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Perhaps a Poet (Swedish: Kanske en diktare) is a 1933 Swedish drama film directed and produced by Lorens Marmstedt and starring Gösta Ekman, Gunnar Olsson and Karin Kavli.
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- Dead Poets Society (1989) Directed by Peter Weir. Starring Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke. Comedy, Drama (2h 8m) 8.1 on IMDb — 84% on RT.
- Orpheus (1950) Directed by Jean Cocteau. Starring Jean Marais, François Périer, María Casares. Drama, Fantasy, Romance (1h 52m) 7.9 on IMDb — 97% on RT. Orpheus is the centerpiece of Jean Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy, right between The Blood of a Poet (1930) and Testament of Orpheus (1960).
- Kill Your Darlings (2013) Directed by John Krokidas. Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall. Biography, Drama, Romance (1h 44m) 6.4 on IMDb — 76% on RT.
- The Basketball Diaries (1995) Directed by Scott Kalvert. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, Marilyn Sokol. Biography, Crime, Drama (1h 42m) 7.3 on IMDb — 47% on RT.
A simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet, and then uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
- Photo: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution. 7 votes. The Nightmare Before Christmas. Based on: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. Jack Skellington, the King of "Halloween Town", stumbles upon "Christmas Town" and schemes to take over the holiday.
- Photo: Universal Pictures. 10 votes. O Brother, Where Art Thou? Based on: Homer's Odyssey. This one is a pretty loose adaptation. The Coen Brothers's O Brother Where Art Thou?
- Photo: Mulan. 10 votes. Mulan. Based on: Ballad of Mulan. Disney, who famously use children's fairytales as a basis for their magical storytelling, turned to the Ballad of Mulan for 1998's Mulan.
- Photo: A24. 14 votes. The Green Knight. Based on: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. One of the most well known of the Arthurian stories, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a chivalric romance, wherein Sir Gawain accepts a challenge from a mysterious "Green Knight."
- Photo: Dead Poets Society / Buena Vista Pictures Distribution. 25 votes. Dead Poets Society. Dead Poets Society received numerous accolades including Academy Award nominations for Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Actor for Robin Williams.
- Photo: The Hours / Paramount Pictures. 7 votes. The Hours. Poet: Virginia Woolf. Prolific writer Virginia Woolf was a woman ahead of her time. Plagued by mental illness and a society that hadn't progressed in its ideas about gender and sexuality, the author drowned herself in 1941 leaving behind her wealth of writing.
- Photo: Kill Your Darlings. 13 votes. Kill Your Darlings. Poets: Allan Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. One of the most important and notable periods in American literature was the Beat Generation.
- Photo: Poetic Justice. 9 votes. Poetic Justice. Musical icons Janet Jackson and Tupac Shakur star in Poetic Justice. Justice is a poet mourning the death of her lover by gun violence.
I've cited movies that explore or imagine the lives of real poets, along with a couple that involve fictional characters who quote and use the writings of actual poets in ways absolutely essential to the story.
Apr 18, 2022 · For an at-home film festival or movie marathon, our resident cineaste Abbie Martin Greenbaum has curated a list of the best poetry-themed movies, based on real-life and fictional poets and poems and those who turn to poems for solace and inspiration.
