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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
Style:
erotic, cult classic, costume drama, sexual, serious ...
Plot:
gay, poet, lgbt, homosexuality, male nudity, violence, melancholy, homosexual, writer's life, homoeroticism, teenage boy, gay teenager ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, victorian era, turn of the century, 1870s
Place:
paris france, europe, africa, france, holland ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
In an early 20th century village, a painter with an unusual commission finds two pretty girls two model for him. The girls slowly come of age while exploring their sexuality and finding liberation in a repressed society.
Style:
erotic, eros, entertaining, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
girlfriend girlfriend relationship, lesbian, lesbian relationship, nude model, nudism, painting, art, artist, villager, sexual awakening, sex scene, lesbianism ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty and move on with her life.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, sexy, romantic drama ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
artist, painter, art, womanizer, biopic, love triangle, infidelity, art history, character study, mistress, physical abuse, couple relations ...
Time:
1940s, year 1996, 50s, 20th century, year 1943 ...
Place:
poland, france, paris france, europe, provence ...
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32K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles, she folds into herself, trying to ...
Style:
touching, psychological, independent film, sad, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, teenage girl, rape, bullying, youth, rape victim, school, teenage life, innocence lost, teenager, unsupportive friend, high school life ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
columbus ohio, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 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:
sexy, factual, sentimental, melancholic, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
art, fashion, artist, biopic, bare butt, addiction, destiny, drug addiction, couple relations, painter, cowboy, mentor ...
Time:
y2k, year 2006, 60s, 70s, 20th century ...
Place:
empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, usa, paris france, london ...
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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:
twist ending, exciting, sentimental, ambiguous ending, captivating ...
Plot:
art, artist, painting, painter, communism, legal system, father daughter relationship, professor, one legged man, loss of mother, teacher student relationship, art history ...
Time:
50s, year 1948, year 1952, 1940s, year 1950 ...
Place:
poland
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80K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Art dealer, Charles Mortdecai, searches for a stolen painting rumored to contain a secret code that gains access to hidden Nazi gold.
Style:
humorous, exciting, parody, melancholic, entertaining ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
art dealer, art theft, treasure hunt, art, chase, escapades, cons and scams, eccentricity, art collector, british, justice, painting ...
Time:
year 2015, year 1943, year 1945
Place:
london, england, los angeles, paris france, hong kong ...
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Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: France, UK, South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Scotland, late 1950s. A struggling illusionist visits an isolated community and meets a young lady who is convinced that he is a real magician.
Style:
breathtaking, stylized, touching, sad, visual ...
Audience:
kids, preschool
Plot:
magician, art, magic, friendship, coming of age, loneliness, theater, very little dialogue, imagination, mentor, transformation, character study ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 2010s, year 1959, year 2010 ...
Place:
england, scotland, france, edinburgh scotland, scottish highlands ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Charlton Heston stars as Renaissance artist Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), who begrudgingly paints the Sistine Chapel for imperious Pope Julius II in this epic adaptation of Irvine Stone's novel ...
Style:
inspirational, uplifting, serious, costume drama, biblical ...
Plot:
renaissance, painter, artist, biopic, gay subtext, painting, art, catholic, pope, male male relationship, art history, christian ...
Time:
16th century, ancient times, medieval times, 60s
Place:
italy, europe, rome italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.
Style:
independent film, disturbing, erotic, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
photograph, older man younger woman relationship, photography, art, photographer, male female relationship, secrets, love and romance, social differences, parents and children, society, age difference ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
san francisco, california, usa, ireland, los angeles
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but he continued to ignore her. So she shot ...
Style:
independent film, disturbing, clever, edutainment, surreal ...
Plot:
art, artist, feminist, writers, lesbian, biopic, women, feminism, painter, true crime, art history, lgbt ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1996, year 1966, year 1968
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Painter Francisco Goya faces a scandal involving his muse, who is labeled a heretic by a monk.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, historical drama, factual, realistic ...
Plot:
rape, artist, spanish inquisition, spanish history, art, prison, prostitute, painter, biopic, life is a bitch, lifestyle, painting ...
Time:
18th century, ancient times, regency period, 19th century, 1800s ...
Place:
spain, persia, madrid, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, erotic, tense, factual ...
Plot:
poet, artist, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, painter, homosexual, gay relationship, friendship, political unrest, closeted homosexual, spanish civil war ...
Time:
year 1936, 20th century, 1920s, 1930s, year 2008
Place:
spain, andalusia, paris france, europe, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and ...
Style:
surreal, psychedelic, cerebral, art house, stylized ...
Plot:
surrealism, infidelity, art, spiritualism, insanity, hermaphrodite, memory, temptation, medium, eccentricity, female protagonist, extramarital affair ...
Time:
year 1965, 60s
Place:
italy
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
From his birth in 1895 through his death in 1968, the gifted Polish naïve artist Nikifor Krynicki (AKA Epifan Drowniak) lived his life and eked out a career cloaked in obscurity - a casualty of both his extreme speech impediment (his tongue was ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, gloomy
Plot:
art, genius, painter, prodigy, society, lifestyle, love and romance, couple relations, family life, celebrity culture, tragic love, couples ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
poland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Peter Greenaway's first fiction feature (after the mock-documentary The Falls) made him immediately famous and was named one of the most original films of the 1980s by British critics. The action is set in the director's beloved 17th ...
Style:
atmospheric, talky, stylized, surreal, sexual ...
Plot:
art, murder, adultery, artist, manipulation, dishonesty, boss and employee, power relations, society, social climbing, sexual dysfunction, social differences ...
Time:
17th century, year 1982
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, serious, touching, intellectual ...
Plot:
countryside, art, painter, artist, father daughter relationship, aging, telephone call, country estate, dance, elderly man, painting, family relations ...
Time:
1910s, year 1984
Place:
france, europe, paris france, tokyo
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from "The Pillow Book", the diary of a 10th-century lady-in-waiting. Nagiko grows up, obsessed with books, papers, and writing on ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, art house, surreal, non-linear ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
nudity, model, lovers, obsession, male nudity, art, geisha, sex, artist, book, homosexual, exhibitionist ...
Time:
year 1996, 10th century, middle ages
Place:
japan, california, tokyo, asia, shanghai ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet, but his plan requires the help of an eccentric and unpredictable Texas rodeo queen.
Style:
sexy, light, entertaining, humorous, absurd ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
heist, caper, perfect crime, collector, revenge, art theft, art, forgery, crime gone awry, farce, greed, stereotypes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Francisco Goya (1746-1828), deaf and ill, lives the last years of his life in voluntary exile in Bordeaux, a Liberal protesting the oppressive rule of Ferdinand VII. He's living with his much younger wife Leocadia and their daughter Rosario. He ...
Style:
surreal, serious, realistic, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot:
biopic, artist, art, painter, art history, painting, napoleonic wars, storytelling, nude model, passion, female nudity, sex scene ...
Time:
ancient times, 18th century, 19th century, year 1999, georgian era ...
Place:
spain, france, europe
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, featuring real people, sometimes moving, in an effort to ...
Style:
experimental, realistic, serious, captivating, stylized ...
Plot:
art, painter, painting, riddles and clues, art collector, surrealism, conspiracy theory, artist, lgbt, art theft, underdog, logic ...
Time:
year 1979, 19th century
Place:
europe, france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The story of a famous old sculptor, weary of life and the folly of men, who finds, thanks to the arrival of a Spanish girl escaped from a refugee camp, the desire to return to work and sculpt your final work in occupied France in 1943. Model and ...
Style:
sexy, atmospheric, touching, light, melancholic ...
Plot:
art, skinny dipping, artist, painter, muse, model, world war two, sculptor, inspiration, sculpture, female nudity, young girl ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1943
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Netherlands, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A soldier and member of the Dutch resistance investigates stolen art in the wake of the Second World War, including a Vermeer sold to the Nazis by a flamboyant forger.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspense, interesting, f word
Plot:
art, painter, forgery, world war two, investigation, world war, soldier, nazism, conspiracy, nazi collaborator, accusation, gladiator ...
Time:
post world war two, year 1945
Place:
rotterdam netherlands, amsterdam, holland
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Young Cole Carter dreams of hitting the big time as a Hollywood disc jockey, spending his days and nights hanging with buddies and working on the one track that will set the world on fire. Opportunity comes knocking when he meets James Reed, a ...
Style:
light, romantic, freeze frame, relaxing, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
dj, music festival, ecstasy, dance, party, fame, college, happy ending, musician, art, betrayal, music ...
Time:
year 2015
Place:
los angeles, las vegas, california
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Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a mortician with an amazing ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sexy, surreal, ironic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
love story, art, culture clash, meet the parents, adultery, farce, life philosophy, marriage, newlyweds, architect, love and romance, infidelity ...
Time:
year 2012, 1920s, 21st century
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe, paris france, london ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The film fictionalizes the real relationship between French sculptor Henri Gaudier and Polish writer Sophie Brzeska, twenty years his senior, who came to Paris, she says, for its “creative atmosphere.”
Style:
sentimental, period drama
Plot:
art, artist, painter, art history, nude, older woman younger man relationship, novelist, sculptor, anarchist, naked woman, sculpture, architecture ...
Time:
year 1972, 1910s
Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Germany, Italy, USA
Duration: 189 min.
Story:
Inspired by real events and spanning three eras of German history, film tells the story of Kurt, a young art student who falls in love with fellow student, Ellie. Ellie’s father, Professor Seeband, a famous doctor, is dismayed at his daughter’s ...
Style:
suspense, sensual, exciting, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
painter, art gallery, nazi, artist, nazism, berlin wall, sex scene, female pubic hair, forced abortion, romantic relationship, pregnancy, world war two ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s, 1930s, year 1948, 20th century ...
Place:
east germany, berlin germany, germany, west berlin west germany, west germany ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An art student taps into a rich source of creative inspiration after the accidental slaughter of her rapist. An unlikely vigilante emerges, set out to avenge college girls whose attackers walked free- all the while fueling a vivid thesis exhibition.
Style:
detective, psychological, suspense, independent film, disturbing ...
Plot:
vigilante, revenge, rape, art student, femme fatale, art class, rape and revenge, murder, female vigilante, violence, party, female psychopath ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really works, he finds that he must adapt his vision to the reality that confronts him.
Style:
dark comedy, semi serious, cynical, humorous, independent film ...
Plot:
teenage girl, artist, art school, painting, dark humor, murder, art class, art, sex, coming of age, nude model, painter ...
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Biography, History
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 300 min.
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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, mind bending, uplifting, enigmatic ...
Plot:
renaissance, leonardo da vinci, art, painter, artist, talent, scientific discovery, discovery, talented, art history, medieval, inventor ...
Time:
15th century, medieval times, 16th century
Place:
italy, france, milan italy
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