Art movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant art movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, stylized, touching, art film and crying films and TV shows about / with art, painting, painter, artist, art history, female nudity, biopic, couples, telephone call and artists and showbiz plots mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as art: Basquiat (1996), The Best Offer (2013), The Burnt Orange Heresy (2019), The Beautiful Troublemaker (1991), Cashback (2006), Loving Vincent (2017), Factory Girl (2006), The Life of Leonardo Da Vinci (1971), Blue Period (2021), The Stendhal Syndrome (1996).

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 6.9
 22K
Basquiat (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Director Julian Schnabel illustrates the portrait of his friend, the first African-American pop artist Jean-Michel Basquiat who unfortunately died at a young age and just as he was beginning to make a name for himself in the art world. Alongside the ...
Style: stylized, factual, inspirational, atmospheric, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: art, artist, graffiti, painter, drug abuse, biopic, painting, drug addiction, art history, drug, self destructing, rising to stardom ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1996, year 1981
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 7.8
 128K
The Best Offer (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Virgil Oldman is a world renowned antiques expert and auctioneer. An eccentric genius, he leads a solitary life, going to extreme lengths to keep his distance from the messiness of human relationships. When appointed by the beautiful but emotionally ...
Style: twist ending, surprise ending, psychological, atmospheric, enigmatic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: twists and turns, painting, art, loneliness, art collector, art theft, age difference, collector, obsession, deception, mysterious character, forgery ...
Time: y2k, year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: europe, prague, vienna, italy
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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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The Beautiful Troublemaker (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 238 min.
Story: The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on his countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he ...
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: painter, painting, art, artist, eroticism, husband wife relationship, couples, creative process, taxidermy, model, drawing, human nature ...
Time: year 1991
Place: provence, usa, france, los angeles, south of france
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 7.1
 91K
Cashback (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After a painful breakup, Ben develops insomnia. To kill time, he starts working the late night shift at the local supermarket, where his artistic imagination runs wild.
Style: sexy, humorous, surreal, meditative, independent film ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: breakup, supermarket, introspection, artist, stopped time, nudity, sexual attraction, girlfriend, workplace, insomnia, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, time freeze ...
Time: y2k, year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: britain, united kingdom, london, england, europe
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 7.8
 63K
Loving Vincent (2017)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery
Country: Poland, UK, USA, Switzerland, Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The film brings the paintings of Vincent van Gogh to life to tell his remarkable story. Every one of the 65,000 frames of the film is an oil-painting hand-painted by 125 professional oil-painters who travelled from all across the world to the Loving ...
Style: adult animation, thought provoking, artsy, sincere, visually stunning ...
Plot: painter, art, painting, artist, genius, obsession, suicide, art history, skill, investigation, mental illness, friendship ...
Time: 19th century, year 2017, ancient times, 2010s, year 1990
Place: france, paris france
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 6.4
 22K
Factory Girl (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although she seems to have it all, Edie cannot have the love she craves from Andy, and she has an affair with a ...
Style: factual, sentimental, melancholic, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: art, artist, fashion, biopic, addiction, drug addiction, painter, bare butt, drug, mentor, rise and fall, love ...
Time: y2k, year 2006, 70s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, usa, paris france ...
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The Life of Leonardo Da Vinci (1971)
Genre: Biography, History
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: La Vita di Leonardo Da Vinci — in English, The Life of Leonardo da Vinci — is a 1971 Italian television miniseries dramatizing the life of the Italian Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci. The Golden Globe-winning miniseries was directed by ...
Style: educational, inspirational, uplifting, mind bending, enigmatic ...
Plot: art, renaissance, leonardo da vinci, painter, artist, talented, talent, discovery, scientific discovery, art history, medieval, genius ...
Time: 15th century, 16th century, medieval times
Place: italy, france, milan italy
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 7.7
 3K
Blue Period (2021)
Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Bored with life, popular high schooler Yatora Yaguchi jumps into the beautiful yet unrelenting world of art after finding inspiration in a painting.
Style: anime, disturbing, captivating, queer cinema
Audience: teen drama
Plot: painter, art, struggling artist, slice of life, coming of age, friend, student, ambitious man, painting, direction and purpose, artwork, teenager ...
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The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.
Style: surreal, psychological, suspenseful, dark, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, art, murder, sadistic psychopath, psycho killer, hallucination, surrealism, policewoman, obsession, memory loss, mental illness, rape ...
Time: 90s
Place: rome italy, florence, italy, europe
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 6.6
 3K
Francofonia (2015)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of the world-renowned museum into a magisterial, centuries-spanning reflection on the relation between art, culture and power.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, enigmatic, visual ...
Plot: nazi occupation, art, world war two, painting, nazism, painter, museum, art history, fear, evacuation, shipwreck, war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1929, year 1942, year 1972, year 1959 ...
Place: vichy, paris france, st. petersburg russia, germany, russia ...
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 7.0
 3K
Afterimage (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In 1945, as Stalin sets his hands over Poland, famous painter Wladislaw Strzeminski refuses to compromise on his art with the doctrines of social realism. Persecuted, expelled from his chair at the University, he's eventually erased from the ...
Style: avant garde, twist ending, educational, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: art, artist, painting, painter, communism, legal system, father daughter relationship, professor, teacher student relationship, loss of mother, one legged man, art history ...
Time: 50s, year 1948, year 1950, year 1952, 1940s ...
Place: poland
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New York Stories (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Three stories happening in New York. The first, by Scorsese, is about a painter who creates his works helped by high volume music and an attractive assistant; second, by Coppola, is about a rich and bold 12 years old who helps her separated parents ...
Style: anthology, talky, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: artist, art, obsession, hotel, luxury hotel, young heroes, jealousy, family relations, gallery, youth, city life, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place: new york, greece, usa, manhattan new york city, athens greece
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 7.3
 83K
Youth (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Switzerland, UK, France, Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story: YOUTH explores the lifelong bond between two friends vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing ...
Style: melancholic, talky, philosophical, touching, psychological ...
Plot: aging, composer, screenwriter, father daughter relationship, hotel, life & death, sex scene, husband wife relationship, existentialism, spa, art, orchestra ...
Time: year 2015, year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: switzerland, swiss alps, italy, venice, alps
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 7.3
 95K
Frida (2002)
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, stylized, colorful, emotional, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: painter, artist, art, painting, disability, female artist, feminism, bohemian life, lesbian, biopic, life, female protagonist ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 1920s, 20th century, year 2002 ...
Place: mexico, paris france, empire state building manhattan new york city, america, mexico city ...
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The Monuments Men (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of ...
Style: exciting, intense, suspense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world war two, war, art, art theft, painting, nazi germany, nazism, nazi, military, gold bar, treasure hunt, stolen gold ...
Time: 1940s, year 2014, 2010s, post world war two, year 1945 ...
Place: paris france, france, europe, germany, normandy ...
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 7.0
 99K
Big Eyes (2014)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The story of the awakening of the painter, Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.
Style: thought provoking, captivating, suspense, sentimental, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: art, painter, painting, artist, biopic, plagiarism, secret, courtroom, abusive husband, couples, ambition, art history ...
Time: 60s, 1950s, 20th century, year 2014, 1900s ...
Place: hawaii, san francisco, california, usa, new york ...
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Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The story of Katherine Ann Watson, a feminist teacher who studied at UCLA graduate school and in 1953 left her boyfriend behind in Los Angeles, California to teach at Wellesley College, a conservative women's private liberal arts college in ...
Style: inspirational, touching, romantic, sentimental, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot: feminism, teacher, art, college, teachers and students, art history, coming of age, dedicated educator, college life, women, gender, feminist ...
Time: 50s, year 2003, 1950s, year 1953, post world war two ...
Place: massachusetts, california, boston, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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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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 7.3
 63K
Woman in Gold (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis during World War II, she believes rightfully belongs to her family. She did so not just to regain ...
Style: captivating, realistic, touching, dramatic, motivational ...
Plot: art, holocaust, lawyer, nazi, courtroom drama, art theft, injustice, justice, painting, legal action, courtroom, world war two ...
Time: year 2015, 1900s, 20th century, 90s
Place: austria, vienna, los angeles, pasadena california, california ...
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 7.1
 77K
The Square (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Germany, France, Denmark
Duration: 151 min.
Story: A satirical drama reflecting our times — about the sense of community, moral courage and the affluent person’s need for egocentricity in an increasingly uncertain world.
Style: surreal, art house, satirical, thought provoking, intellectual ...
Plot: modern art, art, social satire, society, sex scene, painting, art exhibition, nordic, hypocrisy, museum, trust, ape man ...
Time: year 2017, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: stockholm sweden, scandinavia, europe, eastern europe
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Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Luxembourg, France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting "Girl With A Pearl Earring" by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. A young peasant maid ...
Style: enigmatic, period piece, costume drama, stylized, atmospheric ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: artist, painter, art, painting, maid, master and servant, sexual tension, society, older man younger woman relationship, teenage girl, portrait, age difference ...
Time: 17th century, ancient times, year 2003, 19th century, victorian era
Place: holland, netherlands, europe, america
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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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Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Japan, Switzerland
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Paris 1913. Coco Chanel is infatuated with the rich and handsome Boy Capel, but she is also compelled by her work. Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is about to be performed. The revolutionary dissonances of Igor's work parallel ...
Style: realistic, sexy, talky, intense, period piece ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: fashion, art, classical music, art history, composer, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, refugee, couples, blind ambition, life turned upside down ...
Time: 1920s, 1910s, edwardian era, year 2009, 20th century
Place: paris france, europe, france
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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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Children of God (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bahamas
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Johnny (Johnny Ferro) is an art student in Nassau whose technique is perfect, but he’s creatively blocked. His teacher sends him off to the rural island of Eleuthera where he meets Romeo (Stephen Tyrone Williams), a hot musician. They begin a ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, emotional, stylized ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, couples, art, religion, gender, gays and lesbians, society, youth, artists and showbiz, religions or cults, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bahamas, caribbean
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 7.4
 7K
Seraphine (2008)
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, avant garde ...
Plot: painter, artist, art, painting, art collector, mental illness, art dealer, biopic, art history, world war one, lifestyle, anti conformity ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 2008, 1920s, 1930s ...
Place: france, europe
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The Great Beauty (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Style: philosophical, art house, visually stunning, stylized, visually appealing ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: writer's life, stripper, art, party, artist, aging, surrealism, friendship, high society, journalist, magic realism, old age ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: rome italy, italy
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 5.9
 310
High Society (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Class barriers threaten the budding romance of two young lovers striving to realize their artistic ambitions.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional, touching
Audience: date night
Plot: art school, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, art, fashion, love and romance, ambition, couples, love affair, society, opposites attract, self discovery, youth ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, normandy, brazil
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Ruben Brandt, Collector (2018)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Psychotherapist Ruben Brandt becomes the most wanted criminal in the world when he and four of his patients steal paintings from the world's most renowned museums and art collections.
Style: suspense, adult animation, exciting, intense, suspenseful ...
Plot: art, chase, dream, art theft, painting, psychologist, train, boat, museum, collector, kleptomania, acrobat ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: chicago, zurich switzerland, rome italy, rio de janeiro, washington d.c. ...
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