Movies About Arts World (Fictional & Real Life)
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1. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
G | 90 min | Documentary, History
Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France and captures the oldest known pictorial creations of humanity.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Werner Herzog, Jean Clottes, Julien Monney, Jean-Michel Geneste
Votes: 17,796 | Gross: $5.23M
2. Art & Mind (2019)
70 min | Documentary
A journey into art, madness and the unconscious. An exploration of visionary artists and the creative impulse, from the Flemish Masters of the Renaissance to the avant-garde movement of Surrealism and the unsung geniuses of Art Brut.
Director: Amélie Ravalec | Stars: Gérard Audinet, Bruno Decharme, Anne-Marie Dubois, Marc Décimo
Votes: 68
3. Simon Schama's Power of Art (2006)
60 min | Documentary, Drama, History
Focusing on eight iconic works of art, Power of Art reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages.
Stars: Simon Schama, Allan Corduner, Paul Popplewell, Grégoire Bonnet
Votes: 1,147
4. The Private Life of a Masterpiece (2001–2011)
50 min | Documentary
Stars: Samuel West, Richard Cork, Jonathan Jones, John House
Votes: 243
5. Secret Impressionists (2020)
80 min | Documentary
A showcase of Impressionist paintings at the Palazzo Bonaparte in Rome.
Director: Daniele Pini | Stars: Claire Durand-Ruel, Sergio Gaddi, Marianne Mathieu, Melania Gaia Mazzucco
Votes: 31
6. Impressionism: Revenge of the Nice (2004 TV Movie)
Documentary
Matthew Collings will reappraise the Impressionists. The four stars are Courbet, Manet, Monet and Cezanne. In two hours their stories and their art will intertwine. Matt will unpack the ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Rodley
Votes: 28
7. Great Artists with Tim Marlow 2 (2005– )
Documentary
Shot in 10 countries, in over 40 churches and galleries, this series explores the lives and works of some of history's most famous artists.
Star: Tim Marlow
Votes: 12
8. Great Artists with Tim Marlow (2001– )
23 min | Documentary
A major 25 part television series in which art historian Tim Marlow takes a fresh look at the most important artworks of some of the greatest artists in history. Shot on location in over 50... See full summary »
Star: Tim Marlow
Votes: 78
9. Great Artists in Their Own Words (2013– )
60 min | Documentary
Stars: Salvador Dalí, Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol, Ai Weiwei
10. How Art Made the World (2005– )
300 min | Documentary
Documentary series looking at the influence of art on the current day situation of our society.
Stars: Nigel Spivey, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Stefano Mariottini, James David Lewis-Williams
Votes: 666
11. The Prado Museum. A Collection of Wonders (2019)
G | 92 min | Documentary
It's not only a museum of Spain. It's the museum of Spain.
Director: Valeria Parisi | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Miguel Falomir, Andrés Úbeda de los Cobos, José de la Fuente
Votes: 112
12. Florence and the Uffizi Gallery 3D/4K (2015)
G | 95 min | Documentary
A multidimensional and multisensory journey in the Florentine Renaissance through its most representative beauties, with the latest-generation 3D and 4K technology and the most advanced techniques of modelling and dimensionalisation.
Director: Luca Viotto | Stars: Marco Ciatti, Arturo Galansino, Simon Merrells, Antonio Natali
Votes: 240
13. Moshe Safdie: The Power of Architecture (2005)
91 min | Documentary
Moshe Safdie: The Power of Architecture is a film portrait of the dynamic, Canadian-Israeli architect who first burst on the world stage while still in his twenties with the groundbreaking ... See full summary »
Director: Donald Winkler | Star: Moshe Safdie
Votes: 8
14. The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch (2016)
87 min | Documentary
This film follows the exhibition 'Jheronimus Bosch - Visions of Genius' which brought the majority of Bosch's works together for the first time in his hometown of Den Bosch, attracting almost half a million fans from all over the world.
Director: David Bickerstaff | Stars: Rachel Campbell-Johnston, Peter Greenaway, Jennifer Sliwka
Votes: 94
Jeroen van Aken (Hieronymus Bosch) (1450-1516)
15. Bosch: The Garden of Dreams (2016)
90 min | Documentary
It's a documentary of the painting by "The Bosch", "The garden of early delights".
Director: José Luis López-Linares | Stars: Sílvia Pérez Cruz, Ludovico Einaudi, Orhan Pamuk, Miquel Barceló
Votes: 404
Jeroen van Aken (Hieronymus Bosch) (1450-1516)
16. Hieronymus Bosch, Touched by the Devil (2015)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary
In 2016, the Noordbrabants Museum in the Dutch city of Den Bosch held a special exhibition devoted to the work of Hieronymus Bosch, who died 500 years ago. This late-medieval artist lived ... See full summary »
Director: Pieter van Huystee | Stars: Matthijs Ilsink, Peter Klein, Jos Koldeweij, Ron Spronk
Votes: 320 | Gross: $0.17M
Jeroen van Aken (Hieronymus Bosch) (1450-1516)
17. The Mysteries of Hieronymus Bosch (1983 TV Movie)
76 min | Documentary
Nicholas Baum goes on a journey to Den Bosch, Hieronymus Bosch's town, and gives his explanation about what he thinks the painter's works originally meant.
Star: Nicholas Baum
Votes: 45
Jeroen van Aken (Hieronymus Bosch) (1450-1516)
18. I, Leonardo (2019)
90 min | Biography, Drama
Discover Leonardo da Vinci, the man, the painter, the scientist and the inventor, through a unique, engaging and fascinating journey in the mind of Leonardo.
Director: Jesus Garces Lambert | Stars: Luca Argentero, Angela Fontana, Massimo De Lorenzo, Matt DeLuise
Votes: 417
Leonardo di Ser Piero da Vinci (1452-1519)
19. Leonardo Da Vinci: The Genius in Milan (2016)
90 min | Documentary
"Leonardo da Vinci. The Genius in Milan" is a docufilm by Luca Lucini and Nico Malaspina. Through scenes of fiction and interviews with the greatest Leonardo da Vinci world experts, the ... See full summary »
Directors: Luca Lucini, Nico Malaspina | Stars: Vincenzo Amato, Cristiana Capotondi, Alessandro Haber, Gabriella Pession
Votes: 85
Leonardo di Ser Piero da Vinci (1452-1519)
20. Michelangelo - Infinito (2017)
97 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
A painter recounts the life of Michelangelo.
Director: Emanuele Imbucci | Stars: Enrico Lo Verso, Ivano Marescotti
Votes: 580
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475- 1564)
21. Tintoretto. A Rebel in Venice (2019)
G | 96 min | Documentary
A 90-minutes documentary that celebrates the 500th anniversary of the birth of the last great artist of the Italian Renaissance, the most unexpected mind that the art of painting has ever produced: Tintoretto.
Directors: Giuseppe Domingo Romano, Pepsy Romanoff | Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Peter Greenaway, Melania Gaia Mazzucco, Stefano Accorsi
Votes: 153
Jacopo Robusti (Tintoretto) (1518-1594)
22. Caravaggio: The Soul and the Blood (2018)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography
An exciting and unsettling cinematic journey through the life, work and torments of Caravaggio. Light and shadow, contrasts and contradictions, genius and intemperance distinguish his ... See full summary »
Director: Jesus Garces Lambert | Stars: Manuel Agnelli, Emanuele Marigliano, Mina Gregori, Sara Pallini
Votes: 347
Michelangelo Merisi (Caravaggio) (1571-1610)
23. 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
Michelangelo Merisi (Caravaggio) (1571-1610)
24. Caravaggio (2007 TV Movie)
180 min | Biography, History
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Angelo Longoni | Stars: Alessio Boni, Elena Sofia Ricci, Jordi Mollà, Paolo Briguglia
Votes: 391
Michelangelo Merisi (Caravaggio) (1571-1610)
25. Caravaggio, l'ultimo tempo (2005)
41 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Mario Martone | Stars: Danio Manfredini, Salvatore Ruocco
Michelangelo Merisi (Caravaggio) (1571-1610)
26. Caravaggio (1986)
93 min | Biography, Drama, History
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, Sean Bean
Votes: 7,023 | Gross: $0.00M
Michelangelo Merisi (Caravaggio) (1571-1610)
27. Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto (1941)
105 min | Drama
One of 8 films starring the popular Nazzari released in 1941. A painter's life is turned into a dashing romantic adventure.After killing a man,the artist escapes to Malta where he is knighted, but he cannot resist sneaking back into Rome.
Director: Goffredo Alessandrini | Stars: Amedeo Nazzari, Clara Calamai, Lamberto Picasso, Nino Crisman
Michelangelo Merisi (Caravaggio) (1571-1610)
28. Artemisia (1997)
R | 98 min | Biography, Drama, History
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Agnès Merlet | Stars: Valentina Cervi, Michel Serrault, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Luca Zingaretti
Votes: 2,206 | Gross: $0.38M
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653).
29. Rembrandt's J'Accuse...! (2008)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary, Mystery
An 'essayistic' documentary in which Greenaway's fierce criticism of today's visual illiteracy is argued by means of a forensic search of Rembrandt's Nightwatch. Greenaway explains the ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Martin Freeman, Eva Birthistle, Jodhi May, Emily Holmes
Votes: 984
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669)
30. Nightwatching (2007)
R | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History
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, Jodhi May
Votes: 3,452
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669)
31. Rembrandt (1999)
103 min | Biography, Drama, History
Iconic artist Rembrandt van Rijn worked in the fields of painting, drafting, and printing, becoming the most iconic artist in all of Dutch history. This documentary profiles the story of a ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Matton | Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Romane Bohringer, Jean Rochefort, Johanna ter Steege
Votes: 408
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669)
32. 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
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669)
33. 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
Votes: 82,692 | Gross: $11.63M
Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675)
34. O Aleijadinho (1978)
23 min | Documentary, Short
A brief piece on one of the greatest Brazilian artists of all time, Antônio Francisco Lisboa, the Aleijadinho. An important representant of the Baroque period in Brazil, Aleijadinho was ... See full summary »
Director: Joaquim Pedro de Andrade | Star: Ferreira Gullar
Votes: 84
Antônio Francisco Lisboa (O Aleijadinho) (1738-1814)
35. 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
Votes: 31,960 | Gross: $1.00M
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828)
36. The Naked Maja (1958)
111 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Love takes precedence over art and politics as Spanish painter Goya pines for an aloof duchess.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Ava Gardner, Anthony Franciosa, Amedeo Nazzari, Gino Cervi
Votes: 442
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828)
37. 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
Votes: 27,187 | Gross: $3.96M
Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (1775-1851)
38. Degas and the Dancer (1998 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 56 min | Drama, Family, Music
Searching for inspiration, impressionist Edgar Degas hires a struggling young ballerina to pose for him. However, their critical attitudes and equally stubborn opinions push both towards greater heights. Based on actual events.
Director: David Devine | Stars: Thomas Jay Ryan, Alison Pill, Kathryn Long, Robin Duke
Votes: 97
Hilaire Germain Edgar de Gas (1834-1917)
39. Water Lilies of Monet - The Magic of Water and Light (2018)
G | 80 min | Documentary
A journey through the masterpieces and obsessions of the Genius of the Impressionism. With the invaluable contribution of Ross King, author of the best seller Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet ... See full summary »
Director: Giovanni Troilo | Stars: Elisa Lasowski, Georges Clemenceau, Claude Monet
Votes: 168
Oscar-Claude Monet (1840-1926)
40. 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
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
41. Painted Fire (2002)
Unrated | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History
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: Im Kwon-taek | Stars: Choi Min-sik, Ahn Sung-ki, Yoo Ho-jeong, Kim Yeo-jin
Votes: 2,824 | Gross: $0.06M
Jang Seung-eop (1843-1897)
42. Gauguin: A Dangerous Life (2019 TV Movie)
60 min | Biography, Documentary
Documentary that sets Paul Gauguin's artistic achievement against his sexual relationships with young girls in the Pacific and his role in 19th-century French colonialism.
Director: Patricia Wheatley | Stars: Marcel Tai Gauguin, Mette Gauguin, Tai Shan Schierenberg, Tyla Vaeau
Votes: 7
Eugène-Henri-Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
43. Gauguin a Tahiti. Il paradiso perduto (2019)
G | 88 min | Documentary, Biography
A look into the love story between post-impressionist painter Gauguin and the French Polynesia.
Director: Claudio Poli | Stars: Adriano Giannini, Caroline Boyle-Turner, Paul Yeou Chichong, Marcel Tai Gauguin
Votes: 95
Eugène-Henri-Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
44. Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti (2017)
102 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Focused on French painter Paul Gauguin's affair with a younger lady in Tahiti.
Director: Edouard Deluc | Stars: Vincent Cassel, Tuheï Adams, Malik Zidi, Pua-Taï Hikutini
Votes: 2,380 | Gross: $0.20M
Eugène-Henri-Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
45. Gauguin: Maker of Myth (2011 Video)
30 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Narrated by Willem Dafoe and with Alfred Molina as the voice of Paul Gauguin, this film was made in conjunction with the exhibition Gauguin: Maker of Myth at the National Gallery of Art, ... See full summary »
Stars: Willem Dafoe, Alfred Molina
Votes: 11
Eugène-Henri-Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
46. Finding Gauguin (2010)
87 min | History
Finding Gauguin tracks the journey of Adam, a young American painter in search of his reclusive idol, Paul Gauguin. Gauguin, a renowned painter and hedonist, has settled in a remote part of... See full summary »
Director: Lee Donald Taicher | Stars: Victor of Aquitaine, Katherine Freeman, Nicole Diendra Gordon, Nicole Gordon-Levitt
Votes: 11
Eugène-Henri-Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
47. Paradise Found (2003)
R | 93 min | Biography, Drama
A successful 19th century French stockbroker (Sutherland) leaves his profession to become an artist in Paris.
Director: Mario Andreacchio | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Nastassja Kinski, Alun Armstrong, Thomas Heinze
Votes: 679
Eugène-Henri-Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
48. Oviri (1986)
R | 90 min | Biography, Drama
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 and must confront his wife, his children, and his former lover.
Director: Henning Carlsen | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Max von Sydow, Jean Yanne, Sofie Gråbøl
Votes: 469 | Gross: $0.58M
Eugène-Henri-Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
49. Gauguin the Savage (1980 TV Movie)
125 min | Biography, Drama
Based on the turbulent life of the temperamental French painter, Paul Gauguin, and his compulsive search for creative freedom which caused him to abandon his wife and five children in Paris for a life of contentement in Tahiti.
Director: Fielder Cook | Stars: David Carradine, Lynn Redgrave, Barrie Houghton, Flora Robson
Votes: 104
Eugène-Henri-Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
50. Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies (2018)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary
A new look at Van Gogh, through the legacy of the largest private collector of artworks by the Dutch painter: Helene Kröller-Müller (1869-1939), who, in the early 20th Century, ended up buying nearly 300 of his works.
Director: Giovanni Piscaglia | Stars: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Marco Goldin, Eva Rovers
Votes: 111
Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890)
51. At Eternity's Gate (2018)
PG-13 | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History
A look at the life of painter Vincent van Gogh during the time he lived in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, France.
Director: Julian Schnabel | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac, Mads Mikkelsen
Votes: 40,051 | Gross: $2.29M
Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890)
52. Painted with Words (2010 TV Movie)
80 min | Documentary, Biography
The story of Vincent Van Gogh, with dialogue sourced from his own words.
Director: Andrew Hutton | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Jamie Parker, Aidan McArdle, Christopher Good
Votes: 2,713
Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890)
53. Van Gogh (1991)
R | 158 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The final sixty-seven days of Van Gogh's life are examined.
Director: Maurice Pialat | Stars: Jacques Dutronc, Alexandra London, Bernard Le Coq, Gérard Séty
Votes: 3,310 | Gross: $0.14M
Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890)
54. Vincent & Theo (1990)
PG-13 | 138 min | Biography, Drama
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, Jean-François Perrier
Votes: 4,207 | Gross: $2.23M
Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890)
55. Lust for Life (1956)
Approved | 122 min | Biography, Drama
The life of brilliant but tortured artist Vincent van Gogh.
Directors: Vincente Minnelli, George Cukor | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald, Pamela Brown
Votes: 12,513 | Gross: $3.48M
Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890)
56. Edvard Munch (1974 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 210 min | Biography, Drama, History
This biopic of Norwegian Expressionist painter Edvard Munch focuses on the influences that shaped his art, his devastating affair with a married woman that will haunt him for the rest of his life
Director: Peter Watkins | Stars: Geir Westby, Gro Fraas, Kerstii Allum, Eric Allum
Votes: 3,381 | Gross: $0.04M
Edvard Munch (1863-1944)
57. Me and Kaminski (2015)
124 min | Comedy, Drama
Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that he can cash in on his article.
Director: Wolfgang Becker | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Jesper Christensen, Amira Casar, Geraldine Chaplin
Votes: 1,530
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (1866-1944)
59. Exhibition on Screen: Young Picasso (2019)
90 min | Documentary, Biography
Art historians discuss Pablo Picasso's early years as an artist and his early works.
Director: Phil Grabsky | Stars: Harry Lloyd, Pablo Picasso, Olivier Widmaier Picasso
Votes: 91
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973)
60. Discover Arts: Hitler vs Picasso (2018)
G | 94 min | Documentary, History
An extraordinary report on how Hitler looted 'the great beauty' of Europe: the art that was the expression of its culture.
Director: Claudio Poli | Stars: Toni Servillo, Timothy Garton Ash, Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Edgar Feuchtwanger
Votes: 269
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973)
61. 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
Votes: 7,892 | Gross: $2.00M
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973)
62. Modigliani (2004)
R | 128 min | Biography, Drama
The story of Amedeo Modigliani's bitter rivalry with Pablo Picasso, and his tragic romance with Jeanne Hebuterne.
Director: Mick Davis | Stars: Andy Garcia, Elsa Zylberstein, Omid Djalili, Hippolyte Girardot
Votes: 12,528 | Gross: $0.20M
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (1884-1920)
63. Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden (2016)
110 min | Biography, Drama, History
Vienna, early 20th century: the young Egon Schiele is one of the most discussed artists of his time with his original, erotically charged works.
Director: Dieter Berner | Stars: Noah Saavedra, Maresi Riegner, Valerie Pachner, Marie Jung
Votes: 1,532
Egon Schiele (1890-1918)
64. 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
Egon Schiele (1890-1918)
65. Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski (2018)
TV-MA | 115 min | Documentary, Biography
This documentary chronicles the life of Polish-American artist Stanislav Szukalski (1893-1987) from his early years in Chicago, to his time in Poland and Los Angeles, and his artistic and political contributions to the world.
Director: Ireneusz Dobrowolski | Stars: Stanislav Szukalski, Glenn Bray, Robert Williams, Suzanne Williams
Votes: 4,638
Stanisław Szukalski (1893-1987)
66. The Fantastic World of M.C. Escher (1980)
50 min | Documentary
Explores the life and work of the Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher.
Director: Michele Emmer | Star: M.C. Escher
Votes: 59
Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972)
67. Final Portrait (2017)
R | 90 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The story of Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti.
Director: Stanley Tucci | Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Armie Hammer, Tony Shalhoub, Sylvie Testud
Votes: 6,073 | Gross: $0.46M
Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)
68. Little Ashes (2008)
R | 112 min | Biography, Drama, History
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
Votes: 9,626 | Gross: $0.48M
Salvador Dalí i Domènech (1904-1989)
69. 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
Votes: 29,638 | Gross: $8.60M
Paul Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)
70. Crumb (1994)
R | 119 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy
An intimate portrait of controversial cartoonist Robert Crumb and his traumatized family.
Director: Terry Zwigoff | Stars: Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Charles Crumb, Maxon Crumb
Votes: 21,602 | Gross: $3.17M
Robert Crumb (1943- )
71. 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
Marina Abramović (1946 - )
72. Basquiat (1996)
R | 107 min | Biography, Drama
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, Claire Forlani
Votes: 22,096 | Gross: $2.96M
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)
73. Incognito (1997)
R | 108 min | Crime, Romance, Thriller
Harry Donovan is an art forger who paints a fake Rembrandt picture for $500,000. Marieke, the woman he meets in Paris and gets into bed with, turns out to be the art expert whom Harry's ... See full summary »
Director: John Badham | Stars: Jason Patric, Irène Jacob, Thomas Lockyer, Ian Richardson
Votes: 4,083
74. Rembrandt (2002)
109 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Mick and Tom are an unlikely father-son team of petty thieves. They've been hired to steal a painting from a museum. By accident, they steal the wrong painting: Denmark's only original Rembrandt masterpiece, worth millions.
Director: Jannik Johansen | Stars: Lars Brygmann, Jakob Cedergren, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Nicolas Bro
Votes: 3,154
75. The Forger (2014)
R | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A thief works with his father and son to forge a painting by Monet and steal the original. Together, they plan the heist of their lives.
Director: Philip Martin | Stars: John Travolta, Christopher Plummer, Tye Sheridan, Abigail Spencer
Votes: 13,306
76. The Forger (2012)
PG-13 | 94 min | Drama, Family, Mystery
A teenager wanders into Carmel, California, where he is soon introduced to the art-forgery community.
Director: Lawrence Roeck | Stars: Lauren Bacall, Josh Hutcherson, Alfred Molina, Billy Boyd
Votes: 4,853
77. Maze (2000)
R | 97 min | Drama, Romance
An artist with Tourette Syndrome falls in love with his best friend's pregnant girlfriend.
Director: Rob Morrow | Stars: Rob Morrow, Laura Linney, Craig Sheffer, Rose Gregorio
Votes: 924 | Gross: $0.02M
78. Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)
R | 113 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A thriller about the contemporary art scene of Los Angeles, where big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce.
Director: Dan Gilroy | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Zawe Ashton, Tom Sturridge
Votes: 66,074
79. 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
80. Klimt & Schiele - Eros and Psyche (2018)
Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary
1918. As the roar of the First World War cannons is dying out, in Vienna, the heart of Central Europe, a golden age comes to an end. The Austro-Hungarian Empire is beginning to disintegrate... See full summary »
Director: Michele Mally | Stars: Lorenzo Richelmy, Maxi Blaha, Rudolf Buchbinder, Lily Cole
Votes: 242
81. Klimt (2006)
Not Rated | 131 min | Biography, Drama
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: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: John Malkovich, Veronica Ferres, Stephen Dillane, Saffron Burrows
Votes: 3,260
82. Stealing Klimt (2007)
92 min | Documentary
Stealing Klimt recounts the struggle by 90-year-old Maria Altmann to recover five Gustav Klimt paintings stolen from her family by the Nazis in Vienna. From the end of the War up until last... See full summary »
Director: Jane Chablani | Stars: Maria Altmann, Michael J. Bazyler, Hubertus Czernin, Gerbert Frodl
Votes: 96
83. Gustav Klimt - Der Geheimnisvolle (2012 TV Movie)
53 min | Documentary
In his documentary, Herbert Eisenschenk not only examines the colourful personality of Gustav Klimt, the historical artist, but also explores the tortuous paths of today's perception of his unique art.
Director: Herbert Eisenschenk | Stars: Friedrich Despalmes, Johanna Susicky, Anna Nowak, Elisabeth Skokanitsch
Votes: 9
84. Gauguin: « Je suis un sauvage » (2017 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, Biography
Director: Marie-Christine Courtès
Votes: 9
85. Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires (2018 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary, Drama
Director: Teresa Griffiths | Stars: Lila Clements, Kenneth Cranham, Sonya Cullingford, Laura Evelyn
Votes: 22
86. Egon Schiele (2018 TV Movie)
55 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Schiele was praised, hated, worshipped and damned. The enigmatic artist's uncompromising talent always challenged society's moral code of conduct.
Director: Herbert Eisenschenk | Stars: Christian Bauer, Jean Clair, Alessandra Comini, Mercedes Echerer
Votes: 13
87. Egon Schiele (1980 TV Movie)
Biography
Biographical TV movie about controversial Austrian artist Egon Schiele.
Director: John Goldschmidt | Stars: Felix Mitterer, Karoline Zeisler, Jeanette Hirschberger, Robert Dietl
Votes: 34
88. Les plus grands peintres du monde (2016–2017)
Documentary, Biography, History
In the series The World's Greatest Painters, we will retrace the career of world-renowned painters. During the visits some experts of arts will analyse the masterpieces of these painters ... See full summary »
Votes: 43
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