Movies about poets

Movies about poets
List of the best movies about poets selected by visitors to our site: The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), Colette, Dead Poets Society, Anonymous, Kill Your Darlings, The Wife, Freedom Writers, Paterson, Neruda, Enough Said.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Genre
Country
Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:20

An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France, Hungary, Netherlands
Duration02:37

After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its success, Colette and Willy become the talk of Paris and their adventures inspire additional Claudine novels.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:08

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA
Duration02:10

    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.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

      A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Sweden, USA
      Duration01:40

      A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genredrama, crime, biography
      CountryGermany, USA
      Duration02:03

      A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryFrance, Germany, USA
      Duration02:35

      A week in the life of a bus driver and poet named Paterson, and his supportive wife Laura.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography, history
      CountryChile, Argentina, France, Spain, USA
      Duration02:00

      It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to escape from the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, but they are forced to go underground.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:33

      Eva is a divorced soon-to-be empty-nester wondering about her next act. Then she meets Marianne, the embodiment of her perfect self. Armed with a restored outlook on being middle-aged and single, Eva decides to take a chance on her new love interest Albert — a sweet, funny and like-minded man. But things get complicated when Eva discovers that Albert is in fact the dreaded ex–husband of Marianne...

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:01

      A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:00

      About existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in particular.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrecomedy, drama, music
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France

      In 1987, during the austere days of Thatcher’s Britain, a teenager learns to live life, understand his family, and find his own voice through the music of Bruce Springsteen.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genredrama
      CountryMexico, USA, Denmark, France, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Luxembourg
      Duration02:56

      A family lives in the Mexican countryside raising fighting bulls. Esther is in charge of running the ranch, while her husband Juan, a world-renowned poet, raises and selects the beasts. Although in an open marriage, their relationship begins to crumble when Esther falls in love with an American horsebreaker and Juan is unable to control his jealousy.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:27

      The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:23

      A young woman's arrival sparks a surge of energy into a laid-back, artistic Los Angeles household, forcing the residents to confront their own fears and desires in an intricate dance of lust, denial and deception.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:35

      An irreverent comedy about the misadventures of Moondog, a rebellious stoner and lovable rogue who lives large.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:22

      Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA

      At the start of the summer, Bridget has an abortion just as she lands a much-needed job in affluent Evanston, Illinois — nannying a six-year old.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrehorror, action, fantasy, cartoon, anime
      CountryUSA, Japan, Singapore, South Korea
      Duration01:28

      Dante journeys through the nine circles of Hell -- limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery -- in search of his true love, Beatrice. An animated version of the video game of the same name.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:57

      Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a gypsy young girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genredrama, military, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

      Legendary 20th Century war poet Siegfried Sassoon’s life-long quest for personal salvation through his experiences with family, war, his writing, and destructive relationships goes unresolved, never realizing it can only come from within.

      Markimdb: 4.1
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, China, Japan
      Duration02:26

        When college senior Anastasia Steele steps in for her sick roommate to interview prominent businessman Christian Grey for their campus paper, little does she realize the path her life will take. Christian, as enigmatic as he is rich and powerful, finds himself strangely drawn to Ana, and she to him. Though sexually inexperienced, Ana plunges headlong into an affair -- and learns that Christian's true sexual proclivities push the boundaries of pain and pleasure.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, music
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:35

        A washed up singer is given a couple days to compose a chart-topping hit for an aspiring teen sensation. Though he's never written a decent lyric in his life, he sparks with an offbeat younger woman with a flair for words.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genredrama, western, music, biography
        CountryGermany, Canada, USA, France
        Duration02:15

        Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama
        CountryUSA, Germany, France

        Many years after her notorious husband, Henry Fool, fled after killing a neighbor, Fay Grim receives a visit from CIA agent Fulbright, who tells her that Henry is dead, but that some of his journals have been unearthed in France. She sets forth on a globe-trotting odyssey that soon leads to the discovery that he is alive, and his journals are more than they appear to be.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

        All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.

        Markimdb: 4.2
        Genremelodrama, drama, biography
        CountryUSA

        A poetic road trip through Pulitzer prize-winning CK Williams' life over the course of 40 years.

        Markimdb: 4.9
        Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography, history
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:47

        Docudrama about American poet Hart Crane, who committed suicide in April 1932 at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:12

        A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genremelodrama, drama, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:24

        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.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:23

        A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, detective
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:36

          Valerie is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry another man – who is wealthy. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter plan to run away together when they learn that Valerie's older sister has been killed by a werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. Hungry for revenge, the people call on famed werewolf hunter, Father Solomon, to help them kill the wolf. But Solomon's arrival brings unintended consequences as he warns that the wolf, who takes human form by day, could be any one of them.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:33

          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.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genredrama, biography
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Belgium, USA, Canada

          The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.

          Markimdb: 7.6
          Genredrama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:05

          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.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genremelodrama, drama, adventure
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:52

          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.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:40

          Big Sur is a film adaptation of the Jack Kerouac autobiographical novel of the same name.

          Markimdb: 4.9
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:57

          While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genrecomedy
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:02

          Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee Thanatogenos. But he has three problems - the strict rules of owner Blessed Reverand Glenworthy, the rivalry of embalmer Mr Joyboy, and the shame of now working himself at The Happy Hunting Ground pets' memorial home.

          Markimdb: 5.6
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:44

          A womanizing poet falls into the hands of a psychiatrist with a straying wife.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Luxembourg, USA, Republic of Ireland, Australia
          Duration02:05

          The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genredrama
          CountryUSA, Argentina, Spain, Italy
          Duration02:07

          Bennie travels to Buenos Aires to find his long-missing older brother, a once-promising writer who is now a remnant of his former self. Bennie's discovery of his brother's near-finished play might hold the answer to understanding their shared past and renewing their bond.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryNorway, USA, Germany, France, Italy
          Duration01:40

          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.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:38

          Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien (John Hawkes) maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides to investigate the possibility of experiencing sex himself. When his overtures toward a caregiver scare her away, he books an appointment with sex surrogate Cheryl Green (Helen Hunt) to lose his virginity.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genredrama, biography
          CountryGermany, Netherlands, South Africa
          Duration01:40

          Confronted by Apartheid and a father who was Minister of Censorship, Ingrid Jonker searched for a home, searched for love. With men like Jack Cope and André Brink she found much love, but no home. Later, in his first speech to the South African Parliament Nelson Mandela read her poem "The Dead Child of Nyanga" and addressed her as one of the finest poets of South Africa.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genrecomedy, melodrama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:19

          Just after a bad breakup, Charlie MacKenzie falls for lovely butcher Harriet Michaels and introduces her to his parents. But, as voracious consumers of sensational tabloids, his parents soon come to suspect that Harriet is actually a notorious serial killer -- "Mrs. X" -- wanted in connection with a string of bizarre honeymoon killings. Thinking his parents foolish, Charlie proposes to Harriet. But while on his honeymoon with her, he begins to fear they were right.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryUSA

          Seven geniuses, with IQs over 200, are plucked from their lives on Christmas Eve to try to solve the world's problems in one night

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:56

          Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch's bizarre extended family.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genredrama
          CountryFrance
          Duration01:04

          Two young boys, Victor and Rainer, take the commuter train to spend the evening in Paris. In a nightclub on the banks of the Seine they go from one disappointment to another, from failed chat ups to street brawls. But as they get carried away by the night, they leave the city for the forest. In the silence of the moonlight nature, the desire between the two friends becomes increasingly vibrant. A new day is born from their friendship.




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