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Cyrano de Bergerac(1990)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 17min | Drama, Comedy, History, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 323 votes)

Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.

Moulin Rouge!(2001)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 7min | Drama, Romance / Love, Music
3.8/5 (with 2,021 votes)

A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.

Mary Shelley(2017)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h | Romance / Love, Drama
3.5/5 (with 452 votes)

The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”.

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown(1989)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 43min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 385 votes)

In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to have a intellectual disability for the first ten years of his life.

The Strange Thing About the Johnsons(2011)

28min | Drama, Horror
3.5/5 (with 113 votes)

A dark domestic melodrama about the ties that bind and the ties that really bind.

Directed by Ari Aster

The Night of the Iguana(1964)

1h 58min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 61 votes)

A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.

Total Eclipse(1995)

1h 51min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 226 votes)

Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.

Bright Star(2009)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 59min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 206 votes)

In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her family friends the Dilkes. After reading a book of his poetry, she finds herself even more drawn to the taciturn Keats. Although he agrees to teach her about poetry, Keats cannot act on his reciprocated feelings for Fanny, since as a struggling poet he has no money to support a wife.

A Quiet Passion(2016)

2h 5min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 77 votes)

The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.

Directed by Terence Davies - With Cynthia Nixon

Cyrano de Bergerac(1950)

3.6/5 (with 25 votes)

France, 1640. Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The chivalrous Cyrano sets up with Christian an innocent deception, with tragic results.

The Postman(1994)

4.0/5 (with 502 votes)

Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.

Le Divorce(2003)

1h 57min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.5/5 (with 61 votes)

While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.

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The Edge of Love(2008)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 50min | Drama, History, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 162 votes)

When the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his flirtatious wife Caitlin sweep into war-torn London, the last thing they expect is to bump into Dylan's childhood sweetheart Vera. Despite her joy at seeing Dylan after so many years, Vera is swept off her feet by a dashing officer, William Killick, and finds herself torn between the open adoration of her new found beau and the wily charms of the exotic Welshman.

Legend of the Demon Cat(2017)

2h 9min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
3.1/5 (with 32 votes)

During the Late Tang Dynasty, a manor is invaded by a demon cat and a sense of unrest befalls the capital of Changan. A poet is charged with investigating the case and meets up with a monk. The two work together and pull apart the thread of clues to reveal a history of truths leading to the events.

Anonymous(2011)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 10min | Drama, History, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 329 votes)

Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.

Benediction(2021)

2h 17min | Drama, History, War
3.3/5 (with 19 votes)

Poet Siegfried Sassoon survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery, but became a vocal critic of the government's continuation of the war when he returned from service. Adored by members of the aristocracy as well as stars of London's literary and stage world, he embarked on affairs with several men as he attempted to come to terms with his homosexuality.

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara(2011)

3.8/5 (with 148 votes)

Three friends who were inseparable in childhood decide to go on a three-week-long bachelor road trip to Spain, in order to re-establish their bond and explore thrilling adventures, before one of them gets married. What will they learn of themselves and each other during the adventure?

The Tiger and the Snow(2005)

3.4/5 (with 221 votes)

Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul, and women love him. But he is in love with Vittoria, and the love is unrequited. Every night he dreams of marrying her, in his boxer shorts and t-shirt, as Tom Waits sings. Vittoria travels to Iraq with her friend, Fuad, a poet; they are there with the second Gulf War breaks out. Vittoria is injured. Attilio must get to her side, and then, as war rages around him, he must find her the medical care she needs. In war, does love conquer all?

The Libertine(2004)

1h 54min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 204 votes)

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 life's work.

Directed by Laurence Dunmore - With Johnny Depp, Samantha Morton, John Malkovich, Rosamund Pike, Tom Hollander, Johnny Vegas Fernández, ...

Nobel Son(2007)

1h 50min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
3.2/5 (with 48 votes)

Soon after his insufferably arrogant father wins the Nobel Prize for chemistry, Barkley Michaelson is kidnapped by Thaddeus James, a young genius who claims to be Barkley's illegitimate half-brother. Motivated not so much by money as revenge, Thaddeus tries to convince Barkley to help him carry out a multimillion-dollar extortion plot against their patriarch.

Sylvia(2003)

1h 49min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 50 votes)

Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.

Testament of Orpheus(1960)

1h 20min | Fantasy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 37 votes)

Outside time and reality, the experiences of a poet. The judgement of the young poet by Heurtebise and the Princess, the Gypsies, the palace of Pallas Athena, the spear of the Goddess which pierces the poet's heart, the temptation of the Sphinx, the flight of Oedipus and the final Assumption. This film is the third part of Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy, which consists of The Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1950) and Testament of Orpheus (1960).

Interiors(1978)

1h 33min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 145 votes)

When Eve, an interior designer, is deserted by her husband of many years, Arthur, the emotionally glacial relationships of the three grown-up daughters are laid bare. Twisted by jealousy, insecurity and resentment, Renata, a successful writer; Joey, a woman crippled by indecision; and Flyn, a budding actress; struggle to communicate for the sake of their shattered mother. But when their father unexpectedly falls for another woman, his decision to remarry sets in motion a terrible twist of fate….

Songs from the Second Floor(2000)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 38min | Drama, Comedy
3.6/5 (with 120 votes)

A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. A story about our need for love, our confusion, greatness and smallness and, most of all, our vulnerability. It is a story with many characters, among them a father and his mistress, his youngest son and his girlfriend. It is a film about big lies, abandonment and the eternal longing for companionship and confirmation.

Directed by Roy Andersson - With Lars Nordh, Klas Gösta Olsson, Bengt C.W. Carlsson

The Blood of a Poet(1932)

55min | Fantasy
3.6/5 (with 64 votes)

Told in four episodes, an unnamed artist is transported through a mirror into another dimension, where he travels through various bizarre scenarios. This film is the first part of Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy, which consists of The Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1950) and Testament of Orpheus (1960).

Little Ashes(2008)

1h 52min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 53 votes)

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

The Bad Poet(2021)

1h 46min | History, Drama
3.1/5 (with 54 votes)

1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mission: to surveil aging national poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, whose increasingly restless behavior Mussolini fears could damage his alliance with Nazi Germany. However, after spending time with D'Annunzio, Comini finds himself torn between loyalty to the Party and his fascination with the poet, who will put his burgeoning career at risk.

Directed by Gianluca Jodice - With Sergio Castellitto, Francesco Patanè, Tommaso Ragno, Clotilde Courau, Fausto Russo Alesi, Elena Bucci, ...

Leopardi(2014)

2h 17min | Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 310 votes)

A biopic of 19th-century poet Giacomo Leopardi, who created immortal verses while struggling with a debilitating illness and isolation.

Love in Thoughts(2004)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 29min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 23 votes)

A posthumous look at the last days of Guenther's life as he, his best friend, and his sister let loose on a four-day binge of alcohol, drugs, and sex.

Lord of the Ants(2022)

2h 14min | Drama, History
3.6/5 (with 69 votes)

Based on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti is prosecuted and sentenced to prison for the love he shares with his barely-of-age pupil and friend, Ettore. Amidst a chorus of voices of accusers, supporters and a largely hypocritical public, a single committed journalist takes on the task of piecing together the truth, between secrecy and desire, facing suspicion and censorship in the process.

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