Poet movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant poet movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, captivating and stylized films and TV shows about / with poet, poetry, writers, art, biopic, writing, love and romance, writer's life, artists and showbiz and friendship plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres shot in UK, USA, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as poet: Total Eclipse (1995), Howl (2010), The Color of Time (2012), Kill Your Darlings (2013), Dead Poets Society (1989), Little Ashes (2008), Leopardi (2014), Mary Shelley (2017), The Postman (1994), The Butterfly's Dream (2013).

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 6.5
 17K
Total Eclipse (1995)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story: 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.
Style: serious, costume drama, cult classic, erotic, sexual ...
Plot: gay, poet, lgbt, male nudity, writer's life, homosexuality, gay teenager, melancholy, violence, homoeroticism, homosexual, art ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s, victorian era, ancient times
Place: paris france, africa, europe, france, holland ...
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 6.6
 13K
Howl (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: 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, ...
Style: atmospheric, surreal, thought provoking, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: poet, gay, poetry, courtroom drama, writers, beat generation, literature, biopic, freedom, lgbt, art, artist ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 1920s, post world war two, year 1957 ...
Place: kansas, bronx new york city, colorado, arkansas, greenwich village manhattan new york city ...
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The Color of Time (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A poetic road trip through Pulitzer prize-winning CK Williams' life over the course of 40 years.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: poet, poetry, parent child relationship, artists and showbiz, couple relations, writer's life, haunted by the past, husband wife relationship, writers, biopic, professional, art ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 50s, 80s, 60s ...
Place: usa, detroit, new york
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Kill Your Darlings (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
Style: bleak, captivating, serious, intellectual, talky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: poet, writers, gay, obsession, youth, friendship, coming of age, sexual tension, mental illness, murder, friends, lifestyle ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1944, 2000s, post world war two ...
Place: usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, harlem, chicago ...
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Dead Poets Society (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: 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.
Style: philosophical, inspirational, sentimental, uplifting, emotional ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, kids, family outing, teen drama ...
Plot: teacher, suicide, coming of age, friendship, poetry, poet, mentor, philosophy, teachers and students, literature, youth, teenager ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1989, year 1959
Place: vermont, new england, usa, harvard university
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 6.4
 10K
Little Ashes (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.
Style: atmospheric, serious, factual, tense, art film ...
Plot: poet, friendship, artist, gay, lgbt, painter, closeted homosexual, gay relationship, political unrest, friends, art, spanish civil war ...
Time: 20th century, year 2008, 1920s, year 1936, 1930s
Place: spain, andalusia, europe, italy, paris france ...
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 6.7
 3K
Leopardi (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 143 min.
Story: A luminously beautiful biopic of the celebrated eighteenth-century Italian poet, essayist and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi, who created immortal verse whilst struggling with a debilitating illness.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, historical drama
Plot: poet, enlightenment, poetry, prodigy, biopic, writer's life, unrequited love, romanticism, society, family problems, writers, father son relationship ...
Time: 19th century
Place: italy, europe, naples italy, rome italy, southern italy ...
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 6.4
 18K
Mary Shelley (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Luxembourg, USA, Ireland, Australia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”
Style: stylized, serious, atmospheric, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience: date night
Plot: poet, forbidden love, literature, young lovers, relationship problems, tragedy, female writer, love and romance, renegade, frustration, social misfits, writers ...
Time: 19th century, regency period, 1810s
Place: london, scotland, switzerland
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 7.8
 39K
The Postman (1994)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
Style: sentimental, emotional, romantic, sad, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: poet, friendship, poetry, island, writers, love, communism, art, letter, postman, bicycle, life & death ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 1994, 90s, future ...
Place: italy, corsica, sicily, chile, naples italy ...
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The Butterfly's Dream (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 138 min.
Story: In a small Turkish town, two young tuberculous poets try to survive while publishing their poems. As they both fall in love, their life would never be the same.
Style: serious, sincere, captivating, realistic, touching ...
Plot: poet, world war two, poetry, love and romance, friendship, hopes, bet, poverty, lifestyle, follow your dream, teachers and students, competition ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey
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 7.1
 22K
Barfly (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: talky, depressing, melancholic, touching, semi serious ...
Plot: addiction, alcohol abuse, alcoholism, bartender, poet, writers, misfit, alcoholic, biopic, mentally unstable, drinking, loser ...
Time: year 1987, 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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 6.8
 61K
I'm Not There (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Germany, Canada, USA, France, UK
Duration: 135 min.
Story: 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.
Style: non-linear, meditative, stylized, talky, lyrical ...
Plot: music, musician, biopic, actor, poet, rock, musician's life, art, brutality, african american, artist, drug addiction ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 2000s, year 2007, 90s ...
Place: usa, minnesota, new york, manhattan new york city, california ...
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Love in Thoughts (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: 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.
Style: serious, disturbing, stylized, realistic, sexual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, gays and lesbians, betrayal, youth, bohemian life, lgbt, unrequited love, lifestyle, celebration, weekend, lgbtq, love triangle ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, post world war one, pre world war two
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe
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Set Fire to the Stars (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 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.
Style: realistic, sincere, atmospheric, sentimental, psychological ...
Plot: poet, writer's life, life turned upside down, artists and showbiz, disorder, writers, relationships, arts and culture, lifestyle, life philosophy, literature, historical character ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: new york, britain, usa
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 6.2
 38K
The Libertine (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: 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.
Style: period piece, costume drama, melancholic, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot: writers, libertine, decadence, poet, infidelity, oral sex, biopic, alcoholic, depression, dysfunctional marriage, sexual attraction, lust ...
Time: 17th century, year 2004, ancient times, year 2006, 20th century ...
Place: england, london, britain, europe
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 7.5
 138K
The Hours (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, France, Canada, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: "The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a ...
Style: depressing, psychological, intellectual, touching, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: suicide, mental illness, depression, aids, writers, lesbian, bipolar disorder, writer's life, literature, introspection, poet, borderline personality disorder ...
Time: year 2002, 1940s, 90s, 1920s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, england, california, los angeles, europe ...
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Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: 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.
Style: sexual, erotic, absurd, disturbing, neorealism ...
Plot: alcoholic, poet, insanity, addiction, ex husband ex wife relationship, arrest, prostitute, drug abuse, teenage life, writers, poetry, drinking ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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 6.9
 29K
Bright Star (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, UK, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: heartbreaking, period piece, romantic, touching, sad ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: poet, poetry, writers, biopic, love story, love, art, friendship, letter, tragedy, passion, couple relations ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, regency period, ancient times, year 2009 ...
Place: england, europe, britain, rome italy, london
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Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Embarrassed by his large nose, a romantic poet/soldier romances his cousin by proxy.
Style: touching, emotional, witty, costume drama, atmospheric ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: poet, love and romance, unrequited love, friendship, destiny, love triangle, tragic love, swashbuckler, poetry, sword fight, love, power of love ...
Time: 17th century, medieval times, ancient times, year 1990
Place: france, paris france
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 7.3
 20K
Shadowlands (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story: C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham
Style: sentimental, heartbreaking, touching, melancholic, factual ...
Audience: kids, teens, girls' night
Plot: poet, writers, biopic, marriage, honest, college, death, writer's life, couple relations, terminal illness, melancholy, literature ...
Time: 1950s, year 1993, 60s, 20th century, 50s
Place: england, europe
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Endless Poetry (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Chile, UK, France, Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A portrait of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s and 50s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic circle of the time.
Style: surreal, sexy, psychedelic, mind bending, captivating ...
Plot: surrealism, poetry, history of chile, gay, poet, father son relationship, male nudity, family relations, youth, piano, art, mother son relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 2010s, future
Place: chile, santiago chile
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Before Night Falls (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.
Style: atmospheric, bleak, lyrical, serious, realistic ...
Plot: gay, aids, homosexual, writers, poet, childhood, artist, gays and lesbians, gay latino, idealism, writer's life, freedom ...
Time: year 2000, 2000s, 60s, 80s, 70s ...
Place: cuba, latin america, havana cuba, caribbean, new york ...
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 5.5
 25K
The Beach Bum (2019)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Switzerland, UK, France, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An irreverent comedy about the misadventures of Moondog, a rebellious stoner and lovable rogue who lives large.
Style: ironic, light, feel good, funny, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: stoner, alcoholic, poet, drug, cocaine, beach party, karma, buddies, cheerleader, entertainment, adultery, marijuana ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, florida, key west florida, miami, vietnam ...
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 7.9
 82K
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 197 min.
Story: Doctor Zhivago is the filmed adapation of the Russian novel by Boris Pasternak from director David Lean that was an international success and today deemed a classic. Omar Sharif and Julie Christie play two protagonists who in fact love each other ...
Style: epic, atmospheric, emotional, visual, costume drama ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: world war one, revolution, communism, war, wartime, train, rape, love triangle, poet, communist, imperial russia, betrayal ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, 1910s, 1940s, year 1965 ...
Place: russia, soviet union, moscow russia
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 6.3
 2K
Amour Fou (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Austria, Luxembourg, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A "romantic comedy" based loosely on the suicide of the poet Henrich von Kleist in 1811.
Style: atmospheric, serious, psychological, realistic, touching ...
Plot: poet, suicide, couples, love and romance, writer's life, tragic love, playwright, aristocracy, loneliness, writers, society, biopic ...
Time: 19th century, 1810s, 18th century
Place: germany, europe, prussia
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A Quiet Passion (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Belgium, Canada, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.
Style: historical drama, costume drama, romantic drama, period drama, queer cinema
Audience: chick flick
Plot: poet, writers, women, art, female writer, loneliness, publisher, sapphic, literary, art history, gadget, philosophy ...
Time: victorian era, 1860s, 1870s, 1840s, 19th century ...
Place: massachusetts, boston, britain
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 6.6
 3K
A Muse (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Renowned 70-year-old poet Lee Jeok-yo falls for a 17-year-old girl named Eun-gyo. Upon realizing his love for the teenager, the poet goes through emotional turmoil and self-destruction, while willing to give up his fame as one of the nation’s most ...
Style: melancholic, psychological, disturbing, controversial, sexy ...
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, poet, jealousy, seductress, sex scene, teenage girl, schoolgirl, dream, coming of age, asian, forbidden love, obsession ...
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You Don't Get Life a Second Time (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India, Spain
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Mumbai-based Kabir Dhiman, who comes from a wealthy building construction family, proposes to his long-time girlfriend, Natasha, much to the delight of both their respective families. He then gets together with one of two of his close friends, Imran ...
Style: road movie, entertaining, realistic, philosophical, semi serious ...
Plot: adolescence vs adulthood, travel, friendship, extreme sport, friends, hindu, free spirited, obsessive quest, self discovery, fall in love, engaged, wedding preparations and rituals ...
Time: y2k, year 2011, 21st century
Place: spain, middle east
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The Color of Pomegranates (1969)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 79 min.
Story: The life of revered the 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova (Vilen Galstyan). 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 ...
Style: surreal, poetic, atmospheric, avant garde, psychedelic ...
Plot: poet, surrealism, trippy, writers, poetry, biopic, medieval, magic realism, art, metaphor, death, betrayal ...
Time: 18th century, year 1969
Place: soviet union, caucasus, ussr, russia, georgia ...
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The Tiger and the Snow (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: touching, surreal, sentimental, humorous, emotional ...
Plot: true love, poet, war, against the odds, power of love, wooing, woman in danger, cure, ambition, human spirit, goodhearted, wartime ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: iraq, italy, europe, middle east, baghdad iraq ...
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