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 independent film, serious, realistic, captivating, suspense and disturbing films and TV shows about / with art critic, art, painter, artist, painting, death, bare chested male, murder, cigarette smoking and art gallery plots mostly in Drama, Thriller 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), Van Gogh (1991), Velvet Buzzsaw (2019), The Art of Us (2017), Edvard Munch (1974), Art of Crime (2017), A Real Vermeer (2016), Saimdang, Memoir of Colors (2017), Codename: Annika (2023), Imagine (2003).
Best films
New films
| The Art of Us (2017) | 6.6 | |
| The Hong Kong Affair (2013) | 4.4 | |
| Photographer (2015) | 6.1 | |
| Imagine (2003) | 7.6 | |
| Creditors (2015) | 6.8 |
List of art critic movies
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:
disturbing, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
art, art critic, museum, female nudity, forgery, painting, villa, male nudity, painter, murder, art collector, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
future, year 1968, year 1955
Place:
italy, minnesota, new york, milan italy
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Genre: 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, psychological, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
artist, painter, painting, biopic, art, art history, sex, artist's model, nudity, male nudity, train conductor, model ...
Time:
19th century, year 1991, 1890s, victorian era
Place:
france, paris france, europe, provence
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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, perverse, visually stunning, psychological horror ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
art collector, supernatural horror, supernatural, gay, painting, satire, art dealer, blood, art theft, art critic, male nudity, social satire ...
Time:
year 2019, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, miami
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
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:
touching, captivating, sentimental, romantic
Plot:
dog, dog walker, art critic, painting, ex boyfriend, meet cute, white lie, art gallery, loneliness, secret identity, curator, unlikely partners ...
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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, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
painter, painting, biopic, artist, art, art history, philosophy, disease, possessiveness, child, women's rights, passion ...
Time:
year 1974, 19th century, 1870s, 1880s, 1860s ...
Place:
germany, paris france, berlin germany, copenhagen, oslo norway
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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:
captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense, detective
Plot:
art critic, art theft, investigation, art, crime investigation, private investigation, fighting crime, crime solving, teamwork, secret, theft, uncover truth ...
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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:
disturbing, captivating, tense, suspense, period drama
Plot:
painter, art, forbidden love, art forgery, artist, art critic, artwork, male female relationship, love story, escapades, rags to riches, forgery ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, post world war two
Place:
amsterdam, rome italy
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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, historical drama, period piece, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
joseon dynasty, korean history, investigation, diary, art forgery, female protagonist, art history, uncover truth, art critic, secret revealed, research, art ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
korea
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
TV show
Story:
Finnish art fraud investigator, Emma, goes undercover to infiltrate an auction house in Stockholm to investigate the firm’s connection to a notorious money launderer known as Blanko. To go undetected, Emma chooses the cover identity Annika, a ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, detective, thrilling, captivating
Plot:
female detective, infiltration, art, crime investigation, who done it, art thief, artwork, forensics, private detective, art critic, sleuth, female protagonist ...
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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, suspenseful, heroic
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
knights templar, treasure hunt, treasure, hidden treasure, lost treasure, exploration, quest, treasure hunter, adventurer, secret, art critic, artifact ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
poland
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Genre: Documentary, 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:
thought provoking, captivating, informative, contemplative, inspirational ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
art, architect, culture, art history, historical figure, lifestyle, painter, art critic, arts and culture, thoughtful, interview, architecture ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
britain
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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:
tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, psychological
Plot:
robbery, smuggling, theft, uncover truth, art theft, art, investigation, art thief, forbidden love, cold case, artwork, art critic ...
Place:
hong kong
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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:
historical drama, disturbing, captivating, suspense, melancholic ...
Plot:
painting, disappearance, coup d'etat, single mother, pharmacist, child prodigy, art, painter, art critic, social problems, life is a bitch, artists' life ...
Time:
60s, year 1973
Place:
chile, latin america
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An undercover French cop and an American art critic travel to a mystical island to verify the source of a painting of a scene that only the infamous "Marseilles Monster" serial killer could have created.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, crime thriller, dark, psychological horror ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, obsession, isolation, undercover cop, art critic, moral ambiguity, cat and mouse, european, claustrophobia, violence, art forgery ...
Place:
marseille
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, Australia, USA
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, demonic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
urban legend, strong violent content, murder, gay brother, urban decay, art exhibition, candyman, african american, supernatural, vengeful ghost, mirror, revenge ...
Time:
2020s, year 2019, year 1977, 2010s, 70s
Place:
chicago, usa, oceania
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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, marijuana, inquisition, empress, torture, ancient, caveman, peplum, revolution, farce ...
Time:
18th century, 20th century, 1st century, year 1981, future ...
Place:
rome italy, france, ancient greece, arizona, greece ...
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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:
train, werewolf, vampire, spell, destiny, chimpanzee, tarot card, supernatural, serial killer, danger, card playing, passenger ...
Time:
60s, future
Place:
west indies, scottish highlands, caribbean, new england
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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, feel good, sentimental, sweet, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
photograph, love letter, road trip, dating, photographer, marriage, photography, art critic, love and romance, looking for love, happy ending, couple relations ...
Place:
san francisco
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A successful artist looks back with loving memories on the summer of his defining year, 1974. A talented but troubled 18-year-old aspiring artist befriends a brilliant elderly alcoholic painter who has turned his back on not only art but life. The ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
painter, self discovery, friendship, family relations, youth, parents and children, unsupportive parent, artists and showbiz, inspiration, art, mentor, intergenerational friendship ...
Time:
year 2006, year 1974, year 1991, 21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, new york
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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, convict, journalism, transformation, murder, prison life, biopic, pardon, redemption, confined ...
Time:
1940s, 60s, 1930s
Place:
new york, new york state
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A neo-noir set in the New York City's corrupt contemporary art world where the art dealer John Kaplan and the ruthless head of New York's mafia, Michael Rubino, fight for money, art, power and love.
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mafia, gangster, art, fight, car chase, criminal heroes, brutality, revenge, mob boss, crime boss, modern art, death of father ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
new york, asia, manhattan new york city
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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, serious, captivating, emotional, costume drama ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
artist, couples, rebelliousness, love triangle, self discovery, love and romance, friendship, family relations, bohemian, poet, sister sister relationship, sisters ...
Time:
victorian era, 20th century
Place:
london, england, europe
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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, independent film, dark comedy, parody, telenovela
Plot:
absurdism, satire, murder, irrational behavior, surrealism, tv star, killer, weirdo, waitress, assassin, art critic, writers ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A love triangle is unraveled when a young painter is approached by an admirer who eases him into making sense of his relationship with his wife.
Plot:
marital infidelity, writers, atheism, art critic, fake identity, sex scene, husband wife relationship, missing child, dysfunctional marriage, couples, entrapment, jealousy ...
Place:
spain
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Netherlands, UK, Germany, Italy, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
The tragic story of Vincent van Gogh broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. Based on the letters written between the two.
Style:
sexy, touching, psychological, scenic, cult classic ...
Plot:
painter, art, artist, painting, biopic, genius, mental disorder, obsession, brother brother relationship, poverty, art history, life is a bitch ...
Time:
19th century, 80s, 20th century
Place:
holland, europe, london, paris france, france
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
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, spooky, classic horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vampire, painting, cemetery, nightmare, uxoricide, buried alive, greed, strangled to death, painter, revenge, punishment, elevator ...
Time:
70s
Place:
india, haiti, london
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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, breathtaking, intellectual, inspirational, atmospheric ...
Plot:
painter, artist, art, painting, biopic, genius, addiction, alcoholism, bohemian life, art history, self destructing, rise and fall ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1950s, year 1945, year 1941 ...
Place:
new york, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, europe ...
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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:
realistic, not serious, humorous, witty, dark comedy ...
Plot:
nothing goes right, farce, mistaken identity, gangster, dishonesty, hidden identity, unlikely criminals, family life, fish out of water, disorder, husband wife relationship, corrupt cop ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
spain, europe, barcelona, new york, manhattan new york city ...
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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, gay interest, art, male nudity, biopic, sexual relations, lifestyle, homoerotic fight, love triangle, older man younger man relationship, art history, rise and fall ...
Time:
17th century, ancient times, 16th century
Place:
rome italy, italy
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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, suspense ...
Plot:
serial killer, exploitation, gory, murder, murderer, killer, maniac, monster, psychopath, performer's life, danger, vengeance ...
Time:
60s
Place:
florida
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