Topic: Painting

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Joan Bennett · Dan Duryea · Jess Baker

Synopsis Chris Cross (Edward G. Robinson), a mild mannered bank clerk, celebrates his 25 years of service, but he is unhappy with his dead end job and his shrieking harpy of a wife. The only pleasure he finds in his life...

Direction Carl Hindmarch · Clare Beavan · Steve Condie · David Belton

Cast Simon Schama

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Joan Bennett · Raymond Massey · Edmund Breon

Synopsis Gotham College professor Wanley and his friends become obsessed with the portrait of a woman in the window next to the men's club. Wanley happens to meet the woman while admiring her portrait, and ends up in her apartment for...

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast Anatoly Solonitsyn · Ivan Lapikov · Nikolai Sergeyev · Nikolai Grinko

Synopsis Andrei Rublev (1966) follows the life of the 15th-century Russian icon painter during a turbulent era of political unrest and spiritual crisis. Structured as a series of episodic vignettes, the film explores Rublev's journey as he witnesses brutality, faith, and...

Direction Jean-Claude Biette

Cast Jean-Christophe Bouvet · Sonia Saviange · Howard Vernon · Laura Betti

Direction Nick Willing

Cast Fiona Bradley · Luis Amorim de Sousa · John Erle-Drax · John McEwen

Synopsis A unique insight into the life and work of celebrated painter Paula Rego directed by her son, the film maker Nick Willing.

Direction Mitra Farahani

Cast Bahman Mohassess · Mitra Farahani

Synopsis Bahman Mohassess was a celebrated artist at the time of the Shah. Trained in Italy, he created sculptures and paintings in his homeland. But audiences often took offence at the pronounced phalli on his mostly naked bronze figures and his...

Direction Peter Watkins

Cast Geir Westby · Gro Fraas · Kerstii Allum · Eric Allum

Synopsis Following a rough chronology from 1884 to 1894, when Norwegian artist Edvard Munch began expressionism and established himself as northern Europe's most maligned and controversial artist, the film also flashes back to the death from consumption of his mother, when...

Direction Randall Wright

Cast Esther Freud · David Hockney

Synopsis Painted Life explores the life and work of Lucian Freud, undoubtedly one of Britain's greatest artists. Freud gave his full backing to the documentary shortly before his death. Uniquely, he was filmed painting his last work, a portrait of his...

Direction John Frankenheimer

Cast Burt Lancaster · Paul Scofield · Jeanne Moreau · Michel Simon

Synopsis Oberst von Waldheim wants to bring modern paintings, the ones the Nazis called "degenerate", out of Paris before the Allied Forces liberate Paris. He is able to persuade his bosses to give him the train. Labiche, a French railway official...

Direction Henry Chalfant · Tony Silver

Synopsis Style Wars is an early documentary on hip hop culture, made by Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant, made in New York City in 1983. The film has an emphasis on graffiti, although breakdancing and rapping are covered to a lesser...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Jennifer Jones · Joseph Cotten · Ethel Barrymore · Lillian Gish

Synopsis Eben Adams is a struggling artist in Depression era New York who has never been able to find inspiration for a painting. One day, after he finally finds someone to buy a painting from him, a young girl named Jennie...

Direction Banksy

Cast Thierry Guetta · Banksy

Synopsis Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) is a provocative documentary that blurs the line between art and absurdity. The film follows Thierry Guetta, an eccentric Frenchman obsessed with filming street artists, including the elusive Banksy. As Thierry immerses himself in...

Direction Renato Castellani

Cast Philippe Leroy · Ann Odessa · Glauco Onorato · Filippo Scelzo

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Matti Pellonpää · Evelyne Didi · André Wilms · Kari Väänänen

Synopsis Three artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise. Rodolfo falls in love with Mimi, a barmaid. The...

Direction Mario Soffici

Cast Juan Verdaguer · Susana Campos · María Luisa Robledo · Alberto Dalbés

Direction Ramón Gener · Joan Costa

Cast Ramón Gener

Synopsis "This is Art" is a TV serie about the art and the emotions.

Direction Jim Sheridan

Cast Daniel Day-Lewis · Brenda Fricker · Ray McAnally · Fiona Shaw

Synopsis My Left Foot (1989) tells the inspiring true story of Christy Brown, an Irishman born with cerebral palsy, which leaves him with control over only his left foot. Despite his physical limitations and societal prejudices, Christy's determination and talent shine...

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Orson Welles · Oja Kodar · Joseph Cotten · Jean-Pierre Aumont

Synopsis F. for Fake (1973) is a playful and thought-provoking documentary-essay by Orson Welles that blurs the line between truth and deception. The film explores the lives of notorious art forger Elmyr de Hory and his biographer, Clifford Irving, who himself...

Direction Jacques Becker

Cast Gérard Philipe · Lilli Palmer · Anouk Aimée · Lila Kedrova

Synopsis 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 are against their relation and stop financial help.