Painter Movies

An artist struggles with his latest portrait while working away at a manor house in the countryside. Just when he thinks he is getting inspired,...

Up against his money-grabbing relatives, his compromised superiors, and the state, a firm painter decides to protest by bricking up the windows of...

A recluse painter’s careful routine is shaken up when a mysterious young woman knocks on his door. An encounter that will confront him with his...

The scene opens in an artist's studio, the artist asleep in his chair. A large old fashioned clock opens and a young lady comes out and awaking the...

Poor painter helps a paralysed child.

Janina Ramirez explores the BBC archives to create a TV history of Leonardo Da Vinci, discovering what lies beneath the Mona Lisa and even how he...

Forty years in the making, 'The Painter Sam Francis' is artist Jeffrey Perkins' intimate portrait of abstract expressionist painter Sam Francis. The...

This documentary tells the story of the life, career and influence of the surrealist painter Salvador Dali and the stunning works of his...

Daniel is a street painter. He just paints straight lines on the streets. Dotted, solid, white or yellow. Until Ruby, a strange wanderer enters his...

Vincent Van Gogh's life was a masterpiece painted with the dueling colors of madness versus genius. However, this inner battle gave birth to some of...

Following her award-winning documentary, One Tree Three Lives, about novelist Hualing Nieh Engle, Hong Kong director Angelina Chan examines the...

Extract of rushes from the unfinished documentary project written and produced by Henri Langlois on Marc Chagall.

A movie about James Tissot (1836-1902), a French painter and portraitist

Young painter Emma struggles to balance a rocky art career and complicated relationship with her husband. All the while, a dark presence looms over...

We follow a painter, a successful artist living alone and isolated. Driven only by his work, he finds himself lost when he’s forced to deal...

This film explains what James Ensor (1860-1949) meant for the development of art and makes palpable where he got his inspiration from.

Stefan Luchian is a passionate painter who rebels against conservative art groups, determined to create a new form of art that celebrates beauty and...

In 2014 a large painting representing Judith Beheading Holofernes was discovered in an attic in Toulouse, France. A controversy ensued immediately...

Martti Vaara, secondary school graduate gets monetary help from his rich uncle under the pretense to get married and have kids. When the uncle...