Portrait painting movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant portrait painting movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, sexy, touching, captivating, period drama and humorous films and TV shows about / with portrait painting, painting, painter, nude, female nudity, nudity, female full frontal nudity, flashback, bare chested male and art plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as portrait painting: Tulip Fever (2017), Never Look Away (2018), Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), In Family I Trust (2019), Cezanne and I (2016), Francofonia (2015), Final Portrait (2017), Me and Kaminski (2015), Dorian Gray (1977).
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List of portrait painting movies
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a future together.
Style:
sexy, period piece, costume drama, sensual, touching ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
painter, love affair, doctor, sex scene, portrait, artist, nude painting, female nudity, adultery, extramarital affair, cheating wife, art history ...
Time:
17th century, year 2017
Place:
netherlands, amsterdam
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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: 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, erotic, period piece, costume drama, atmospheric ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
artist, painter, painting, art, master and servant, sexual tension, nymphet, teenage girl, society, couple relations, maid, portrait ...
Time:
17th century, ancient times, year 2003, 19th century, victorian era ...
Place:
holland, netherlands, europe, america
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the 18th century, an artist is commissioned to paint a young woman's wedding portrait.
Style:
sexy, scenic, touching, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
painter, lesbian, lgbtq, lgbt, painting, portrait, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lgbtqi, love, female protagonist, lesbian sex ...
Time:
18th century, 2010s, ancient times, victorian era, year 2019 ...
Place:
brittany, france
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Bea is a successful architect who lives in Barcelona (Catalonia, northeast to Spain) with her boyfriend and boss, Víctor, a CEO of an important company. During a night celebration of an important contract signed to make a skyscraper designed by ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, sincere, crying ...
Plot:
marriage proposal, painting, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, baby, little girl, secret, rivalry, girl, betrayal, adaptation ...
Place:
barcelona
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
They loved each other with the ardor of thirteen-year-old boys. Rebellion and curiosity, hopes and doubts, girls and dreams of glory – they shared it all. Paul was rich, Emile poor. They went skinny-dipping, drank absinthe, starved, only to ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, factual, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
painter, art, friendship, artist, painting, novelist, female nudity, portrait, nude painting, seaside, infidelity, end of friendship ...
Time:
1890s, 19th century, 1880s, victorian era, 1860s ...
Place:
south of france, paris france, france, europe
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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, suspense, enigmatic, suspenseful, surreal ...
Plot:
world war two, painting, nazi occupation, nazism, art, painter, museum, art history, shipwreck, fear, evacuation, war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1929, year 1972, year 1914, year 1944 ...
Place:
paris france, st. petersburg russia, france, russia, germany ...
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story of Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti.
Style:
thought provoking, philosophical, art house, dark comedy, neurotic ...
Plot:
painter, sculptor, art, sculpture, biopic, genius, artist, doubt, obsession, promise, art history, painting ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 1930s, year 1964, year 1935
Place:
paris france, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that he can cash in on his article.
Style:
entertaining, light, talky, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
painter, journalist, intergenerational friendship, road trip, monk, painting, scotsman, bribe, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, interview, father daughter relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 2015, 21st century
Place:
germany, europe
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
gothic, psychological, tragic ending, melancholic, period piece ...
Plot:
corruption, portrait, obsession, literary, supernatural, vanity, secret life, guilt, identity, decadence, character study, seduction ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy, West Germany, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The Making of a Lady: The Story of Lady Hamilton is a 1968 historical drama film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Michèle Mercier, Richard Johnson and John Mills.[1] It was based on the novel La San-Felice by Alexandre Dumas and depicts the ...
Style:
erotic, romantic drama, historical romance, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
lesbianism, female nudity, lesbian, napoleonic wars, social climbing, biopic, female protagonist, tragic love, scandal, aristocracy, tragedy, ambassador ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era
Place:
england, italy, london, naples italy, sicily ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Sweden, Finland, Norway
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Dramatised biography of Swedish painter Anders Zorn.
Style:
melancholic, romantic drama, period drama, tragic
Plot:
painter, nudity, biopic, artist, womanizer, marital infidelity, performer's life, affair, alcoholism, domestic drama, adultery, art ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When the coffin of Etta Rose Callahan, a charismatic dance student, is uprooted from the earth after days of rain, the small college town of Remington is haunted with questions involving the young girl's sudden suicide. Jeremiah Mouthy, a ...
Style:
suspense, gothic
Plot:
obsession, suicide, small town, tragedy, character study, jealousy, haunting, loss of innocence, mourning, scandal, grief, funeral ...
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Famed detective Byomkesh Bakshi investigates the murder of a man who had just thrown a party to celebrate his recovery from a long illness.
Style:
detective, suspense, twist ending, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
whodunit, investigation, mysterious death, murder mystery, male protagonist, family secret, illicit affair, moral ambiguity, betrayal, jealousy, family drama, slow burn ...
Time:
60s
Place:
kolkata
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Switzerland, West Germany
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
The budding sexual urges of young women cause themselves and others trouble.
Style:
anthology, teen sex comedy, sex comedy, freeze frame, sexploitation film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
virgin, lesbianism, erotic dance, nudity, female sexual predator, seductive girl, teenage girl, teenage sexuality, orgasm, voyeurism, exhibitionism, lesbian ...
Place:
central europe, berlin germany
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
During the Bosnian War, Danijel, a soldier fighting for the Serbs, re-encounters Ajla, a Bosnian who's now a captive in his camp he oversees. Their once promising connection has become ambiguous as their motives have changed.
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, emotional, erotic ...
Plot:
bosnian war, prisoner, forbidden love, rape, soldier, food, sex, muslim, love affair, war, couples, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
sarajevo, bosnia, former yugoslavia, bosnia herzegovina, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA, Austria
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, cute, dramatic ...
Plot:
holocaust, art, lawyer, nazi, courtroom drama, justice, art theft, painting, injustice, legal, legal action, stolen painting ...
Time:
year 2015, 1930s, 1900s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
austria, vienna, los angeles, pasadena california, california ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Latvia, Russia, Malta, Austria
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Adam’s first wife Lilith is mentioned in the ancient Oriental legends, in Talmud and in the medieval books of Cabala. According to these sources, she was not created from Adam's rib like Eve but from clay like he himself. Nevertheless Lilith ...
Style:
serious, stylized, atmospheric, controversial, captivating ...
Plot:
immortality, friendship, self flagellation, imaginary, supernatural ability, adam and eve, supernatural, femme fatale, love and romance, power relations, slavic mythology, flashback ...
Time:
16th century, 19th century, 20th century, 80s, 17th century
Place:
latvia, france, europe
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi's teenage daughter.
Style:
entertaining, feel good, semi serious, humorous, light ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
cat, rabbi, butterfly effect, jewish culture, obsessive quest, on the road, disorder, racism, animal that acts human, misfit partners, pets, religions or cults ...
Time:
2010s, 20th century, 1920s, 1930s
Place:
africa, algeria, middle east
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A surreal comedy depicting a diverse cast of characters and the changes they undergo as the German tourist Jasmin interacts with each of them at a remote truck stop in the middle of the Mojave desert.
Style:
touching, surreal, meditative, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot:
desert, friendship, restaurant, character study, motel, food, transformation, magic realism, life philosophy, female friendship, starting over, wilderness ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
utah, california, las vegas, nevada, germany
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Schtonk! is a farce of the actual events of 1983, when Germany's Stern magazine published, with great fanfare, 60 volumes of the alleged diaries of Adolf Hitler – which two weeks later turned out to be entirely fake. Fritz Knobel (based on ...
Style:
fast paced, black comedy, satirical, parody, not serious ...
Plot:
anti nazi, forgery, journalist, art forgery, holocaust, nude girl, humour, diary, satire, fake, crime gone awry, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Place:
germany, hamburg germany, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Henri Serin, a sales rep in umbrellas who lives in Saumur, is bored with his life. Married to an unloving, uptight wife, who, unlike him, has no interest in sex, he is also rejected by his children. Thus, he spends most of his time travelling from ...
Style:
sex comedy, anthology, erotic, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
painter, female pubic hair, portrait, painting, beach, midlife crisis, sexual initiation, female nudity, hotel, drunkenness, sexual exploration, older man younger woman sex ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
brittany, france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
“The Dreamlife of David L.“ is a fictional feature film that takes inspiration from a key point in the life of director David Lynch: the time he spent as a student in a fine arts college. Initially attracted to painting, David Lynch ends up ...
Style:
captivating, avant garde
Plot:
nude model, painting, school, art, art school, art student, student, lifestyle, life, rising to stardom, historical character, historical figure ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Rayane is a scared and clumsy young cop who is constantly mocked by other cops. The day his doctor wrongly tells him that he has only thirty days to live, he understands that this is his last chance to become a hero within his police station and ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, inspirational, humorous, slapstick ...
Plot:
desire, hospital, doctor, terminal illness, life & death, relationships, self discovery, partner, unlikely partners, eccentricity, cowardice, philosophy ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
europe, paris france
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The film is a caustic portrait of a traditional English boys’ boarding school, where social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. But three ...
Style:
controversial, surreal, disturbing, dark comedy, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
revolution, boarding school life, boarding school, sex, private school, social satire, homosexuality, school shooting, boys' school, violence, coming of age, corporal punishment ...
Time:
60s, year 1968, 20th century
Place:
england, california, britain, europe
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Hoping to repair their marriage, Jennie Logan and her husband move into a beautiful Victorian manor. When Jennie tries on an antique dress she finds in the attic, she is transported back one hundred years, where she meets the house's previous ...
Style:
esoteric, spiritual, serious, crying, urban fantasy
Plot:
time travel, jealousy, female protagonist, love triangle, duel, painting, myth, occult, time, performer's life, changing the past or future, love and romance ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 20th century, 70s
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Lily is a museum curator who finds a painting that looks just like her. Lily’s search for the artist leads her to Ireland, where she meets William, a charming man who helps her on her quest and may also know more about the portrait’s origins ...
Style:
romantic drama
Plot:
doppelganger, family tradition, female protagonist, auctioneer, burial, destiny, fate, post office, getting home, holiday romance, romantic reunion, soul mate ...
Place:
ireland
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, United Arab Emirates, Germany, Ireland
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When her boyfriend Ben suddenly dies in an accident, mother-to-be Charlotte collapses upon receiving the news. She wakes up in Ben’s family home, a crumbling old manor house in the middle of nowhere with Ben’s overbearing mother and his ...
Style:
dark, atmospheric, realistic, disturbing, scary ...
Plot:
pregnancy, motherhood, family relations, strange behavior, mother son relationship, prejudice, evil woman, macabre, determination, conspiracy, isolation, culture clash ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Bestowed with superhuman strength, a young mortal named Hercules sets out to prove himself a hero in the eyes of his father, the great god Zeus. Along with his friends Pegasus, a flying horse, and Phil, a personal trainer, Hercules is tricked by the ...
Style:
feel good, fairy tale, exciting, touching, epic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, girls' night, preschool
Plot:
hercules, mythology, good versus evil, legends and myths, love, heroic mission, cyclops, myth, teenager, centaur, transformation, titan ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
ancient greece, greece, europe, italy, rome italy
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A love triangle forms between post-Enlightenment writer Friedrich Schiller and two sisters -- one who became his wife, and the other, his biographer.
Style:
sexy, romantic, realistic, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
writers, love triangle, fall in love, sister sister relationship, sisters, family relations, in love, love affair, family life, love and romance, renaissance, loneliness ...
Time:
18th century, 1780s, 1790s, georgian era
Place:
swiss alps, germany, indiana, switzerland, berlin germany
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