Most Popular "Painter As Artist" Titles

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: 113,478 | Gross: $2.20M

2. A Perfect Murder (1998)

R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, ... See full summary »

Director: Andrew Davis | Stars: Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, Viggo Mortensen, David Suchet

Votes: 69,876 | Gross: $67.64M

3. 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: 25,465 | Gross: $4.50M

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: 7,895

5. 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: 21,349 | Gross: $3.96M

6. The January Man (1989)

R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

Nick and Frank Starkey were both policemen. A scandal forced Nick to leave the force, now a serial killer has driven the police to take him back. A web that includes Frank's wife, bribery, ... See full summary »

Director: Pat O'Connor | Stars: Kevin Kline, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Susan Sarandon, Harvey Keitel

Votes: 5,567 | Gross: $4.61M

7. 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: 1,241

8. 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: 3,655 | Gross: $3.36M

9. 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: 927

10. 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: 8,305 | Gross: $0.01M

11. 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: 11,504

12. 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: 865

13. 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: 2,792

14. 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: 3,271 | Gross: $0.31M

15. 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: 2,044 | Gross: $0.05M

16. 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: 694

17. 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: 2,813

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: 1,973

19. 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: 2,699 | Gross: $0.02M

20. 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: 2,788

21. 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: 502

22. 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: 643

23. Love Crazy (1941)

Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Romance

A series of misunderstandings on their fourth wedding anniversary lead an architect and his wife to break up, but he pretends to be insane and even poses as his own sister in order to win her back.

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Gail Patrick, Jack Carson

Votes: 2,230

24. 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: 1,475

25. 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: 481

26. 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: 2,740

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: 872

28. 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: 985

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: 669

30. 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

31. 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: 415

32. Picasso (1985)

83 min | Documentary, Biography

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Director: Didier Baussy | Stars: Féodor Atkine, Georges Braque, Alexander Lopi, Henri Matisse

Votes: 28

33. Saint-Tropez Blues (1961)

90 min | Comedy, Drama

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Director: Marcel Moussy | Stars: Marie Laforêt, Jacques Higelin, Pierre Michaël, Stéphane Audran

Votes: 31

34. 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

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. 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: 389

37. 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

38. 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

39. 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

40. 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

41. 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: 6

42. 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

43. 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

44. 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

45. 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: 24

46. 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: 209

47. 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

48. 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: 49

49. 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: 151

50. 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