Watching movies often helps me to break free from a rutt. Often this is biographies of people over coming struggles or names who inspire. Other times it is fasinating visuals or keen language. I have thrown together a quick list that may help others of a similar mind. This is by no means complete, but a good fair list of biopics of poets and writers alike, who its based on in brackets, plus some other films that always awaken my mind. They are in no particular order. Feel free to suggest more. Bio films
The End Of The Tour (2015) (David Wallace)
Total Eclipse (1995)(Arthur Rimbaud)
Sylvia (2003)(Sylvia Plath)
The Edge of Love (2008)(Dylan Thomas )
Set Fire to the Stars (2015)(Dylan Thomas)
Howl (2010)(Allen Ginsberg)
Leopardi (2014)(Giacomo Leopardi)
Barfly (1987) (Charles Bukowski)
Papusza (2014)(Bronisława Wajs)
Kill Your Darlings (2013)(Allen Ginsberg)
Wilde (1998) (Oscar Wilde)
A Quiet Passion (2016) (Emily Dickinson)
Wild Nights With Emily (2019) (Emily Dickinson)
Before Night Falls (2000) (Reinaldo Arenas)
Neruda (2016)(Pablo Neruda)
Il Postino (1995) (Pablo Neruda )
Bright Star (2009) (John Keats)
Red Rose (2004) (Robert Burns)
Benediction (2021) (Siegfried Sassoon)
I Am Not Your Negro (2016) (James Baldwin)
Finding Neverland (2004) (J. M. Barrie)
Capote (2005)(Truman Capote)
Miss Potter (2006)(Beatrix Potter)
Tolkien(2019) (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Shirley (2020) (Shirley Jackson)
Mary Shelley (2017)(Mary Shelley)
This Boy's Life (1993)(Tobias Wolff)
Becoming Jane (2007)(Jane Austen)
An Angel at My Table (1990)(Janet Frame)
Iris (2001)(Iris Murdoch)
Enid (2009) (Enid Blyton)
The Colour of Pomegranates (1969)(Sayat Nova)
American Splendor (2003)(Harvey Pekar)
The Brontë Sisters(1979)(The Brontë Sisters)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)(Hunter S Thompson)
Genius (2016) (Max Perkins/Thomas Wolfe)
Frida (2002) (Frida Kahlo)
Fictous poets/writers
Paterson (2016)
Poetic Justice (1993)
Finding Forrester (2003)
Roxanne (1987)
Adaptation(2002)
Midnight in Paris (2011)
Ruby Sparks (2012)
The Words (2012)
The Secret Window (2004)
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Orphée (1950)
Poetic experiance (amazing visual elements)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
The Fall (2006)
Destino (2003)
Tideland (2005)
The Fountain (2006)
The Tree of Life (2011)
Brazil (1985)
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
Stay (2005)
Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets (2021)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Creative language
Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Brick (2005)
Hamlet (2009)
Thank you for sharing, lots of films I never heard of. Which one would you start with?