Films about poets

1994 film by Michael Radford

Mother! (stylized as mother!) is a 2017 American psychological horror film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky, and starring Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer, Domhnall Gleeson, Brian Gleeson, and Kristen Wiig. Its plot follows a young woman whose tranquil life with her husband at their country home is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious couple, leading to a series of increasingly chaotic and destructive events.

Nostalghia (released as Nostalgia in the United Kingdom) is a 1983 drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and starring Oleg Yankovsky, Domiziana Giordano and Erland Josephson. Tarkovsky co-wrote the screenplay with Tonino Guerra.

horror film by Michael Sarnoski

2016 film by Jim Jarmusch

1974 film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini

1980 film directed by Dario Argento

2015 film by Paul Weitz

1993 film by John Singleton

2019 film directed by Harmony Korine

2000 film directed by Kathryn Bigelow

2010 film directed by Lee Chang-dong

2018 film by Sara Colangelo

2021 film directed by Xavier Giannoli

Saajan () is a 1991 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film directed by Lawrence D'Souza and produced by Sudhakar Bokade. The film is a remake of Bengali film Apan Amar Apan. Loosely based on the classic French play Cyrano de Bergerac (1897), it stars Sanjay Dutt, Madhuri Dixit, and Salman Khan in lead roles, with Kader Khan, Reema Lagoo and Laxmikant Berde in supporting roles. Nadeem–Shravan composed the film's music whereas Sameer wrote the lyrics of the songs.

1969 Hindi film from India directed by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas

2004 film by John Boorman

2013 film by Scott Coffey

2021 film directed by Terence Davies

2011 film by Paula van der Oest

1966 film by Irvin Kershner

1995 film directed by Hans Petter Moland

Saiyaara is a 2025 Indian Hindi-language musical romantic drama film directed by Mohit Suri. Produced by Yash Raj Films, it is loosely based on the 2004 South Korean film A Moment to Remember. It stars debutant Ahaan Panday and Aneet Padda in the lead roles of a singer-songwriter duo who fall in love. Originally planned as a spiritual sequel to Suri's Aashiqui 2 (2013), creative differences with producers Mukesh Bhatt and Bhushan Kumar led to the project being reworked into a standalone film under Yash Raj Films.

2025 film directed by Simón Mesa Soto

2022 film directed by Chandraprakash Dwivedi

2014 South Korean film

1960 film

2017 South Korean film by Kim Yang-hee

2000 film by Julien Temple

2014 film by Nadav Lapid

2016 film by Anjum Shahzad

Taniel (Armenian: "Դանիէլ") is a 2018 arthouse short film co-written and directed Garo Berberian, telling the story of the last months of poet Taniel Varoujan until his murder during the Armenian genocide at the age of 31, the day of his son’s birth. The film is the first to deal with the story of a man considered to be one of Armenia’s greatest poets with international fame. The film is loosely based on the memoirs of Aram Andonian, a journalist arrested on the same day as Varoujan, on 24 April 1915, when some 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders were rounded up and deported in th

Mindwalk is a 1990 feature film directed by Bernt Capra, adapted from his short story based on The Turning Point, a nonfiction book by physicist Fritjof Capra, his brother.