Artist movies and TV shows – page 5
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An isolated sculptor is visited by his three sons just before the start of WWII.
Style:
serious, realistic
Plot:
world war two, sculptor, death of son, artist, father son relationship, world war, loneliness, estranged father, refugee, fire, beach, grief ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s
Place:
bahamas
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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: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Paul Gauguin feels smothered by the atmosphere prevailing in Paris in the year 1891. Around him, everything is so artificial and conventional: he needs authenticity to renew his art. Failing to convince his wife Mette and his five children to follow ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, serious, captivating, art house ...
Plot:
painter, painting, older man young girl relationship, interracial romance, artist, art, art history, husband wife conflict, money problems, heart attack, biopic, wilderness ...
Time:
19th century, year 2017, victorian era
Place:
tahiti, polynesia, paris france, france, oceania
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 32 min.
TV show
Story:
Adapted from the lauded feminist novel and set in a colorful academic community in Marfa, Texas, this is the story of a struggling married couple, Chris and Sylvere, and their obsession with a charismatic professor named Dick. Told in Rashomon-style ...
Style:
light, captivating, entertaining, romantic, hilarious ...
Plot:
feminist, female sexuality, public nudity, desire, artist, love triangle, professor, marital crisis, female pubic hair, female nudity, sex, lesbian ...
Place:
texas
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Discover Leonardo da Vinci, the man, the painter, the scientist and the inventor, through a unique, engaging and fascinating journey in the mind of Leonardo.
Style:
inspirational, intellectual, mind bending, thought provoking, educational ...
Plot:
leonardo da vinci, renaissance, genius, painter, artist, art, medieval, art school, scientist, biopic, mona lisa, innovation ...
Time:
15th century, 16th century
Place:
italy, florence, milan italy
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A troubled college freshman, Luke, suffers a violent family trauma and resurrects his childhood imaginary friend Daniel to help him cope.
Style:
psychological, suspense, suspenseful, demonic, bleak ...
Plot:
imaginary friend, artist, hypnosis, terror, mental disorder, hallucination, body horror, occult, disorder, teenage crush, friends, society ...
Time:
2010s, year 2007, year 2019
Place:
new york
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59K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
Style:
feel good, intense, thought provoking, realistic, poignant ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
classical music, music, piano, biopic, prodigy, pianist, schizophrenia, child prodigy, father son relationship, musician, abuse, psychology ...
Time:
1950s, 60s, year 1996, 20th century, 70s ...
Place:
australia, middle east, oceania, london, south australia ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.
Style:
inspirational, sincere, sad, touching, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
music, schizophrenia, prodigy, musician, happy ending, homeless, street musician, journalism, cello, mental disorder, friendship, mental health ...
Time:
year 2009
Place:
los angeles, usa, new york, ohio
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A swirling, impressionistic portrait of an artist who regretted nothing, writer-director Olivier Dahan's La Vie en Rose stars Marion Cotillard in a blazing performance as the legendary French icon Edith Piaf. From the mean streets of the ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, disturbing, gloomy, period piece ...
Plot:
music, musician's life, singer, biopic, musician, love story, death, life philosophy, childhood, art, artist, rising to stardom ...
Time:
20th century, year 2007, 1940s, 90s, 1950s ...
Place:
france, europe, paris france, new york, montmartre paris ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Stories from the lives of the tenants of the Moscow's communal apartment: Kostik, who is a college student, lives with his aunt while studying; Arkady Velyurov who is a performing artist; Khobotovs, who are a divorced couple; and Sava, who is ...
Style:
tragicomedy, humorous, entertaining
Plot:
wedding, artist, farce, husband wife relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship, poet, musician, surrealism, university, doctor, flashback, european ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
russia, ussr, moscow russia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Austria
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A biopic of Alma Mahler, the wife of composer Gustav Mahler (as well as Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel), and the mistress of Oskar Kokoschka.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, atmospheric, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
painter, biopic, fall in love, artist, family relations, infidelity, passion, prodigy, lifestyle, ambition, love affair, couples ...
Time:
edwardian era, year 2001, 1900s, 20th century, 19th century ...
Place:
austria, new york, vienna, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, ...
Style:
sexy, thought provoking, sexual, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot:
poet, gay, poetry, writers, homosexuality, beat generation, literature, freedom, biopic, lgbt, gay interest, art ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 1920s, post world war two, year 1957 ...
Place:
california, san francisco, kansas, bronx new york city, arkansas ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, two rebellious teenagers from Southern California, become the frontwomen for the Runaways -- the now-legendary group that paved the way for future generations of female rockers. Under the Svengalilike influence of ...
Style:
sexy, teen, stylized, emotional, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
rock music, lesbian, music band, music, teenage girl, coming of age, lesbian love, sex scene, teenage sexuality, teenager, biopic, revisionist history ...
Time:
70s, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, japan, usa, tokyo
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Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Examines the public scandal and private tragedy which led to legendary director Roman Polanski's sudden flight from the United States.
Style:
psychological, factual, disturbing, talky, suspense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
biopic, sex with teenager, justice, rape of a minor, artist, investigation, judge, betrayal, twists and turns, mentor, tragedy, manipulation ...
Time:
70s, 60s
Place:
europe, usa, santa monica california, poland, los angeles ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The American architect Kracklite arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibiton for a French architect, Boullée, famous for his oval structures. Tirelessly dedicated to the project, Kracklite's marriage quickly dissolves along with his health.
Style:
art house, sexual, talky, aesthetic, experimental ...
Plot:
architect, artist, cancer, art, male nudity, dialogue, infidelity, obsession, painting, painter, melancholy, tragedy ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s, 18th century
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
While traveling in Paris, author Henry Miller and his wife, June, meet Anais Nin, and sexual sparks fly as Nin starts an affair with the openly bisexual June. When June is forced to return to the U.S., she gives Nin her blessing to sleep with her ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, controversial, sensual, sexual ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
sexuality, sex, writers, affair, open relationship, unfaithful wife, love triangle, sexual promiscuity, sensuality, lesbian, lesbian sex, adultery ...
Time:
1930s, year 1931, year 1932, 20th century
Place:
paris france, europe, france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Anna, a French actress, is approached by financial broker Gordon in the Vermeer room of a New York gallery. However, romance does not ensue...
Style:
independent film, clever, contemplative, sex comedy, political ...
Plot:
artist, wall street, art history, art, visceral, painter, coming of age, love, under the surface, couples, stock broker, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
Style:
ironic, talky, humorous, witty, clever ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
infidelity, thanksgiving, sisters, writers, family relations, love, midlife crisis, atheism, opera, audition, dysfunctional family, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place:
new york, usa
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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: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The Côte d’Azur. 1915. In his twilight years, Pierre-Auguste Renoir is tormented by the loss of his wife, the pains of arthritic old age and the terrible news that his son Jean has been wounded in action. But when a young girl miraculously enters ...
Style:
touching, sincere, costume drama, scenic, sentimental ...
Plot:
painter, painting, famous painting, art, redheaded woman, female pubic hair, wounded soldier, world war one, artist, art history, self discovery, fall in love ...
Time:
year 1915, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
cote d'azur, france, south of france, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Movie about a sculptor Otakar Svec who is building a statue of Stalin in Prague.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, dark, art house, suspense ...
Plot:
artist, sculptor, moral dilemma, political oppression, totalitarianism, surveillance, symbolism, sculpture, propaganda, paranoia, biopic, accomplice ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
prague, czechoslovakia, central europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An Irish immigrant family adjusts to life in the United States, a chance to get over the lost son. They have no money and the apartment is in bad condition.
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, emotional, sad ...
Plot:
childhood, redemption, immigrant, immigration, artist, loss of son, starting over, dying, children, society, overcoming, acceptance ...
Time:
80s, year 2002, 2000s, 20th century
Place:
new york, ireland, usa, new york state, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The story of the relationship between painter Dora Carrington and author Lytton Strachey in a World War One England of cottages and countryside. Although platonic due to Strachey's homosexuality, the relationship was nevertheless a deep and ...
Style:
costume drama, sexual, talky, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
artist, writers, painter, polyamory, art, glbt, biopic, male nudity, world war one, passion, art history, lgbt ...
Time:
1930s, year 1915, victorian era, 1910s, 1920s ...
Place:
england, wales, europe, italy, venice ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Edvard Munch was one of the most important artists in the period between the 19th and 20th centuries. His motif Skrik (The Scream), repeated in several techniques, became part of the 20th-century world subconsciousness – an image of fear and ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, semi autobiographical, thrilling, emotional ...
Plot:
painter, artist, biopic, grief, mental illness, social problems, life is a bitch, problem, outcast, character study, loss, addiction ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century, 20th century
Place:
oslo norway, berlin germany, copenhagen
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A young French journalist meets Salvador Dalí repeatedly for a documentary film project which never gets to start shooting.
Style:
satirical, captivating, thrilling, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot:
painting, artist, journalist, satire, artists' life, painter, eccentricity, art, interview, eccentric man, celebrity interview, absurdism ...
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
In the bustling heart of Shibuya, four young women—an artist, a retired idol, a V-tuber, and a composer—form JELEE, an anonymous artist group. United in their quest for self-expression, they journey towards self-discovery and finding their voice.
Style:
anime, emotional, aesthetic, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
musician, female friendship, music, artist, music and dance, musician's life, music band, teamwork, music business, slice of life, singer, graffiti ...
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, USA, UK, France, Spain
Duration: 409 min.
TV show
Story:
A fresh look at the life and legacy of the iconic artist Leonardo da Vinci, positing that he was a gay outsider who used his work as a way of hiding his true self. Each episode will examine one of da Vinci’s artworks for hidden clues about a ...
Style:
sexy, costume drama, historical drama, period drama
Plot:
leonardo da vinci, renaissance, painter, inventor, inventions and discoveries, artist, medieval, historical figure, discovery, artists' life, scientific discovery, performer's life ...
Time:
15th century, 16th century
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Genre: Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When Anna Parisi, an unemployed fine arts painter, is unable to make ends meet, she is hired to become a personal Christmas shopper for Marc, an uptight corporate exec. As they begin working together, Marc learns that Christmas giving has less to ...
Style:
entertaining, feel good, light, romantic, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
christmas, christmas season, christmas romance, family dinner, artist, office party, aunt niece relationship, advertising, painting, holiday, santa claus, gift ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Belgium, Italy, Germany, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
THE HAPPY PRINCE tells the story of the last days of Oscar Wilde. This great man of letters, once one of the most famous authors in England, is now a superstar on the skids. As Oscar lies on his death bed, the past comes flooding back to him, ...
Style:
costume drama, touching, suspenseful, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
gay relationship, victorian england, gay couple, writers, gay interest, gay youth, gay friend, gay, downfall, gay romance, exile, father son relationship ...
Time:
19th century, 2000s, victorian era
Place:
paris france, london, naples italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Set in the 1960's. Joo-Goo (Park Yong-Woo) is viewed as Korea's best sculptor, but he suffers from a disease which will slowly paralyze his body. He gives up interests in the arts and just spends his days meaninglessly. His wife, Jung-sook ...
Style:
sentimental, psychological, realistic, captivating
Plot:
sculptor, model, nude model, artist, illness, jealousy, love, painting, fall in love, couples, post war, painter ...
Place:
south korea
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