Charles Bukowski Movies

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...

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

"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.

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

From a Charles Bukowski poem

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....

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...

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

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,...

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

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