Leonard Cohen Movies

This short film features 4 readings of a prose poem from Leonard Cohen’s novel Beautiful Losers. Read by Cohen himself, the poem produces a...

In this short film, a young man, a girl and a dog attempt to fly with wings more symbolic than practical.

Drawing on rare performance film, insightful interviews, recording footage and more, this documentary explores an incredibly prolific time period in...

Harry Rasky, a noted Canadian filmmaker, produced, wrote and directed this fantastic documentary. Filmed in 1979 and 1980, it was first shown on CBC...

John Hofsess’s The Palace of Pleasure emerged from the psychedelic haze of 1960s postmodern art. It was a blistering work that combined...

This CBC Gem page features a documentary titled 'Leonard Cohen: If It Be Your Will' exploring the life and music of the legendary Canadian...

Willy DeVille live in concert.

A short musical based on the imaginary events in the King Edward Hotel in Toronto, and the guests' (usually romantic) interactions with each other.

This short film brings together animated interpretations of four poems by great Canadian wordsmiths: "Riverdale Lion" by John Robert Colombo, "A Kite...

Based on a book of poetry by Dennis Lee, YESNO is a playful view of a planet on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Humphrey Bogart meets Werner Herzog...

The story of Canada's leading poet and the A-Frame cabin he built. Now Canada's leading musicians and artists come together to tell the tale of Al...

Live performances by the renowned Canadian singer-songwriter.

After the Goldrush focuses specifically on the period between 1978 and his dramatic live comeback in 2008. With a mixture of performance footage,...

Set to Leonard Cohen's 1988 song "I'm Your Man", this animated short offers a playful meditation on romance and the clichés that go with it.

Leonard Cohen performance recorded in Madrid, Spain in 1988 as part of the European leg of a concert tour that took place in support of his I'm Your...

A pseudo variety show about the Aufbau-Era, the time of the German 'economic miracle'. Brigitte Mira recounts her four husbands through song and...

In reaction against a closed and oppressive world, a Pop festival is organized where young people in the communion of music, claim their identity,...

Although it can be difficult to detect the influences in the work of Leonard Cohen, he was informed by a far-reaching list of musicians, writers,...