Art critic movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant art critic movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, captivating, serious, suspense, independent film and disturbing films and TV shows about / with art critic, painter, art, artist, painting, murder, bare chested male, death, female nudity and nudity plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as art critic: The Burnt Orange Heresy (2019), Edvard Munch (1974), Velvet Buzzsaw (2019), The Art of Us (2017), The Memory Book (2014), Art of Crime (2017), Saimdang, Memoir of Colors (2017), Imagine (2003), The Hong Kong Affair (2013), A Painting Lesson (2011).

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The Burnt Orange Heresy (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Hired to steal a rare painting from one of 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.
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, tense, suspense ...
Plot: art, art critic, museum, female nudity, painting, murder, painter, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, art collector, villa, thief, escapades ...
Time: future, year 1968, year 1955
Place: milan italy, italy, minnesota, new york
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 8.2
 3K
Edvard Munch (1974)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 210 min.
Story: A biographical film about the Norwegian Expressionist painter Edvard Munch. It was originally created as a three-part miniseries co-produced by the Norwegian and Swedish state television networks, but subsequently gained an American theatrical ...
Style: expressionism, art film, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: painter, painting, biopic, artist, art, art history, philosophy, disease, artists' life, depression, famous, based on real people ...
Time: year 1974, 19th century, 1890s, 1900s, 1870s ...
Place: germany, copenhagen, berlin germany, paris france, oslo norway
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 5.7
 66K
Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce. After a series of paintings by an unknown artist are discovered, a supernatural force enacts revenge on those who have allowed their greed to get in the way of ...
Style: surreal, scary, enigmatic, suspense, slasher ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: art collector, supernatural, gay, supernatural horror, painting, art dealer, blood, art theft, social satire, surrealism, painter, art gallery ...
Time: year 2019, 21st century
Place: los angeles, miami
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The Art of Us (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Harper Higgins is determined to land a tenured position at Boston Art College, and she’s counting on curating a big art gallery at the university to do so. But when she loses her showcase artist and can find no one else, she turns to her ...
Style: romantic, touching, captivating, sentimental
Plot: dog, art critic, painting, meet cute, ex boyfriend, white lie, art gallery, office romance, curator, unlikely partners, life turned upside down, celebrity ...
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The Memory Book (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Budding photographer Chloe (Ory) comes from a family of failed romances. At a local flea market, she stumbles upon an old photo album from the 1970s, chronicling the ideal romance of a happy couple (Hindle and Barbeau). Unable to find her own ...
Style: romantic, sweet, touching, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dating, photograph, marriage, love letter, road trip, art critic, love and romance, couple relations, love affair, old love, looking for love, destiny ...
Place: san francisco
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 7.2
 916
Art of Crime (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Fired for insubordination, PJ Antoine Verlay, good cop but a blood strand and having difficulty working as a team, is attached to the OCBC (Central Office for the fight against Traffic in Cultural Goods) thanks to the intervention of the commander ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, tense, detective
Plot: fighting crime, art critic, crime solving, art theft, uncover truth, art thief, partners against crime, partner, teamwork, secret revealed, unsolved crime, theft ...
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Saimdang, Memoir of Colors (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, History, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A reinterpretation of Saimdang from the Joseon times. She was a genius artist and passionate lover. Lee Young-ae takes on two roles; a college professor who specializes in Korea Art History and Saimdang.
Style: dorama, disturbing, captivating
Plot: joseon dynasty, art critic, uncover truth, scientific research, explorer, crime solving, secret revealed, research, investigation, instructor, escapades, puzzle ...
Time: 16th century
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Mr. Car and the Knights Templar (2023)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A well-known art historian, treasure hunter and owner of an unusual car stumbles upon a Templar treasure, which is the key to a great power that can upset the balance of good and evil in the world. Supported by friendly scouts, Mr. Car starts a big ...
Style: entertaining, thrilling, captivating
Plot: knights templar, treasure, lost treasure, exploration, hidden treasure, treasure hunter, treasure hunt, secret, escapades, art critic, artifact, adventurer ...
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 7.5
 144
Imagine (2003)
Genre: Biography, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The biggest names from the world of art, film, music, literature and dance. Alan Yentob gets close up with those shaping today's cultural world.
Style: captivating, thought provoking
Plot: art, architect, arts and culture, art history, historical figure, painter, art critic, lifestyle, architecture, women
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The Hong Kong Affair (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Hong Kong, 2012. The 15th anniversary of the reunification with China is coming up. Victoria Philips (Veronica Ferres), a renowned art expert from Berlin, fills in at short notice as curator for an exhibit organized by her husband (Herbert Knaup), ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating, tense
Plot: robbery, smuggling, theft, uncover truth, art theft, art thief, investigation, art, secret, male female relationship, relationship problems, relationships ...
Place: hong kong
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A Painting Lesson (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In Chile, during the 60´s, the son of a poor single teenage girl turns out to be a gifted painter. The man to discover his talent is the owner of the drugstore that lies in the outskirts of the small rural town, next to the railroad. He himself is ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: coup d'etat, painting, pharmacist, art, painter, social problems, life is a bitch, artists' life, art critic, disappearance, countryside, single mother ...
Time: 60s, year 1973
Place: chile
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 6.1
 581
A Real Vermeer (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Croatia
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Young and talented Han van Meegeren is a rebel in the early 1920's Amsterdam art-scene. Because he paints in the style of his idols Rembrandt and Vermeer, critics find his work old-fashioned and they call him a copycat. Just to prove a point, ...
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: painter, art, artist, escapades, male female relationship, love story, forgery, rags to riches, art forgery, artwork, forbidden love, love triangle ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s
Place: amsterdam
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2 Days in New York (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Marion and Mingus live cozily – perhaps too cozily – with their cat and two young children from previous relationships. However, when Marion’s jolly father, her oversexed sister, and her sister’s outrageous boyfriend unceremoniously descend ...
Style: satirical, witty, surreal, humorous, talky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: culture clash, city life, stereotypes, divorce, family life, society, parents and children, disorder, couples, hipster, interracial love, justice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 5.9
 75K
Candyman (2021)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his ...
Style: scary, suspense, slasher, bloody, dark ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: urban legend, strong violent content, urban decay, supernatural, african american, revenge, vengeful ghost, mirror, ghost, fear, murder, serial killer ...
Time: 2020s, year 1977, 2010s, 70s, year 2019
Place: chicago, usa, oceania
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 7.1
 3K
Van Gogh (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 158 min.
Story: In late spring, 1890, Vincent moves to Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris, under the care of Dr. Gachet, living in a humble inn. Fewer than 70 days later, Vincent dies from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. We see Vincent at work, painting landscapes and ...
Style: anthology, gloomy, sincere, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: painter, artist, biopic, painting, art, female nudity, art history, sex, philosophy, architecture, famous, artwork ...
Time: 19th century, year 1991, victorian era, 1890s
Place: france, paris france, europe, provence
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History of the World: Part I (1981)
Genre: Comedy, History, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.
Style: parody, spoof, funny, slapstick, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: roman empire, spanish inquisition, satire, ancient, torture, peplum, revolution, farce, ancient rome, knight, stoner, criticism of religion ...
Time: 18th century, 20th century, year 1981, 1st century, future ...
Place: france, rome italy, greece, arizona, ancient greece ...
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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An architect returns to his ancestoral home to find a werewolf out for revenge; a doctor discovers his new ...
Style: anthology, suspense, suspenseful, scary, parody ...
Plot: werewolf, train, vampire, destiny, serial killer, supernatural, danger, card playing, chimpanzee, tarot card, ghost, good versus evil ...
Time: 60s, future
Place: scottish highlands, west indies, new england, caribbean
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 6.0
 7K
Effie Gray (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
Style: emotional, captivating, stylized, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: biopic, love, art critic, unfulfillment, self discovery, crumbling marriage, couples, love and romance, fall in love, painter, love triangle, art ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, ancient times
Place: england, britain, europe, scotland, london
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 6.4
 539
Convicts 4 (1962)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: This movie is about the progression of John Resko's (Ben Gazzara) character as he is commuted from the death sentence for killing a man to life in prison. Not only is he transferred to a new facility, but his guard (Stuart Whitman), who ...
Style: black and white, independent film, semi serious, realistic, psychotronic ...
Plot: prison, death row, prisoner, transformation, journalism, prison life, murder, biopic, redemption, confined, hopes, going straight ...
Time: 1940s, 60s, 1930s
Place: new york, new york state
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The Sunlit Night (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Norway
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Between New York City and the far north of Norway, an American painter and a Russian émigré find each other in the Arctic circle. Together under a sun that never sets, they discover a future and family that they didn’t know they had.
Style: inspirational, melancholic, semi serious, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot: beautiful scenery, artist, art, painter, family relations, writer's block, creative block, new life, changing lives, love, inspiration, unlikely couple ...
Place: scandinavia, manhattan new york city, new york
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Life in Squares (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 171 min.
TV show
Story: A story of the close and often fraught relationship between sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf.
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, emotional, costume drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: artist, love triangle, rebelliousness, family relations, couples, friendship, love and romance, self discovery, bohemian, poet, sister sister relationship, family life ...
Time: victorian era, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe
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The Golden Boat (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA, Belgium, Luxembourg, Hong Kong
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Inspired in form by American police TV shows and soap operas, The Golden Boat is a madcap, surreal dash through the streets of New York city, telling the mysterious and often hilarious story of an aged street-person named Austin, a comically ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, independent film, parody, telenovela
Plot: satire, absurdism, murder, killer, tv star, assassin, irrational behavior, weirdo, art critic, multiple murder, strange behavior, wounded man ...
Place: manhattan new york city, new york
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 5.8
 138
Melancholia (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Art critic Krabbé, a German ex-pat living in London, is confronted by his radical 1960s past when he's asked to assassinate a Chilean murderer who is on a visit to London. Krabbé's anti-hero is spot on and his increasing struggle with ...
Style: independent film
Plot: paranoia, frustration, melancholy, death squad, torturer, depression, art critic, assassination, discussion, moral dilemma, terrorist group, war criminal ...
Place: chile, london
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 6.8
 27K
Mr. Turner (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA, Belgium
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.
Style: surreal, meditative, sincere, captivating, visual ...
Plot: painter, painting, art, biopic, artist, eccentricity, art history, character study, estrangement, couple relations, society, elderly ...
Time: 19th century, 1820s, year 2014, 1800s, ancient times ...
Place: england, britain, london, holland
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The Vault of Horror (1973)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The sequel to Tales from the Crypt. Five strangers trapped in a basement vault converse about their recurring nightmares. Their stories include vampires, bodily dismemberment, east Indian mysticism, an insurance scam, and an artist who kills by ...
Style: anthology, surprise ending, slasher, grindhouse, dark fairy tale ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vampire, painting, greed, buried alive, strangled to death, dream within a dream, artist, brother sister relationship, hanged man, supernatural power, husband wife relationship, female vampire ...
Time: 70s
Place: india, haiti, london
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 7.0
 29K
Pollock (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has ...
Style: emotional, intellectual, atmospheric, depressing, breathtaking ...
Plot: painter, artist, art, painting, biopic, genius, addiction, alcoholism, bohemian life, art history, rise and fall, supportive spouse ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1950s, 50s, year 1950 ...
Place: new york, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, long island
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 6.4
 4K
Incognito (1997)
Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Harry Donovan is an art forger who paints fake Rembrandt picture for $500,000. The girl he meets and gets into bed with in Paris, Marieke, turns out to be an arts expert Harry's clients are using to check the counterfeit picture he painted.
Style: suspense, tense, enigmatic, intense, realistic ...
Plot: forgery, art, betrayal, artist, secrets, twists and turns, lone hero, police investigation, painter, frame up, nude model, female nudity ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: france, new york, paris france, europe, usa ...
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 5.2
 3K
Funny Money (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany, Romania, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Henry Perkins, a mild-mannered accountant, accidentally trades briefcases with another man, to find out that there's a million dollars inside. Henry tells his unsuspecting wife of their new-found fortune, but she doesn't embrace it as well ...
Style: humorous, realistic, not serious, witty, dark comedy ...
Plot: mistaken identity, farce, gangster, nothing goes right, disorder, fish out of water, family life, unlikely criminals, dishonesty, hidden identity, husband wife relationship, corrupt cop ...
Time: year 2006
Place: europe, spain, barcelona, new york, new jersey ...
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 6.5
 7K
Caravaggio (1986)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: As influential Italian artist Caravaggio dies in exile in 1610, he recalls his short life, from his childhood to his initial artistic failures to his later triumphs as he catches the eye of a sympathetic cardinal to his destructive relationship with ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, serious, stylized, factual ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: painter, art, biopic, gay interest, older man younger man relationship, sexual relations, lifestyle, love triangle, art history, rise and fall, male nudity, life is a bitch ...
Time: 17th century, ancient times, 16th century
Place: rome italy, italy
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Color Me Blood Red (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Gore specialist H.G. Lewis' gruesome tale of an artist who becomes a success after using human blood in his paintings.
Style: slasher, bloody, grindhouse, splatter, cult classic ...
Plot: serial killer, exploitation, murder, gory, murderer, monster, maniac, killer, psychopath, performer's life, zombie, vengeance ...
Time: 60s
Place: florida
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