poetry
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    Doctor Zhivago (1965)

    Boris Pasternak's story of a poet/doctor (Omar Sharif), his wife (Geraldine Chaplin) and his lover...

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    Driving Lessons (2006)

    The son (Rupert Grint) of an overprotective mother (Laura Linney) takes a step into manhood when he...

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    Zhou Yu's Train (2004)

    A Chinese woman (Gong Li) travels by train for sexual liaisons with the schoolteacher (Tony Leung...

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    The Sea Inside (2004)

    Ramón Sampedro (Javier Bardem), a quadriplegic for nearly 30 years, wants a lawyer (Belén Rueda) and...

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    Operation Homecoming (2007)

    Operation Homecoming initiative has collected thousands of pieces of writing from service members...

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    Fall (1997)

    A poetry-spouting New York cabby (Eric Schaeffer) and a married supermodel (Amanda De Cadenet)...

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    World's Greatest Dad (2009)

    A high-school poetry teacher (Robin Williams) is also a single father and dreams of becoming a...

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    Poetic Justice (1993)

    A beauty-salon worker (Janet Jackson) goes from South Central Los Angeles to Oakland in a mail truck...

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    Il Postino (1995)

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

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    The Beat Generation - An American Dream

    An investigation of the Beat Generation.

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    Unfaithful (2002)

    A man (Richard Gere) becomes increasingly distraught after he discovers his wife (Diane Lane) is...

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    Dead Poets Society (1989)

    A teacher at a New England prep school uses unconventional methods to instill spirit into the lives...

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    Twice Upon A Yesterday (1999)

    A shambling, out-of-work actor, desperate to win back the affections of his ex-girlfriend,...

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    Joy Harjo

    Joy Harjo appeared in TV shows such as Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry and Poetry Heaven and the...

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    Poetri

    Poetri appeared in TV shows such as Tyler Perry's House of Payne and Bones and movies including...

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    Robert Creeley

    Robert Creeley appeared in movies such as The Beat Generation - An American Dream and Poetry in...

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    Ted Berrigan

    Ted Berrigan appeared in the movie Poetry in Motion.

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    Helen Adam

    Helen Adam appeared in the movie Poetry in Motion.

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    June Barrie

    June Barrie appeared in the movie The Lawless Heart and the TV show Arch of Triumph.

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    The Pillow Book (1997)

    Set in contemporary Japan and Hong Kong, a successful model revives memories of her calligrapher...

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    Tadpole (2002)

    A 15-year-old (Aaron Stanford) falls for his beautiful stepmother (Sigourney Weaver) and tries to...

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    Slam (1998)

    Jailed as a murder suspect and a drug dealer, a black poet (Saul Williams) denounces violence, gangs...

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    Little Noises (1992)

    A struggling writer (Glover) steals poems written by his mute friend to achieve fame and fortune.

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    My Girl (1991)

    An 11-year-old (Anna Chlumsky) meets a boy (Macaulay Culkin) and grows up at her widowed father's...

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    Fighting Words (2007)

    A gifted poet is discovered by an attractive publisher. When the relationship turns sexual, the...

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    Dangerous Beauty (1998)

    Unable to wed the nobleman she loves, a 16th-century Venetian woman opts to improve her lot by...

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    The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957)

    Victorian poet Robert Browning (Bill Travers) courts invalid poet Elizabeth Barrett (Jennifer Jones)...

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    A Few Days in September

    A CIA agent disappears with important information, and his former associate, a Frenchwoman (Juliette...

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    War Requiem (1989)

    The experiences of poet Wilfred Owen during World War I set to the music of Benjamin Britten.

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    Shackles

    A sheriff (Billy Bob Thornton) investigates a woman's death and an apparent political cover-up.