Charles Bukowski Movies

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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,...

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....

From a Charles Bukowski poem

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

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

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

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