Oliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo, he meets a prostitute, Ana, with whom he falls in love. Back in Buenos Aires, he accepts a contract with a publicity agency to get the money for three days of love with her. Will he get what he's searching for when his ideal of love's pleasure is literally going in levitation while making love?

Guys Reading Poems

2016

English

5.2

♡ 3

100%

Hunter Lee Hughes Director

Adrian Quinonez as Actor In Underwear

Alexander Dreymon as Father

Omar Leyva as Investigator

Patricia Velasquez as Mother

A resourceful boy creatively uses poetry to survive when his mother, a disturbed avant garde painter, locks him in a puppet box and builds an art installation around his imprisonment.

Howl

2010

English

6.6

♡ 7

64%

Rob Epstein Director

James Franco as Allen Ginsberg

Mary-Louise Parker as Gail Potter

Jon Hamm as Jake Ehrlich

Anna Kuchma as Six Gallery Audience Member

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 mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself. All three coalesce in a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment-the birth of a counterculture.

To Stay Alive: A Method

2016

English

6.7

♡ 1

Arno Hagers Director

Thomas Haak Wegmann as Marc

Peter Haak Wegmann as Marc's Father

Brecht Hekkema as Michel

Iggy Pop as Self / Narrator

Iggy Pop reads and recites Michel Houellebecq’s manifesto. The documentary features real people from Houellebecq’s life with the text based on their life stories.

Poetry Angel

2016

Japanese

6.1

♡ 4

Action

Drama

poetry

Toshimitsu Iizuka Director

Kento Yamazaki as

Rena Takeda as An Maruyama

Amane Okayama as Tsutomu Tamaki

Shingo Tsurumi as Yasushi Tamaki

After Tsutomu Tamaki graduated from high school, he has worked at his family farm and raises ume (plum). He becomes interested in a class for “poetry boxing” and decides to take the class. There, he meets a female high school student who has her own problem.

The Inner Scar

1972

French

6.6

♡ 4

50%

Philippe Garrel Director

Balthazar Clémenti as Baby

Jean-Pierre Kalfon as Fire-keeper / King

Pierre Clémenti as Horseman / Archer Nico

Nico as The Woman

A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.

Scaffolding

2017

Hebrew

6.8

♡ 2

83%

Matan Yair Director

Hagit Dasberg as

Asher Lax as Asher

Yaacov Cohen as Milo

Ami Smolartchik as Rami

17-year-old Asher is split between his charismatic teacher and his brash father, who wants him to take over his scaffolding business.

Love Beats Rhymes

2017

English

5.5

44%

RZA Director

John David Washington as Mahlik

Lorraine Toussaint as Nichelle

Caleb Eberhardt as Reasons

Mary Christina Brown as Sapphire

A young woman dreams of making it big in the world of hip hop, but her parents demand that she finish her university degree. She dutifully agrees to complete her education, but her spoken word proves to have a powerful impact in the classroom.

Blue

1993

English

7.3

♡ 5

Derek Jarman Director

Nigel Terry as Narrator

Tilda Swinton as Narrator

John Quentin as Narrator

Derek Jarman as Self / Narrator

Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman's experiences with AIDS, both literally and allegorically, together with an exploration of the meanings associated with the colour blue.

An Investigation on the Night That Won't Forget

5.5

quezon city, philippines

Lav Diaz Director

Hazel Orencio as

Erwin Romulo as

Erwin Romulo, the late Alexis Tioseco’s best friend, recalls the events after the critic and his girlfriend Nika Bohinc’s untimely death in their home in Quezon City. Diaz makes use of one long take to allow Romulo an uninterrupted narration of the events. The pain of recalling is palpable.

Searching Eva

6.0

Pia Hellenthal Director

Eva Collé as Eva

Pietro Zambello as Naked Man in Bed

This is the tale of a young woman, growing up in the age of the internet and turning the search for oneself into a public spectacle, allowing kids from all over the world to live their life through hers. Through her fragmented personalities you see the emergence of a new generation, in which the concept of a fixed identity has grown old.

Montréal Girls

2022

English

4.8

♡ 3

100%

Patricia Chica Director

Anthony Ecclissi as Poetry Lover

Larry Day as Professor

Marc Primeau as Pusher

Jade Hassouné as Tamer

A Middle-Eastern medical school student, new to Montreal, puts his relationship with his father at risk when he forfeits his education after being forever changed by two young women who help him see his destiny.

Poetry

2010

Korean

♡ 21

100%

Chang-dong Lee Director

Hye-jung Kim as Jo Mi-hye

Hee-ra Kim as M. Kang

Nam-jin Kim as Soo-ok

Yong-taek Kim as Yong-taek Kim

A South Korean woman in her sixties enrolls in a poetry class as she grapples with her faltering memory and her grandson's appalling wrongdoing.

Adult World

2013

English

6.1

♡ 17

53%

Scott Coffey Director

Evan Peters as Alex

Emma Roberts as Amy

Evelina Turen as Pretty Girl

Reed Birney as Todd

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 with reclusive writer Rat Billings.

Song for a Raggy Boy

2003

English

7.5

♡ 2

67%

89%

Action

based on novel or book

Aisling Walsh Director

Iain Glen as Brother John

Marc Warren as Brother Mac

Danny Sapani as Preston

Aidan Quinn as William Franklin

William Franklin is a teacher who was born in Ireland and moved to the United States only to repatriate in 1939 after his leftist political views cause him to lose his job. Franklin becomes the first non-cleric instructor at St. Jude's, a school for wayward boys run by Brother John, who is a firm believer in strong discipline.

Testament of Youth

2014

English

7.2

♡ 44

84%

James Kent Director

Emily Bevan as Convalescent Nurse

Taron Egerton as Edward Brittain

Hayley Atwell as Hope

Emily Watson as Mrs. Brittain

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 classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.

Paterson

2016

English

7.3

♡ 161

96%

husband wife relationship

Jim Jarmusch Director

Barry Shabaka Henley as Doc

Rizwan Manji as Donny

William Jackson Harper as Everett

Golshifteh Farahani as Laura

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 famous poets and artists.