Charles Bukowski Movies

  • 2005
    Factotum

    Factotum

    Factotum

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    This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live...

    Factotum
  • 1987
    Barfly

    Barfly

    Barfly

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    Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedded to their bar stools. But, they like each...

    Barfly
  • 1981
    Tales of Ordinary Madness

    Tales of Ordinary Madness

    Tales of Ordinary Madness

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    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...

    Tales of Ordinary Madness
  • 2003
    Bukowski: Born Into This

    Bukowski: Born Into This

    Bukowski: Born Into This

    6.82003HD

    Director John Dullaghan’s biographical documentary about infamous poet Charles Bukowski, Bukowski: Born Into This, is as much a touching...

    Bukowski: Born Into This
  • 1987
    Crazy Love

    Crazy Love

    Crazy Love

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    Three 'Bukowskian' torrid nights in the life of a man in search of love. Harry Voss, 12, is young and naive. Love, for him, is romantic love between...

    Crazy Love
  • 1999
    The Man with the Beautiful Eyes

    The Man with the Beautiful Eyes

    The Man with the Beautiful Eyes

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    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...

    The Man with the Beautiful Eyes
  • 1991
    Cold Moon

    Cold Moon

    Cold Moon

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    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...

    Cold Moon
  • 1977
    Supervan

    Supervan

    Supervan

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

    Supervan
  • 1985
    The Charles Bukowski Tapes

    The Charles Bukowski Tapes

    The Charles Bukowski Tapes

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    The Charles Bukowski Tapes are an altogether more than four hours long collection of 52 short-interviews with the American cult author Charles...

    The Charles Bukowski Tapes
  • 1970
    Bukowski at Bellevue

    Bukowski at Bellevue

    Bukowski at Bellevue

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    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...

    Bukowski at Bellevue
  • 2024
    The Pleasures of the Damned

    The Pleasures of the Damned

    The Pleasures of the Damned

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

    The Pleasures of the Damned
  • 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

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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.

    Charles Bukowski: There's Gonna Be a God Damn Riot in Here
  • 1995
    An Evil Town

    An Evil Town

    An Evil Town

    5.21995HD

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

    An Evil Town
  • 2022
    La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

    La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

    La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

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    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...

    La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
  • 2021
    No Leaders, Please

    No Leaders, Please

    No Leaders, Please

    6.62021HD

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

    No Leaders, Please
  • 2024
    Daedalus

    Daedalus

    Daedalus

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    "Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." Daedalus weaves a tale of ambition and caution through an ancient myth, set in a...

    Daedalus
  • 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
  • 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

    7.72016HD

    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
  • 2013
    The Laughing Heart

    The Laughing Heart

    The Laughing Heart

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    From a Charles Bukowski poem

    The Laughing Heart
  • 2016
    Girl on the Escalator

    Girl on the Escalator

    Girl on the Escalator

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

    Girl on the Escalator