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Kanopy
86
7.8
/84220/
76
/1369/
75
/985/
3.9
/61380/
98
/45/
92
/1439/
97
/18/
cc age 16+

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.
poster
Criterion Channel
85
7.8
/14340/
76
/290/
76
/277/
4.1
/32181/
97
/33/
89
/209/

Orpheus (1950)
A famous poet in postwar Paris, scorned by the Left Bank youth, is in love with both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet becomes obsessed and follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead.
poster
83
7.8
/40990/
77
/621/
79
/1186/
4.0
/30185/
94
/36/
94
/968/
81
/13/
cc age 13+

The Postman (1994)
Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
poster
Netflix
82
8.2
/94159/
80
/1119/
75
/388/
4.0
/53524/
89
/18/
86
/403/
cc age 13+

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011)
Three friends who were inseparable in childhood decide to go on a three-week-long bachelor road trip to Spain, in order to re-establish their bond and explore thrilling adventures, before one of them gets married. What will they learn of themselves and each other during the adventure?
poster
Criterion Channel
81
7.5
/27254/
75
/575/
73
/801/
3.8
/24800/
100
/28/
90
/709/
79
/19/

Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
7.5
/21328/
73
/365/
70
/296/
4.1
/28247/
88
/34/
90
/380/
77
/15/

Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
A monumental traffic jam serves as the backdrop for the lives of the inhabitants of a Swedish city.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
79
7.4
/7449/
74
/336/
74
/528/
3.8
/29078/
93
/55/
90
/9/
81
/17/

Lost Illusions (2021)
Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he tries to stay true to his dreams.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
78
7.6
/15955/
75
/336/
73
/309/
4.1
/79327/
94
/17/
83
/162/

The Color of Pomegranates (1969)
The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women, including his muse. The production tells Sayat-Nova's dramatic story by using both his poems and largely still camerawork, creating a work hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.
poster
78
7.9
/602/
80
/30/
80
/15/
3.8
/729/
96
/25/
88
/3/
66
/4/

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (2016)
A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her exuberant life during some of America’s most defining civil rights moments. From her upbringing in the Depression-era South to her swinging soirees with Malcolm X in Ghana to her inaugural speech for President Bill Clinton, we are given special access to interviews with Dr. Angelou whose indelible charm and quick wit make it easy to love her.
poster
77
7.1
/7780/
66
/83/
67
/104/
3.6
/1938/
92
/115/
79
/167/
75
/36/

Man on the Train (2002)
A man, Milan steps off a train, into a small French village. As he waits for the day when he will rob the town bank, he runs into an old retired poetry teacher named M. Manesquier. The two men strike up a strange friendship and explore the road not taken, each wanting to live the other's life.
poster
Netflix
77
7.6
/311381/
76
/8053/
75
/4724/
3.8
/464587/
75
/260/
89
/35580/
66
/35/
cc age 14+

Moulin Rouge! (2001)
A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.
poster
Hoopla
76
7.3
/22009/
72
/340/
68
/373/
3.7
/19854/
78
/18/
79
/450/
67
/9/

Interiors (1978)
When Eve, an interior designer, is deserted by her husband of many years, Arthur, the emotionally glacial relationships of the three grown-up daughters are laid bare. Twisted by jealousy, insecurity and resentment, Renata, a successful writer; Joey, a woman crippled by indecision; and Flyn, a budding actress; struggle to communicate for the sake of their shattered mother. But when their father unexpectedly falls for another woman, his decision to remarry sets in motion a terrible twist of fate…
poster
76
7.1
/23262/
70
/459/
69
/368/
3.6
/16469/
76
/25/
82
/500/
70
/15/

Barfly (1987)
Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedded to their bar stools. But, they like each other's company—and Barfly captures their giddy, gin-soaked attempts to make a go of life on the skids.
poster
84
75
8.3
/8085/
77
/108/
72
/69/
4.2
/11187/
100
/8/
90
/50/

Pyaasa (1957)
Vijay, a destitute poet, searches for true love while attempting to get his work published. With the assistance of two women in his life, his dream comes true - but at a cost that causes Vijay to rethink his worldview.
poster
74
6.6
/688/
60
/44/
57
/8/
3.5
/2457/
98
/47/
87
/30/
73
/13/
cc age 15+

Fairyland (2025)
A father-daughter relationship evolves through an era of bohemian decadence in 1970s San Francisco to the sober and heartbreaking era of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.
poster
74
6.9
/29506/
66
/557/
66
/470/
3.7
/29509/
83
/173/
69
/1417/
81
/34/
cc age 12+

Bright Star (2009)
In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her family friends the Dilkes. After reading a book of his poetry, she finds herself even more drawn to the taciturn Keats. Although he agrees to teach her about poetry, Keats cannot act on his reciprocated feelings for Fanny, since as a struggling poet he has no money to support a wife.
poster
Hulu
73
6.6
/4390/
62
/174/
61
/84/
3.5
/13924/
92
/153/
65
/6/
81
/32/
cc age 13+

Benediction (2021)
Poet Siegfried Sassoon survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery, but became a vocal critic of the government's continuation of the war when he returned from service. Adored by members of the aristocracy as well as stars of London's literary and stage world, he embarked on affairs with several men as he attempted to come to terms with his homosexuality.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
72
6.4
/6626/
65
/319/
60
/187/
3.5
/10028/
92
/177/
48
/115/
78
/31/
cc age 12+

A Quiet Passion (2016)
The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.
poster
Criterion Channel
76
70
7.2
/7891/
70
/150/
70
/181/
3.8
/19921/
95
/22/
84
/124/
67
/9/

The Blood of a Poet (1932)
In a poet’s room, an armless statue abruptly comes to life. It invites the poet to step through a mirror and to discover another world. Strange places and characters present themselves to him. The poet tears himself away from these twisted fascinations and returns, with some difficulty, to his room.
poster
Kanopy
70
6.4
/1866/
64
/47/
65
/47/
3.4
/2929/
88
/51/
48
/13/
69
/15/

Amour Fou (2014)
Heinrich wishes to conquer death through love, and when he meets Henriette, the wife of a business acquaintance, she expresses interest in a suicide pact when she learns she has a terminal illness.
poster
70
6.8
/20991/
69
/385/
66
/294/
3.4
/13348/
68
/34/
70
/403/
65
/21/

The Prince of Tides (1991)
A troubled Southern man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her (and New York City) in the process.
poster
Hoopla
69
6.2
/1528/
60
/95/
59
/45/
3.4
/4288/
89
/79/
56
/34/
74
/14/

Wild Nights with Emily (2018)
Explore Emily Dickinson's vivacious, irreverent side that was covered up for years — most notably her lifelong romantic relationship with another woman.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
69
7.2
/4060/
72
/65/
77
/120/
3.9
/9778/
88
/8/
82
/63/
75
/7/

Testament of Orpheus (1960)
An 18th century poet travels through time in search of divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he has a series of enigmatic encounters with symbolic phantoms with whom he muses about the nature of art and his own career. Ultimately, the poet strives to achieve his rebirth as a celestial being.
poster
71
69
7.6
/10631/
76
/302/
73
/220/
3.8
/7497/
60
/70/
82
/344/
55
/18/

When You're Strange (2010)
The creative chemistry of four brilliant artists —drummer John Densmore, guitarist Robby Kreiger, keyboardist Ray Manzarek and singer Jim Morrison— made The Doors one of America's most iconic and influential rock bands. Using footage shot between their formation in 1965 and Morrison's death in 1971, it follows the band from the corridors of UCLA's film school, where Manzarek and Morrison met, to the stages of sold-out arenas.
poster
75
68
7.6
/13903/
71
/147/
71
/161/
3.7
/8982/
75
/16/
85
/254/

The Night of the Iguana (1964)
A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.
poster
67
7.0
/12384/
67
/593/
68
/363/
3.2
/144600/

The Strange Thing About the Johnsons (2011)
A father gets trapped in a one-sided incestuous relationship with his abusive son.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
64
6.3
/1630/
60
/17/
57
/16/
3.3
/464/
69
/29/
60
/17/

Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997)
Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits the ad agency, trying to live on his poems, but poverty soon comes to him.
poster
MGM Plus
72
64
7.4
/4921/
69
/88/
68
/73/
3.6
/2461/
74
/27/
80
/139/

Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
France, 1640. Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The chivalrous Cyrano sets up with Christian an innocent deception, with tragic results.
poster
MGM Plus
63
6.5
/5132/
70
/113/
65
/67/
3.4
/2770/
53
/17/
71
/210/

Man of La Mancha (1972)
In the 16th century, poet, playwright and part-time actor Miguel de Cervantes has been arrested, together with his manservant, by the Spanish Inquisition. They're accused of presenting an entertainment offensive to the Inquisition. Inside the huge dungeon into which they have been cast, the other inmates gang up on Cervantes and his manservant, staging a mock trial, with the intention of stealing or burning his possessions. Cervantes wishes to desperately save a manuscript he carries with him and stages, with costumes, makeup, and the participation of the other prisoners, an unusual defense—the story of Don Quixote.
poster
63
6.4
/43000/
69
/1624/
70
/1385/
3.4
/110919/
77
/146/
60
/452/
65
/36/
cc age 17+

Kill Your Darlings (2013)
A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
poster
62
6.8
/43121/
68
/1248/
63
/762/
3.0
/10759/
47
/174/
53
/1199/
50
/43/
cc age 14+

Anonymous (2011)
Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.
poster
Kanopy
76
60
7.5
/2663/
73
/47/
70
/51/
3.9
/2397/
87
/47/

The Danish Poet (2006)
A woman ponders over the strange coincidences that made her forefathers and -mothers meet and create the premises for her becoming the person that she is.
poster
Kanopy
60
5.2
/474/
56
/25/
68
/13/
3.3
/218/
60
/15/
53
/8/
53
/8/

Maya Dardel (2017)
An internationally respected poet announces she is going to kill herself and needs an heir and executor. Young writers drive up the mountain to compete for the position and are challenged intellectually, emotionally, and erotically.
poster
69
58
6.9
/4377/
66
/68/
63
/62/
3.5
/2578/
79
/90/

Love in Thoughts (2004)
A posthumous look at the last days of Guenther's life as he, his best friend, and his sister let loose on a four-day binge of alcohol, drugs, and sex.
poster
Kanopy
58
5.5
/26348/
58
/1502/
56
/544/
3.3
/71807/
58
/127/
41
/354/
55
/31/
cc age 17+

The Beach Bum (2019)
An irreverent comedy about the misadventures of Moondog, a rebellious stoner and lovable rogue who lives large.
poster
58
6.3
/11558/
62
/155/
57
/118/
3.0
/8169/
37
/133/
56
/430/
56
/40/
cc age 15+

Sylvia (2003)
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
poster
Kanopy
56
6.2
/38614/
60
/488/
59
/470/
2.9
/8382/
34
/121/
58
/3189/
44
/30/

The Libertine (2004)
The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
poster
Hulu
55
6.0
/803/
59
/41/
69
/24/
2.9
/1492/
43
/35/
46
/10/
cc age 13+

Dance First (2023)
Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse…Samuel Beckett lived a life of many parts. Titled after Beckett’s famous ethos “Dance first, think later”, the film is a sweeping account of the life of this 20th-century icon.
poster
Kanopy
55
6.4
/19277/
68
/1245/
70
/1043/
3.2
/45525/
41
/124/
48
/83/
49
/28/
cc age 13+

Mary Shelley (2017)
The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”
poster
55
6.4
/17577/
67
/298/
64
/542/
3.0
/18241/
24
/17/
60
/283/
42
/17/

Total Eclipse (1995)
Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
poster
57
54
7.0
/14747/
69
/232/
67
/487/
3.5
/4677/
21
/24/
84
/622/
22
/10/

The Tiger and the Snow (2005)
Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul, and women love him. But he is in love with Vittoria, and the love is unrequited. Every night he dreams of marrying her, in his boxer shorts and t-shirt, as Tom Waits sings. Vittoria travels to Iraq with her friend, Fuad, a poet; they are there with the second Gulf War breaks out. Vittoria is injured. Attilio must get to her side, and then, as war rages around him, he must find her the medical care she needs. In war, does love conquer all?
poster
Hoopla
54
6.3
/9969/
66
/188/
59
/129/
3.0
/7990/
25
/69/
49
/653/
41
/20/
cc age 17+

Little Ashes (2008)
About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.
poster
Kanopy
53
5.8
/1524/
55
/63/
56
/32/
3.3
/598/
57
/42/
40
/11/
49
/14/

Set Fire to the Stars (2014)
An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell raising hero, Dylan Thomas.
poster
The Roku Channel
58
53
6.4
/4564/
68
/266/
64
/118/
3.0
/2041/
62
/13/
48
/23/
46
/4/

The Hippopotamus (2017)
Disgraced poet Ted Wallace is summoned to his friend's country manor to investigate a series of unexplained miracles.
poster
52
5.4
/582/
62
/4/
39
/12/
3.1
/260/
38
/4/

Justine (1969)
In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine, the beautiful and mysterious wife of a Coptic banker. He observes the affairs of her heart and incidentally discovers that she is involved in a plot against the British, meant to arm the Jewish underground in Palestine. The plot finally fails, Justine is sent to jail and Darley decides to return to England.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
51
6.1
/6318/
61
/148/
60
/139/
2.7
/1613/
25
/63/
44
/343/
28
/18/

Nobel Son (2007)
Soon after his insufferably arrogant father wins the Nobel Prize for chemistry, Barkley Michaelson is kidnapped by Thaddeus James, a young genius who claims to be Barkley's illegitimate half-brother. Motivated not so much by money as revenge, Thaddeus tries to convince Barkley to help him carry out a multimillion-dollar extortion plot against their patriarch.
poster
63
51
6.2
/3266/
64
/187/
62
/97/
3.1
/1946/
91
/11/
44
/5/
57
/4/

Legend of the Demon Cat (2017)
During the Late Tang Dynasty, a manor is invaded by a demon cat and a sense of unrest befalls the capital of Changan. A poet is charged with investigating the case and meets up with a monk. The two work together and pull apart the thread of clues to reveal a history of truths leading to the events.
poster
64
51
6.6
/3206/
59
/61/
60
/69/
3.4
/2005/
60
/5/
70
/29/

Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981)
Poet/lecturer Charles Serking awakens from his alcoholic haze long enough to take a bus back to L.A. and plunge into an orgy of drink and sexual depravity.


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