Poem Movies

Released on April 11, 1920. Directed & produced by Burton Holmes.

Two girls go from home to business stealing mail and packages in search of something mysterious.

An animated telling of Kobe Bryant's titular poem, signaling his retirement from the sport that made his name.

A poetry film that tells the story of a man struggling with his deteriorating mental state and self-destruction.

Arthur Johns' 10-minute experimental film is a personal essay on colour effects, set to a hypnotic soundtrack by Robert Wyatt. Although his initial...

A boy recalls his grandmother’s guidance on how to cross the street. Retracing this ritual, his memory, faith, and childhood converge.

On the beach at sunset a man waits for his one true love. When she arrives, a bittersweet romance ensues.

A film by Kayhan Lannes Ozmen, based on the poem "Girl on the escalator" by Charles Bukowski.

"If it Won’t Hold Water, it Surely Won’t Hold a Goat" is an intimate meditation on the subversive nature of goats and their effect on the...

During the 1700s, a masked bandit robs the rich and aids the poor, to the chagrin of the authorities and the corrupt nobility, and prompting the king...

A live-action visualization of the poem, blended with animation.

Based on a Poem by Fabi De Luca She always thought something like this wouldn‘t happen to her. No man would disgrace himself because of her. ...

Works inspired by artists Basquiat, Banksy, Haring, and Ai Weiwei represent Bukowski's poem's theme of self-invention.

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem. Al Shayne sings the Loesser & Hersher song Don't Grow Any Older.

The ten anthologies and eight long poems of the Sangam age are the oldest and most distinguished body of secular poetry extant in India, of which...

A poet and his walk through a future of the dystopian present.