
Total Eclipse(1995)
Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.


“Her greatest love inspired her darkest creation”
The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”

Elle Fanning
Mary Shelley

Douglas Booth
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Bel Powley
Claire Clairmont

Stephen Dillane
William Godwin

Joanne Froggatt
Mary Jane Clairmont

Tom Sturridge
Lord Byron

Ben Hardy
Dr. John Polidori

Maisie Williams
Isabel Baxter

Hugh O'Conor
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ciara Charteris
Harriet Shelley
Mary Shelley is a romance, drama film released in 2017 exploring themes of literature, poet, biography, based on true story, prometheus, woman director. Directed by Haifaa al-Mansour, it stars Elle Fanning, Douglas Booth, Bel Powley. The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”
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