Frida (2002)
R | 123 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.
Director: Julie Taymor | Stars: Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush, Mía Maestro
Big Eyes (2014)
PG-13 | 106 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston, Krysten Ritter
Pollock (2000)
R | 122 min | Biography, Drama
A film about the life and career of the American painter, Jackson Pollock.
Director: Ed Harris | Stars: Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Robert Knott, Molly Regan
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
PG-13 | 100 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.
Director: Peter Webber | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson, Judy Parfitt
Seraphine (2008)
Unrated | 125 min | Biography, Drama
Based on the life of French painter Séraphine de Senlis.
Director: Martin Provost | Stars: Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Anne Bennent, Geneviève Mnich
Surviving Picasso (1996)
R | 125 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The passionate Merchant Ivory drama tells the story of Françoise Gilot (Natascha McElhone), the only lover of Pablo Picasso (Sir Anthony Hopkins) who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty, and move on with her life.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Natascha McElhone, Julianne Moore, Joss Ackland
Goya's Ghosts (2006)
R | 113 min | Biography, Drama, History
Painter Francisco Goya faces a scandal involving his muse, who is labeled a heretic by a monk.
Director: Milos Forman | Stars: Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman, Stellan Skarsgård, Randy Quaid
Lust for Life (1956)
Approved | 2h 2min | Biography, Drama | November 1956 (Australia)
An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo, the tormented Van Gogh eventually leaves Holland for France, where he meets volatile fellow painter Paul Gauguin and struggles to find greater inspiration.
Directors: Vincente Minnelli, George Cukor (co-director) (uncredited) Stars: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald |
Moulin Rouge (1952)
Not Rated | 1h 59min | Biography, Drama, Music | 10 April 1953 (Brazil)
Fictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Director: John Huston | Stars: José Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Suzanne Flon |
Rembrandt (1936)
Not Rated | 1h 25min | Biography, Drama | 25 December 1936 (USA)
This character study joins the painter at the height of his fame in 1642, when his adored wife suddenly dies and his work takes a dark, sardonic turn that offends his patrons.
Director: Alexander Korda | Stars: Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester
Andrei Rublev (1966)
R | 3h 25min | Biography, Drama, History | October 1973 (USA)
The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky (as Andrey Tarkovskiy) | Stars: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko |
The Wolf at the Door (1986)
R | 1h 30min | Biography, Drama | 5 September 1986 (Denmark)
This biographical film, based on the life of French artist Paul Gauguin (Donald Sutherland), follows the painter as he returns to Paris after a long stay in Tahiti
Director: Henning Carlsen | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Max von Sydow, Jean Yanne |
Camille Claudel (1988)
R | 2h 55min | Biography, Drama, History | 21 December 1989 (USA)
Camille Claude impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt for herself and she also becomes his mistress. But after a while, she would like to get out of his shadow.
Director: Bruno Nuytten | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Madeleine Robinson |
My Left Foot: the Story of Christy Brown (1989)
R | 1h 43min | Biography, Drama | 30 March 1990 (USA)
In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to have a intellectual disability for the first ten years of his life.
Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan |
Vincent & Theo (1990)
PG-13 | 2h 18min | Biography, Drama | 16 November 1990 (USA)
The familiar tragic story of Vincent van Gogh is broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. The movie also provides a nice view of the locations which Vincent painted.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Tim Roth, Paul Rhys, Adrian Brine |
Crumb (1994)
R | 1h 59min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy | 28 April 1995 (USA)
An intimate portrait of controversial cartoonist Robert Crumb and his traumatized family.
Director: Terry Zwigoff | Stars: Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Charles Crumb |
Basquiat (1996)
R | 1h 47min | Biography, Drama | 9 August 1996 (USA)
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.
Director: Julian Schnabel | Stars: Jeffrey Wright, Michael Wincott, Benicio Del Toro |
Artemisia (1997)
R | 1h 38min | Biography, Drama, History | 8 May 1998 (USA)
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) was one of the first well-known female painters. The movie tells the story of her youth, when she was guided and protected by her father, the painter
Director: Agnès Merlet | Stars: Valentina Cervi, Michel Serrault, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic |
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)
Unrated | 1h 27min | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7 October 1998 (USA)
Biography of British painter Francis Bacon focuses on his relationship with his lover, George Dyer, a former small time crook.
Director: John Maybury | Stars: Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton |
Goya in Bordeaux (1999)
R | 1h 40min | Biography, Drama, War | 12 November 1999 (Spain)
Francisco Goya (1746-1828), deaf and ill, lives the last years of his life in voluntary exile in Bordeaux, a Liberal protesting the oppressive rule of Ferdinand VII.
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Francisco Rabal, Jose Coronado, Dafne Fernández |
Klimt (2006)
Not Rated | 2h 11min | Biography, Drama | 3 March 2006 (Austria)
A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Director: Raoul Ruiz (as Raúl Ruiz) | Stars: John Malkovich, Veronica Ferres, Stephen Dillane |
La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
Unrated | 3h 58min | Drama | 4 September 1991 (France)
The former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist. Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle Béart |
The Best Offer (2013)
R | 2h 11min | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 1 January 2014 (USA)
A lonely art expert working for a mysterious and reclusive heiress finds not only her art worth examining.
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Sylvia Hoeks |
Tony Takitani (2004)
1h 45min | Drama | 29 January 2005 (Japan)
When technical illustrator Tony Takitani asks his wife to resist her all-consuming obsession for designer clothes, the consequences are tragic.
Director: Jun Ichikawa | Stars: Issei Ogata, Rie Miyazawa, Shinohara Takahumi |
My Mother's Smile (2002)
1h 45min | Drama | 19 April 2002 (Italy)
A celebrated painter receives a visit from a cardinal's assistant, who informs him that his mother could become a saint.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Sergio Castellitto, Jacqueline Lustig, Chiara Conti |
The Mill and the Cross (2011)
Not Rated | 1h 32min | Drama, History | 18 March 2011 (Poland)
This movie focuses on a dozen of the five hundred characters depicted in Bruegel's painting. The theme of Christ's suffering is set against religious persecution in Flanders in 1564.
Director: Lech Majewski | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Michael York, Charlotte Rampling |
The Lovers on the Bridge (1991)
R | 2h 5min | Drama, Romance | 2 July 1999 (USA)
Alex, who's homeless and addicted to alcohol, and Michèle, who's losing her sight, form a relationship while sleeping rough on Paris's Pont-Neuf bridge.
Director: Leos Carax | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant, Klaus-Michael Grüber |
The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
R | 1h 48min | Comedy, Drama, History | 30 June 1983 (Netherlands)
A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.
Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Anne-Louise Lambert |
Painted Fire (2002)
Unrated | 2h | Biography, Drama, History | 10 May 2002 (South Korea)
In a time of political and social unrest in nineteenth-century Korea, an uncouth, self-taught painter explores his natural talent amidst the repressive world around him.
Director: Kwon-taek Im | Stars: Min-sik Choi, Sung-Ki Ahn, Ho-jeong Yu |
Portrait of Jennie (1948)
Approved | 1h 26min | Drama, Romance, Fantasy | 22 April 1949 (USA)
A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore |
I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)
R | 1h 43min | Biography, Drama | 1 May 1996 (USA)
This is the story of Valerie Solanas who was a 60s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce. After many times of ignoring her, Valerie shot him.
Director: Mary Harron | Stars: Lili Taylor, Jared Harris, Martha Plimpton |
La Vie de Bohème (1992)
Not Rated | 1h 43min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 29 July 1993 (USA)
Three struggling artists try to make passable livings in Paris despite knock backs and tragedies.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: Matti Pellonpää, Evelyne Didi, André Wilms |
Montparnasse 19 (1958)
Not Rated | 1h 48min | Biography, Drama | 4 April 1958 (France)
Biographic movie about the last year of the famous Italian painter Modigliani. Modigliani, a poor painter in Paris of 1919, falls in love with a daughter from a wealthy family.
Director: Jacques Becker | Stars: Gérard Philipe, Lilli Palmer, Lea Padovani |
Goya - or the Hard Way to Enlightenment (1971)
2h 16min | Drama | 27 October 1972 (Finland)
As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya - played by the great Lithuanian actor Donatas Banionis (The Red Tent, Solaris) - has attained wealth and reputation.
Director: Konrad Wolf | Stars: Donatas Banionis, Olivera Katarina, Fred Düren |
Conversations with My Gardener (2007)
1h 49min | Comedy, Drama | 6 June 2007 (France)
A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men.
Director: Jean Becker | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Fanny Cottençon |
The Belly of an Architect (1987)
R | 1h 59min | Drama | 16 October 1987 (UK)
An architect supervising an exhibition starts to have mysterious stomach pains while his life slowly falls apart.
Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Brian Dennehy, Chloe Webb, Lambert Wilson |
Van Gogh (1991)
R | 2h 38min | Biography, Drama | 30 October 1992 (USA)
The final sixty-seven days of Van Gogh's life are examined.
Director: Maurice Pialat | Stars: Jacques Dutronc, Alexandra London, Bernard Le Coq |
The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (1978)
1h 6min | Drama, Mystery | 4 April 1979 (France)
Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting,
Director: Raoul Ruiz | Stars: Jean Rougeul, Chantal Paley, Jean Raynaud |
Kusama - Infinity (2018)
Not Rated | 76min | Documentary | 2018 (USA)
Now the top-selling female artist in the world, Yayoi Kusama overcame impossible odds to bring her radical artistic vision to the world stage.
Director: Heather Lenz
Caravaggio (2007)
3h | Biography, History | TV Movie 20 June 2009
The tumultuous and adventurous life of Michelangelo Merisi, controversial artist, called by Fate to become the immortal Caravaggio. A violent genius that will dare to defy the ideal vision
Director: Angelo Longoni | Stars: Alessio Boni, Elena Sofia Ricci, Jordi Mollà |
Caravaggio (1986)
1h 33min | Biography, Drama, History | 29 August 1986 (USA)
A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Noam Almaz, Dexter Fletcher, Nigel Terry |
Utamaro and His Five Women (1946)
1h 46min | Drama | 15 December 1946 (Japan)
Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the brothels of Tokyo provide his models.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Minosuke Bandô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kôtarô Bandô |
Museum Hours (2012)
Not Rated | 1h 47min | Drama | 6 September 2013 (UK)
When a Vienna museum guard befriends an enigmatic visitor, the grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum becomes a mysterious crossroads that sparks explorations of their lives, the city, and the ways in which works of art reflect and shape the world.
Director: Jem Cohen | Stars: Mary Margaret O'Hara, Bobby Sommer, Ela Piplits |
Japón (2002)
R | 2h 2min | Drama | 4 April 2003 (Mexico)
A painter from the big city goes to a remote canyon to commit suicide. To reach some calmness, he stays at the farmstead of Ascen, an old, religious woman. Although but a few words are spoken, love grows.
Director: Carlos Reygadas | Stars: Alejandro Ferretis, Magdalena Flores, Yolanda Villa |
Camille Claudel 1915 (2013)
Not Rated | 1h 35min | Biography, Drama | 13 March 2013 (France)
Winter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's reclusive life, as she waits for a visit from her brother, Paul Claudel.
Director: Bruno Dumont | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Jean-Luc Vincent, Emmanuel Kauffman | S
The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)
R | 1h 42min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 28 August 2015 (USA)
A teen artist living in 1970s San Francisco enters into an affair with her mother's boyfriend.
Director: Marielle Heller | Stars: Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgård, Kristen Wiig |
Renoir (2012)
R | 1h 51min | Biography, Drama, History | 2 January 2013 (France)
Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Jean Renoir -- son of the Impressionist painter, Pierre-Auguste -- returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I.
Director: Gilles Bourdos | Stars: Michel Bouquet, Christa Théret, Vincent Rottiers |
The Horse's Mouth (1958)
Not Rated | 1h 37min | Comedy | 11 November 1958 (USA)
A somewhat vulgar but dedicated painter searches for the perfect realization of his artistic vision, much to the chagrin of others.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Renee Houston |
National Gallery (2014)
Not Rated | 3h | Documentary | 8 October 2014 (France)
A documentary that goes inside one of the great museums of the world: The National Gallery in London.
Director: Frederick Wiseman | Stars: Leanne Benjamin, Kausikan Rajeshkumar, Jo Shapcott |
Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (1998)
2h 2min | Drama, Romance | 15 May 1998 (France)
Friends of a recently deceased minor painter Jean-Baptiste take a train in Paris for Limoges, where he wished to be buried, and all the people on the train have their problems.
Director: Patrice Chéreau | Stars: Pascal Greggory, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Charles Berling |
All Around Us (2008)
2h 20min | Drama | 7 June 2008 (Japan)
Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure the tragedy of their first child’s death, hope slowly unfolds and their love story flickers to life once again.
Director: Ryosuke Hashiguchi | Stars: Lily Franky, Tae Kimura, Masaaki Akahori |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
PG-13 | 1h 36min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 15 August 2008 (USA)
Two friends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.
Director: Woody Allen| Stars: Penelope Cruz, Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem, Rebecca Hall|
The World of Suzie Wong (1960)
Approved | 2h 6min | Drama, Romance | 1961 (Austria)
A businessman moves to Hong Kong to pursue a career as an artist and falls in love with a prostitute he hires as a model.
Director: Richard Quine | Stars: William Holden, Nancy Kwan, Sylvia Syms |
Age of Consent (1969)
R | 1h 38min | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 14 May 1969 (USA)
A grizzled Australian painter decides to jolt his stale creativity in a remote island on the Great Barrier Reef, where he meets an alluring young islander who becomes his enchanting model. Could the untamed girl be his long-awaited muse?
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: James Mason, Helen Mirren, Jack MacGowran |
Edvard Munch (1974)
Not Rated | 3h 30min | Biography, Drama, History | TV Movie 12 November 1974
Following a rough chronology from 1884 to 1894, when Norwegian artist Edvard Munch began expressionism and established himself as northern Europe's most maligned and controversial artist
Director: Peter Watkins | Stars: Geir Westby, Gro Fraas, Kerstii Allum |
A Quiet Place in the Country (1968)
R | 1h 46min | Drama, Horror | 15 November 1968 (Italy)
An accomplished painter rents a dilapidated villa in the country, and soon finds himself absorbed in the property's history, particularly the murder of a sex-obsessed countess who died there decades prior.
Director: Elio Petri | Stars: Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave, Georges Géret |
In the Realms of the Unreal (2004)
Unrated | 1h 21min | Documentary, Biography | 29 March 2008 (Japan)
A documentary about the reclusive Chicago-based artist Henry Darger. Henry Darger was so reclusive that when he died his neighbors were surprised to find a 15,145-page manuscript along with hundreds of paintings depicting The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glodeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Cased by the Child Slave Rebellion.
Director: Jessica Yu | Stars: Henry Darger, Dakota Fanning, Larry Pine |
Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (2012)
Not Rated | 1h 46min | Documentary, Biography, History | 5 July 2012 (Russia)
A documentary that follows the Serbian performance artist as she prepares for a retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Directors: Matthew Akers, Jeff Dupre (co-director) | Stars: Marina Abramovic, Ulay, Klaus Biesenbach |
Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
R | 1h 27min | Documentary, Comedy, Crime | 14 May 2010 (USA)
Following the style of some of the world's most prolific street artists, an amateur filmmaker makes a foray into the art world.
Director: Banksy | Stars: Banksy, Mr. Brainwash, Space Invader |
Vincent (1981)
1h 28min | Biography | TV Movie 1981
A one-man filmed play of Leonard Nimoy's adaptation of "Van Gogh" (1979) by Phillip Stephens.
Director: Leonard Nimoy | Star: Leonard Nimoy
Georgia O'Keeffe (2009)
Not Rated | 1h 29min | Biography, Drama, Romance | TV Movie 19 September 2009
Biopic of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
Director: Bob Balaban | Stars: Joan Allen, Jeremy Irons, Ed Begley Jr. |
Herb & Dorothy (2008)
Not Rated | 1h 27min | Documentary, Biography | 13 November 2010 (Japan)
He was a postal clerk. She was a librarian. With their modest means, the couple managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history. Meet Herb and Dorothy Vogel, whose shared passion and disciplines and defied stereotypes and redefined what it means to be an art collector.
Director: Megumi Sasaki | Stars: Paula Antebi, Will Barnet, Robert Barry |
Paula (2016)
2h 3min | Biography, Drama, History | 15 December 2016 (Germany)
The life and career of the breakthrough German painter, Paula Modersohn-Becker. Painting is an unacceptable vocation for a woman in provincial Germany in the year 1900, but budding artist Paula Becker is determined to make her own rules.
Director: Christian Schwochow | Stars: Carla Juri, Albrecht Schuch, Roxane Duran |
Loving Vincent (2017)
PG-13 | 1h 34min | Animation, Biography, Crime | 22 September 2017 (USA)
In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh (Robert Gulaczyk) to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.
Directors: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman Stars: Douglas Booth, Jerome Flynn, Robert Gulaczyk |
Rothko's Rooms (2000)
Documentary | TV Movie 2000
BBC Documentary on the life and works of American artist Mark Rothko
| Stars: Sean Scully, Brian O'Doherty, Tom Hill |
Yumeji (1991)
Not Rated | 2h 8min | Drama | 31 May 1991 (Japan)
Painter and poet Yumeji Takehisa (1884-1934) gets involved with a beautiful widow, becoming a rival of her dead husband's ghost and the jealous lover who murdered him.
Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Kenji Sawada, Tomoko Mariya, Masumi Miyazaki |
Cutie and the Boxer (2013)
R | 1h 22min | Documentary, Biography | 1 November 2013 (UK)
This candid New York love story explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of famed boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife, Noriko. Anxious to shed her role as her overbearing husband's assistant, Noriko finds an identity of her own.
Director: Zachary Heinzerling | Stars: Ushio Shinohara, Noriko Shinohara, Alex Shinohara |
Grandma Moses (1950)
21min | Short | 23 October 1950 (USA)
1950 short film nominated for an Oscar in the category “Best Short Subject, One-reel”
Director: Jerome Hill | Stars: Grandma Moses, Archibald Macleish
Sharaku (1995)
1h 55min | Biography, Drama, History | 4 February 1995 (Japan)
The ukiyo-e (woodblock print) artist Sharaku is an enigmatic puzzle in the world of Japanese art. Working at an age when such masters of the trade as Hokusai and Utamaro were at their zenith, Sharaku suddenly emerged out of obscurity and produced roughly 140 strikingly brilliant portraits of Kabuki performers, only to disappear just as suddenly. To date, no one knows about his true identity or about his post-ukiyo-e career.
Director: Masahiro Shinoda | Stars: Hiroyuki Sanada, Furankî Sakai, Shima Iwashita |
Pirosmani (1969)
1h 25min | Biography, Drama, History | 4 October 1974 (Finland)
The story of self-taught Georgian painter Niko Pirosmani.
Director: Giorgi Shengelaia (as Giorgi Shengelaya) | Stars: Avtandil Varazi, Dodo Abashidze, Zurab Kapianidze |
Nightwatching (2007)
R | 2h 14min | Biography, Drama, History | 2 November 2007 (Poland)
An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting 'The Night Watch'.
Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes, Eva Birthistle |
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012)
R | 1h 31min | Documentary | 14 June 2012 (Germany)
A documentary that chronicles artist and activist Ai Weiwei as he prepares for a series of exhibitions and gets into an increasing number of clashes with the Chinese government.
Director: Alison Klayman | Stars: Weiwei Ai, Dan Ai, Lao Ai |
The House of the Laughing Windows (1976)
La casa dalle finestre che ridono (original title)
1h 50min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 20 August 1976 (Italy)
Stefano, a young restorer, is commissioned to save a controversial mural located in the church of a small, isolated village.
Director: Pupi Avati | Stars: Lino Capolicchio, Francesca Marciano, Gianni Cavina |
A Sunday in the Country (1984)
G | 1h 30min | Drama | 11 April 1984 (France)
In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so often… An intimist chronicle in which what is not shown, what is guessed, is more important than how it looks, dealing with what each character expects of life.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Louis Ducreux, Michel Aumont, Sabine Azéma |
Shirley: Visions of Reality (2013)
1h 33min | Documentary | 26 December 2013
13 of Edward Hopper's paintings are brought alive by the film, telling the story of a woman, whose thoughts, emotions and contemplations let us observe an era in American history.
Director: Gustav Deutsch | Stars: Stephanie Cumming, Christoph Bach, Florentín Groll |
Late Spring (2014)
1h 42min | Drama, Romance | 20 November 2014 (South Korea)
Set in the 1960’s. Joo-Goo (Park Yong-Woo) is viewed as Korea’s best sculptor, but he suffers from a disease which will slowly paralyze his body. He gives up interests in the arts and just spends his days meaninglessly. His wife, Jung-sook (Kim Seo-hyung), tries to find a nude model for him, hoping the model might inspire him to sculpt again. One day, Jung-sook meets Min-gyung (Lee Yoo-young).
Director: Geun-hyun Cho (as Keun-Hyun Cho) | Stars: Yong-woo Park, Seo-hyeong Kim, Yoo-Young Lee |
The Rebel (Call Me Genius) (1961)
1h 45min | Comedy | 19 March 1961 (UK)
Anthony Hancock gives up his office job to become an abstract artist. He has a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics scorn his work. Nevertheless, he impresses an emerging very talented artist. Hancock proceeds to con the art world into thinking he is a genius.
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Tony Hancock, George Sanders, Paul Massie |
Fuku-chan of FukuFuku Flats (2014)
1h 50min | Comedy | 3 July 2014 (USA)
32-year-old Tatsuo Fukuda, nickname "Fuku-chan" (Miyuki Oshima), is a painter who lives in a run-down apartment complex called Fukufuku Flats.
Director: Yosuke Fujita | Stars: Yoshiyoshi Arakawa, Kanji Furutachi, Kami Hiraiwa |
Those Happy Years (2013)
1h 46min | Drama, Romance | 3 October 2013 (Italy)
A narcissistic artist finds his self-satisfied world turned upside down in the wake of a disastrous exhibition and his previously devoted wife's extra-marital inclinations.
Director: Daniele Luchetti | Stars: Kim Rossi Stuart, Micaela Ramazzotti, Martina Gedeck |
The Moderns (1988)
R | 2h 6min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | May 1988 (USA)
Nick Hart is a struggling American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920s Paris. He spends most of his time drinking and socializing in local café’s and pestering gallery owner Libby Valentin to sell his paintings. He becomes involved in a plot by wealthy art patroness Nathalie de Ville to forge three paintings.
Director: Alan Rudolph | Stars: Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, Wallace Shawn |
Junebug (2005)
R | 1h 46min | Comedy, Drama | 16 September 2005 (USA)
A dealer in "outsider" art travels from Chicago to North Carolina to meet her new in-laws, challenging the equilibrium of this middle class Southern home.
Director: Phil Morrison | Stars: Embeth Davidtz, Alessandro Nivola, David Kuhn |
Mr. Turner (2014)
R | 150 min | Biography, Drama, History
An exploration of the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric, British painter J.M.W. Turner's life.
Director: Mike Leigh | Stars: Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey
Little Ashes (2008)
R | 112 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.
Director: Paul Morrison | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Javier Beltrán, Matthew McNulty, Marina Gatell
Banksy Does New York (2014)
Not Rated | 79 min | Documentary
Documentary chronicling the famed street artist's "31 works of art in 31 days" in New York city.
Director: Chris Moukarbel | Stars: Beth Stebner, Keegan Hamilton, Jaime Rojo, Steven P. Harrington
Desperate Romantics (TV Mini-Series 2009)
Six-part BBC drama series set in and among the alleys, galleries and flesh-houses of 19th-century industrial London, following the rise of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a vagabond group of English painters, poets and critics.
Creators: Peter Bowker, Franny Moyle | Stars: Samuel Barnett, Sam Crane, Josie Farmiloe
Un Chien Andalou (1929)
Not Rated | 16min | Short, Fantasy, Horror | 6 June 1929 (France)
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 21 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
Director: Luis Buñuel (as Louis Bunuel) | Stars: Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Luis Buñuel |