Category
page 1Biographical films about poets
Cyrano de Bergerac
1990 film by Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Total Eclipse
1996 film by Agnieszka Holland
Before Night Falls
2000 US film directed by Julian Schnabel
The Color of Pomegranates
1969 film by Sergei Parajanov
Kill Your Darlings
2013 film directed by John Krokidas
Wilde
1997 British biographical film directed by Brian Gilbert
The Edge of Love
2008 film directed by John Maybury
Bright Star
2009 film by Jane Campion
Little Ashes
2008 film by Paul Morrison
Dangerous Beauty
1998 film directed by Marshall Herskovitz
The Happy Prince
2018 film by Rupert Everett
Sylvia
2003 film by Christine Jeffs
Vita and Virginia
2018 film directed by Chanya Button
Neruda
2016 film by Pablo Larraín
Testament of Youth
2014 film directed by James Kent
Howl
2010 film by Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein
Tom & Viv
1994 film by Brian Gilbert
Mirza Ghalib
1954 film by Sohrab Modi
A Quiet Passion
2016 film directed by Terence Davies
Endless Poetry
2016 film by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Black Butterflies
2011 film by Paula van der Oest
Hedd Wyn
1992 film by Paul Turner
Pushkin: The Last Duel
2006 film directed by Natalya Bondarchuk
Wild Nights with Emily
2018 film directed by Madeleine Olnek
Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet
2016 South Korean film directed by Lee Joon-ik
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
1960 film by Ken Hughes
El cónsul de Sodoma
2009 film by Sigfrid Monleón
Journey to Arzrum
1937 film
Pandaemonium
2000 film by Julien Temple
Young Pushkin
1937 film directed by Abram Naroditsky
Oscar Wilde
1960 film by Gregory Ratoff
Berlin-Jerusalem
Berlin-Jerusalem (; tr. Berlin Yerushalayim) is an 89-minute 1989 British-Dutch-French-Israeli-Italian English-, French-, German-, and Hebrew-language independent underground dramatic historical experimental art film directed by Amos Gitai.
Srinatha
Srinatha ( – 1441) was a well-known 15th-century Telugu poet who popularised the Prabandha style of composition.
Stevie
1978 British biographical film directed by Robert Enders
Alisher Navoi
1947 film by Kamil Jarmatow
Nika
2022 film directed by Vasilisa Kuzmina
The Poet
2025 film directed by Felix Umarov
Aami
Aami is a 2018 Indian Malayalam-language biographical film based on the life of poet-author Kamala Das. It is written and directed by Kamal and stars Manju Warrier as Kamala Surayya, along with Murali Gopy, Tovino Thomas, Anoop Menon, and Anand Bal. The film was released on 9 February 2018. It won two Kerala State Film Awards.
The Affairs of Maupassant
1936 film by Henry Koster
Narsinh Mehta
1932 Gujarati language film directed by Nanubhai Vakil