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The Burnt Orange Heresy(2020)

Κ-15
| 1h 39min | Thriller
2.9/5 (with 67 votes)

Hired to steal a rare painting from one of the most enigmatic painters of all time, an ambitious art dealer becomes consumed by his own greed and insecurity as the operation spins out of control.

Final Portrait(2017)

1h 27min | History, Drama
3.0/5 (with 74 votes)

Paris, 1964. The Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti, one of the most accomplished and respected artists of his generation, asks his friend, the American writer James Lord, to sit for a portrait, assuring him that it will take no longer than two or three hours, an afternoon at the most.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie(1969)

1h 56min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 44 votes)

A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.

Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti(2017)

1h 37min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 53 votes)

In 1891, the French painter Paul Gauguin leaves Paris and travels to Tahiti to renew his art as a free man, far from the European artistic conventionalism. On his journey of discovery, he faces solitude and disease, but he also knows the beauty of wild nature and the love of Tehura, a young native girl who becomes his wife and model.

Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden(2016)

1h 45min | Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 41 votes)

Vienna, Austria, 1910. The young painter Egon Schiele is a rising artist, provocative and free, whose work, characterized by eroticism, shocks as much as it fascinates art lovers.

Ladies of Leisure(1930)

1h 40min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 9 votes)

Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich suitor. Jerry Strong is a young man from a wealthy family who strives to succeed as an artist. What begins as a relationship of mutual convenience soon turns into something else.

Nothing Like Paris(2023)

1h 38min | Romance / Love, Drama
1.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Jojo, a Filipino artist in Paris who has had many lovers, but constantly finds himself desperate to fill the chasm in his life occupied by the mysterious muse of his paintings. For years, his heart is held captive by a woman with no name and no history. Like a compass, Jojo looks for her in every girl he meets, hoping she will be “the one.” One day, a woman named Marie, walks up to Jojo and claims to be the subject of his paintings.

Artemisia Gentileschi, Warrior Painter(2020)

2.2/5 (with 2 votes)

An account of the life of the Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653), the first female artist to get international acclaim, recognized as a modern icon, due to her personality and her unyielding defense of her professional integrity.

Directed by Jordan River

Two Portraits of MIYAGINO(2010)

In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds consolation in the company of a prostitute, and becomes entangled in a love triangle. A mystery emerges involving two portraits and the sudden disappearance of the artist Sharaku. Helmed by Cannes-selected director Tatsuji Yamazaki, the film employs kabuki-inspired sequences and stylised sets.

Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World(2014)

1h 36min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 13 votes)

An account of the life and work of Swiss painter, sculptor, architect and designer H. R. Giger (1940-2014), tormented father of creatures as fearsome as they are fascinating, inhabitants of nightmarish biomechanical worlds.

Directed by Belinda Sallin

Mucha: The Story of an Artist Who Created a Style(2020)

1h 35min | Documentary, History
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Czech painter and illustrator Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) ranks among the pioneers of the Art Nouveau movement at the end of the 19th century. Virtually overnight, he becomes famous in Paris thanks to the posters that he designs to announce actress Sarah Bernhardt’s plays. But at the height of his fame, Mucha decides to leave Paris to realize his lifetime project.

Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History(2018)

2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Many twentieth century European artists, such as Paul Gauguin or Pablo Picasso, were influenced by art brought to Europe from African and Asian colonies. How to frame these Modernist works today when the idea of the “primitive” in art is problematic?

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The Spanish Golden Age(2016)

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A journey through the Spain of the Baroque, the glorious 17th century, an unfortunate era of endless wars and political tribulations; but also of great painters and sculptors who created astonishing pieces of art: el Siglo de Oro.

Ágata(1966)

18min | Drama, Fantasy
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The abusive professional relationship between Luis, an intransigent painter, and Ágata, his traumatized model, takes an unexpected turn when she finds a mysterious self-portrait of him….

The Genius of Turner: Painting the Industrial Revolution(2013)

A film that looks at the genius of JMW Turner in a new light. There is more to Turner than his sublime landscapes - he also painted machines, science, technology and industry. Turner's life spans the Industrial Revolution, he witnessed it as it unfolded and he painted it. In the process he created a whole new kind of art. The programme examines nine key Turner paintings and shows how we should re-think them in the light of the scientific and Industrial Revolution. Includes interviews with historian Simon Schama and artist Tracey Emin.

Pickman's Model(2014)

2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

July, 1925. Thurber Phillips, an art collector, is invited by his favorite painter, the elusive and mysterious Richard Upton Pickman, to visit his home, a sinister place where his friend's macabre paintings seem to threaten him from the walls in shadows.

The Madonna of the Slums(1919)

20min | Drama

A rich artist has never completed a master painting because he could not find a model for the face, sees the wife of a man in hard luck begging on the street so she can buy milk for her baby, and the artist secures just what he desired.

Piet Bekaert(1984)

12min | Documentary

Short documentary on Belgian artist Piet Bekaert.

Picasso: Love, Sex and Art(2015)

2.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Documentary telling the story of the women who fed the life and art of Pablo Picasso, many of whom would find themselves damaged forever by the experience of being his partner.

Hans Hartung, la fureur de peindre(2019)

53min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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Rubens: A Life in Europe(2018)

The Flemish painter, humanist and diplomat Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) was fortunate to be recognized during his lifetime as an artist of genius and one of the most prolific among his peers, making him a key figure of the Baroque.

Her and I(2020)

20min | Drama

In Barcelona, Queralt, a painter, tries to talk by phone with her daughter Gemma, also a painter, who lives and works in a small studio in Athens.

Uka(2016)

Uka, a little girl who lives in an abandoned factory, finds a way of changing how she sees the world while painting on her canvas.

Egon Schiele: Between Love and Hate(2018)

2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

An account of the short life and the astonishing and provocative work of the Austrian painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918), seen through the peculiar point of view and the critic voices of the women who defined the paramount milestones of his existence: Gerti, his sister; Wally, his main model and lover; and Edith, his wife. A brief story of love, hate, betrayal and misfortune.

Bellini and Mantegna: Renaissance Rivals(2019)

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The mysterious parallel story of Italian painters Andrea Mantegna (ca. 1431-1506) and Giovanni Bellini (ca. 1435-1516), brothers-in-law, public rivals and masters of the early Renaissance.

Trainbombing(2009)

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Train Bombing is the story of a young graffiti artist who by an unlikely series of events accidently creates the masterpiece of his life.

Directed by Sylvester Rishøj Jensen, Bodie Jahn-Mulliner

Demon in the Bottle(2023)

3min | Horror, Fantasy

Tempted by the thought of an afternoon drink, a young woman comes face to face with a sinister presence.