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.

Anonymous

2011

English

6.8

♡ 38

47%

Roland Emmerich Director

Richard Durden as Archbishop

Tom Wlaschiha as Captain of the Guard

Robert Emms as Thomas Dekker

David Thewlis as William Cecil

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.

Little Ashes

2008

English

6.3

♡ 10

25%

Paul Morrison Director

Javier Beltrán as Federico García Lorca

Matthew McNulty as Luis Buñuel

Marina Gatell as Magdalena

Robert Pattinson as Salvador Dalí

About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.

Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie

2024

English

5.9

♡ 4

63%

Kirill Serebrennikov Director

Ben Whishaw as Eddie

Donald Sumpter as Eddie's Father

Sandrine Bonnaire as Radio Host Paris

Chulpan Khamatova as TV Journalist 1

A revolutionary militant, a thug, an underground writer, a butler to a millionaire in Manhattan. But also a switchblade-waving poet, a lover of beautiful women, a warmonger, a political agitator, and a novelist who wrote of his greatness. Eduard Limonov’s life story is a journey through Russia, America, and Europe during the second half of the 20th century.

Total Eclipse

1995

English

6.4

♡ 8

24%

60%

based on play or musical

Agnieszka Holland Director

Leonardo DiCaprio as Arthur Rimbaud

Romane Bohringer as Mathilde Maute

Andrzej Seweryn as Mr. Maute De Fleurville

David Thewlis as Paul Verlaine

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.

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara

2011

Hindi

8.2

♡ 127

89%

Zoya Akhtar Director

Hrithik Roshan as Arjun Saluja

Farhan Akhtar as Imraan Qureshi

Abhay Deol as Kabir Dewan

Naseeruddin Shah as Salman Habib

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?

Cyrano de Bergerac

1990

French

7.5

♡ 20

100%

Jean-Paul Rappeneau Director

Hervé Pauchon as Cadet

Vincent Perez as Christian de Neuvillette

Gérard Depardieu as Cyrano De Bergerac

Ludivine Sagnier as The Little Sister

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.

When You're Strange

♡ 8

Tom DiCillo Director

Johnny Depp as Narrator

Adolf Hitler as Self

John F. Kennedy as Self

Andy Warhol as Self

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.

Interiors

1978

English

7.3

♡ 15

78%

Woody Allen Director

Geraldine Page as Eve

Richard Jordan as Frederick

Sam Waterston as Mike

Diane Keaton as Renata

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…

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

1934

English

6.9

♡ 2

70%

abusive father

based on play or musical

Sidney Franklin Director

Charles Laughton as Edward Moulton-Barrett

Ian Wolfe as Harry Bevan

Fredric March as Robert Browning

Una O'Connor as Wilson

Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her siblings, especially her youngest sister, Henrietta, but feels stifled by the domestic tyranny of her wealthy widowed father. When she meets fellow poet Robert Browning in a romantic first encounter, her heart belongs to him. However, her controlling father has no intention of allowing her out of his sight.

Leopardi

2014

Italian

6.7

♡ 9

50%

Mario Martone Director

Salvatore Cantalupo as

Michele Riondino as Antonio Ranieri

Massimo Popolizio as Monaldo Leopardi

Sergio Albelli as Signor Lenzoni

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder

2009

English

6.9

♡ 1

san francisco, california

Christopher Felver Director

George Whitman as

Dennis Hopper as Self

Amiri Baraka as Self

Jack Hirschman as Self

The poet and painter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is among the world's living monuments to arts and letters. For well over a half century, Ferlinghetti helped shape the currents of poetry and literature with his forceful engagement with society and an ideological position that often found him at odds with the political currents of his day. Ferlinghetti's quiet, behind the scenes demeanor and disarming mien may have assuaged, or even fooled, certain opponents, while in reality he was a literary mercenary, a rebel at the forefront of our own cultural revolution.

The Night of the Iguana

1964

English

7.6

♡ 9

75%

John Huston Director

Sue Lyon as Charlotte Goodall

Ava Gardner as Maxine Faulk

Mary Boylan as Miss Peebles

Richard Burton as Rev. Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon

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.

My Left Foot

1989

English

7.8

♡ 23

98%

92%

Action

based on a true story

based on true story

biography

Biography

bodily disabled person

Drama

foot

poet

Jim Sheridan Director

Fiona Shaw as Dr. Eileen Cole

Ruth McCabe as Mary

Adrian Dunbar as Peter

Tom Hickey as Priest

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.

The Strange Thing About the Johnsons

2011

English

7.1

♡ 7

Ari Aster Director

Connie Jackson as Grace

Danièle Watts as Marianne

Reatha Grey as Mrs. Freeman

Billy Mayo as Sidney

A father gets trapped in a one-sided incestuous relationship with his abusive son.

Lord of the Ants

2022

Italian

6.7

♡ 3

Gianni Amelio Director

Gina Rovere as Adua

Alessio Cioni as Carabiniere

Sara Serraiocco as Graziella

Francesco Barilli as Il padre

Based on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti is prosecuted and sentenced to prison for the love he shares with his barely-of-age pupil and friend, Ettore. Amidst a chorus of voices of accusers, supporters and a largely hypocritical public, a single committed journalist takes on the task of piecing together the truth, between secrecy and desire, facing suspicion and censorship in the process.

Dance First

2023

English

6.0

♡ 1

43%

James Marsh Director

Maxine Peake as Barbara

Aidan Gillen as James Joyce

Bronagh Gallagher as Nora

Gabriel Byrne as Samuel Beckett

Fionn O'Shea as Samuel Beckett

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.

Testament of Orpheus

1960

French

7.1

♡ 8

88%

Jean Cocteau Director

Brigitte Bardot as Elle-même

Roger Vadim as Lui-même

Claudine Auger as Minerve

Lucia Bosé as Une amie d'Orphée / Orphée's Friend

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.

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Orpheus

Anonymous

Little Ashes

Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie

Total Eclipse

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara

Cyrano de Bergerac

When You're Strange

Interiors

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Leopardi

Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder

The Night of the Iguana

My Left Foot

The Strange Thing About the Johnsons

Lord of the Ants

Dance First

Testament of Orpheus