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1. The Brothers Karamazov (1969)
232 min | Drama
Three brothers, one spiritual and living at a monastery, the other - a gambler, and the third - an intellectual, work out their problems in 19th century Russia.
Directors: Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyrev, Mikhail Ulyanov | Stars: Mikhail Ulyanov, Lionella Pyryeva, Kirill Lavrov, Andrey Myagkov
Votes: 937
broliai karamazovai
2. Crime and Punishment (1983)
Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Drama
A slaughterhouse worker and former law student, takes vengeance on the man who killed his fiancée in a hit and run accident.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: Markku Toikka, Aino Seppo, Esko Nikkari, Hannu Lauri
Votes: 3,040
nusikaltimas ir bausmė
3. Mad Love (1985)
Unrated | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A bank robber tries to return his girl, but crazy way of life coupled with insane company make the case only worse.
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Sophie Marceau, Francis Huster, Tchéky Karyo, Christiane Jean
Votes: 1,389
4. Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Romance
Jacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woman, whom he rescued from suicide.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Isabelle Weingarten, Guillaume des Forêts, Jean-Maurice Monnoyer, Giorgio Maulini
Votes: 3,104
5. White Nights (1957)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Romance
A humble clerk courts a woman who awaits her lover's return night after night.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais, Marcella Rovena
Votes: 8,987
baltosios naktys
6. The Idiot (1951)
Not Rated | 166 min | Drama, Romance
A Japanese veteran, driven partially mad from the war, travels to the snowy island of Hokkaido where he soon enters a love triangle with his best friend and a disgraced woman.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Toshirô Mifune, Yoshiko Kuga
Votes: 5,653
idiotas
7. Partner (1968)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
Bernardo Bertolucci, along with co-scenarist Gianni Amico, used Dostoievski's 1846, pre-imprisonment novella The Double: A Petersburg Poem, which they moved to Italy and updated to the pro-Vietcong student-protest present.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Pierre Clémenti, Tina Aumont, Sergio Tofano, Giulio Cesare Castello
Votes: 930
8. The Possessed (1988)
116 min | Drama
In 1870 Russia, a group of young and idealistic anarchists plots to overthrow the established order through violent means.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jutta Lampe, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Bernard Blier
Votes: 668
demonai
9. Twenty Six Days from the Life of Dostoyevsky (1981)
87 min | Biography, Romance
A biographical romance about the famous Russian writer.
Director: Aleksandr Zarkhi | Stars: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Evgeniya Simonova, Ewa Szykulska, Nikolai Denisov
Votes: 141
10. The Gambler (1997)
R | 97 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Sir Michael Gambon) must write a novel in twenty-seven days in a deal to pay off his gambling debts, and feverishly dictates the novel "The Gambler".
Director: Károly Makk | Stars: Michael Gambon, Jodhi May, Polly Walker, Dominic West
Votes: 446 | Gross: $0.01M
11. Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf (1931)
90 min | Crime, Drama
Franz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful.
Director: Phil Jutzi | Stars: Heinrich George, Maria Bard, Margarete Schlegel, Bernhard Minetti
Votes: 782
aleksandro aikštė
12. Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
Not Rated | 931 min | Crime, Drama
In late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.
Stars: Günter Lamprecht, Claus Holm, Hanna Schygulla, Franz Buchrieser
Votes: 4,894
aleksandro aikštė
13. Swann in Love (1984)
R | 110 min | Drama, Romance
In the late nineteenth century Paris, Briton Charles Swann, a man of wealth and culture, runs among the social set. That life is threatened when he falls in love with Odette de Crécy, a ... See full summary »
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Alain Delon, Fanny Ardant
Votes: 2,147
14. The Captive (2000)
Not Rated | 118 min | Drama, Music, Romance
An adaptation of Proust's "La Prisoniere" (book five of "Remembrance of Things Past"). Set in Paris, France, it is a serious tale of a tragic and dysfunctional love.
Director: Chantal Akerman | Stars: Stanislas Merhar, Sylvie Testud, Olivia Bonamy, Liliane Rovère
Votes: 1,953
kalinė
15. Céleste (1980)
107 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1914, with men gone to war, Marcel Proust hired Céleste Albaret as his attendant. More than eight years later, she was at his side when he died. During this entire time, she only entered... See full summary »
Director: Percy Adlon | Stars: Eva Mattes, Jürgen Arndt, Norbert Wartha, Wolf Euba
Votes: 284
16. À la recherche du temps perdu (2011– )
230 min | Drama
Follows a young man, Marcel, from his childhood in Combray to his discovery of social life among the upper classes.
Stars: Dominique Blanc, Didier Sandre, Valentine Varela, Bernard Farcy
Votes: 97
prarasto laiko beieškant
17. Drømspel (1994)
90 min | Drama, Fantasy
Agnes, the daughter of the God Indra, is sent down to Earth to research if human complaints are founded in reality, and during her odyssey this is confirmed. She decides to participate to set it right.
Director: Unni Straume | Stars: Ingvild Holm, Bjørn Willberg Andersen, Bjørn Sundquist, Lars-Erik Berenett
Votes: 98
18. Paarungen (1967)
83 min | Drama
(1960) Felix Martin, Francoise Brion, Michelle Mercier. This scary gem takes place in and about an eerie country mansion and local cemetery. A playboy is threatened with death. He hires a ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Verhoeven | Stars: Ilona Grübel, Melanie Horeschowsky, Dietrich Kerky, Dieter Klein
Votes: 65
19. Miss Julie (1951)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance
An heiress begins to realize her attraction to one of her family's servants.
Director: Alf Sjöberg | Stars: Anita Björk, Ulf Palme, Märta Dorff, Lissi Alandh
Votes: 2,073
20. Ett drömspel (1963 TV Movie)
113 min | Drama, Fantasy
The god Indra's daughter descends to earth to experience firsthand people's living conditions. Bergman's first staging of Strindberg's play "Ett drömspel" ( Dream Play).
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Ingrid Thulin, Uno Henning, Allan Edwall, Olof Widgren
Votes: 274
21. Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream That One Calls Human Life (1995)
105 min | Drama
A young man goes to a school for servants run by a brother and sister. In the dreamlike and surreal world that he enters, how will his presence impact the people there and possibly even the school itself?
Directors: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, Weiser Quay | Stars: Mark Rylance, Alice Krige, Gottfried John, Daniel Smith
Votes: 2,039
jakobas von guntenas
22. Der Gehülfe (1976)
122 min | Drama
Joseph is hired by an inventor and moves in with his family. Although he doesn't get any salary for his work, he stays on because he believes that the highly dysfunctional family needs to be rescued.
Director: Thomas Koerfer | Stars: Paul Burian, Verena Buss, Ingold Wildenauer, Wolfram Berger
Votes: 39
padejėjas
23. Faust (1960)
128 min | Drama, Fantasy
The aging scientist Faust is desperately in search of knowledge and insight, but without success. To escape from this ignorance, he dares the extreme: He joins forces with The Devil. ... See full summary »
Directors: Peter Gorski, Gustaf Gründgens | Stars: Will Quadflieg, Gustaf Gründgens, Ella Büchi, Elisabeth Flickenschildt
Votes: 684
24. Faust (III) (2011)
Not Rated | 140 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A despairing scholar sells his soul to Satan in exchange for one night with a beautiful young woman.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinsky, Isolda Dychauk, Georg Friedrich
Votes: 5,759 | Gross: $0.06M
25. Die Wahlverwandtschaften (1974)
100 min | Drama
Eduard and Charlotte live an isolated, idyllic life together. But soon Eduard feels that something is missing and he invites his friend Otto to come and stay. Meanwhile, Charlotte decides ... See full summary »
Director: Siegfried Kühn | Stars: Beata Tyszkiewicz, Hilmar Thate, Magda Vásáryová, Gerry Wolff
Votes: 32
26. Elective Affinities (1996)
98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The novel (1809) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The marriage of Edward and Charlotte gets worse with the arrival at the castle Young Ottilia, grandson of Carlotta, and Brass. Edward is ... See full summary »
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Marie Gillain
Votes: 670
27. The Novel of Werther (1938)
85 min | Drama, Romance
Herr Werther, a new magistrate to the Grand Duchy of Walheim who is a violinist and poet, seems to have fate on his side as he meets and pursues a beautiful local woman, Charlotte. But as ... See full summary »
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Pierre Richard-Willm, Annie Vernay, Jean Galland, Jean Périer
Votes: 267
28. Die Braut (1999)
112 min | Biography, Drama
The relationship between Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the great German writer, and Christiane Vulpius, a village girl, is one of the instantaneous and fiery passion. They lived together for ... See full summary »
Director: Egon Günther | Stars: Veronica Ferres, Herbert Knaup, Sibylle Canonica, Franziska Herold
Votes: 170
29. Young Goethe in Love (2010)
Not Rated | 102 min | Biography, Romance
After aspiring poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fails his law exams, he's sent to a sleepy provincial court to reform. Instead, he falls for Lotte, a young woman who is promised to another man.
Director: Philipp Stölzl | Stars: Alexander Fehling, Miriam Stein, Moritz Bleibtreu, Volker Bruch
Votes: 3,073 | Gross: $0.16M
30. Hälfte des Lebens (1985)
98 min | Biography, Drama, History
A tragic love affair ensues between German poet Friedrich Hölderlin and banker's wife Susette Gontard.
Director: Herrmann Zschoche | Stars: Ulrich Mühe, Jenny Gröllmann, Swetlana Schönfeld, Michael Gwisdek
Votes: 74
31. Les fleurs du mal (1991)
85 min | Drama
Director: Jean-Pierre Rawson | Stars: Antoine Duléry, Jean-Marie Lemaire, Patrice-Flora Praxo, Marianne Assouline
Votes: 16
32. Three Sisters (1970)
G | 165 min | Drama, Romance
Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exile. Olga, a schoolmistress, attempts to support her siblings and the home that is the sole legacy of their late father.
Directors: Laurence Olivier, John Sichel | Stars: Jeanne Watts, Joan Plowright, Louise Purnell, Derek Jacobi
Votes: 494
33. The Three Sisters (1966)
168 min | Drama
In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters (Olga, Irina, and Masha) and their brother Andrei live but dream daily of their return to their former home in Moscow, ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Bogart | Stars: Luther Adler, William Paul Burns, Tamara Daykarhanova, Sandy Dennis
Votes: 147
34. Uncle Vanya (1970)
104 min | Drama
The ordinary life of the Russian provincial intellectuals seems to them gray and bleak. Are exceptions possible?
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Irina Anisimova-Wulf, Sergey Bondarchuk, Irina Kupchenko, Yekaterina Mazurova
Votes: 834 | Gross: $0.05M
35. Uncle Vanya (1963)
120 min | Drama
Retired Professor Alexander Serebryakov has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased. Her mother ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Burge | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Robert Lang, Max Adrian, Lewis Casson
Votes: 194
36. Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)
PG | 119 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
New York actors rehearse Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" in a dilapidated theatre.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Wallace Shawn, Phoebe Brand, George Gaynes, Jerry Mayer
Votes: 5,156 | Gross: $1.75M
37. The Cherry Orchard (1999)
Not Rated | 141 min | Drama
Abandoned by her lover, the aristocratic Madame Lubov Ranevskaya returns to Russia, only to see her fragrant cherry orchard in full bloom: a painful reminder of her dire economic state and the imminent foreclosure of the enviable property.
Director: Michael Cacoyannis | Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Alan Bates, Tushka Bergen, Frances de la Tour
Votes: 707 | Gross: $0.14M
38. Oci ciornie (1987)
118 min | Comedy, Romance, Drama
An Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. In a series of flashbacks, Romano Patroni leaves his wife to visit a spa where he falls in love with a Russian woman. He returns to Italy resolved to leave his wife and marry his love.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Silvana Mangano, Marthe Keller, Elena Safonova
Votes: 3,510 | Gross: $2.20M
39. Ward No. 6 (2009)
Not Rated | 83 min | Drama
Simultaneously nihilistic and heartening, Ward No. 6 is based on a story by Chekov, in which a psychiatric doctor becomes a patient in his own asylum. Updated to contemporary Russia, the ... See full summary »
Directors: Aleksandr Gornovskiy, Karen Shakhnazarov | Stars: Vladimir Ilin, Aleksey Vertkov, Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy, Evgeniy Stychkin
Votes: 809
40. Pornografia (2003)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama, Romance, War
Two intellectuals, a writer and a director, begin to play a mysterious psychological game in a peaceful countryside manor house during the German occupation.
Director: Jan Jakub Kolski | Stars: Krzysztof Majchrzak, Adam Ferency, Krzysztof Globisz, Grazyna Blecka-Kolska
Votes: 1,005
41. Cosmos (2015)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A young man, hoping to write a novel, visits a French guest-house with a friend, he but finds himself distracted by a strange mystery and the stranger inhabitants of the home.
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Sabine Azéma, Jean-François Balmer, Jonathan Genet, Johan Libéreau
Votes: 2,191 | Gross: $0.02M
42. Maldoror (1977)
100 min | Drama, Romance
Marco is working on a film called Maldoror, and focuses on his tormented relationship with a married woman.
Director: Alberto Cavallone | Stars: Inga Alexandrova, Tony Askin, Martial Boschero, Sherry Buchanan
Votes: 19
43. Young Törless (1966)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama
In a boarding school, a student observes in passive disgust as his two friends manipulate, humiliate and torture a fellow student, justifying their every act.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Mathieu Carrière, Marian Seidowsky, Bernd Tischer, Fred Dietz
Votes: 2,662
44. The Proud and the Beautiful (1953)
103 min | Drama, Romance
Life in a small Mexican village where joy and misery, hope and pain, passion and guilt, love and decay, life and death are mixed in the peasants life and two French citizens who end up stranded in there, during a typhoid epidemic.
Directors: Yves Allégret, Rafael E. Portas | Stars: Michèle Morgan, Gérard Philipe, Víctor Manuel Mendoza, Carlos López Moctezuma
Votes: 904
45. No Exit (1962)
85 min | Drama
A valet enters a hotel room with a man in tow. The windowless room has a single entrance and no mirrors. Two women are then led in; afterwards, the Valet leaves and locks the door. ... See full summary »
Directors: Tad Danielewski, Orson Welles | Stars: Viveca Lindfors, Rita Gam, Morgan Sterne, Ben Piazza
Votes: 171
46. No Exit (1954)
95 min | Drama
Three people who despise each other find themselves sharing a room in Hell - forever.
Director: Jacqueline Audry | Stars: Arletty, Frank Villard, Gaby Sylvia, Yves Deniaud
Votes: 354
47. Dirty Hands (1989 TV Movie)
68 min | Drama
Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: Sulevi Peltola, Matti Pellonpää, Kati Outinen, Kaija Pakarinen
Votes: 222
48. The Condemned of Altona (1962)
114 min | Drama, History
A maddened German war criminal lives in a secluded house owned by his rich father who lets him think the war is still on 20 years after the fact.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Sophia Loren, Maximilian Schell, Fredric March, Robert Wagner
Votes: 650 | Gross: $2.40M
49. Sartre par lui-même (1976)
191 min | Documentary
The master of existentialism Jean-Paul Sartre talks about philosophy, his personal story, his own experiences and also discusses social and political changes that occurred in his lifetime, ... See full summary »
Directors: Alexandre Astruc, Michel Contat, Guy Seligmann | Stars: Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, François Périer, Jean Pouillon
Votes: 49
50. The Trojan Women (1971)
GP | 105 min | Drama
The women of Troy face enslavement after the fall of their city.
Director: Michael Cacoyannis | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas
Votes: 1,697 | Gross: $0.11M
51. Electra (I) (1962)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.
Director: Michael Cacoyannis | Stars: Irene Papas, Giannis Fertis, Aleka Katselli, Theano Ioannidou
Votes: 1,811
52. Phaedra (1962)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama
To build bridges with his estranged son, a Greek shipping magnate enlists the help of his second wife, Phaedra. But, in rain-soaked Paris, their passionate affair threatens to destroy his empire. Will the modern temptress accept her fate?
Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Melina Mercouri, Anthony Perkins, Raf Vallone, Elizabeth Ercy
Votes: 1,892
53. Iphigenia (1977)
Not Rated | 127 min | Drama
To appease offended gods before going to war, a commander must sacrifice his favorite daughter to them but does so under the pretext of marrying her off.
Director: Michael Cacoyannis | Stars: Irene Papas, Kostas Kazakos, Kostas Karras, Tatiana Papamoschou
Votes: 2,140
54. Kravgi gynaikon (1978)
R | 110 min | Drama
Melina Mercouri plays an actress who is attempting a comeback with a staging of Greek tragedy "Medea".
Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Melina Mercouri, Ellen Burstyn, Andréas Voutsinas, Despo Diamantidou
Votes: 397
55. Medea (1988 TV Movie)
76 min | Drama
Medea is in Corinth with Jason and their two young sons. King Kreon wants to reward Jason for his exploits: he gives the hand of his daughter, Glauce, to Jason as well as the promise of the... See full summary »
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Udo Kier, Kirsten Olesen, Henning Jensen, Solbjørg Højfeldt
Votes: 3,636 | Gross: $0.02M
56. Backanterna (1993 TV Movie)
140 min | Music
The young wine god Dionysus returns to his native town of Thebes after having established his cult in the east. In his entourage, he has a run of Bacchantes. Semele, his mother, was ... See full summary »
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Sylvia Lindenstrand, Laila Andersson-Palme, Sten Wahlund, Peter Mattei
Votes: 76
57. 1984 (1984)
R | 113 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In a totalitarian future society, a man, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.
Director: Michael Radford | Stars: John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack
Votes: 78,874 | Gross: $8.40M
58. 1984 (1956)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Michael Redgrave, Jan Sterling, David Kossoff
Votes: 4,174
59. A Merry War (1997)
PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Gordon Comstock quits his job at an advertising agency in order to write poetry, only to find that poets, like everyone else, need money.
Director: Robert Bierman | Stars: Richard E. Grant, Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Wadham, Jim Carter
Votes: 1,544 | Gross: $0.30M
60. The Devils (1971)
R | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier's protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun's accusation of witchcraft.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian
Votes: 18,633 | Gross: $1.13M
61. The Tin Drum (1979)
R | 142 min | Drama, War
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, Katharina Thalbach
Votes: 25,730
62. Dante's Inferno (1924)
Passed | 60 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
The tactics of a vicious slumlord and greedy businessman finally drive a distraught man to commit suicide. The businessman is tried for murder, executed, and afterward swiftly taken by ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Otto | Stars: Lawson Butt, Howard Gaye, Ralph Lewis, Pauline Starke
Votes: 202 | Gross: $0.26M
63. Dante's Inferno (2007)
Not Rated | 88 min | Animation, Comedy
A darkly comedic travelogue of the underworld - set against an all-too-familiar urban backdrop of used car lots, gated communities, strip malls, and the U.S. Capitol. And populated with a contemporary cast of reprobates, including famous - and infamous - politicians, presidents, popes, pimps. And the Prince of Darkness himself.
Director: Sean Meredith | Stars: Tony Abatemarco, Scott Adsit, Matt Besser, Bill Chott
Votes: 1,533
64. Don Quixote (1933)
Not Rated | 73 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
In Spain, in the sixteenth century, an elderly gentleman named Don Quixote has gone mad from reading too many books on chivalry. Proclaiming himself a knight, he sets out with his squire, ... See full summary »
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Feodor Chaliapin Sr., George Robey, Oscar Asche, René Donnio
Votes: 395
65. Don Kikhot (1957)
PG | 110 min | Drama
Senor Quexana has read so many books on chivalry that he believes that he is the knight Don Quixote de la Mancha. So Don Quixote sets off on his horse, accompanied by his squire Sancho ... See full summary »
Director: Grigoriy Kozintsev | Stars: Nikolay Cherkasov, Yuriy Tolubeev, Serafima Birman, Svetlana Grigoreva
Votes: 935
66. Don Quixote (1992)
Not Rated | 116 min | Comedy, Drama
The story of a Spanish gentlemen gone mad and his dim-witted squire Sancho Panza, who set forth on a journey to right wrongs and accomplish good deeds in the name of chivalry.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Francisco Reiguera, Akim Tamiroff, Pepe Mediavilla, Juan Carlos Ordóñez
Votes: 905
67. Don Quixote (2015)
Not Rated | 83 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
With his noble squire by his side, a retired country gentleman sets out on an adventure to right the wrongs of the world.
Directors: David Beier, Dave Dorsey, Mahin Ibrahim, Austin Kolodney, Will Lowell, Drue Metz, Brandon Somerhalder, Alana Waksman, Jon YonKondy, Xu Zhang | Stars: Carmen Argenziano, Horatio Sanz, Luis Guzmán, Vera Cherny
Votes: 474
68. Beautiful Dreamers (1990)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama
When the superintendent of the Canadian insane asylum, Dr. Maurice Bucke, meets poet Walt Whitman, his life and that of his wife and patients is radically changed. Like Dr. Bucke, Whitman ... See full summary »
Director: John Kent Harrison | Stars: Colm Feore, Rip Torn, Wendel Meldrum, Sheila McCarthy
Votes: 209
69. Amour Fou (2014)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
Berlin, the Romantic Era. Young poet Heinrich wishes to conquer the inevitability of death through love, yet is unable to convince his skeptical cousin Marie to join him in a suicide pact. ... See full summary »
Director: Jessica Hausner | Stars: Christian Friedel, Birte Schnöink, Stephan Grossmann, Sandra Hüller
Votes: 1,739 | Gross: $0.01M
70. Anton Chekhov 1890 (2015)
96 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1890,Russian writer Anton Chekov writes short stories in newspapers to feed his family. He achieves success in the form of Pushkin prize. However, he decides to meet convicts at Sakhalin when one of this brothers die due to tuberculosis.
Director: René Féret | Stars: Nicolas Giraud, Lolita Chammah, Robinson Stévenin, Jacques Bonnaffé
Votes: 303
71. The Farewell (2000)
97 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
It is one of the last days of an exceptionally hot summer in 1956. Bertolt Brecht (Bierbichler) is about to leave his lakeside house among the tall birches in Brandenburg to return to ... See full summary »
Director: Jan Schütte | Stars: Josef Bierbichler, Monica Bleibtreu, Jeanette Hain, Elfriede Irrall
Votes: 195 | Gross: $0.01M
72. I, the Worst of All (1990)
R | 105 min | Biography, Drama, History
This fact-based film examines the life of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Assumpta Serna), a Roman Catholic nun from Mexico City who, in the midst of the Spanish Inquisition, established herself... See full summary »
Director: María Luisa Bemberg | Stars: Assumpta Serna, Dominique Sanda, Héctor Alterio, Lautaro Murúa
Votes: 719 | Gross: $0.05M
73. Molière (1978)
260 min | Biography, Drama, History
Who was Moliere? He is known everywhere as one of the world's greatest playwrights. But who was he? Born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin in 1622, the son of a prosperous tapestry maker. His mother ... See full summary »
Director: Ariane Mnouchkine | Stars: Philippe Caubère, Marie-Françoise Audollent, Frédéric Ladonne, Odile Cointepas
Votes: 889
74. A Season in Hell (1971)
130 min | Biography, Drama
About the last months Arthur Rimbaud spent in Africa before his untimely death (at only 37), trafficking in arms and maybe in slaves. Earlier moments of Rimbaud's life are explored with a frequent use of flashbacks.
Director: Nelo Risi | Stars: Terence Stamp, Jean-Claude Brialy, Florinda Bolkan, Pier Paolo Capponi
Votes: 78
75.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
(1994)
TV-14 | 82 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The life and work of Allen Ginsberg, the greatest of the Beat Generation poets is put in focus in this film
Director: Jerry Aronson | Stars: Joan Baez, William F. Buckley, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg
Votes: 286 | Gross: $0.00M
76. Voltaire (1933)
Passed | 72 min | Drama
Writer and philosopher Voltaire, loyal to his king, Louis XV of France, nonetheless writes scathingly of the king's disdain for the rights and needs of his people. Louis admires Voltaire ... See full summary »
Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: George Arliss, Doris Kenyon, Margaret Lindsay, Reginald Owen
Votes: 244
77. Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century (1960)
88 min | Comedy
The film is based on Voltaire story "Candide, or Optimism" (1759), transferred to the twentieth century, during the Second World War, about the love of Cunégonde and Candide.
Director: Norbert Carbonnaux | Stars: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Pierre Brasseur, Daliah Lavi, Michel Simon
Votes: 162
78. When Nietzsche Wept (2007)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama
Viennese doctor Josef Breuer meets with philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to help him deal with his despair.
Director: Pinchas Perry | Stars: Ben Cross, Armand Assante, Joanna Pacula, Michal Yannai
Votes: 4,863
79. Days of Nietzsche in Turin (2001)
85 min | Drama
A cinematographic essay, without dialogues, about the months Nietszche spent in Turin, Italy, with narration quoted by his original writings.
Director: Júlio Bressane | Stars: Fernando Eiras, Paulo José, Mariana Ximenes, Leandra Leal
Votes: 331
80. Beyond Good and Evil (1977)
127 min | Biography, Drama
The life and ideas of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. A love triangle unfolds as Nietzsche and his best friend decides to live with a Jewish woman. According to Nietzsche's ... See full summary »
Director: Liliana Cavani | Stars: Dominique Sanda, Erland Josephson, Robert Powell, Virna Lisi
Votes: 510
81. Hamsun (1996)
Not Rated | 159 min | Biography, Drama, War
Norwegian Nobel Laureate Knut Hamsun's controversial support for the Nazi regime during World War II and its consequences for the Hamsun family after the war.
Director: Jan Troell | Stars: Max von Sydow, Ghita Nørby, Anette Hoff, Gard B. Eidsvold
Votes: 1,715
82. Hunger (I) (2001)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama
A sensitive writer from a small town faces spiritual crisis as he tries to make it as a Hollywood screenwriter. Charlie Pontus (Joseph Culp) wanders around Los Angeles torn between his ... See full summary »
Director: Maria Giese | Stars: Joseph Culp, Robert Culp, Kathleen Luong, Redmond Gleeson
Votes: 69
83. Beaumarchais the Scoundrel (1996)
116 min | Adventure, Comedy, History
The life story of the titular Beaumarchais, playwright and adventurer, who gets himself into numerous different scrapes and romantic encounters in 18th Century France.
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Manuel Blanc, Sandrine Kiberlain, Michel Aumont
Votes: 1,465 | Gross: $0.63M
84. Lermontov (1986)
100 min | Biography, Drama
Lyrically beautiful dramatised documentary on the life of the Russian Romantic poet, Mikhail Lermontov (1814-41)
Director: Nikolay Burlyaev | Stars: Nikolay Burlyaev, Ivan Burlyaev, Vladimir Faibyshev, Galina Belyaeva
Votes: 57
85. The Other One (1981)
100 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters exchanged by two of the most outstanding names... See full summary »
Director: João Botelho | Stars: Fernando Cabral Martins, André Gomes, Juliet Berto, Jorge Silva Melo
Votes: 106
86. Hamlet (1921)
131 min | Drama
Danish silent movie-star Asta Nielsen formed her own production company to make this film, in which new elements are combined with features (and a few lines) familiar from Shakespeare's ... See full summary »
Directors: Svend Gade, Heinz Schall | Stars: Asta Nielsen, Paul Conradi, Mathilde Brandt, Eduard von Winterstein
Votes: 521
87. Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence (1969)
123 min | Biography, Comedy, History
Through the childhood and adolescence of Signor Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people lived in 18th-century Venice: their customs, habits, medicine, ... See full summary »
Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Leonard Whiting, Maria Grazia Buccella, Lionel Stander, Raoul Grassilli
Votes: 460
88. De Sade (1969)
X | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History
A fictionalized biography of the world's most celebrated sexual and physical pervert, who was infamous for his erotic behavior - going from woman to woman, seeking a love that eluded him.
Directors: Cy Endfield, Roger Corman | Stars: Keir Dullea, Senta Berger, Anna Massey, Lilli Palmer
Votes: 769 | Gross: $1.25M
89. Marquis de Sade's Justine (1969)
R | 90 min | Drama
Penniless and separated from her sister, a beautiful, chaste orphan must endure an endless parade of villains, perverts and degenerates who covet her virtue and life.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Romina Power, Maria Rohm, Rosemary Dexter
Votes: 2,046
90. My Heart Is Mine Alone (1997)
90 min | Biography, Drama
The life of Jewish Expressionist poet and performance artist, Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945), told chronologically in vignettes given context by archival footage of turn-of-the-century ... See full summary »
Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms | Stars: Nicolai Albrecht, Janina Berge, Dagmar Bertram, Klaus Bunk
Votes: 35
91. Henry & June (1990)
NC-17 | 136 min | Biography, Drama
Anaïs Nin meets American writer Henry Miller in Paris in 1931. She keeps a diary of her sexual awakening, which includes Henry and his wife June.
Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Fred Ward, Uma Thurman, Maria de Medeiros, Richard E. Grant
Votes: 14,176 | Gross: $11.57M
92. Love Sins (1987)
113 min | Biography, Drama
D'Annunzio is a father who is annoyed with the prospect of another child on the way. Frankly megalomaniac and penniless, he goes from city to city writing his scandalous works.
Director: Sergio Nasca | Stars: Robert Powell, Stefania Sandrelli, Laurent Terzieff, Florence Guérin
Votes: 92
93. Florbela (2012)
Not Rated | 119 min | Biography, Drama
Shaken by a divorce in the 1920s, Portuguese poetess Florbela Espanca uses her writing to deal with her tumultuous relationship with men, eroticism and love.
Director: Vicente Alves do Ó | Stars: Dalila Carmo, Ivo Canelas, Albano Jerónimo, José Neves
Votes: 522
94. Piñero (2001)
R | 103 min | Biography, Drama
Miguel Pinero's creative and turbulent life was cut short at age 40: a Tony Award nominee who did time at Sing-Sing, a volatile urban poet whose work is recognized as a precursor to rap and hip-hop, and a writer of hit TV shows.
Director: Leon Ichaso | Stars: Benjamin Bratt, Giancarlo Esposito, Talisa Soto, Nelson Vasquez
Votes: 1,403 | Gross: $1.42M
95. En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud (1993)
Unrated | 90 min | Biography, Drama
May, 1946, in Paris young poet Jacques Prevel meets Antonin Artaud, the actor, artist and writer just released from a mental asylum. Over ten months, we follow the mad Artaud from his cruel... See full summary »
Director: Gérard Mordillat | Stars: Sami Frey, Marc Barbé, Julie Jézéquel, Valérie Jeannet
Votes: 164
96. Barfly (1987)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Based on the life of successful poet Charles Bukowski and his exploits in Hollywood during the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
Director: Barbet Schroeder | Stars: Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, Alice Krige, Jack Nance
Votes: 21,949 | Gross: $3.22M
97. The Belle of Amherst (1976 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Biography, Drama
Portrait of 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson based on her poems, letters and notes. This is a taped broadcast of a live one-woman performance.
Director: Charles S. Dubin | Star: Julie Harris
Votes: 137
98. O Dia do Desespero (1992)
75 min | Biography, Drama
Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Teresa Madruga, Mário Barroso, Luís Miguel Cintra, Diogo Dória
Votes: 215
99. Fritänkaren (1994 Video)
Not Rated | 276 min | Biography, Drama
A 274-minute documentary portrait of the life of playwright August Strindberg. The topic of the movie is inextricable from its method of production: for two years, beginning in 1992, Watkins created the film in a communal collaboration.
Director: Peter Watkins | Stars: Anders Mattsson, Lena Settervall, Roland Borgström, Ingela Berger
Votes: 107
100. Words of Advice: William S. Burroughs on the Road (2007)
Not Rated | 74 min | Documentary
A portrait of writer William Burroughs.
Directors: Lars Movin, Steen Møller Rasmussen | Stars: William S. Burroughs, Ann Douglas, John Giorno, James Grauerholz
Votes: 21
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