poetry reading movies

My Salinger Year (2020)
6.31 / 10

Drama

A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.

The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)
6.573 / 10

Drama

Lisa Spinelli is a Staten Island teacher who is unusually devoted to her students. When she discovers one of her five-year-olds is a prodigy, she...

Elling (2001)
7.146 / 10

Comedy, Drama

40-year-old Elling, sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution when his mother, who has sheltered him his entire life, dies....

The Broken Tower (2012)
5.1 / 10

Drama, History

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

Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen (1966)
7.2 / 10

Documentary

A 1964 documentary portrait of Cohen in his pre-musician days as a poet and stand-up comedian.

Treno di parole, viaggio nella poesia di Raffaello Baldini (2018)
0 / 10

Documentary

The œuvre of poet Raffaello Baldini (1924-2005) through the words of those who knew him, the poems he himself read, the fragments of his monologues,...

Though You May Not Know (2016)
7 / 10

Documentary

An account of the life and work of the Spanish poet Luis García Montero; a journey through his experiences, his mentors, his influences and his...

Wealth of a Nation (1966)
0 / 10

Documentary

This film explores freedom of speech in the United States of America

Poets Against the Bomb (1981)
0 / 10

Documentary

An event organised by CND pits the bomb against poetry. Hear artists who hoped that words and rhymes could put an end to destructive times.

Sono Guido e non Guido (2016)
5 / 10

Comedy, Documentary

Bruno K. Öijer (2015)
0 / 10

Drama

Since 1973 Bruno K. Öijer has been on stage performing his own unique pictorial outsider poetry. We meet him during the celebrated sold out tour of...

Francisco Massiani (2015)
0 / 10

Documentary

This documentary is a chronicle of the journey through the most important sites of the life of venezuelan writer Francisco Massiani who reveals the...

Wake Up, Leviathan (2015)
6 / 10

Science Fiction, Documentary

T. S. Eliot ends one of his most famous poems, "The Hollow Men", by repeating three times the sentence "This is how the world ends" - and then...

De sangue e cristais (1969)
0 / 10

Bukowski: The Last Straw (2008)
2 / 10

Documentary

The Last Straw is a film documenting the very last live poetry reading given by Charles Bukowski at The Sweetwater, a music club in Redondo Beach,...