Movies: Charles Bukowski

A film by Kayhan Lannes Ozmen, based on the poem "Girl on the escalator" by Charles Bukowski....

An unseen narrator reads Bukowski's poem over footage of traffic, shopping and nature....

Death follows a poet for his whole life, being a parasite to the poet....

Violent youth is a film about a group of children who are struggling in a society. The story takes place in the Nineties years, when Macedonia was at a crossroads in its independence and forming their own way. Period of transition and proof… The stor...

An Americana bar holds a dramatic confrontation when an old drunk’s unstoppable day drinking is questioned by a young bartender. Inspired by the Charles Bukowski poem; a glimpse into what keeps an addict drinking and the quiet suffering of those who...

A boozy writer hammers away on his Underwood, recalling a childhood in which his abusive father kicked him out of the house for writing short stories. Based on the poem by Charles Bukowski....

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Based on a short story by Charles Bukowski from the collection "Tales of Ordinary Madness."...

Charles Bukowski is filmed going to a poetry reading in San Francisco....

Works inspired by artists Basquiat, Banksy, Haring, and Ai Weiwei represent Bukowski's poem's theme of self-invention....

In this Bukowski poem entitled, "The Shoelace Poem," Bukowski invites the listener/reader to feel less alone in the insanity created by the simple, mundane string of ordinary life events. Sometimes it isn’t massive life tragedies that push someone ov...

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This is the last poetry reading Charles Bukowski gave outside the US. It was video taped in 1979 by local promoter Dennis Del Torre....

America Undercover goes to the Madison Hotel in the skid-row section of downtown Los Angeles and talks to some of the desperate people living there. It talks to a prostitute and heroin addict named Becky, a drug dealer and traveler names John, and an...

Animated adaptation of the Charles Bukowski story....

A César award winning short drama based around Charles Bukowski's two stories "Copulating Mermaid of Venice" and "Trouble with the Battery"...

One afternoon, Bukowski sat down to record the audio version of his classic, Run With the Hunted. The session took place in his home with his wife by his side. These are the outtakes....

Henry Charles Bukowski (born Heinrich Karl Bukowski; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his home city of Los Ange...

Based on poems by Charles Bukowski....

BEER is a free interpretation of the poetry “Beer” from Charles Bukowski. The composition is a manifesto of the author’s way of life, this is why we decided to go inside the author’s mind, and it is not a safe journey. A brain solo without filter, a ...