Barfly is a 1987 feature film. It is one of two films written by American author and poet Charles Bukowski (the other being Factotum), a semi-autobiography of the part of his life spent drinking in Los Angeles, California.

Barfly The Continuing Saga of Henry Chinaski is an original work by Charles Bukowski. Originally was a screenplay illustrated by the author for film but released three years earlier in 1984 and film production was still pending. It was commissioned by the French film director Barbet Schroeder who owns worldwide film rights. Production for this property was pending in 1984 (the copyright date of the original print work). Drawings and original work copyrighted 1984 by Charles Bukowski. ISBN 0-920348-44-0 DELUXE

Barfly (the feature film) stars Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway and was directed by Barbet Schroeder. It was produced by Francis Ford Coppola and Barbet Schroeder . The movie also features a silent cameo appearance by Bukowski himself.

Mickey Rourke plays Henry Chinaski, a poet and alcoholic. He spends his life in bars in Los Angeles, drinking every night. One day he meets Wanda, also a alcoholic and falls in love with her. Wanda is not like his former girlfriends, one is still able to see the beauty she once was before she started to drink. Together they meet Tully Sorenson, who wants to publish some of Henry's poems. For a short time he becomes famous but in the end it is clear that Henry and Wanda have only one goal in life: drinking to forget the lousy life they live outside the bars of Los Angeles. Written by Harald Mayr