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3) Adult world
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After finishing college, a struggling poet finds work at an adult bookstore and discovers a mentor in an older, troubled poet.
6) Henry Fool
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Simon Grim, a nerdy young sanitation worker who lives in Queens with his depressed mother and promiscuous sister, turns out to be a brilliant poet and an overnight literary sensation, after being encouraged to write down his ideas by Henry Fool, a boozy pseudo-intellectual who rents the Grim family basement.
7) Yumurta: Egg
Series
Yusuf trilogy volume pt. 1
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Emotionally distant poet Yusuf returns home to settle his late mother's affairs. A young girl who's a distant relative awaits him in the crumbling house. Yusuf has been unaware of her existence and is surprised to find that she's been living with his mother for the past five years. Yusuf is now obliged to perform a sacrifice which had been his mother's dying wish.
8) Sleeper
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Miles Monroe enters the hospital in 1973 for a minor ulcer operation only to wake up 200 years later after being defrosted. As Miles tries to adjust to his new environment, he is re-programmed, de-programmed, chased by Big Brother-like police, and falls for Luna, an underground poet.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (283 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on P.D. James's global bestsellers, this riveting mystery series stars Bertie Carvel as enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. A recent widower and acclaimed poet, Dalgliesh is a cerebral, reserved man but possessed of exceptional empathy and insight. As he investigates complex crimes in 1970s England, he plumbs the darker depths of the human psyche in his pursuit of justice.
11) The hippopotamus
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A disgraced theater critic and poet is invited to his friend's country manor to investigate a series of unexplained miracles.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A mismatched pair pushed together on a road trip from South Central L.A. to Oakland, find themselves reluctantly attracted to each other, when they are confronted once again by the shocking violence they thought they'd left behind.
14) The prophet
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An exiled artist and poet goes on a quest with his housekeeper and daughter, in an effort to escape the authorities who fear that the truth of his words may lead to a rebellion.
15) Possession
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Roland is an academic researcher who discovers some important letters written by a famous Victorian poet, Randolph Henry Ash. Ash was presumed to have been totally devoted to his wife, but Roland finds letters written to another unnamed woman, and soon determines that the intended recipient was another, less well-known poet, Christabel LaMotte. Roland contacts Maud, an expert on LaMotte's life and work. Despite her skepticism, the two begin to investigate,...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An artist is driven mad by the sight of his own blood and a drawing of a mouth that seems to come to life. The combination sends him off on a series of bizarre adventures that strive to explain how artists become obsessed with their own works.
17) Candy
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dan is a poet who falls in love with two kinds of Candy: a woman of the same name and heroin. As Dan goes from a smart-aleck to someone trying to find a vein to inject, Candy changes from an actress to a streetwalker and then a madwoman. Starting in Sydney, the two eventually end up in Melbourne to try and go clean, but they fail. This leads them to turn to finding money and heroin, while other posessions and attachments become unimportant.
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