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1. Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)
NC-17 | 180 min | Drama, Romance
Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adèle grows, seeks herself, loses herself, and ultimately finds herself through love and loss.
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche | Stars: Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche, Aurélien Recoing
Votes: 114,181 | Gross: $2.20M
2. An American in Paris (1951)
Not Rated | 114 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary
Votes: 25,584 | Gross: $4.50M
3. 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: 21,408 | Gross: $3.96M
4. The Decameron (1971)
R | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, History
An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccio's "Decameron".
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Jovan Jovanovic, Vincenzo Amato
Votes: 7,925
5. Marquis de Sade's Justine (1969)
R | 90 min | Drama, Horror
Without a family, penniless and separated from her sister, a beautiful chaste woman will have to cope with an endless parade of villains, perverts and degenerates who will claim not only her treasured virtue but also her life.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Romina Power, Maria Rohm, Rosemary Dexter
Votes: 1,252
6. Scarlet Street (1945)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
When a man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, her venal fiancé persuades her to con him out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay
Votes: 11,559
7. Moll Flanders (1996)
PG-13 | 123 min | Drama, Romance
The daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after the execution of her mother. However, the actions of an abusive priest lead Moll to rebel as a teenager, ... See full summary »
Director: Pen Densham | Stars: Robin Wright, Morgan Freeman, Stockard Channing, John Lynch
Votes: 3,663 | Gross: $3.36M
8. Tristana (1970)
PG-13 | 99 min | Drama
Shortly after her mother's death, an innocent and youthful woman will find refuge into the household of her middle-aged aristocratic guardian, who will submit her to his sexual advances.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero, Lola Gaos
Votes: 8,339 | Gross: $0.01M
9. The Horse's Mouth (1958)
Approved | 97 min | Comedy
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, Mike Morgan
Votes: 2,800
10. Montparnasse 19 (1958)
Not Rated | 108 min | Biography, Drama
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. Her parents ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Becker | Stars: Gérard Philipe, Lilli Palmer, Lea Padovani, Gérard Séty
Votes: 875
11. Le Amiche (1955)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman returns to her home town of Turin to set up a new fashion salon and gets involved with a troubled woman and her three wealthy friends.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Eleonora Rossi Drago, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco Fabrizi, Valentina Cortese
Votes: 2,055 | Gross: $0.05M
12. Mlyn i krzyz (2011)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, History
The film focuses on a dozen of the 500 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: 3,283 | Gross: $0.31M
13. Please Murder Me! (1956)
78 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A lawyer suffers a guilt complex after getting a murder acquittal for his client, and then finding out she did commit the crime.
Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Raymond Burr, Dick Foran, John Dehner
Votes: 699
14. La Chienne (1931)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
A woman and her pimp exploit a painter for money.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Michel Simon, Janie Marèse, Georges Flamant, Roger Gaillard
Votes: 2,827
15. Un tranquillo posto di campagna (1968)
R | 106 min | Drama, Horror
A popular painter, plagued by nightmares that he and his lover/sales agent are engaging in bizarre, ritualistic, sadistic sexual acts, seeks to escape the city and rent a house in the country.
Director: Elio Petri | Stars: Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave, Georges Géret, Gabriella Boccardo
Votes: 934
16. Le chat du rabbin (2011)
Not Rated | 100 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Set in Algeria in the 1920s, a rabbi's cat who learns how to speak after swallowing the family parrot expresses his desire to convert to Judaism.
Directors: Antoine Delesvaux, Joann Sfar | Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Hafsia Herzi, François Damiens, Eric Elmosnino
Votes: 2,710 | Gross: $0.02M
17. La chute de la maison Usher (1928)
Not Rated | 63 min | Horror
Allan visits the sinister Usher family mansion, where his friend Roderick is painting a portrait of his sickly wife Madeline. The portrait seems to be draining the life out of Madeline, slowly leading to her death.
Director: Jean Epstein | Stars: Jean Debucourt, Marguerite Gance, Charles Lamy, Fournez-Goffard
Votes: 2,802
18. César and Rosalie (1972)
R | 104 min | Drama, Romance
Cesar is in love with Rosalie. But Rosalie isn't making it easy for him, especially when her old flame enters the picture.
Director: Claude Sautet | Stars: Yves Montand, Romy Schneider, Sami Frey, Bernard Le Coq
Votes: 1,979
19. Egon Schiele: Tod und Mädchen (2016)
110 min | Biography, Drama, History
Egon Schiele is one of the most provocative artists in Vienna at the beginning of the 20th Century. His life and work are driven by beautiful women and an era that is coming to an end. Two ... See full summary »
Director: Dieter Berner | Stars: Noah Saavedra, Maresi Riegner, Valerie Pachner, Marie Jung
Votes: 510
20. The Moon and Sixpence (1942)
Approved | 89 min | Drama, Romance
Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has... See full summary »
Director: Albert Lewin | Stars: George Sanders, Herbert Marshall, Doris Dudley, Eric Blore
Votes: 648
21. The Woman on the Beach (1947)
Approved | 71 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A Coast Guardsman suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford, Nan Leslie
Votes: 1,482
22. Lumière d'été (1943)
112 min | Drama
A shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provençal mountain provides the setting for a tragicomic tapestry about an obsessive love pentangle, whose principals range from an artist to... See full summary »
Director: Jean Grémillon | Stars: Madeleine Renaud, Pierre Brasseur, Madeleine Robinson, Paul Bernard
Votes: 417
23. Lautrec (1998)
125 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Life, passion, love...all these were part of Toulouse-Lautrec's art. His artistic development among the masters of the postimpressionism.
Director: Roger Planchon | Stars: Régis Royer, Elsa Zylberstein, Anémone, Claude Rich
Votes: 483
24. Le million (1931)
Not Rated | 81 min | Musical, Comedy
An impoverished painter and his rival engage in a race across Paris to recover a jacket concealing a winning lottery ticket.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Annabella, René Lefèvre, Jean-Louis Allibert, Paul Ollivier
Votes: 2,744
25. Carnival in Flanders (1935)
95 min | Comedy, History, Romance
Tells the story of the Spanish invasion of Flanders
Director: Jacques Feyder | Stars: Françoise Rosay, André Alerme, Jean Murat, Louis Jouvet
Votes: 991
26. Floating Sunflowers (2014)
12 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
FLOATING SUNFLOWERS tells the story of June (Anna Chlumsky), a still-life painter, and Henry (Francisco Solorzano), a fiction author, each caught in an emotional winter of their own. Unable... See full summary »
Director: Francisco Solorzano | Stars: Anna Chlumsky, Francisco Solorzano, Lynn Cohen, Christopher Whalen
Votes: 11
27. Carnival of Sinners (1943)
Approved | 80 min | Fantasy, Horror
Roland Brissot bought for a nickel a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a cut left hand, and it works perfectly. But of course there is nothing free in this ... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Josseline Gaël, Noël Roquevert, Guillaume de Sax
Votes: 878
28. Ples v dezju (1961)
100 min | Drama
Peter is the dark brooding type. Leading a vacuous, shapeless life, he longs for the ideal woman, while at the same time, half heartedly continuing with his habitual girlfriend, Marusa , ... See full summary »
Director: Bostjan Hladnik | Stars: Dusa Pockaj, Miha Baloh, Rado Nakrst, Ali Raner
Votes: 282
29. The Suitor (1962)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy
Pierre is a shy man whose sole focus in life is studying astrology in solitude, which is often difficult since he still lives at and studies in his parent's house. His parent's would rather... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Étaix | Stars: France Arnel, Pierre Étaix, Laurence Lignières, Claude Massot
Votes: 672
30. Picasso (1985)
83 min | Documentary, Biography
Director: Didier Baussy | Stars: Féodor Atkine, Georges Braque, Alexander Lopi, Henri Matisse
Votes: 28
31. Gaze (2010)
Not Rated | 60 min | Documentary
An exploration of twenty artists and their bodies of work.
Director: Matt Riddlehoover | Stars: Derrick Barry, Ryan Basham, Rob Beyond, Adam Bouska
Votes: 306
32. Saint-Tropez Blues (1961)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Marcel Moussy | Stars: Marie Laforêt, Jacques Higelin, Pierre Michaël, Stéphane Audran
Votes: 31
33. The Dragon Painter (1919)
TV-PG | 53 min | Drama, Romance
A wild man and genius becomes a master painter's disciple, but loses his divine gift when he finds love.
Director: William Worthington | Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Edward Peil Sr., Toyo Fujita
Votes: 388
34. La vie de bohème (1945)
92 min | Drama
All are artists (painters,musicians,poets...) ,all are bound for glory .
Director: Marcel L'Herbier | Stars: María Denis, Louis Jourdan, Giselle Pascal, Alfred Adam
Votes: 43
35. Lucrezia Borgia (1940)
76 min | Drama, History, Romance
A look at famous Lucrezia Borgia ,in the last part of her life,when she was duchess of Ferrara.
Director: Hans Hinrich | Stars: Isa Pola, Friedrich Benfer, Carlo Ninchi, Nerio Bernardi
Votes: 16
36. Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali (2008 Video)
20 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary analyzing the surrealist elements of the film Spellbound, and the work made by Salvador Dalí in that film.
Director: Lisa Van Eyssen | Stars: Peter Bogdanovich, Lesley Brill, Royal S. Brown, Sara Cochrane
Votes: 8
37. H recherche F (2015)
Animation, Short
A love story in the world of revived paintings.
Director: Marina Moshkova | Stars: Michael S.U. Hudson, Tatyana Moshkova, Tamri Bziava, Lola Heude
Votes: 36
38. Crafting Your Career: How to Turn Your Hobby Into a Business (2005 Video)
198 min | Documentary
Priscilla Hauser, the decorative painter, tells the story of how she turned her hobby into a career and offers advice to viewers who would like to do the same.
Director: Shannon Harley | Stars: Priscilla Hauser, Krickett Davis, Sue Sensintaffar, Judy Kimball
39. Rembrandt (1940)
Biography, Drama, History
The life of Rembrandt van Rijn, famous Dutch painter.
Director: Gerard Rutten | Stars: Anny de Lange, Guus Verstraete, Jules Verstraete
40. A Leak in the Dike (1965)
Approved | Animation, Short, Comedy
Jacky's Whacky World presents the story of the little Dutch boy who put his finger in the dike.
Director: Jack Mendelsohn | Star: Bob McFadden
Votes: 7
41. Va-Room Service (1966 TV Short)
5 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Wilbur the Wanted checks into the Potted Palms Hotel, where Moe Hare, the Bent-Eared Rabbit, is working as a bellboy.
Director: Hal Seeger | Star: Bob McFadden
42.
The Smurfs (1981–1990)
Episode:
April Smurf's Day/The Magic Stick
(1983)
TV-Y | 23 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Jokey tries to avoid the pranksters on April Smurf's Day as Gargamel disguises himself as a smurfberry bush for his own evil prank. Clumsy makes trouble for everyone when he borrows Papa Smurf's magic stick.
Directors: Oscar Dufau, George Gordon, Carl Urbano, John Walker, Rudy Zamora, Ray Patterson | Stars: Don Messick, Lucille Bliss, Danny Goldman, Michael Bell
Votes: 23
43.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode:
De Los Muertos
(2014)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Dr. Robbins goes to Mexico to do an autopsy on a friend's daughter. Meanwhile, back in Vegas, CSI finds a man and woman shot to death and buried in concrete.
Director: Louis Shaw Milito | Stars: Ted Danson, Elisabeth Shue, George Eads, Jorja Fox
Votes: 211
44.
Across Indiana (1988– )
Episode:
Episode #2.11
(1991)
Documentary
The torpedoing of the USS Indianapolis, the Sandhill Crane, a bottle collector, 19th-century Hoosier landscape painters and a town with five names are the subjects of this episode.
Director: Dave Stoelk | Stars: Michael Atwood, James O'Donald, Adrian Marks, Red Bolduc
45.
A Haunting (2005–2017)
Episode:
Hidden Terror
(2006)
TV-PG | 43 min | Documentary, History, Horror
A haunted house sends a man's girlfriend into a deep depression and his female friend into a terrible sorrow before he finally calls in a team of paranormal investigators to find out what is going on.
Directors: David Haycox, Jeffrey Fine | Stars: Anthony D. Call, Johnny Alonso, Ashley Chambers, Amber Wood
Votes: 50
46.
Animaniacs (1993–1998)
Episode:
Hooked on a Ceiling/Goodfeathers: The Beginning
(1993)
TV-Y7 | 22 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
The Warners give unwanted help to Kirk Douglas-cum-Michelangelo as he tries to paint the Sistine Chapel. Squit tells the story of how he became a Goodfeather - a story that involves a discarded bagel on a busy street.
Directors: Rusty Mills, Greg Reyna | Stars: Rob Paulsen, Jess Harnell, Tress MacNeille, Maurice LaMarche
Votes: 152
47.
Milton the Monster (1965–1967)
Episode:
Horse Shoo Fly/Gogh Van Gogh/Boy Meets Ghoul
(1965)
TV-G | 30 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Goo Fee engages Fearless Fly in a deadly game of horseshoes. Muggy-Do, Boy Fox, steals an organ grinder's monkey to create modern art. Professor Weirdo tries to marry Milton off to a wealthy spinster.
Director: Hal Seeger | Stars: Bob McFadden, Herb Duncan, Beverly Arnold
Votes: 7
48.
Airs de France (1955–1963)
Episode:
Le Comte de Luxembourg
(1958)
87 min | Musical, Romance
Director: Jean-Paul Carrère | Stars: Colette Riedinger, Dominique Tirmont, Henri Bedex, Christian Asse
49.
Plaisir du théâtre (1956–1963)
Episode:
Le peintre exigeant
(1962)
26 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Jean Vernier | Stars: Georges Audoubert, Tatiana Begarani, Philippe Castelli, Louise Chevalier
50.
Sex and the City (1998–2004)
Episode:
Models and Mortals
(1998)
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Miranda discovers she was invited at Nick's, where all guests are asked with which movie star in the prime they would have loved to do it, to make a change with all those brainless models ... See full summary »
Director: Alison Maclean | Stars: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon
Votes: 519