Poet Movies

A multi-awarded 23 minute short film about pansexual punk rockers in a toxic relationship in London’s underground music scene

A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from some of Britain's greatest poets.

At a glittering party in 18th-century Paris, the poet Andréa Chenier delivers an impassioned denunciation of Louis XVI. Five years later, the...

1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mission: to surveil aging national poet Gabriele...

Documentary tracing the extreme life of outlaw writer, performance artist and punk icon, Kathy Acker. Through animation, archival footage, interviews...

The first Georgian full-length documentary follows the trip of the “king of Georgian poetry”, Akaki Tsereteli, to Racha and Lechkhumi,...

A loosely structured comedy allowing for a series of vignettes based around an ancient coaching inn. The story was adapted from the 1929 novel by...

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...

The 'Farmer Poet' Robert Burns, after a bad romance, pens "Auld Lang Syne" to much fanfare and courts high society at the expense of his blossoming...

Biopic about legendary Turkmen philosopher and poet, Makhtoumkuli, who was also known as Fragi.

NIN E TEPUEIAN - MY CRY is a documentary tracks the journey of Innu poet, actress and activist, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, at a pivotal time in...

A fictionalised documentary about the great Japanese poet Bashô (1644–1694), the spiritual father of haiku poetry. A monk, portraying the...

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

An internationally respected poet announces she is going to kill herself and needs an heir and executor. Young writers drive up the mountain to...

A ghostly meeting with Luís de Camões, the one-eyed adventurer, widely considered Portugal’s greatest poet. Luís de...

Documentary about Charles Olson, exploring his life and the significance of Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Dante Alighieri was a poet, philosopher and politician in 1300 Florence. The visionary author of "Inferno", the first book of the "Divine Comedy", he...

A Ghanaian fashion student and a Nigerian squash player are among the Africans making a life in 70s Britain.