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by Eriko_Tsogo | created - 17 Dec 2011 | updated - 16 Feb 2014 | Publicdrama, biographies, documentaries and fictions about or which show the influence of visual artists.
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101. Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock? (2006)
PG-13 | 74 min | Documentary
In this documentary, veteran filmmaker Harry Moses exposes the controversy in the world of high priced artwork. He paints a vivid picture of how art is bought and sold in America.
Director: Harry Moses | Stars: Teri Horton, Tod M. Volpe, Ben Heller, Nick Carone
Votes: 1,292 | Gross: $0.01M
102. Goya, historia de una soledad (1971)
110 min | Biography, Drama
Goya's life in the most juicy dramatic stage of the painter's biography, when he is over forty years old and the first symptoms of his deafness are manifested. From her romantic ... See full summary »
Director: Nino Quevedo | Stars: Francisco Rabal, Irina Demick, Jacques Perrin, José María Prada
Votes: 43
103. Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment (1980)
95 min | Biography, Drama
The life of cursed painter Egon Shiele, specialized in nudes, and on his late conflicting love for two women.
Director: Herbert Vesely | Stars: Mathieu Carrière, Jane Birkin, Christine Kaufmann, Kristina van Eyck
Votes: 464
104. A Year Ago in Winter (2008)
129 min | Drama
A renowned artist must uncover a young dancer's secrets in order to truly capture her likeness for a commissioned work.
Director: Caroline Link | Stars: Karoline Herfurth, Josef Bierbichler, Corinna Harfouch, Hanns Zischler
Votes: 1,648
105. Dialogue avec mon jardinier (2007)
109 min | Comedy, Drama
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... See full summary »
Director: Jean Becker | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Fanny Cottençon, Alexia Barlier
Votes: 3,768
106. A Quiet Place in the Country (1968)
R | 106 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After moving into a dilapidated rural villa to reinvigorate his creative energies, a neurotic artist becomes obsessed with a beautiful countess who died there many years prior.
Director: Elio Petri | Stars: Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave, Georges Géret, Gabriella Boccardo
Votes: 2,041
107. Nainsukh (2010)
Not Rated | 90 min | Biography, Drama, History
A depiction of royalty in former hill state of Guler in form of paintings by a lineage of period artists. These depictions are recreated for visual understanding of the circumstances behind... See full summary »
Director: Amit Dutta | Stars: Manish Soni, Nitin Goel, Rajesh. K.
Votes: 276
108. Picasso in München (1997)
101 min | Drama
The painter Picasso awakes from the dead, steals one of his paintings from a psychiatrist's and his wife's kitchen and wanders through Munich, where he meets the psychiatrist's patient, ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Achternbusch | Stars: Herbert Achternbusch, Doris Jung, Naomi Semiramis, Barbara Gass
Votes: 31
109. Painéis de São Vicente de Fora - Visão Poética (2010)
16 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
The characters from a historical piece of art come to life to discuss poignant themes such as war and world peace.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Ricardo Trêpa, Diogo Dória, Daniel Punilhas, Ângelo do Carmo
Votes: 88
110.
Les enthousiastes (1979–1982)
Episode:
Le jardin des délices de Jérôme Bosch
(1981)
34 min | Documentary, Short
An episode of the tv series "Regards Entendus" focuses on the complex triptych oil painting, a work of Christian art by a Northern Renaissance figure Hieronymus Bosch, an oak panel made circa 1500 and housed in Madrid's Prado.
Director: Jean Eustache | Stars: Jean-Noël Picq, Sylvie Blim, Catherine Nadaud, Jérôme Prieur
Votes: 109
111. Akvarel (1958 TV Short)
10 min | Short
A man tries to escape from his wife in order to visit an exhibition, where he sees a painting representing his own house.
Director: Otar Iosseliani | Stars: Gennadi Krasheninnikov, Sofiko Chiaureli, Otar Iosseliani, Vladimir Lebedev
Votes: 183
112. I.M. Caravaggio (2010)
92 min | Biography, Drama, History
In a daring tale of identity crisis, witness the rise and fall of a modern day Master, Ian Milano, who works and lives as 17th Century Italian Painter Caravaggio in order to forge his artistic genius and unlock his sociopathic nature.
Director: Derek Stonebarger | Stars: Ryan Eicher, Beverly Lynne, Fletcher Sharp, Alastair Bayardo
Votes: 44
113. Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies (2008)
Not Rated | 60 min | Documentary
A documentary that looks at how early filmmaking influenced the Cubist painters Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
Director: Arne Glimcher | Stars: Alexander Blaise, Adam Gopnik, Tom Gunning, Owen Lund
Votes: 231
114. Miró, l'altre (1969)
18 min | Documentary, Short
As publicity for the exhibit Miró L’altre, organized by the Colegio de Arquitectos de Catalunya in 1969, the Board commissioned Pere Portabella to film Miró painting the “poster” for the exhibit on the ground floor windows of the building.
Director: Pere Portabella | Star: Joan Miró
Votes: 86
115. Life Classes (1988)
117 min | Drama
The odyssey of a young Cape Breton woman as she moves to the big city (Halifax) and supports herself after the birth of her illegitimate child by posing for college art classes, on her way to becoming an artist in her own right.
Director: William D. MacGillivray | Stars: Trudi Petersen, Jane Purves, Jacinta Cormier, Leon Dubinsky
Votes: 70
116. Masquerade in Vienna (1934)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
Vienna 1905: A risque drawing is published and threatens to compromise the model, a doctor's wife. Artist Heideneck protects her and invents a name. But the name exists, and this respectable lady is drawn into the artist's shady affairs.
Director: Willi Forst | Stars: Paula Wessely, Anton Walbrook, Olga Tschechowa, Hans Moser
Votes: 394
117. Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (2010)
Not Rated | 105 min | Documentary
Starting in 2000, German artist Anselm Kiefer began constructing a series of large elaborate structures, comprising 48 buildings, a labyrinth of tunnels, bridges, lakes and towers. The film bears witness to an incredible creative process.
Director: Sophie Fiennes | Stars: Anselm Kiefer, Bill Katz, Klaus Dermutz
Votes: 311 | Gross: $0.05M
118. Bluebeard (1944)
Passed | 72 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
In Paris, an artist hires portrait models, and after he finishes their portraits, he strangles them.
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: John Carradine, Jean Parker, Nils Asther, Ludwig Stössel
Votes: 2,135
119. Hokusai (1953)
23 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
A documentary about the life and art of wood-block artist Katsushika Hokusai.
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara | Star: Yoshi Katô
Votes: 373
120. Nude with Oranges (1996)
110 min | Drama
Set during a civil revolt in the mid-19th century where Caribbean myths affect the lives of two characters: an indigenous man enlisted in the Liberal Army, and a mute white woman who develop a romance while seeking a new life.
Director: Luis Alberto Lamata | Stars: Lourdes Valera, Daniel Alvarado, Alexander Milic, Luis Fernandez
Votes: 69
121. Cenneti Beklerken (2006)
107 min | Drama, History
Eflatun is a master miniature artist who's living in 17th century Istanbul. One day, he's taken to the vizier's mansion by force. There he learns that Danyal, one of the Ottoman princes who... See full summary »
Director: Dervis Zaim | Stars: Serhat Tutumluer, Melisa Sözen, Mesut Akusta, Nihat Ileri
Votes: 1,619
122. Csontváry (1980)
112 min | Drama
Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka the one-ideaed Hungarian painter was thought to be crazy by his peers, but he eventually became a significant artist.
Director: Zoltán Huszárik | Stars: Itschak Fintzi, István Holl, Andrea Drahota, Margit Dajka
Votes: 250
123. Golub: Late Works Are the Catastrophes (2004)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary
The work and times of American artist, Leon Golubfrom 1985 to his death in 2004, taking us from images of interrogations and torture to the ironies and dark humor of old-age. Over-sized ... See full summary »
Directors: Jerry Blumenthal, Gordon Quinn
Votes: 26
124. Chucalezna (1968)
22 min | Documentary, Short
The film shows the children of the rural school of Chucalezna, in the Quebrada de Humahuaca, learning to express themselves pictorially using the classroom walls as easels and paper donated by the teacher's son as cloth.
Director: Jorge Preloran
Votes: 14
125. The Universe of Keith Haring (2008)
90 min | Documentary
A portrait of New York artist Keith Haring.
Director: Christina Clausen | Stars: Fab 5 Freddy, Jeffrey Deitch, Julia Gruen, Kim Hastreiter
Votes: 471
126. Utamaro: Yume to shiriseba (1977)
140 min | Biography, Drama
Follows the life of the famous classical printmaker, Utamaro Kitagawa, set during the time when Utamaro is commissioned to produce pornographic woodblocks.
Director: Akio Jissôji | Stars: Shin Kishida, Eiji Okada, Mikio Narita, Shingo Yamashiro
Votes: 108
127. Come to the Stable (1949)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Drama
Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospital.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Elsa Lanchester
Votes: 1,608
128. The Pleasure of Love in Iran (1976)
Not Rated | 6 min | Documentary, Short, Romance
A couple find their erotic love mirrored perfectly in the architecture and mosaics of Iran.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Valérie Mairesse, Ali Rafie, Thérèse Liotard
Votes: 1,179
129. The Rebel (2007)
R | 103 min | Action, Drama, Romance
France employs local secret agents in Vietnam 1922 to eliminate resistance. The rebel leader's pretty daughter gets captured. Later an agent seems to have fallen in love with her and helps her escape. He flees, too. Lots of martial arts.
Director: Charlie Nguyen | Stars: Johnny Tri Nguyen, Veronica Ngo, Dustin Nguyen, Thang Nguyen
Votes: 2,370
130. The Mill and the Cross (2011)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, History
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, Joanna Litwin
Votes: 4,430 | Gross: $0.31M
131. Frida (1983)
108 min | Biography, Drama
The most prominent female painter of Latin America, Frida Kahlo, is agonizing in her Coyoacán home. She evokes memories of her childhood, of the streetcar accident that caused her terrible ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Leduc | Stars: Ofelia Medina, Juan José Gurrola, Max Kerlow, Claudio Brook
Votes: 535
132. Laberint (1980)
11 min | Short
Three female dancers perform weird slow motion choreography with the annoying music of Carles Santo.
Director: Agustí Villaronga | Stars: Elisa Huertas, Alicia Pérez-Cabrero, Isabel Ribas
Votes: 17
134. Di Cavalcanti (1977)
18 min | Short, Documentary
Glauber Rocha films the funeral of his friend Di Cavalcanti, one of the most important Brazilian painters and artists of all time. The director/writer pays his tribute to Di by narrating an... See full summary »
Director: Glauber Rocha | Stars: Joel Barcellos, Di Cavalcanti, Marina Montini, Antonio Pitanga
Votes: 368
135. Cookies (1975)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
Henri is a middle-aged travelling umbrella salesman from Saumur. One night on the roads of Brittany he hits a boar with his car. He meets Émile, a rude and carefree painter who lives in a cottage near Riec-sur-Belon.
Director: Joël Séria | Stars: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Claude Piéplu, Jeanne Goupil, Dolores McDonough
Votes: 1,081
136. Elegiya dorogi (2001)
48 min | Drama, Fantasy
From a misty night into the dark exposition rooms of a museum to ponder philosophically at paintings by 'Pieter Jansz Saenredam', 'Hercules Pieterszoon Seghers', Hendrikus van de Sande ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Star: Aleksandr Sokurov
Votes: 455
137. Dante's Inferno (2007)
Not Rated | 88 min | Animation, Comedy
A darkly comedic travelogue of the underworld - set against an all-too-familiar urban backdrop of used car lots, gated communities, strip malls, and the U.S. Capitol. And populated with a contemporary cast of reprobates, including famous - and infamous - politicians, presidents, popes, pimps. And the Prince of Darkness himself.
Director: Sean Meredith | Stars: Tony Abatemarco, Scott Adsit, Matt Besser, Bill Chott
Votes: 1,534
138. The Visible and the Invisible (2007)
118 min | Drama
The painter Marquard von Polheim suddenly loses all inspiration after being awarded a prestigious art prize. While his life partner Maria, also a painter, gradually distances herself from him, Marquard embarks on an aimless search
Director: Rudolf Thome | Stars: Hannelore Elsner, Guntram Brattia, Rufus Beck, Hansa Czypionka
Votes: 63
139. Edo Porn (1981)
Not Rated | 119 min | Biography, Drama, History
The famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Ken Ogata, Toshiyuki Nishida, Yûko Tanaka, Kanako Higuchi
Votes: 465
140. Les messieurs (2005)
52 min | Documentary
At the House of Artists at Gugging Psychiatric Hospital, near Vienna, Austria, fourteen painters live and work. The writing, often at the center of their works, inspires this film that ... See full summary »
Director: Patric Chiha
Votes: 8
141. La dolorosa (1934)
85 min | Drama
After a society lady abandons him for a cad, a sensitive young painter becomes a monk.But when his former beloved is later destitute with an illegitimate child, will he now be able to help her?
Director: Jean Grémillon | Stars: Rosita Díaz Gimeno, Mary Amparo Bosch, Pilar García, Eva López
Votes: 59
142. Pao Da Shuang Deng (1994)
R | 111 min | Drama, Romance
In 1920s China, the wealthy heiress of a fireworks business falls in love with an impoverished painter, but her late father's will prohibits their union.
Director: Ping He | Stars: Jing Ning, Gang Wu, Xiaorui Zhao, Yang Gao
Votes: 509 | Gross: $0.27M
143. La ville Louvre (1990)
TV-PG | 84 min | Documentary
A voyage into the museum's reserves, and part of the extra work involved to mount the expositions after the renovation of the Louvre in the 1980s, when the glass pyramid was added to the ... See full summary »
Director: Nicolas Philibert
Votes: 196
144. Bielutin - Dans le jardin du temps (2011)
30 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Clément Cogitore | Stars: Ely Bielutin, Nina Bielutin
Votes: 21
145. Ce que mes yeux ont vu (2007)
88 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Lucie Audibert, a student of Art History, does research work on Watteau. She is persuaded that a hidden sense that nobody has ever deciphered can be found in a few of his paintings. The ... See full summary »
Director: Laurent de Bartillat | Stars: Sylvie Testud, Jean-Pierre Marielle, James Thierrée, Agathe Dronne
Votes: 692
146. Le jardinier d'Argenteuil (1966)
86 min | Comedy, Crime
Under his daring look of flower lover and naive painter, Father Tulipe is a counterfeiter who only makes small cuts to improve his ordinary.
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Jean Gabin, Liselotte Pulver, Pierre Vernier, Alfred Adam
Votes: 351
147. The Empty Canvas (1963)
105 min | Drama
The son of a dead Italian nobleman and a wealthy American woman forgets the disappointment of finding he has no talent for being a painter by succumbing to the sexual advances of an amoral model who believes in indiscriminate love affairs.
Director: Damiano Damiani | Stars: Bette Davis, Horst Buchholz, Catherine Spaak, Isa Miranda
Votes: 1,032
148. Archipelago (2010)
Not Rated | 114 min | Drama
Deep fractures within a family dynamic begin to surface during a getaway to the Isles of Scilly.
Director: Joanna Hogg | Stars: Christopher Baker, Kate Fahy, Tom Hiddleston, Lydia Leonard
Votes: 3,062
149. Revelation (1918)
70 min | Drama, Romance
Joline, a cabaret singer in Paris, models for her lover, painter Paul Granville. Paul becomes famous for his paintings of Joline in the guise of famous women like Cleopatra and Salome. But ... See full summary »
Director: George D. Baker | Stars: Charles Bryant, Alla Nazimova, Frank Currier, Syn De Conde
150. The Moon and Sixpence (1942)
Approved | 89 min | Drama, Romance
Loosely inspired by Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-class life, his family, and his duties to start painting, as he has ... See full summary »
Director: Albert Lewin | Stars: George Sanders, Herbert Marshall, Doris Dudley, Eric Blore
Votes: 879
151. Hakob Hovnatanyan (1967)
8 min | Documentary, Short
Exploring the art of Armenian portraitist Hakob Hovnatanyan, Parajanov revives the culture of Tbilisi of the 19th century.
Director: Sergei Parajanov
Votes: 398
152. Gerhard Richter Painting (2011)
Unrated | 97 min | Documentary
A documentary on the German artist that includes glimpses at his studio, which has not been seen in decades.
Director: Corinna Belz | Stars: Gerhard Richter, Norbert Arns, Hubert Becker, Sabine Moritz-Richter
Votes: 772 | Gross: $0.24M
154. Edwin Parker (2011)
29 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Tacita Dean | Stars: Butch Bryant, Nicola Del Roscio, Gloria J. Miller, Cy Twombly
155. The Double Steps (2011)
86 min | Adventure, Drama
A conceptual reimagining of painter François Augiéras' life as he believed that the best way to escape without a trace is to walk backwards.
Director: Isaki Lacuesta | Stars: Bokar Dembele, Miquel Barceló, Alou Cisse, Hamadoun Kassogué
Votes: 179
156. Miotte vu par Raúl Ruiz (2002)
80 min | Documentary
The working process of abstract painter Jean Miotte is observed in great detail in director Raoul Ruiz's unconventional documentary.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Star: Jean Miotte
Votes: 24
157. 100 minuta slave (2004)
100 min | Biography, Drama
True story about the tragic life of a famous late 19th century deaf female Croatian watercolor painter Slava Raskaj.
Director: Dalibor Matanic | Stars: Sanja Vejnovic, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Vili Matula, Natasa Lusetic
Votes: 427
158. Zorn (1994)
126 min | Biography, Drama
The art, life and times of Swedish painter Anders Zorn during the first two decades of the twentieth century.
Director: Gunnar Hellström | Stars: Gunnar Hellström, Linda Kozlowski, Liv Ullmann, Stig Grybe
Votes: 329
159. Always on Sunday (1962)
95 min | Comedy
A roving Roman's weekend becomes a nightmare of traffic mix-ups, marital mix-ups and hilarious make-ups.
Director: Giulio Petroni | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Raimondo Vianello, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Anna Maria Ferrero
Votes: 24
160. The Rape of Europa (2006)
Unrated | 117 min | Documentary, History, War
The story of Nazi Germany's plundering of Europe's great works of art during World War II and Allied efforts to minimize the damage.
Directors: Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, Nicole Newnham | Stars: Joan Allen, E. Randol Schoenberg, Maria Altmann, Wolfgang Fischer
Votes: 1,658
161. Vincent and Me (1990)
100 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
Jo meets a mysterious art dealer who buys some of her drawings and commissions her to make more. She asks some friends for help and sets off to Amsterdam to look for the mysterious man.
Director: Michael Rubbo | Stars: Tchéky Karyo, Nina Petronzio, Christopher Forrest, Paul Klerk
Votes: 330
162. Favourites of the Moon (1984)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A porcelain table service and a painting from the 19th century pass from hand to hand and deteriorate over time, sealing the fate of different characters who cross paths in an unusual Paris.
Director: Otar Iosseliani | Stars: Katja Rupé, Alix de Montaigu, François Michel, Jean-Pierre Beauviala
Votes: 883
163. Renoir (2012)
R | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History
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. At his ... See full summary »
Director: Gilles Bourdos | Stars: Michel Bouquet, Christa Théret, Vincent Rottiers, Thomas Doret
Votes: 5,994 | Gross: $2.29M
164. Rembrandt (1936)
Not Rated | 85 min | Biography, Drama
The respected painter takes to drink and faces down scandal after his wife dies.
Director: Alexander Korda | Stars: Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester, Edward Chapman
Votes: 1,990
165. Georgia O'Keeffe (2009 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 89 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Biopic of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
Director: Bob Balaban | Stars: Joan Allen, Jeremy Irons, Ed Begley Jr., Kathleen Chalfant
Votes: 965
166. Big Eyes (I) (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
Votes: 99,140 | Gross: $14.48M
167. Bride of the Wind (2001)
R | 99 min | Biography, Drama, Music
This movie is a biopic of Alma Mahler, the wife of composer Gustav Mahler (as well as Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel), and the mistress of Oskar Kokoschka.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Sarah Wynter, Vincent Perez, Jonathan Pryce, Simon Verhoeven
Votes: 706 | Gross: $0.42M
168. Dagny (1977)
85 min | Drama
Dagny Juell was the doctors daughter who left Kongsvinger for Berlin to study music, and became famous painter Edvard Munchs mistress.
Director: Haakon Sandøy | Stars: Lise Fjeldstad, Daniel Olbrychski, Per Oscarsson, Nils Ole Oftebro
Votes: 53
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