Art movies and TV shows – page 2
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Loosely based on the Charles Dickens' classic novel, "Great Expectations" is a sensual tale of a young man's unforgettable passage into manhood, and the three individuals who will undeniably change his life forever. Through the ...
Style:
romantic, heartbreaking, emotional, sexy, costume drama ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
inheritance, art, artist, destiny, love story, childhood, passion, literary, amor, fall in love, understanding, stranger ...
Time:
20th century, year 1998, 80s, 90s, 70s ...
Place:
new york, florida, usa, london
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Amy, a naive college graduate who believes she's destined to be a great poet, begrudgingly accepts a job at a sex shop while she pursues a mentorship with reclusive writer Rat Billings.
Style:
sexy, independent film, sincere, teen, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
coming of age, art, sex shop, poetry, writers, workplace, self discovery, loneliness, creativity, adolescence vs adulthood, workplace situations, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, new jersey
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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: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
This film tells the story of a successful writer called Harry Block, played by Allen himself, who draws inspiration from people he knows in real-life, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him ...
Style:
cult classic, talky, witty, humorous, cynical ...
Plot:
art, writers, relationships, satire, psychiatrist, writer's life, human nature, alienation, philosophy, eternal love, depression, prostitution ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery
Country: Poland, UK, Switzerland, Netherlands, Qatar
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, visually stunning, artsy, period piece, costume drama ...
Plot:
painter, painting, artist, art, suicide, genius, skill, art history, mysterious death, doctor, guilt, death ...
Time:
19th century, year 2017, ancient times, 2010s, year 1990
Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: UK, Poland, Canada, Netherlands
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night Watch.
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, captivating, enigmatic ...
Plot:
painter, art, nudity, biopic, female nudity, artist, art history, uncover truth, investigation, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, love affair ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
netherlands, amsterdam, europe
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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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164
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: Biography, Drama
Country: Austria, France, Germany, UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Style:
thought provoking, stylized, visually stunning, sexual, visual ...
Plot:
painter, artist, art, painting, biopic, puffy nipples, public nudity, artist's model, art history, prodigy, obsession, ambition ...
Time:
20th century, year 2006, 19th century, year 1918, 1900s ...
Place:
austria, france, vienna, paris france, europe
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Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A drama-documentary presented by Alan Yentob, with Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role.
Style:
sincere, disturbing, semi autobiographical, thought provoking, art film ...
Plot:
art, painter, painting, artist, art history, famous painting, obsession, depression, anguish, mental illness, genius, loneliness ...
Time:
19th century
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family ...
Style:
neo noir, psychological thriller, suspense, sexy, visually stunning ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, writers, husband wife relationship, abortion, murder, divorce, rape, loss of family, infidelity, flashback, rape and murder, art ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
texas, los angeles, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th-century Russian composer. In an ancient spa town, he meets the lunatic Domenico, who years earlier had ...
Style:
philosophical, atmospheric, cerebral, art house, contemplative ...
Plot:
philosophy, art, church, existentialism, poetry, dream, obsession, storytelling, great ending, poet, memory, redemption ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s, 18th century
Place:
rome italy, italy, soviet union, russia, ussr ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Nick Hart is a struggling American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920s Paris. He spends most of his time drinking and socializing in local café's and pestering gallery owner Libby Valentin to sell his paintings. He ...
Style:
clever, humorous, surreal, expressionism, realistic ...
Plot:
art, sensuality, artist, painter, writers, painting, forgery, collector, love, drinking, glamour, expatriate ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, new york, canada
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Greece, Spain, Hungary
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The story of the uncompromising artist and fighter for freedom, Domenicos Theotokopoulos, known to the world as "El Greco".
Style:
serious, emotional, stylized, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
painter, art, lovers apart, idealism, tragic hero, politics, prodigy, ambition, self destructing, vengeance, love and romance, society ...
Time:
middle ages, 16th century
Place:
greece, spain, italy, europe, venice ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA, France
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
The incredible story of genius musician Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told in flashback by his peer and secret rival Antonio Salieri – now confined to an insane asylum.
Style:
clever, costume drama, period piece, atmospheric, historical drama ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
classical music, music, composer, genius, mozart, musician, envy, opera, character study, musician's life, mentor, prodigy ...
Time:
18th century, 1790s, 1820s, 1800s, 1780s ...
Place:
vienna, austria, eastern europe, italy, europe ...
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16K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A Baltimore sandwich shop employee becomes an overnight sensation when photographs he's taken of his weird family become the latest rage in the art world. The young man is called "Pecker" because he pecks at his food like a bird.
Style:
cult classic, absurd, not serious, witty, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
photography, art, photograph, teenage girl, dysfunctional family, artist, gay, vegan, sex, voyeur, art gallery, gallery ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
baltimore, new york, maryland, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Someone we hear talking - but whom we do not see - speaks of a project which describes the four key moments of love: meeting, physical passion, arguments/separation and making up. This project is to be told through three couples: young, adult and ...
Style:
philosophical, stylized, psychological, enigmatic, contemplative ...
Plot:
art, humanity, life & death, politics, artist, philosophy, painter, existentialism, memory, existential loneliness, minimalism, women ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
france, paris france, europe, japan, tokyo
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The story of a young, gay black con artist who, posing as the son of Sidney Poitier, cunningly maneuvers his way into the lives of a white, upper-class New York family.
Style:
talky, semi serious, realistic, humorous, cult classic ...
Plot:
art, high society, satire, racism, art dealer, investigation, gay lead character, urban setting, character study, lgbt, social differences, social climbing ...
Time:
90s, year 1993
Place:
new york, usa, afghanistan, california
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Ireland, Switzerland, UK, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.
Style:
independent film, melancholic, art film, touching, rough ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
painter, loneliness, artist, art, priest, painting, doctor, insanity, obsession, art gallery, mission, genius ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s, 1880s
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Style:
sexy, tense, humorous, atmospheric, romantic ...
Plot:
filmmaking, art, nervous breakdown, satire, adaptation, director, workplace, actor's life, artists and showbiz, nothing goes right, workplace situations, love and romance ...
Time:
20th century, year 1973, future, 70s, 18th century
Place:
france, europe, nice france, french riviera, riviera
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks. Machisu, the only son of a rich collector, has a ...
Style:
philosophical, thought provoking, emotional, art house, sad ...
Plot:
art, painter, painting, dark humor, obsession, unfulfillment, life turned upside down, failed attempt, artist, desire for fame, moving, losing-it hero ...
Time:
year 2008, 20th century, 90s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Winter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's reclusive life, as she waits for a visit from her brother, Paul Claudel.
Style:
sexy, realistic, sincere, costume drama, factual ...
Plot:
art, biopic, painter, separation from family, unfulfillment, art history, artist, nervous breakdown, faith, paranoia, sculpture, painting ...
Time:
20th century, year 1915, 1910s
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Belgium, Iran
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.
Style:
philosophical, sincere, meditative, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot:
art, writers, wedding anniversary, love affair, writer's life, passion, lost love, marriage, divorce, lifestyle, wine, dialogue ...
Time:
2010s, 90s, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
italy, europe, iran, tuscany, vienna
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
At the Kunsthistorisches Art Museum in Vienna, a museum guard and a visiting out-of-towner find refuge in life, art, and each other, in Jem Cohen’s painterly rumination on how art influences and echoes contemporary society.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, contemplative, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
art, friendship, tour guide, security guard, city life, art history, painter, painting, old man, inspiration, artist, anarchist ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
austria, vienna
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.
Style:
dramatic, realistic, psychological, motivational, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot:
music, jazz, obsession, emotional abuse, mentor, musician, teachers and students, drummer, follow your dream, desire for fame, musician's life, public humiliation ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
manhattan new york city, north america, peru, new york, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 189 min.
Story:
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses ...
Style:
breathtaking, atmospheric, philosophical, black and white, art house ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
painter, artist, art, religion, monk, biopic, medieval, human spirit, christianity, painting, hunger, saint ...
Time:
15th century, middle ages, medieval times, ancient times, year 1966 ...
Place:
russia, soviet union, ussr, moscow russia
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Crunch Calhoun, a third-rate motorcycle daredevil and part-time art thief, teams up with his snaky brother to steal one of the most valuable books in the world. But it's not just about the book for Crunch — he's keen to rewrite some ...
Style:
clever, entertaining, witty, realistic, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, art, robbery, con men, conspiracy, crime gone awry, twists and turns, motorcycle, revenge, police investigation, gang, cons and scams ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
canada, poland, detroit, warsaw poland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Italy, Japan, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Coffee And Cigarettes is a collection of eleven films from cult director Jim Jarmusch. Each film hosts star studded cast of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.
Style:
philosophical, atmospheric, anthology, clever, black and white ...
Plot:
musician, conversation, addiction, dialogue, actor, art, smoking, dark humor, coffee, sarcasm, cafe, lifestyle ...
Time:
year 2003, 70s, 1920s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california, america, paris france, new york ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
The life of Camille Claudel, a french scupltor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin drive her further away from reason and rationality.
Style:
emotional, psychological, intense, touching, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
art, biopic, mental illness, artist, fall in love, obsession, painter, sculptor, storytelling, art history, love, couples ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, turn of the century
Place:
france, paris france
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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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