Charles Bukowski Movies

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....

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

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

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...

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

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.

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...

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

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...

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,...

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

From a Charles Bukowski poem

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

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

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...

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