The Painter and the Thief (2020) Trailer

The Painter and the Thief

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Tintoretto. A Rebel in Venice (2019) Trailer

Tintoretto. A Rebel in Venice

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Velvet Buzzsaw (2019) Trailer

Velvet Buzzsaw

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I Am Heath Ledger (2017) Trailer

I Am Heath Ledger

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I Am Heath Ledger is a feature length documentary celebrating the life of Heath Ledger: actor, artist and icon. The documentary provides an intimate look at Heath Ledger through the lens of his own camera as he films and often performs in his own personal journey.

Cezanne and I (2016) Trailer

Cézanne et moi

Cézanne and I (original title: Cézanne et moi) is a 2016 French biographical drama film based on the friendship between 19th century novelist Émile Zola and painter Paul Cézanne. 

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A historical drama traces the lifelong friendship between two renowned 19th century French artists - painter Paul Cézanne (Guillaume Gallienne) and writer Emile Zola (Guillaume Canet) - from their first meeting as schoolmates to their creative rivalry as fame and success continue to elude Cézanne. 

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Tulip Fever (2017) Trailer

Tulip Fever

Tulip Fever is 2017 American-British film directed by Justin Chadwick from a screenplay by Sir Tom Stoppard, adapted from a novel by Deborah Moggach.

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An artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the tulip mania of 17th century Amsterdam.

Michael (1924) Trailer

Chained: The Story of the Third Sex

Michael (also known as Mikaël, Chained: The Story of the Third Sex, and Heart's Desire) was a German silent film released in 1924, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, director of other notable silents such as The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), Master of the House (1925), and Leaves from Satan's Book (1921).

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Triangle story: painter, his young male model, unscrupulous princess.

The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015) Trailer

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

The Diary of a Teenage Girl is American drama film directed and written by Marielle Heller, based on the graphic novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures by Phoebe Gloeckner.

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Like most teenage girls, Minnie Goetze (Bel Powley) is longing for love, acceptance and a sense of purpose in the world. Minnie begins a complex love affair with her mother's (Kristen Wiig) boyfriend, "the handsomest man in the world," Monroe Rutherford (Alexander Skarsgård). What follows is a sharp, funny and provocative account of one girl's sexual and artistic awakening, without judgment.

Aloft (2014) Trailer

Aloft

Aloft (Spanish: No Llores Vuela) is a 2014 drama film written and directed by Claudia Llosa, starring Jennifer Connelly, Cillian Murphy, and Mélanie Laurent.

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Aloft tells of a struggling mother who encounters the son she abandoned 20 years earlier.

The Masters Portrait (2009) Trailer

The Masters Portrait

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The Masters Portrait is a documentary that captures the methods and techniques used by

Casey Baugh as he creates, in charcoal, the portrait of Richard Schmid. The film takes 

place in Baughs New England studio and invites the viewer to enjoy the creative process 

and in-depth discussions regarding the many layers of a painting and the life of an artist.

From retrospective stories told by Richard Schmid to the never-before-seen charcoal 

techniques by Casey Baugh, this film captures an historic moment in art history and 

reaveals the inspiration and collaboration used to create the The Masters Portrait.

The Damned: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead (2015) Trailer

The Damned: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead

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 New York Beat Movie

This film, directed by Edo Bertoglio, written and produced by Glenn O'Brien with post-production in 1999-2000 by Maripol, is a rare real-life snapshot of ultra-hip subculture of post-punk era Manhattan.

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The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into. He finally manages to sell his painting to a wealthy female admirer, but he's paid by check. Low on cash, he spends the evening wandering from club to club, looking for a beautiful girl he had met earlier, so he'll have a place to spend the night. Downtown 81 not only captures one of the most interesting and lively artists of the twentieth century as he is poised for fame, but it is a slice of life from one of the most exciting periods in American culture, with the emergence of new wave music, new painting, hip hop and graffiti.

As Good as It Gets (1997) Trailer

As Good as It Gets

A comedy from the heart that goes for the throat.

As Good as It Gets is a 1997 American romantic comedy film directed by James L. Brooks and produced by Laura Ziskin. 

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A dysfunctional writer's world is forever changed by a waitress with a sick child, an artist neighbor and an ugly but endearing little dog. 

The Last of England (1988) Clip

The Last of England

The Last of England is a (1987) British film directed by Derek Jarman.

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It is a poetic, rather than realistic, depiction of what Jarman felt was the loss of traditional English culture in the 1980s.

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012) Trailer

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

Can an artist change China?

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (in Chinese 艾未未：道歉你妹; official title in Taiwan 艾未未：草泥馬) is a 2012 documentary film about Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, directed by American filmmaker Alison Klayman.

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Named by ArtReview as the most powerful artist in the world, Ai Weiwei is China's most celebrated contemporary artist, and its most outspoken domestic critic. In April 2011, when Ai disappeared into police custody for three months, he quickly became China's most famous missing person. First-time director Alison Klayman gained unprecedented access to the charismatic artist, as well as his family and others close to him, while working as a journalist in Beijing. In the years she filmed, government authorities shut down Ai's blog, beat him up, bulldozed his newly built studio, and held him in secret detention--while Time magazine named him a runner-up for 2011's Person of the Year. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Sundance 2012, her compelling documentary portrait is the inside story of a passionate dissident for the digital age who inspires global audiences and blurs the boundaries of art and politics.

Take This Waltz (2011) Trailer

Take This Waltz

Take This Waltz is a 2011 comedy-drama film.

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A happily married woman falls for the artist who lives across the street.

The Naked Maja (1958) Trailer

The Naked Maja

 Now she is yours...the matchless...the shameless beauty who lives forever as The Naked Maja!

The Naked Maja (1958) is an Italian-French-American co-production made by S.G.C., Titanus Films and United Artists. 

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This historical film recounting of the romance between the painter Francisco Goya and the Duchess of Alba.

Devotion (1946) Trailer

Devotion

It tells ALL about those Brontë sisters!...They didn't dare call it love- they

 tried to call it Devotion

Devotion is a 1946 American biographical film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Olivia de Havilland, and Sydney Greenstreet.

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In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Bronte vie for the affection of the Reverend Arthur Nichols. Along with their sister Anne, Emily and Charlotte also try to help their tormented brother Branwell, a gifted artist whose life is being destroyed by alcohol.

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Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) Trailer

Tales from the Darkside: The Movie

 Four Ghoulish Fables in One Modern Nightmare

Tales from the Darkside: The Movie is a 1990 American horror anthology film directed 

by John Harrison based on the anthology television series Tales from the Darkside.

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This is really three shorter movies, bound together by a fourth tale in which the other three stories are read. The first segment features an animated mummy stalking selected student victims; the second tale tells the story of a "cat from hell" who cannot be killed and leaves a trail of victims behind it; the third story is about a man who witnesses a bizarre killing and promises never to tell what he saw and the "in-between" bit is the story of a woman preparing to cook her newspaper boy for supper.Written by Goth <brooks@odie.ee.wits.ac.za>

Csontvary - Lebensbilder eines Malers (1980)

Csontváry

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Hungarian film " Csontváry " is about the eponymous artist who gave a new

 direction to art in Hungary.