Films every artist should see

The respected painter takes to drink and faces down scandal after his wife dies.

Tells the story of the Spanish invasion of Flanders

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 always wanted to do. He is from then on a awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty.

Utamaro is a great artist who lives to create portraits of beautiful women, using the brothels of Tokyo to provide his models.

Fictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

A filmed record of Pablo Picasso painting numerous canvases for the camera, allowing us to see his creative process at work.

Chronicling the last year of the life of Modigliani, an Italian painter living in abject poverty in Paris who falls in love with Jeanne, a girl from a wealthy family whose parents do not approve of him.

An ill-behaved, lovably scruffy painter, Gulley Jimson, searches for a perfect canvas, determined to let nothing come between himself and the realization of his exalted vision.

In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.

The biographical story of Michelangelo's troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II.

The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.

An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccio's "Decameron".

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.

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 pain and affliction, her friendship with Trotsky and painter Alfaro Siqueiros, her marriage to Diego Rivera, her miscarriage, her political commitment, her love affairs and the anticipated exhibition of her works.

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.

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.

A child enters the time of Felipe IV through the picture "Las Meninas" from Velázquez.

A middle-aged artist obsessed with his pretty young assistant, a precocious 12-year-old living in a hotel, and a neurotic lawyer with a possessive mother make up three Gotham tales.

Biography of famed artist Salvador Dali, focusing mainly on his relationship with girlfriend Gala and the time they spent in New York City in 1940 and his early days in Spain collaborating with filmmaker Luis Bunuel.

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.

The artist Antonio López tries to capture the sunlight hitting his quince tree all autumn, but the struggle seems futile.

Three struggling artists try to make passable livings in Paris despite setbacks and tragedies.

The final sixty-seven days of Van Gogh's life are examined.

The platonic relationship between artist Dora Carrington and writer Lytton Strachey in the early twentieth century.

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.