Charles Bukowski Movies

  • 2015
    Sitting on a Fire Escape Eating Eggs

    Sitting on a Fire Escape Eating Eggs

    Sitting on a Fire Escape Eating Eggs

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    While sitting on a fire escape eating eggs, a drunkard watches a human body fall past him impacting on the sidewalk below. He runs to tell his...

    Sitting on a Fire Escape Eating Eggs
  • 2008
    Il falso bugiardo

    Il falso bugiardo

    Il falso bugiardo

    02008HD

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

    Il falso bugiardo
  • 1991
    All Women Are Named Kiki

    All Women Are Named Kiki

    All Women Are Named Kiki

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    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...

    All Women Are Named Kiki
  • 2020
    My Big-Assed Mother

    My Big-Assed Mother

    My Big-Assed Mother

    02020HD

    The director Abel Ferrara acts the writer Charles Bukowski, in an intense reading poetry. While he reads all his remembers come back and through his...

    My Big-Assed Mother
  • 2024
    Daedalus

    Daedalus

    Daedalus

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    "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.

    Daedalus
  • 1982
    Poetry in Motion

    Poetry in Motion

    Poetry in Motion

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    More than 20 contemporary North American poets recite, sing, and perform their work. Early in the film, Charles Bukowski talks about the energy of...

    Poetry in Motion
  • 2018
    Love, He Said

    Love, He Said

    Love, He Said

    6.72018HD

    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...

    Love, He Said
  • 2004
    My Old Man

    My Old Man

    My Old Man

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    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...

    My Old Man
  • 2021
    Death is Smoking My Cigars

    Death is Smoking My Cigars

    Death is Smoking My Cigars

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

    Death is Smoking My Cigars
  • 1990
    The Best Hotel on Skid Row

    The Best Hotel on Skid Row

    The Best Hotel on Skid Row

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    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....

    The Best Hotel on Skid Row
  • 2016
    You Never Had It: An Evening With Bukowski

    You Never Had It: An Evening With Bukowski

    You Never Had It: An Evening With Bukowski

    8.22016HD

    A long night spent drinking, smoking, and talking about sex, literature, childhood and humanity with irreverent writer poet Charles Bukowski in his...

    You Never Had It: An Evening With Bukowski
  • 2004
    Son of Satan

    Son of Satan

    Son of Satan

    7.72004HD

    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.

    Son of Satan
  • 1995
    The Ordinary Madness of Charles Bukowski

    The Ordinary Madness of Charles Bukowski

    The Ordinary Madness of Charles Bukowski

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

    The Ordinary Madness of Charles Bukowski
  • 1970
    Let It Enfold You

    Let It Enfold You

    Let It Enfold You

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

    Let It Enfold You
  • 1973
    Bukowski

    Bukowski

    Bukowski

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

    Bukowski
  • 2008
    Bukowski: The Last Straw

    Bukowski: The Last Straw

    Bukowski: The Last Straw

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    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,...

    Bukowski: The Last Straw
  • 1978
    Charles Bukowski in Hamburg

    Charles Bukowski in Hamburg

    Charles Bukowski in Hamburg

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    Documentary about Charles Bukowski's visit to Germany and his reading in Hamburg.

    Charles Bukowski in Hamburg
  • 1995
    An Evil Town

    An Evil Town

    An Evil Town

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

    An Evil Town
  • 2008
    Charles Bukowski: There's Gonna Be a God Damn Riot in Here

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

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

    5.22008HD

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

    Charles Bukowski: There's Gonna Be a God Damn Riot in Here
  • 2013
    The Laughing Heart

    The Laughing Heart

    The Laughing Heart

    52013HD

    From a Charles Bukowski poem

    The Laughing Heart