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Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

Henry Charles Bukowski was a German-American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambiance of his home city of Los Angeles.

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The Pleasures of the Damned (2024)

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 seemi ...

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Death is Smoking My Cigars (2021)

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

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No Leaders, Please (2021)

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

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Bluebird (2019)

Based on poems by Charles Bukowski. ...

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Love, He Said (2018)

1973, San Francisco. Charles Bukowski, underground poet and punk ahead of his time, reads his poem Love to a wild audience who've come to see the pulp writer's provocative performance. But that day, instead of a punk they find a broken man hungry for love. ...

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Women (2016)

The main character passes through difficulties in his love life, coming to the conclusion that happiness with the woman of his life is unattainable. ...

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Beer (2016)

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 tale o ...

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Girl on the Escalator (2016)

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

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Skoro úplně vymyšlený film (2013)

The reclusive writer Henry returns from his travels and finds a pile of letters on his doorstep. Without a salutation or signature, the poems written on used train tickets remind him of his current literary impotence. Henry opens envelope after envelope an ...

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Violent Youth (2011)

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 story ta ...

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Dr Nazi (2011)

Charles Chinaski is a guy with many problems and feels responsible for most of them: women, alcohol, his hostility towards certain groups of people. One day, he decides to consult the first doctor he comes across. ...

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Decline and Fall (2009)

After we've seen war-footage come raining upon us at ferocious speed, the image suddenly shifts into an desolated bar, showing the same footage on an bar-TV, whilst an bartender unknowingly cleans beer-glasses. Charlie, the films protagonist, is then seen ...

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Factotum (2005)

This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off th ...

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My Old Man (2004)

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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Son of Satan (2004)

It's not always easy when you are a kid. Bullying, cussing, growing up. It's all a part of life. Adaptation of the Charles Bukowski story. ...

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The Man with the Beautiful Eyes (1999)

A Charles Bukowski poem is put to animation. Four kids who are friends are drawn to a strange house that their parents tell them to avoid. One day they see a man of about 30 step outside, cigar and whiskey bottle in hand. He becomes a symbol for them of al ...

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An Evil Town (1995)

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

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Walls in the City (1994)

Story about a woman who lives among the poor and down and out in Chicago. ...

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Cold Moon (1991)

Simon and Dede are best friends: two aimless drunks who spend their days getting sloshed and any other available time getting laid. Simon is living on unemployment benefits in a trailer parked near his sister's apartment. Dede works at a fish-packing plant ...

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All Women Are Named Kiki (1991)

Plot is about a man who's been in his apartment ever since his wife left him. Evening after evening he's getting drunk and calls a hot line girl called Kiki... Srdjan Dragojevic's student film. ...

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Lune Froide (1988)

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

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Crazy Love (1987)

Three 'Bukowskian' torrid nights in the life of a man, Harry, in search of love. The first is as a youth, the second on the day of his high school graduation, and the third as a lonely, middle-aged man. ...

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Barfly (1987)

Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedded to their bar stools. But, they like each other's company—and Barfly captures their giddy, gin-soaked attempts to make a go of life on the skids. ...

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Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981)

Poet/lecturer Charles Serking awakens from his alcoholic haze long enough to take a bus back to L.A. and plunge into an orgy of drink and sexual depravity. ...

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Bukowski at Bellevue (1970)

In the spring of 1970 Charles Bukowski took his first plane trip for a poetry reading at Bellevue Community College in Washington state. That he was videotaped by two students apparently was later forgotten, but the tapes were recently rediscovered and hav ...

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Movies Starring Charles Bukowski (18)

Daedalus (2024)

"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." A 7 day vlog during the summer of 2023, a story of dreamers and drowners. ...

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La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président (2022)

In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions was to break up the ORTF with the creation of three new television channels: TF1, Antenne 2 and FR3. Three ...

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On Life (2021)

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 Angeles. ...

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On The Tragedies Of Ordinary Life (2018)

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 over the ...

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Love, He Said (2018)

1973, San Francisco. Charles Bukowski, underground poet and punk ahead of his time, reads his poem Love to a wild audience who've come to see the pulp writer's provocative performance. But that day, instead of a punk they find a broken man hungry for love. ...

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You Never Had It: An Evening With Bukowski (2016)

A long night spent drinking, smoking, and talking about sex, literature, childhood and humanity with irreverent writer poet Charles Bukowski in his California home in 1981. A story of video tapes lost, then found, and brought back to life. ...

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Il falso bugiardo (2008)

Based upon Vincenzoni's biography, "Pane e cinema", the documentary traces the story of the screen play writer who invented many stories that became blockbusters throughout the world. ...

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Bukowski: The Last Straw (2008)

The Last Straw is a film documenting the very last live poetry reading given by Charles Bukowski at The Sweetwater, a music club in Redondo Beach, California on March 31, 1980 ...

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Charles Bukowski: There's Gonna Be a God Damn Riot in Here (2008)

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

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Bukowski: Born Into This (2003)

Director John Dullaghan's biographical documentary about infamous poet Charles Bukowski, Bukowski: Born Into This, is as much a touching portrait of the author as it is an exposé of his sordid lifestyle. Interspersed between ample vintage footage of Buko ...

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The Ordinary Madness of Charles Bukowski (1995)

BBC documentary on the brutally honest writer/poet Charles Bukowski. ...

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The Best Hotel on Skid Row (1990)

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 heavy ...

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Barfly (1987)

Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedded to their bar stools. But, they like each other's company—and Barfly captures their giddy, gin-soaked attempts to make a go of life on the skids. ...

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The Charles Bukowski Tapes (1985)

The Charles Bukowski Tapes are an altogether more than four hours long collection of 52 short-interviews with the American cult author Charles Bukowski, sorted by topic and each between one and ten minutes long. Director Barbet Schroeder (Barfly) interview ...

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Poetry in Motion (1982)

More than 20 contemporary North American poets recite, sing, and perform their work. Early in the film, Charles Bukowski talks about the energy of poets and of a poem. These poets are the children of Walt Whitman and of Charles Olson, incantatory and orato ...

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Supervan (1977)

A man named Clint enters a solar-powered van called Vandora into a competition called Freakout. ...

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Bukowski (1973)

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

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Bukowski at Bellevue (1970)

In the spring of 1970 Charles Bukowski took his first plane trip for a poetry reading at Bellevue Community College in Washington state. That he was videotaped by two students apparently was later forgotten, but the tapes were recently rediscovered and hav ...

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