1. Angel of the Night (Nattens engel)
Michael Strunge and other young Danish poets, accompanied by images of night-time Copenhagen.
2. The Emma Bovary Trial (Le Procès d'Emma Bovary)
On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert took his place in the dock for contempt of public morality and religion. The accused, the real one, is, through him, Emma Bovary, heroine with a thousand faces and a thousand desires, guilty without doubt of an unforgivable desire to live.
It has an average vote of 6.75 on TMDB.
3. Killer, Trader and Psychopath: The America of Bret Easton Ellis (Tueur, trader et psychopathe : l'Amérique de Bret Easton Ellis)
In 1991, American Psycho, the third novel by controversial writer Bret Easton Ellis, provoked heated discussions among critics and readers alike; an extraordinarily disturbing book that transported its readers into the mind of Patrick Bateman, a cynical mergers and acquisitions executive obsessed with brands, inconsequential details, pop culture and brutal murder.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
4. Una pasión llamada Clara Lair (Una pasión llamada Clara Lair)
Through dramatization and interviews with her colleagues, this film captures the life and work of famed Puerto Rican poet Mercedes Negrón Muñoz .
5. Julia, toda en mí (Julia, toda en mí)
A poetic journey about the life and work of Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos.
6. Batouk (Batouk)
This uneven and uninspired documentary of Africa is a collection from various stock footage. Female dancers in mod clothes dance on the Eiffel Tower in comparison to the primitive dances of native Africans. A lone runner trains for a marathon, and a few animals are shown in their natural habitat. Commentary and modern jazz and pop music help to make this seem much longer than 66 minutes.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
7. She
She is a full-length documentary about writer Aimée Baker and her award-winning poetry collection Doe. Doe is her quest to give voice to the missing and unidentified women of the United States.
8. Inside a Nazi Mind: The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell (Un écrivain dans l'enfer nazi : « Les Bienveillantes » de Jonathan Littell)
An analysis of The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's controversial novel, published in 2006, which dissects the ruthless mechanisms of the Shoah from the detached point of view of Maximilian Aue, a high-ranking Nazi officer.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
9. The Centuries Surround Me with Fire
A documentary, originally produced for Dutch television, on the life and works of Osip Mandelstam , the groundbreaking Soviet poet and dissident.
10. Bambi Hunter
Lockdown, lack of green space, Don Quixote and video games.
11. Who's Afraid of Lady Chatterley? (Le Procès de lady Chatterley : orgasme et lutte des classes dans un jardin anglais)
England, 1960. The Crown sues the publisher Penguin Books in order to ban the publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover, a novel by the British writer D. H. Lawrence , published privately in Italy in 1928, which celebrates nature and deals with sex without taboos.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
12. Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) - Muse of Keening
A short film by Barry Lowe and Dino Mahoney, starring Pauline Burton as Anna. The film is an introduction to the great Soviet era modernist poet, Anna Akhmatova; shot in winter in Saint Petersburg , it contains rare interviews with people who knew her, academics, and dramatized readings of some of her poems.
13. WINHANGANHA
WINHANGANHA - is a lyrical journey of archival footage and sound, poetry and original composition. It is an examination of how archives and the legacies of collection affect First Nations people and wider Australia, told through the lens of acclaimed Wiradjuri artist, Jazz Money.
14. Wuthering Heights: Love, Hate and Vengeance (« Les Hauts de Hurlevent » : amour, haine et vengeance)
In 1847, British writer Emily Brontë , perhaps the most enigmatic of the three Brontë sisters, published her novel Wuthering Heights, a dark romance set in the desolation of the moors, a unique work of early Victorian literature that stunned contemporary critics.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
15. Provocando con Sampedro (Provocando con Sampedro)
(Provocando con Sampedro)
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
16. Dread Beat an' Blood
Follows dub poet master Linton Kwesi Johnson out of the recording studio onto the Brixton streets.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
17. Christopher Isherwood: A Born Foreigner
Documentary about author Christopher Isherwood, in which he is interviewed about his life and work and which features extracts from films of his novels and stories.
18. Spellbound
Wingsuit BASE jumping is often presented as a thrill seeking adrenaline rush. Spellbound takes us deeper into the more contemplative aspects of jumping, as David Walden and friends venture into the mountains around his home in New Zealand. Beautiful scenery and hypnotic cinematography eject us from our daily lives into a world of air, earth and flight.
19. Catalan Poets (Poetes catalans)
At underground film of the 1st Popular Festival of Catalan Poetry filmed in the Proce Theater in Barcelona on May 25, 1970, in solidarity with political prisoners. The participating poets were: Agustí Bartra, Joan Oliver , Salvador Espriu, Joan Brossa, Francesc Vallverdú and Gabriel Ferrater.
20. Wordsworth Country
A look at the Lake District and its famous poet.