Keyword: poet

Herostratus

6.9

1967

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When young poet Max (Michael Gothard) hires a marketing company to turn his suicide-by-jumping into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture, and his motivations are revealed as a desperate attempt to seek attention through celebrity.

Barfly

7.3

1987

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Based on the life of successful poet Charles Bukowski and his exploits in Hollywood during the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

7.9

1989

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Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.

Justine

5.4

1969

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In British Palestine of 1938, several men vie for the affections of a Coptic bankers wife whos involved with the anti-British underground movement.

The Postman

7.7

1994

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A simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet, and then uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.

Lord of the Ants

6.8

2022

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Italian poet, playwright and director Aldo Braibanti is jailed in 1968 under a law criminalizing grooming. The informant is his partners father.

Limonov: The Ballad

6

2024

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The outrageous story of Eduard Limonov, the radical Soviet poet who became a bum in New York, a sensation in France, and a political antihero in Russia.

Maya Dardel

4.7

2017

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A famous writer announces that she intends to end her life and male writers may compete to become executor of her estate. Men drive up the mountain and are challenged intellectually and erotically, until one discovers Mayas end game.

Anonymous

6.9

2011

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The theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeares plays. Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I and the Essex rebellion against her.

The Libertine

6.4

2004

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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 lifes work.

Omar Khayyam

5.9

1957

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During the 11th century, Persian poet Omar Khayyams lover marries the Shah but the Shah, whose life is threatened by a sect of assassins, appoints Omar royal advisor.

Little Ashes

6.6

2008

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About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.