Charles Bukowski Movies

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

Charles Chinaski is a guy with many problems and feels responsible for most of them: women, alcohol, his hostility towards certain groups of people....

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

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

BEER is a free interpretation of the poetry “Beer” from Charles Bukowski. The composition is a manifesto of the author’s way of...

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,...

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

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

In this Bukowski poem entitled, "The Shoelace Poem," Bukowski invites the listener/reader to feel less alone in the insanity created by the simple,...

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...

An Americana bar holds a dramatic confrontation when an old drunk’s unstoppable day drinking is questioned by a young bartender. Inspired by...

A short film based on the poem by Charles Bukowski.

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...

Animated adaptation of the Charles Bukowski story.

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

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

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...

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