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The Death of Don Quixote (2019)
6.5 / 10

Comedy, Drama

London, 1968. Director Alphonse attempts to complete his greatest cinematic work yet, entitled “The Death of Don Quixote.” But his aging star,...

Yogi Vemana (1947)
0 / 10

History, Drama

It chronicles the legend of the progressive Telugu poet-saint Vemana from his being a rebellious and hedonistic youth from a landed elite to a...

The Inspired Island: 1918 (2015)
8 / 10

Documentary

A documentary about writer and novelist Liu Yichang.

Borges: A Life in Poetry (1998)
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Documentary

A peculiar portrait of the Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) drawn by the extravagant and original look of the Spanish writer Fernando...

The Taste of the Name (2015)
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Borrowing from an anthropological study initiated through the University of California in 1969, The Taste of The Name is a fantasia on universality....

Un amor de Borges (2000)
7 / 10

Drama

Estela Canto and Jorge Luis Borges meet in 1944. She is an intelligent and beautiful woman. He, still an unknown writer, is shy and very attached to...

Teratologens återkomst (1998)
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Documentary

"Assisted Living", by Nikanor Teratologen, originally released in Sweden 1992 as "Äldreomsorgen i Övre Kågedalen" immediately caused an uproar,...

Jean de la Fontaine and His Fables (2021)
8 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

An account of the life of the French poet Jean de la Fontaine (1621-95), author of more than one hundred fables and a model for many other European...

Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century (2015)
7 / 10

Documentary, TV Movie

An unparalleled portrait of Arthur Miller (1915-2005), a major writer who left an indelible mark on the world. Miller's life is intimately connected...

Cartoneras (2018)
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Documentary

Cartoneras is a documentary that grapples with Latin America’s urban realities, and the cardboard publishing movement that has emerged from these...

Berau, sur les traces de Joseph Conrad (1994)
0 / 10

Documentary

Hello My Dear (2021)
8 / 10

Documentary

The documentary is titled after Arkadaş Z. Özger’s poem “Hello My Dear” which had caused much controversy in the period it was first...

Hana Zelinová (1995)
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Documentary

Voices & Visions: T.S. Eliot (1969)
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Documentary

Eliot's life, influence, and poetry from the bold originality of "Prufrock" to the probing, meditative style of "Four Quartets" are explored with...

Moa Martinson - Mother of the Country (2019)
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Documentary

Documentary about Moa Martinson.

Belinsky (1953)
5.8 / 10

Drama

A biopic based on the life of Russian literary critic Vissarion Belinsky (1811–1848). The production of the film was completed in 1951, but it was...

Christopher Isherwood: A Born Foreigner (1969)
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TV Movie, Documentary

Documentary about author Christopher Isherwood, in which he is interviewed about his life and work and which features extracts from films of his...

I, Of Whom I Know Nothing (2014)
5 / 10

Documentary

John Calder, Samuel Beckett’s British publisher, moved to Montreuil, a town to the east of Paris, where Calder met with Billie Whitelaw, the muse,...

The Night (1985)
8.5 / 10

Documentary

Die Nacht ("The night") is a 1985 West German installation film directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg. It consists of a six hours long monologue...

In Bed with Ulysses (2012)
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Documentary

How the novel that is widely considered the greatest work of modern fiction was created and the toll it took on James Joyce's family.