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1. Dickinson (2019–2021)
TV-14 | 30 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Set in the 19th century, it explores the constraints of society, gender and family from the perspective of rebellious young poet, Emily Dickinson.
Stars: Hailee Steinfeld, Adrian Enscoe, Anna Baryshnikov, Jane Krakowski
Votes: 19,704
2. Hung (2009–2011)
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Drama
A former high school sports legend, turned middle-aged high school basketball coach, finds a way to benefit from his biggest asset.
Stars: Thomas Jane, Jane Adams, Charlie Saxton, Sianoa Smit-McPhee
Votes: 23,087
3. Cold War (2018)
R | 89 min | Drama, Music, Romance
In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France.
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski | Stars: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza
Votes: 61,870 | Gross: $4.57M
4. Shadowlands (1993)
PG | 131 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned Christian theologian, writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham from the U.S.
Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Julian Fellowes, Roddy Maude-Roxby
Votes: 20,431 | Gross: $25.84M
5. What's New Pussycat (1965)
Approved | 108 min | Comedy
A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
Director: Clive Donner | Stars: Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Romy Schneider, Capucine
Votes: 11,053 | Gross: $18.82M
6. Possession (2002)
PG-13 | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A pair of literary sleuths unearth the amorous secret of two Victorian poets only to find themselves falling under a passionate spell.
Director: Neil LaBute | Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhart, Jeremy Northam, Jennifer Ehle
Votes: 13,714 | Gross: $10.10M
7. Peace, Love & Misunderstanding (2011)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
An uptight New York City lawyer takes her two teenagers to her hippie mother's farmhouse upstate for a family vacation.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Jane Fonda, Catherine Keener, Elizabeth Olsen, Nat Wolff
Votes: 8,775 | Gross: $0.54M
8. Reaching for the Moon (2013)
Not Rated | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History
A chronicle of the tragic love affair between American poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares.
Director: Bruno Barreto | Stars: Glória Pires, Miranda Otto, Tracy Middendorf, Marcello Airoldi
Votes: 3,569 | Gross: $0.04M
9. The Song to My Heart (2022 TV Movie)
TV-G | 92 min | Drama, Romance
An organic tea shop owner helps a music sensation write lyrics for a new solo album.
Director: Paula Elle | Stars: Lanie McAuley, Sebastian Pigott, Martin Cummins, Leigh Rachel Faith
Votes: 358
10. Wild Nights with Emily (2018)
PG-13 | 84 min | Comedy, History
Dramatization of the little known side of the writer Emily Dickinson's life, in particular, her relationship with another woman.
Director: Madeleine Olnek | Stars: Molly Shannon, Susan Ziegler, Amy Seimetz, Brett Gelman
Votes: 1,432 | Gross: $0.52M
11. Saint Frances (2019)
101 min | Comedy, Drama
After an accidental pregnancy turned abortion, a deadbeat nanny finds an unlikely friendship with the six-year old she's charged with protecting.
Director: Alex Thompson | Stars: Kelly O'Sullivan, Ramona Edith Williams, Charin Alvarez, Lily Mojekwu
Votes: 5,299
12. The Kindergarten Teacher (2014)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama
A kindergarten teacher discovers in a five year-old child a prodigious gift for poetry. Amazed and inspired by this young boy, she decides to protect his talent in spite of everyone.
Director: Nadav Lapid | Stars: Sarit Larry, Avi Shnaidman, Lior Raz, Hamuchtar
Votes: 1,400
13. Hikaru Kimi e (2024– )
45 min | Drama, History
The 63rd work of NHK Taiga Drama depicts the life of Murasaki Shikibu, a Japanese female poet who wrote "Tale of Hikaru Genji". This story is set in the mid-Heian period.
Stars: Yuriko Yoshitaka, Miyuko Ochii, Gorô Kishitani, Ryôko Kuninaka
Votes: 6
14. Maya Dardel (2017)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama
A famous writer announces that she intends to end her life and male writers may compete to become executor of her estate. Men drive up the mountain and are challenged intellectually and erotically, until one discovers Maya's end game.
Directors: Zachary Cotler, Magdalena Zyzak | Stars: Lena Olin, Lois Drabkin, Chris Voss, Jordan Gavaris
Votes: 451
15. 8 hlav sílenství (2017)
107 min | Animation, Biography, Comedy
Story of the talented Russian poet, Anna Barkova (1906-1976), who spent twenty-two years of her life in the Gulags. She survived thanks to her poems, thanks to hope and her passionate love for a woman named Valentina.
Director: Marta Nováková | Stars: Aneta Langerová, Marie Stípková, Anna Sedlácková, Zuzana Fialová
Votes: 43
16. That Lyric: Sakuragi An, I Tried Haiku for the First Time (2021)
Drama
An Sakuragi is a college student with no friends, she enjoys admiring "words" on her neighborhood bulletin board and anonymously writing rap lyrics. At that very moment, while singing to ... See full summary »
Stars: Suzu Hirose, Hio Miyazawa, Yui Natsukawa, Seiichi Tanabe
18. Landet som icke är (1977 TV Movie)
150 min | Drama
A poem about the poetic pursuit that in a harmonious way longs for death to occur. Life's desires and worries have done much harm to the poetic self and the person sees death as a help to loosen a large weight from their shoulders.
Director: Tuija-Maija Niskanen | Stars: Pirkko Nurmi, Majlis Granlund, Elmer Green, Lena Linden
Votes: 26
19. Ogni sedia ha il suo rumore (1995)
35 min | Short, Drama
This short film includes an interview with poet Alda Merini interspersed with clips from the stage show 'Delirio amoroso'.
Director: Antonietta De Lillo | Stars: Licia Maglietta, Alda Merini
20. Calamity: People and Traditions (1998 Video Game)
E | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
In part 2 of "Calamity" educational FMV game trilogy, Mona and Moki are still stuck in Calamity Jane's barn. Continue fixing Jules Verne's time machine by solving language puzzles based on articles about American explorers and artists.
Directors: Al Lowenheim, Gary Bulkin | Stars: Jeana LaVardera, Agatha Drake, Ross Thierry, Mark Ewert
21. Puzz 3D: The Orient Express (2000 Video Game)
Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Part of Puzz 3D video game series. Complete the 3D jigsaw puzzle of the famous historical passenger train, the Orient Express, to solve its mystery. The story is told through FMV sequences.
Director: Dany Chiasson | Stars: Deena Aziz, Chip Chuipka, Bill Rowat, Amanda Strawn
22.
Secrets of the Dead (2000– )
Episode:
Michelangelo Revealed
(2009)
TV-PG | Documentary, History, War
Art historian Antonio Forcellino investigates whether Michelangelo was part of the Spirituali, an influential theological group within the Catholic church that tried to bring reforms to the Vatican and avoid the war with the Protestants.
Director: Fabrizio Ruggirello | Stars: Giulio Baraldi, Antonio Forcellino, Valerio Malorni, Frederic Matthieu
Votes: 38
23.
Anzac Girls (2014)
Episode:
Mateship
(2014)
TV-MA | 61 min | Action, Drama, History
Alice struggles to accept that Harry may have been killed; Hilda discovers an aptitude for anesthetics; Olive is proposed to by Pat; and Elsie returns to the war as part of the Croix Rouge.
Director: Ian Watson | Stars: Georgia Flood, Antonia Prebble, Laura Brent, Anna McGahan
Votes: 52
24.
Z: The Beginning of Everything (2015–2017)
Episode:
Quicksand
(2017)
TV-14 | 25 min | Biography, Drama, History
Scott and Zelda work through rising marital tensions at their Westport house.
Director: Wash Westmoreland | Stars: Christina Ricci, David Hoflin, David Strathairn, Kristine Nielsen
Votes: 128