Female artist movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant female artist movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, realistic, touching, romantic, melancholic and period drama films and TV shows about / with female artist, art, artist, female protagonist, painter, biopic, love and romance, female nudity, love and painting plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as female artist: Artemisia (1997), Lovers of the Red Sky (2021), Seraphine (2008), Bauhaus - A New Era (2019), Tove (2020), Charlotte (2021), In a Sentimental Mood (2018), Frida (2002), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), Daddy Issues (2018).
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List of female artist movies
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) was one of the first well-known female painters. The movie tells the story of her youth, when she was guided and protected by her father, the painter Orazio Gentileschi. Her professional curiosity about the male ...
Style:
factual, sexual, historical drama, art film, spiritual ...
Plot:
virginity, art, female artist, artist, painter, biopic, renaissance, women, rape, art history, female nudity, painting ...
Time:
16th century, ancient times, 17th century, year 1997, 70s
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story:
Set during the Joseon era, Hong Cheon Ki is a female painter with a genius like painting talent. She is picked as the first female painter of the Dohwaseo (Korean Royal Academy of Painting). Hong Cheon Ki also has a beautiful appearance and a bright ...
Style:
romantic, captivating, disturbing, sincere, sageuk
Plot:
joseon dynasty, female artist, blind man, painter, blindness, love at first sight, love and romance, love story, fall in love, couple relations, talent, in love ...
Time:
15th century
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The tragic story of French naïve painter Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (1864-1942), a humble servant who becomes a gifted self-taught painter. Discovered by prominent critic and collector William Uhde, she came to prominence between the ...
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, surprise ending, independent film ...
Plot:
painter, artist, art, painting, art collector, mental illness, art dealer, world war one, biopic, art history, lifestyle, anti conformity ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 2008, 1920s, 1930s ...
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
1919. World War I has just ended. Dörte Helm, a young art student in Weimar, follows Walter Gropius’ call and joins the newly-founded Bauhaus school. A love story grows between Gropius and Dörte, adding fuel to the fire of the ensuing scandal ...
Style:
inspirational, historical drama, avant garde, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
interwar period, biopic, teacher student relationship, art history, artist, love, architecture, modernism, couples, fall in love, love affair, art school ...
Time:
year 1919, 1910s, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
germany
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden, Denmark, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Helsinki, 1945. The end of the war brings a new sense of artistic and social freedom for painter Tove Jansson. While focusing her artistic dreams on painting, the enchanting tales of the ‘Moomin’ creatures she told to scared children in bomb ...
Style:
psychological, unusual plot structure, melancholic, contemplative, tense ...
Plot:
lesbian, lesbianism, writers, lesbian relationship, lgbt, artist, unrequited love, lesbian love, lovers, young lovers, female artist, love ...
Time:
20th century, year 1947, year 1952, 1950s, 1940s ...
Place:
helsinki finland, paris france, finland, eastern europe
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Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, France, Belgium, USA, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative and deeply gifted, she dreams of becoming an artist. Her first love applauds her talent, which ...
Style:
adult animation, captivating, disturbing, psychological, 2d animation
Plot:
world war two, female protagonist, female artist, painter, artist, historical figure, painting, artists' life, life, life is a bitch, social problems, art ...
Time:
year 1941, 1940s, 1930s, year 1943, year 1940 ...
Place:
berlin germany, south of france, france, cote d'azur
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Anna, a twenty-something painter freshly dropped out of college, paves her way making chalk drawings at a cafe and trying to get her art displayed around town. Her work is unique, but her time is split between partying with her dysfunctional friend ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, suspenseful, suspense, dark comedy ...
Plot:
friendship, slice of life, party, female artist, dream, love, love and romance, friendship between girls, street artist, fall in love, female friendship, modern art ...
Place:
boston, massachusetts
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
"Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and ...
Style:
visually appealing, independent film, sexy, emotional, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
painter, artist, art, painting, female artist, bohemian life, lgbtq, disability, feminism, female protagonist, life, relationships ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 2002, 1920s, 20th century ...
Place:
mexico, paris france, empire state building manhattan new york city, mexico city, america ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the 18th century, an artist is commissioned to paint a young woman's wedding portrait.
Style:
sexy, scenic, touching, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
painter, lesbian, lgbtq, lgbt, painting, portrait, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lgbtqi, love, female protagonist, lesbian sex ...
Time:
18th century, 2010s, ancient times, victorian era, year 2019 ...
Place:
brittany, france
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Maya, a 19 year old queer pixie, gets romantically involved with her sexually fluid insta-crush and unknowingly inserts herself into a twisted love triangle.
Style:
psychological, sentimental, romantic, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
teenage girl, lgbt, lesbian romance, bisexual woman, female artist, lesbian, love triangle, love and romance, romantic relationship, couple relations, love story, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An artist dumps her longtime boyfriend, but her attempt to take a break from dating ends when she quickly finds herself in two passionate romances.
Style:
romantic drama, erotic, clever, romantic, semi serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
love triangle, love, new love, love story, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, life philosophy, stereotypes, uninhibited rivalry, love and romance, looking for love, honest ...
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Genre: Drama, Family, History, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story:
Born in 1937 in Osaka as the eldest daughter, Kawahara Kimiko moves to Shigaraki with her family at the age of 9. She works to support her family from a young age. Eventually, she jumps into the male world of pottery and becomes a pioneer of female ...
Style:
asadora, captivating, dramatic, entertaining, exciting ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female artist, female empowerment, biopic, family life, painter, career, creative process, fight, japanese woman, female protagonist, mishap, family relations ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life.
Style:
sincere, atmospheric, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, abusive husband, female artist, photograph, dysfunctional family, photography, jail, unrequited love, woman, photographer, troubled marriage, family problems ...
Time:
1900s, year 2008, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
europe, scandinavia, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Ellie, a serial 'ghoster' on dating apps, is told by a fortune teller that she must resolve her past and make amends with all those she ghosted before Christmas, or she is destined to never find true love! Over the course of one week, she ...
Style:
light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
Plot:
christmas, mother daughter relationship, brother sister relationship, computer game, cartoonist, female artist, race against time, christmas romance, female protagonist, coincidence, christmas eve, gift ...
Place:
chicago
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Genre: Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When a painter rents a secluded cabin to jump start her creativity, she has sex with a ghost and finds herself part of his plan to bring itself back to life.
Style:
erotic, suspenseful, enigmatic, dark
Plot:
ghost, female artist, creativity, isolation, creative block, hallucination, justice, delusion, deeply disturbed person, macabre, abandoned house, moral ambiguity ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
2009 biopic about the early life of Coco Chanel. Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar both. She's both a seamstress for the performers ...
Style:
sexy, stylized, costume drama, period piece, factual ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
fashion, women, high society, feminist, fashion designer, designer, rise to the top, gender, feminism, dressmaker, rags to riches, social climbing ...
Time:
1920s, 19th century, 1900s, ancient times, edwardian era ...
Place:
france, paris france, europe, canada, new jersey ...
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, cult classic, humorous, witty ...
Plot:
classical music, writers, female artist, piano, music, women, older woman younger man relationship, renaissance, novelist, duchess, musician, art ...
Time:
19th century, regency period, year 1991, victorian era, 1830s ...
Place:
france, europe, london, seattle, england
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Haunted by a terrifying spirit out of her graphic novel, a young artist struggles to overcome her psychosis before it destroys her.
Style:
suspense, psychological, suspenseful, psychotronic, bleak ...
Plot:
supernatural, female artist, ghost, supernatural power, killing, revenge, evil, exorcism, characters in danger, hunting, fear, deadly creature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After running away from her last foster placement with the Regan family, twelve year old Hollis Woods is placed with a new foster mother, the loving, retired art teacher, Josie Cahill.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, sad
Audience:
kids
Plot:
foster child, foster home, painter, adoptive mother, female artist, painting, drawing, sculptor, family problems, adoption, adoptive mother adopted son relationship, changing lives ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) is an important part of art history and one of the first ever painters of abstract art. However, unlike the work of many of her peers at the time hers was misunderstood and neglected until long after her death. This is a ...
Style:
serious, captivating, exciting, dramatic, lgbt cinema ...
Plot:
female artist, art, strong female presence, fight, abstract art, woman, life, women, female protagonist, arts and culture, museum, occult ...
Time:
1940s, 1880s
Place:
eastern europe, copenhagen
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Seattle PD is investigating the murder of a man and Sakshi, a deaf and mute artist, and her husband Antony, a renowned cello player, are related to it.
Style:
scary, psychotronic, suspense, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
female artist, haunted house, ghost, paranormal, chase, death, curses spells and rituals, youth, exorcism, evil, revenge, supernatural power ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife, Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in hades for the ...
Style:
surreal, philosophical, touching, inspirational, spiritual ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
afterlife, heaven and hell, redemption, life & death, life philosophy, heaven, destiny, metaphysics, hell, love, fantasy world, female artist ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
cuba
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Asakusa Midori wants to create an anime, but she's too disheartened to make that first step by herself. By pure chance, she meets Mizusaki Tsubame, an up-and-coming socialite secretly dreaming of becoming an animator. Together with ...
Style:
anime, humorous, entertaining, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
slice of life, school, female artist, friends, animator, ambition, artists' life, ambitious woman, teenager, teenage life, direction and purpose, school club ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Brazil
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After being released from prison, Dr. Nise da Silveira is back at work in a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Rio de Janeirom where she refuses to employ the new and violent electroshock in the treatment of schizophrenics. Ridiculed by ...
Style:
captivating, light, spiritual, inspirational, medical drama ...
Plot:
mental patient, disturbed individual, mental health, art, biopic, brazilian history, art exhibition, historical event, mental institution, mentally unstable, female artist, painter ...
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A group of strangers come together to work on creating the greatest anime series ever.
Style:
anime, funny, exciting, light, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teamwork, friends, female protagonist, creative process, collaboration, creativity, female artist, student, high school, ambition, friendship, art school ...
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Year 1915. Helene Schjerfbeck lives as a forgotten artist with her elderly mother in the countryside. It has been years since the last exhibit, and Helene continues to paint only because of her passion. Everything changes when art dealer finds Helen ...
Style:
historical drama, romantic drama, period drama, beautiful
Plot:
female artist, male female relationship, older woman younger man relationship, sexual attraction, museum, mental breakdown, artist, mother daughter relationship, painter, unrequited love, art dealer, heartbreak ...
Time:
1910s, year 1915
Place:
helsinki finland, finland
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, UK, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her family friends the Dilkes. After reading a book of his poetry, she finds herself even more drawn to ...
Style:
costume drama, heartbreaking, period piece, romantic, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
poet, writers, poetry, love story, love, biopic, tuberculosis, passion, art, friendship, literary, longing ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, regency period, ancient times, 1810s ...
Place:
england, europe, britain, rome italy, london ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In 1958 New York Diane Arbus is a housewife and mother who works as an assistant to her husband, a photographer employed by her wealthy parents. Respectable though her life is, she cannot help but feel uncomfortable in her privileged world. One ...
Style:
sexy, atmospheric, erotic, intense, surreal ...
Plot:
photographer, photograph, couples, biopic, photography, making love, fall in love, love story, artist, art, friends, self discovery ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Style:
depressing, sentimental, touching, melancholic, intellectual ...
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, sex scene, writers, female pubic hair, writer's life, skinny dipping, love, biopic, mental illness, bisexual, adultery, making love ...
Time:
year 2001, 20th century, 50s, 90s, 1950s
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Not Louis Malle's classic but the latest from director Sylvia Chang who, after years of absence from the helm, digs deep into her Taiwanese roots to tell a story about growing up, and letting go. Isabella Leong plays an uncertain painter, Mei, ...
Style:
disturbing, sincere, psychological, captivating, poignant ...
Plot:
family reunited, relationships, painting, brother sister relationship, female artist, sibling relationship, brother and sister, rebellion, lifestyle, brother sister reunion, family relations, self discovery ...
Place:
taiwan
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