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1. N-Ice Cello: Storia del violoncello di ghiaccio (2021)
78 min | Documentary
A tour from North to South of Italy following a composer and a sculptor, performing with a Cello made from the ice of an Alps' glacier. An impossible journey, an on the road adventure challenging time, complications and forces of nature.
Director: Corrado Bungaro | Stars: Giovanni Sollima, Tim Linhart
2. The Cats of Mirikitani (2006)
Not Rated | 74 min | Documentary
Documentary about red-beret-ed Jimmy Mirikitani, a feisty painter working and living on the street, near the World Trade Center, when 9/11 devastates the neighborhood. A nearby film editor,... See full summary »
Director: Linda Hattendorf | Stars: Bob Bruck, Jess Espinosa, Linda Hattendorf, Richard Hill
Votes: 745
3. A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks (2021)
89 min | Documentary
Follows Gordon Parks' stellar career from staff photographer for LIFE magazine, through his artistic development photographing everyday Americans, through his evolution as a novelist and groundbreaking filmmaker.
Director: John Maggio | Stars: Gordon Parks, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Muhammad Ali, Devin Allen
Votes: 290
4. Ezio Gribaudo - La bellezza ci salverà (2022)
85 min | Documentary
Director: Alberto Bader | Star: Ezio Gribaudo
Votes: 5
5. Power of Rome (2022)
83 min | Documentary
Director: Giovanni Troilo | Stars: Jacopo Olmo Antinori, Victoria Chapman, Luca Chikovani, Paolo Cives
Votes: 21
6. The Story Won't Die (2021)
83 min | Documentary
THE STORY WON'T DIE, from Award-winning filmmaker David Henry Gerson and Academy Award winning producer Odessa Rae, is an inspiring, timely look at a young generation of Syrian artists who ... See full summary »
Director: David Henry Gerson | Stars: Medhat Aldaabal, Tammam Azzam, Diala Brisli, Abu Hajar
Votes: 28
7. Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (2012)
Not Rated | 106 min | Documentary, Biography, History
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 | Stars: Marina Abramovic, Ulay, Klaus Biesenbach, David Balliano
Votes: 6,475 | Gross: $0.09M
8. Homecoming - Marina Abramovic and Her Children (2020)
83 min | Documentary
Marina Abramovic as she reflects on her life, her career, and the city of her youth.
Director: Boris Miljkovic | Star: Marina Abramovic
Votes: 62
9. Titian. The Empire of Color (2022)
53 min | Documentary
An account of the life and career of the painter Titian, active in Venice in the 1500s, his pre-occupation with expressions of color, and the way his work changed over time.
Directors: Giulio Boato, Laura Chiossone | Stars: Sara Lazzaro, Tommaso Amadio, Leonardo Scarpa, Giovanni Tomassetti
Votes: 16
10. The Sun and Richard Lippold (1966 Video)
30 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary examining the work of sculptor Richard Lippold, particular his sculpture of the sun at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Director: Leo Hurwitz
Votes: 39
11. A Bigger Splash (1973)
Not Rated | 106 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Semi-fictionalized documentary biopic of British artist David Hockney. After a difficult break-up, Hockney is left unable to paint, much to the concern of his friends. Titled after Hockney's pop-art painting 'A Bigger Splash'.
Director: Jack Hazan | Stars: David Hockney, Peter Schlesinger, Celia Birtwell, Henry Geldzahler
Votes: 631 | Gross: $0.09M
12. Munch: Love, Ghosts and Lady Vampires (2022)
90 min | Documentary
Modern society has an enormous debt to the painter Edvard Munch, from Andy Warhol to Ingmar Bergman, from Marina Abramovic to Jasper Jones. His paintings have become symbols, but also a sign of the tragedies in the twentieth century.
Director: Michele Mally | Stars: Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Leif Ove Andsnes, Giulia Bartrum, Elio Grazioli
Votes: 24
13. Infinito. L'universo di Luigi Ghirri (2022)
73 min | Documentary
Luigi Ghirri, an internationally renowned Italian photographer, wrote regularly throughout his life. His photography is reflected in his writing, which is at the same time a poetic ... See full summary »
Director: Matteo Parisini | Star: Stefano Accorsi
Votes: 33
14. Botticelli, Florence And The Medici (2021)
90 min | Drama
Renaissance Florence Medici was powerhouse of culture with dark side. Sandro Botticelli was able to project into his works, the lights and shadows of this era - the inventor of ideal Beauty in The Allegory of Spring and the Birth of Venus
Director: Marco Pianigiani | Star: Emilio Puggioni
Votes: 77
15. Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat (2017)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary
Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New York City, its people, and its tectonically shifting arts culture of the late 1970s and '80s shaped his vision.
Director: Sara Driver | Stars: Alexis Adler, Jean Michel Basquiat, Fab 5 Freddy, Patricia Field
Votes: 654 | Gross: $0.17M
16. Burning Man: Art on Fire (2020)
94 min | Documentary
An inspirational insight into the spectacular art at the center of this annual celebration, BURNING MAN: ART ON FIRE follows the unpredictable journey of the artists who defy reason to ... See full summary »
Director: Gerald Fox | Stars: Andrew Johnstone, Arthur Mamou-Mani, Kate Raudenbush, Flash Hopkins
Votes: 29
17. High Maintenance (2020)
66 min | Documentary
As he approaches 90, Dani Karavan embarks on an emotional, political journey. En route, the complex and fascinating character of one of the greatest artists of our time is revealed.
Director: Barak Heymann | Stars: Yehuda Bauer, Konstanty Gebert, Dani Karavan, Hava Karavan
Votes: 59
18. Il pittore dei due mondi (2023)
53 min | Documentary
Director: Lorenzo Borghini | Stars: Luca Alinari, Umberto Cecchi, Cristina Acidini, Eugenio Giani
19. Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide (2020)
77 min | Documentary
Documentary on the life of renowned street artist Kenny Scharf
Directors: Max Basch, Malia Scharf | Stars: Kenny Scharf, Jean Michel Basquiat, Irving Blum, Jeffrey Deitch
Votes: 52
20. Hockney (2014)
TV-G | 112 min | Documentary
The film looks back at Hockney's formative years in the British pop art scene and his experiences as a gay man.
Director: Randall Wright | Stars: David Hockney, Arthur Lambert, Colin Self, Don Bachardy
Votes: 378 | Gross: $0.12M
21. Bill Cunningham New York (2010)
Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A profile of the noted and extraordinarily cheerful veteran New York City fashion photographer.
Director: Richard Press | Stars: Bill Cunningham, Anna Wintour, Michael Kors, Editta Sherman
Votes: 5,670 | Gross: $1.51M
22. Hugo in Argentina (2021)
97 min | Documentary
A promising Italian cartoonist arrives in Buenos Aires in 1950, with the dream of reaching the United States, only to discover that for him, America will be Argentina.
Director: Stefano Knuchel | Stars: Gianni Dalfiume, Gisela Dester, Marian Farías Gómez, Gustavo Ferrari
Votes: 23
23. L'ombre de Goya par Jean-Claude Carrière (2022)
90 min | Documentary
Follows late screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, as he researches the painter Goya in a trip filled with culture, cinema, emotion, painting and Spain.
Director: José Luis López-Linares | Stars: Jean-Claude Carrière, Nahal Tajadod, Carlos Saura, Luis Antonio González Marín
Votes: 88
24. Joan Miró: The Inner Fire (2018)
61 min | Documentary
An intimate portrait by documentary filmmaker Albert Solé that puts a new perspective on the work of Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist Joan Miró.
Director: Albert Solé | Stars: Hester Wilcox, Joan Miró, Joan Punyet Miró, Lluís Permanyer
Votes: 42
25. Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists (2018)
TV-MA | 108 min | Documentary
The story of New York City journalists Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill lauded in their time as the voice of New York.
Directors: Jonathan Alter, John Block, Steve McCarthy | Stars: Harvey Araton, John Avlon, Mike Barnicle, Dan Barry
Votes: 482
26. Mi chiamo Altan e faccio vignette (2019)
74 min | Documentary, Biography
Director: Stefano Consiglio | Stars: Francesco Tullio Altan, Stefano Benni, Angela Finocchiaro, Paolo Rossi
Votes: 13
27. Bice Lazzari - Il ritmo e l'ossessione (2022)
61 min | Documentary
Director: Manfredi Lucibello | Stars: Maria Isabella Barone, Francesco Bonami, Donatella Lapadula, Nicoletta Lapadula
28. Borromini and Bernini: The Challenge for Perfection (2023)
102 min | Documentary
A journey into the great beauty of Baroque Rome, when the city was the center of western art and where every ambitious painter, sculptor and architect had to be. This is the story of the ... See full summary »
Director: Giovanni Troilo | Stars: Jacopo Olmo Antinori, Valeria Cavaliere, Antonio Lanni, Pierangelo Menci
Votes: 21
29. The Painter and the Thief (2020)
106 min | Documentary
An artist befriends the thief who stole her paintings. She becomes his closest ally when he is severely hurt in a car crash and needs full time care, even if her paintings are not found. But then the tables turn.
Director: Benjamin Ree | Stars: Karl Bertil-Nordland, Barbora Kysilkova, Øystein Stene
Votes: 4,314
30. 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
31. Ricardo et la peinture (2023)
106 min | Documentary, Biography
An invitation to dive into the history of painting but also to explore the life of this guy who has always been entirely committed, even to the point of passing on his passion to the children of his hamlet, with simplicity and humility.
Director: Barbet Schroeder | Stars: Ricardo Cavallo, Barbet Schroeder
Votes: 38
32. Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition (2023)
90 min | Documentary
The Rijksmuseum and Mauritshuis host an exhibition bringing together Vermeer masterpieces. The museum director and curators give a private tour, sharing new research into Vermeer's artistic process, and motivations for his compositions.
Director: David Bickerstaff | Star: Robert Lindsay
Votes: 130
33. Jeff Koons: A Private Portrait (2023)
80 min | Documentary, Biography
Jeff Koons is widely regarded as one of the most influential, popular and disputed artists of the last 30 years. Koons transforms mass-produced, everyday objects into the highest art forms.
Director: Pappi Corsicato | Star: Jeff Koons
Votes: 17
34. 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
35. Dentro Caravaggio (2019)
85 min | Documentary
A trip to the Caravaggio, with the help of experts and enthusiasts, learn the secret of Caravaggio and what makes him an artist so close to us.
Director: Francesco Fei | Stars: Sandro Lombardi, Milo Manara, Rossella Vodret
Votes: 15
36. Basilico - L'infinito è la in fondo (2023)
62 min | Documentary
Director: Stefano Santamato | Stars: Stefano Boeri, Giovanna Calvenzi, Vincenzo Castella, Natalia Corbetta
Votes: 7
37. Exhibition on Screen: Klimt and The Kiss (2023)
90 min | Documentary
Experts examine the qualities that make Gustav Klimt's painting 'The Kiss' the iconic and enduring work it is.
Director: Ali Ray
Votes: 37
38. Danses macabres, squelettes et autres fantaisies (2019)
110 min | Documentary
Directors: Rita Azevedo Gomes, Pierre Léon, Jean-Louis Schefer | Star: Jean-Louis Schefer
Votes: 29
39. Uomini e Dei: Le meraviglie del Museo Egizio (2023)
86 min | Documentary
The secret world of Egyptian mythology and religion, interweaving Egyptian history with that of the museum, which was founded in 1824 and is the oldest in the world devoted to Egyptian culture.
Director: Michele Mally | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Christian Greco, Cedric Gobeil, Sabah Abdel Razik
Votes: 11
40. Exhibition on Screen: Hopper - An American Love Story (2022)
94 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Hopper's work is the most recognizable art in America. Countless painters, photographers, filmmakers and musicians have been influenced by his art - but who was he, and how did a struggling illustrator create such a bounty of notable work?
Director: Phil Grabsky
Votes: 101
41. La Visita y Un Jardín secreto (2022)
64 min | Documentary
Little is known about the mysterious figure of Isabel Santaló, an artist, today fallen into oblivion.
Director: Irene M. Borrego | Stars: Antonio López, Isabel Santaló
Votes: 19
42. La rivoluzione siamo noi (Arte in Italia 1967/1977) (2020)
87 min | Documentary
Between 1967 and 1977 Italian Art experiences a moment of glory on the international art scene. Art comes out from galleries and museums and becomes expression of social and political ... See full summary »
Director: Ilaria Freccia | Stars: Marina Abramovic, Alighiero Boetti, Hermann Nitsch, Michelangelo Pistoletto
Votes: 11
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