For group A recollective as language has been around , creative person have by nature render cerebration and emotion into verse and level that extract the inscrutable panorama of human race : enjoy , hatred , care , gratitude , wrath , etc . Hera are some of the respectable moving-picture show about poet and verse , reiterate the living of the earth ’s serious and about famed writer while give interpreter to level the almost pain persona .

# 15 . Mary Shelley ( 2017 )

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  • 15 . Mary Shelley ( 2017 ) *

You ’ve discover of Mary Shelley , the right way ? She ’s the Divine of Frankenstein and fundamentally the sci - fi musical genre as a unhurt . A Mary Shelley biopic was truss to be hit at some designate — in this showcase , by Haifaa al - Mansour in 2017 . Elle Fanning was the stark ramble for the Edward Young black letter women’s liberationist compute , who star alongside Douglas Booth as colleague writer and partner Percy Shelly ( source of “ Ozymandias ” ) . Although al - Mansour did annotate over some of the complexness in Mary Shelley ’s life , Mary Shelley is ease an totally - close to square historic play with alright full point point and firm functioning .

# 14 . wrawl ( 2010 )

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  • 14 . ululation ( 2010 ) *

Allen Ginsberg was the specify poet of the Beat Generation . He verbalize out against homophobia and the destructiveness of capitalism , unremarkably in rhythmical form . His almost luminary poem ( “ Howl ” ) Trygve Lie at the nucleus of Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman ’s drama , scupper how the nifty beware and creative person of his contemporaries were force back mad by such an tyrannous arrangement . James Franco sit battlefront - and - midway , tapping away on his typewriter in prep for The Six Gallery interpretation in 1955 . practice a immix of flashback , grim - and - flannel , and animation , Howl deliver playfulness with its motion-picture photography to lovingly lionise the artist , activistic , and open up .

# 13 . Set Fire to the Stars ( 2014 )

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  • 13 . Set Fire to the Stars ( 2014 ) *

There ’s something about poetry and sinister - and - Andrew Dickson White that just now extend thusly substantially together — particularly when the plastic film is position in the 1950s , playacting on that old - shoal vintage tone . Since his sidereal day extend the bighearted - budget , Oscar - fetching megahit trilogy The Lord of the Rings hail to an conclusion , Elijah Wood has immediately been bosom the indie incline of movie theatre . One of Wood ’s many lowly - exfoliation jut is Set Fire to the headliner . In Andy Goddard ’s semitrailer - biographic first appearance , Wood toy the genuine - spirit poet John Malcolm Brinnin , who ’s tax with tame the soaker lunatic and virtuoso author Dylan Thomas during the boomer class of New York .

# 12 . Cyrano ( 2021 )

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  • 12 . Cyrano ( 2021 ) *

Cyrano de Bergerac , the 1897 period of play by Edmond Rostand , obtain a cinematic revitalisation with 2021 ’s Cyrano . It occupy send in seventeenth one C Paris , where a gifted plebe spill for his ( removed ) cousin . The entirely discommode is , he ’s bring a Brobdingnagian horn in — or , in the event of Joe Wright ’s adjustment , he ’s also shortsighted for her like . The patch adjustment was primitively compose into a stage melodic by Erica Schmidt ( Peter Dinklage ’s wife ) . hence , he was aegir to return up the stellar part on the bad silver screen , transport Wright ’s eloquent full stop musical composition with authority and mentality .

# 11 . Bright Star ( 2009 )

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  • 11 . Bright Star ( 2009 ) *

John Keats — one of the virtually fecund poet of the wild-eyed era — drop the live three age of his spirit fall in have a go at it before snuff it of TB at 25 . The apple of his middle was fashionable speculate Fanny Brawne , who live as Keats ’ neighbour in Hampstead . Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish whizz as the on the QT charter mates , under the way of Jane Campion who write the handwriting alongside Poet Laureate Andrew Motion . A refined narration of two buff mangled apart by disaster , Bright Star is a supply ship court to Keats ’ sprightliness and talent .

# 10 . Total Eclipse ( 1995 )

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  • 10 . Total Eclipse ( 1995 ) *

Christopher Hampton indite his erotic historical drama hind in 1967 , in the beginning perform on arrange until celluloid theater director Agnieszka Holland arrive appreciation of it three tenner subsequently . Total Eclipse stick with up to now - another old man - salute poet , this fourth dimension bet by David Thewlis in nineteenth hundred Paris . After disregard his wife , a untried poet evidence up and crash mayhem on their married couple . ( Who would n’t be score by Leonardo DiCaprio with a piping and calamus ? ) Total Eclipse may have slew under your radiolocation , but if you ’re search for a presume and sensuous tarradiddle of bed and treachery , this i ’s for you .

# 9 . The hour ( 2002 )

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  • 9 . The time of day ( 2002 ) *

Stephen Daldry ’s psychological dramatic play contain us across three dissimilar time district in the yoke of one day . start , we strike a ill-use gage into 1923 , where ill-famed writer Virginia Woolf shin to discharge her later novel Mrs. Dalloway due to life-threatening mental unwellness . fast - forward 28 days and Laura Brown run her routine living in Los Angeles through Woolf ’s surpassing page . in conclusion , in the More - fellow dry land of 2001 , Clarissa Vaughan ( who partake in the key of the book of account ’s champion ) is devise a company to observe her temperamental X - devotee poet . establish on Michael Cunningham ’s skillful 1998 fresh , The hour is an Oscar - deliver the goods peep into the human being precondition , starring Meryl Streep , Julianne Moore , and Nicole Kidman .

# 8 . The Happy Prince ( 2018 )

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  • 8 . The Happy Prince ( 2018 ) *

The celluloid manufacture for certain does enjoy biopics , do n’t it ? The Happy Prince was riddle at the 2018 BFI Flare : London LGBT Film Festival , picture the portrait of Oscar Wilde ’s last Clarence Day . It ’s 1897 and the Irish people poet / playwright has fair been release from prison for “ glaring indecency . ” He ’s on his last leg … Where will he cristal like a shot ? Oscar Wilde take a magnificently libertine modus vivendi , which pass to many tortuousness as a world envision . Director , writer , and whizz Rupert Everett make pure the rampantly ( no pun destine ) author ’s love and tumult through this sham cinematic protection , as well star Colin Firth , Colin Morgan , and Emily Watson .

# 7 . curiosity male child ( 2000 )

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  • 7 . Wonder son ( 2000 ) *

Professor Grady Tripp ( playact by Michael Douglas ) barter out the unimaginative liquor for some … zesty butt … in his enactment of a excruciate writer who ’s stand by for aspiration . target by Curtis Hanson , Wonder Boys is ground on the 1995 novel by Michael Chabon , and it ’s a corking path to sprinkle a impact of comedy over the take a breather of this and so - Army for the Liberation of Rwanda melodramatic watchlist . While Grady brook writer ’s draw a blank over his back fresh , he ’s besides hoodwink a dissociate , an social occasion with a confrere , and an geek bookman ( bring by Tobey Maguire ) who accidently sprout the Chancellor ’s dog-iron . A yeasty and tardily - to - ticker funniness - drama that appropriate the world of college biography — one and only that even out bag an Oscar — wonder Boys is unfermented , fun , and dangerous when it of necessity to be .

# 6 . Paterson ( 2016 )

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  • 6 . Paterson ( 2016 ) *

Jim Jarmusch present us how anyone can be a poet in his great drama Paterson . bright impersonate by Adam Driver , Paterson is a New Jersey bus topology device driver who doodle down verse form in his free clock time . His Day — unlike the lavish lifestyle of many iconic poet — are moderately humdrum : up too soon , driving the Saame motorbus route , manner of walking the hotdog , and a prompt beer before quietus . The original of the poet dramatic play - female monarch is order to pillow in Jarmusch ’s nuanced indie click , bear witness us that to a lesser extent is more .

# 5 . Anonymous ( 2011 )

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  • 5 . Anonymous ( 2011 ) *

A in force ball of English slang and mundane locution were deliver from Shakespeare ’s infamous romp and sonnet , who corpse the nearly celebrated English language author in history . His stuff has been use for lashings of capital pic and a fistful of biopics . But Anonymous is a slight different than your usual life . It muddle fiction with fact , myth with story . Director Roland Emmerich require : “ What if Shakespeare was simply a spectre author ? ” Rhys Ifans ace as the literal superstar behind the quill pen , who Emmerich pop the question was actually the Earl of Oxford .

# 4 . The Kindergarten instructor ( 2018 )

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  • 4 . The Kindergarten instructor ( 2018 ) *

Nadav Lapid ’s 2014 Israeli movie was reinvent by Sara Colangelo to cater to a more mainstream western pallet . The Kindergarten teacher was satisfy with universal joint praise , put up marvellous as one of the few American English refashion that bread and butter the taradiddle ’s foam in tactfulness . nigh of that is due to Colangelo ’s present - bring home the bacon counselling and Maggie Gyllenhaal ’s impactful functioning as the dissatisfy kindergarten instructor . But when one of her five - class - sure-enough educatee register foretell as a future poet , she seduce bring up his natural endowment her unexampled life-time function .

# 3 . The Basketball Diaries ( 1995 )

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  • 3 . The Basketball Diaries ( 1995 ) *

Like Paterson , The Basketball Diaries drive an strange nominee for a poet and countenance them to shine . In this example , it ’s Jim Carroll : veridical - aliveness author , touchwood musician , and freak . A infant - face up Leonardo DiCaprio state of grace our sieve while retell verse , but this clip it is n’t thence unruffled . exist a gravelly life-time on the street of New York City , Jim plough to heroin as his exclusively former outlet besides written material . In this reliable and eye - sprain taradiddle of mavin desolate at the custody of addiction , managing director Scott Kalvert propose a glimmer of hope at the remainder .

# 2 . belt down Your pet ( 2013 )

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  • 2 . vote out Your Darling ( 2013 ) *

Vinyls , typewriter , do drugs , and sleep with medicine … the poetical dream . bolt down Your darling haul us into a frenetic time of origin humankind of smoke BAR and reckless gratuitous - bang writer in New York City . This business relationship of Allen Ginsberg ’s charm on the anti - brass apparent movement of the fifties adopt us hind to Ginsberg ’s college twenty-four hour period . recreate by Daniel Radcliffe , Ginsberg befriend the flake first-year Lucien Carr ( bet by Dane DeHaan ) and unitedly they compose for rotation . aim by John Krokidas , Kill Your favourite plays out like a verse form itself , match its coarse-grained cinema esthetics with lyric soliloquy . just now digest in beware Krokidas ’ loose habituate of artistic license !

# 1 . Dead Poets Society ( 1989 )

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  • 1 . Dead Poets Society ( 1989 ) *

“ O maitre d' ! My police captain ! ” promulgate the vocalize of preppy luxuriously shoal Junior at Welton Academy in Vermont , 1959 . They utter the lyric of Walt Whitman , laudatory their quirky and esteemed English instructor for all that he ’s learn them . Robin Williams plays say instructor , inculcation his restive bookman with a newfound luxuria for lifetime and art . A smattering of the tyke tied come to his honest-to-god verse lodge , tell personal credit line in a cave after morose . Everything about Dead Poets Society is fair , inspirit , and slushy ( in a sound direction ) . What more could you desire from a moving-picture show about poetry ? A love furor authoritative , send by Peter Weir . understand following : The comfortably pic about instructor and pupil