-tournament. Posing as a knight himself,...

A trio of interweaved transgressive tales, telling a bizarre stories of suburban patricide and a miraculous flight from justice, a mad sex experiment...

A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.

Amy, a naive college graduate who believes she's destined to be a great poet, begrudgingly accepts a job at a sex shop while she pursues a mentorship...

A week in the life of Paterson, a poet bus driver, and his wife Laura, a very creative artist, who live in Paterson, New Jersey, hometown of many...

A lawyer finds himself in far over his head when he attempts to get involved in drug trafficking.

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

Song is a story of the last Finnish rune singer and his pupil, and the comforting power of singing.

A young woman goes on a cathartic journey through memory and imagination inspired by the performers at an open mic.

The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.

At underground film of the 1st Popular Festival of Catalan Poetry filmed in the Proce Theater in Barcelona on May 25, 1970, in solidarity with...

The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings...

Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.

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...

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet...

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

Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the...

Filmed on the rooftops of lower Manhattan, this performance film features the original Last Poets performing 28 numbers adapted from their legendary...

Almost a decade since larger-than-life glam-rock enigma Brian Slade disappeared from public eye, an investigative journalist is on assignment to...