Tag Archives: poet

Dead Poets Society

IMDB Rating: 7.80
69947 votes

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Painfully shy Todd Anderson has been sent to the school where his popular older brother was valedictorian. His room-mate, Neil, although exceedingly bright and popular, is very much under the thumb of his overbearing father. The two, along with their other friends, meet Professor Keating, their new English teacher, who tells them of the Dead Poets Society, and encourages them to go against the status quo. Each, in their own way, does this, and are changed for life.
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John KeatingRobin Williams
Neil PerryRobert Sean Leonard
Todd AndersonEthan Hawke
Also posted in 1989, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

I’m Not There

IMDB Rating: 8.10
1682 votes

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Six incarnations of Bob Dylan: an actor, a folk singer, an electrified troubadour, Rimbaud, Billy the Kid, and Woody Guthrie. Put Dylan's music behind their adventures, soliloquies, interviews, marriage, and infidelity. Recreate 1960s documentaries in black and white. Put each at a crossroads, the artist becoming someone else. Jack, the son of Ramblin' Jack Elliott, finds Jesus; handsome Robbie falls in love then abandons Claire. Woody, a lad escaped from foster care, hobos the U.S. singing; Billy awakes in a valley threatened by a six-lane highway; Rimbaud talks. Jude, booed at Newport when he goes electric, fences with reporters, pundits, and fans. He won't be classified.
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Jude QuinnCate Blanchett
Arthur RimbaudBen Whishaw
Jack Rollins/Pastor JohnChristian Bale
Also posted in 2007, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating, Music | Comments (0)

The Libertine

IMDB Rating: 6.50
6930 votes

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In 1660, with the return of Charles II to the English throne, theater, the visual arts, science and sexual intercourse flourish. Thirteen years later, in the middle of political and economical problems, Charles II asks the return of his friend John Wilmot, aka the second Earl of Rochester, from the exile to London. John is a morally corrupt, drunkard and sexually active cynical poet, and the King asks him to prepare a play for the French ambassador to make him pleased. John meets the aspirant actress Elizabeth Barry in the playhouse and decides to make her a great star. He falls in love for her, and she becomes his mistress; during the presentation to the Frenchman, he falls in disgrace in the court. When he was thirty-three years old, he was dying of syphilis associated to alcoholism and he converted to a religious man.
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RochesterJohnny Depp
Elizabeth BarrySamantha Morton
King Charles IIJohn Malkovich
Also posted in 2004, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

I Heart Huckabees

IMDB Rating: 6.90
20212 votes

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Determined to solve the coincidence of seeing the same conspicuous stranger three times in a day, Albert hires a pair of existentialist detectives, who insist on spying on his everyday life while sharing their views on life and the nature of the universe.
Actors
Albert MarkovskiJason Schwartzman
Caterine VaubanIsabelle Huppert
BernardDustin Hoffman
Also posted in 2004, Comedy, High IMDB rating | Comments (1)

Le Divorce

IMDB Rating: 4.80
3932 votes

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Isabel WalkerKate Hudson
Immigration OfficerJean-Marie Lhomme
Roxeanne de PersandNaomi Watts
Also posted in 2003, Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comments (0)

Sylvia

IMDB Rating: 6.10
2292 votes

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Talented but plagued by her owns demons Sylvia Plath's early relationship with husband and fellow poet, Ted Hughes, is dominated by Ted's ambition and success. In the early years of their marriage Sylvia lacks inspiration and increasingly senses Ted's infidelity. The unspoken question is whether Ted's extra-marital affairs are the result of Sylvia's own insecurities or whether Sylvia's deepening depression is exacerbated by her husbands philandering. It is only towards the end, when they are separated, that Sylvia is able to truly explore the dark depths of her soul and write the searingly brilliant poetry that earned her fame.
Actors
Sylvia PlathGwyneth Paltrow
Ted HughesDaniel Craig
Al AlvarezJared Harris
Also posted in 2003, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Big Fish

IMDB Rating: 8.00
64787 votes

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The story revolves around a dying father and his son, who is trying to learn more about his dad by piecing together the stories he has gathered over the years. The son winds up re-creating his father's elusive life in a series of legends and myths inspired by the few facts he knows. Through these tales, the son begins to understand his father's great feats and his great failings.
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Ed Bloom (Young)Ewan McGregor
Ed Bloom (Senior)Albert Finney
Will BloomBilly Crudup
Also posted in 2003, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Moulin Rouge!

IMDB Rating: 7.70
69224 votes

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Christian, a young wannabe Bohemian poet living in 1899 Paris, defies his father by joining the colorfully diverse clique inhabiting the dark, fantastical underworld of Paris' now legendary Moulin Rouge. In this seedy but glamorous haven of sex, drugs and newly-discovered electricity, the poet-innocent finds himself plunged into a passionate but ultimately tragic love affair with Satine, the club's highest paid star and the city's most famous courtesan. Their romance is played out against the infamous club - a meeting place of high life and low, where slumming aristocrats and the fashionably rich mingled with workers, artists, Bohemians, actresses and courtesans.
Actors
SatineNicole Kidman
ChristianEwan McGregor
Toulouse-LautrecJohn Leguizamo
Also posted in 2001, Drama, High IMDB rating, Musical, Romance | Comments (22)