Charles Bukowski Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

Based on poems by Charles Bukowski.

From a Charles Bukowski poem

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...

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...

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’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.

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,...

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.

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

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

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