Dread Poets' Society
1992, English. Directed by Andy Wilson.
Benjamin Zephaniah, renowned Rastafarian poet/rapper is traveling by train from Birmingham to Cambridge to receive his Creative Arts Fellowship sharing a carriage with a racist and philistine car spares salesman played by Timothy Spall; by chance the poets Keats, Byron, Shelley and writer Mary Shelley are transported from a séance they are conducting in The Villa Como by a freak electrical storm. A battle of wits, drug taking and poetry performance ensues!
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- 0h 30m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
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- Released
- 23 September 1992
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Written by
- David Stafford, Benjamin Zephaniah
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Dread Poets' Society isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 23 September 1992. (Checked 11 November 2026.)
What movies are like Dread Poets' Society?
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Who directed Dread Poets' Society?
Dread Poets' Society (1992) was directed by Andy Wilson and stars Benjamin Zephaniah, Timothy Spall, Emma Fielding.