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Unveiling the Cinematic World of Poetry: A Guide to the Best Movies and TV Shows

Immerse yourself in the world of poetry through the lens of cinema, where the written word comes alive on the big screen. From classic adaptations to original stories inspired by verse, discover the most captivating movies and TV shows that bring poetry to life. Explore the intersection of art and literature, and uncover the beauty of poetry in motion.

Cast

Hailee Steinfeld

Toby Huss

Adrian Enscoe

Anna Baryshnikov

Dickinson (2019) TV Show

8.5 983 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 30

Audience: TV-14

Story: Emily Dickinson. Poet. Daughter. Total rebel. In this coming-of-age story, Emily’s determined to become the world's greatest poet.

Plot: poetry, lesbian relationship, writer, fictional biography, introspective, furious, emily dickinson, foreboding, ...

Time: 19th century

Cast

Robin Williams

Robert Sean Leonard

Ethan Hawke

Josh Charles

Dead Poets Society (1989)

8.3 12.7K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: PG

Story: At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.

Plot: individual, friendship, philosophy, poetry, literature, professor, based on true story, coming of age, ...

Time: 1950s

Place: new england

Cast

Ming-Na Wen

Eddie Murphy

BD Wong

Miguel Ferrer

Mulan (1998)

7.9 10.5K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: G

Story: When Imperial China calls one man from every family to defend the empire from invading Huns, a young woman disguises herself as a soldier to take her ailing father’s place. Facing ruthless invaders, brutal training, and the risk of execution if discovered, she must decide who she truly is— and what she’s willing to fight for.

Plot: princess, daughter, homeland, villain, musical, sexism, training, cricket, ...

Place: china

The Notebook (2004)

7.9 12.7K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.

Style: romantic

Plot: secret love, soulmates, based on novel or book, love of one's life, fight, poem, river, sadness, ...

Cast

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Federico Campaiola

Joy Saltarelli

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Gea Riva

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Francesco Falco

44 Cats (2018) TV Show

7.7 12 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: Italy

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 104

Audience: TV-Y7

Story: The adventures of four kittens who make up the musical group called The Buffycats, with stories focusing on themes of friendship, altruism, tolerance and diversity.

Plot: cat, based on song, poem or rhyme, 3d animation

Cast

Yoon Jeong-hee

David Lee

Kim Hee-ra

Ahn Nae-sang

Poetry (2010)

7.6 337 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: South Korea

Duration: 139 min.

Story: A South Korean woman in her sixties enrolls in a poetry class as she grapples with her faltering memory and her grandson's appalling wrongdoing.

Plot: poetry, tv addicted person, bridge, alzheimer's disease, caretaker, teenage rape, poetry teacher, old woman, ...

Cast

Maya da Costa

Myra Molloy

Levon Hawke

Zach Braff

Girls Like Girls (2026)

7.4 21 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America, Canada

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: R

Story: Coley, 17, from rural Oregon, navigates intimacy after her mother's passing. Meeting Sonya sparks new feelings, but self-doubt hinders their connection. Sonya, unfamiliar with dating girls, is uncertain. They learn to embrace emotions.

Plot: based on novel or book, coming of age, based on song, poem or rhyme, first love, lgbt, queer, lesbian, ...

Cast

Somegoro Ichikawa

Hana Sugisaki

Megumi Han

Natsuki Hanae

Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop (2021)

7.3 339 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance

Country: Japan

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: PG

Story: After meeting one day, a shy boy who expresses himself through haiku and a bubbly but self-conscious girl share a brief, magical summer.

Plot: small town, music record, poem, love, slice of life, insecurity, chance meeting, teenage romance, ...

Cast

Alicia Vikander

Kit Harington

Taron Egerton

Colin Morgan

Testament of Youth (2015)

7.3 803 votes

Genre: Drama, History, War

Country: Denmark, United Kingdom

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.

Plot: nurse, poetry, pacifism, flanders, summer, based on memoir or autobiography, compassion, pacifist, ...

Time: world war i, 1910s

Cast

Nazriya Nazim

Nivin Pauly

Renji Panicker

Vineeth Sreenivasan

Ohm Shanthi Oshaana (2014)

7.2 54 votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 130 min.

Story: Pooja Mathew, a spirited young girl, wants to have a love marriage in her life. Thus, she stops at nothing to impress Giri, who saved her once from a group of unruly men.

Plot: kung fu, poem, rebel, nostalgia, doctor, bike, teenage love

Cast

Brian Cox

7.2 11.2K votes

Genre: Action, History, War

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 163 min.

Audience: R

Story: In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. They set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy.

Plot: adultery, sibling relationship, hostility, bravery, mythology, beauty, trojan war, wall, ...

Time: bronze age

Cast

Sean Connery

Rob Brown

F. Murray Abraham

Anna Paquin

Finding Forrester (2000)

7.1 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 136 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He accidentally runs into an old writer named Forrester who discovers his passion for writing. With help from his new mentor Jamal receives a scholarship to a private school.

Plot: dying and death, high school, friendship, scholarship, sibling relationship, based on novel or book, unsociability, becoming an adult, ...

Place: scotland

Cast

Adam Driver

Golshifteh Farahani

Rizwan Manji

Barry Shabaka Henley

Paterson (2016)

7.1 2.1K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America, Germany

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: R

Story: A week in the life of Paterson, a poet bus driver, and his wife Laura, a very creative artist, who live in Paterson, New Jersey, hometown of many famous poets and artists.

Plot: husband wife relationship, new jersey, poetry, routine, eavesdropping, beer, notebook, bus driver, ...

Cast

Val Kilmer

Meg Ryan

Kyle MacLachlan

Frank Whaley

The Doors (1991)

7.1 1.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: R

Story: The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.

Plot: rock 'n' roll, airplane, hippie, joint, poetry, lsd, hallucination, wilderness, ...

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Lars Nordh

Stefan Larsson

Bengt C.W. Carlsson

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Songs from the Second Floor (2000)

7.1 315 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Sweden, Denmark

Duration: 99 min.

Story: A monumental traffic jam serves as the backdrop for the lives of the inhabitants of a Swedish city.

Plot: poem, insanity, witness, poet, surrealism, traffic jam, apocalypse, crucifix, ...

Cast

Amanda Seyfried

Meryl Streep

Pierce Brosnan

Colin Firth

Mamma Mia! (2008)

7.0 7.0K votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Country: Germany, United Kingdom

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A spirited young bride-to-be living with her single mother on a small Greek island secretly invites three of her mother's ex-boyfriends in hope of finding her biological father to walk her down the aisle.

Plot: single parent, parent child relationship, musical, romcom, based on play or musical, unknown father, single mother, based on song, ...

Place: greece

Cast

Deepika Padukone

Shahid Kapoor

Ranveer Singh

Jim Sarbh

Padmaavat (2018)

6.9 314 votes

Genre: Drama, History, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 163 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Rajputana, India, 13th century. The tyrannical usurper Alauddin Khilji, sultan of Delhi, becomes obsessed with Queen Padmavati, wife of King Ratan Singh of Mewar, and goes to great lengths to satisfy his greed for her.

Plot: husband wife relationship, obsession, queen, delhi, india, sultan, musical, romance, ...

Time: medieval, 13th century

Place: afghanistan

Cast

Ewan McGregor

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Toni Collette

Christian Bale

Velvet Goldmine (1998)

6.9 545 votes

Genre: Drama, Music

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: R

Story: Almost a decade since larger-than-life glam-rock enigma Brian Slade disappeared from public eye, an investigative journalist is on assignment to uncover the truth behind his former idol.

Plot: journalist, rock star, poetry, narration, bisexuality, glam rock, lgbt, music journalism, ...

Time: 19th century, 1980s

Place: great britain

Cast

Heath Ledger

Rufus Sewell

Shannyn Sossamon

Paul Bettany

A Knight's Tale (2001)

6.9 3.4K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenly mid-tournament. Posing as a knight himself, William won't stop until he's crowned tournament champion—assuming matters of the heart don't get in the way.

Plot: london, england, poetry, rivalry, sword fight, knight, tournament, duel, ...

Time: medieval

Cast

Aamir Khan

Kajol

Rishi Kapoor

Kirron Kher

Fanaa (2006)

6.8 236 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 168 min.

Story: Zooni Ali Beg is a blind Kashmiri girl who travels without her parents for the first time with a dance troupe to Delhi to perform in a ceremony for independence day. On her journey, she meets Rehan Khan, a casanova and tour guide who flirts with her. Although her friends warn Zooni about him, she cannot resist falling in love with him and he takes her on a private tour of New Delhi. But there is more to Rehan than meets the eye and Zooni will have to make a heartbreaking decision.

Plot: blindness and impaired vision, poetry, musical, tourist guide, single mother, kashmir conflict, true love, moral dilemma, ...

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