Museum movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant museum movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out entertaining, humorous, suspense, captivating, serious and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with museum, painting, runaway, mentor, storytelling, chase, art, dialogue, adaptation and catastrophe plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Crime genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as museum: Waxwork (1988), Russian Ark (2002), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), The Relic (1997), How to Steal a Million (1966), The Burnt Orange Heresy (2019), The Goldfinch (2019), Museo (2018), Stealing Rembrandt (2002), Francofonia (2015).
Best films
List of museum movies
15K
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Wealthy slacker college student Mark, his new girlfriend Sarah, and their friends are invited to a special showing at a mysterious wax museum which displays 18 of the most evil men of all time. After his ex-girlfriend and another friend disappear, ...
Style:
cult classic, scary, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
werewolf, transformation, wax museum, museum, occult, evil dead, characters killed one by one, time travel, female vampire, portal, haunted house, deadly creature ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, History, Mystery
Country: Russia, Germany, Japan, Canada, Finland, Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A French marquis wanders through a vast labyrinth of corridors, theaters and ballrooms at a reception for a Persian ambassador.
Style:
epic, visual, philosophical, cerebral, surreal ...
Plot:
russian history, museum, painting, revolution, time travel, art, lifestyle, culture clash, haunted by the past, architecture, storytelling, imperial russia ...
Time:
19th century, year 2002, 20th century, 1800s, 18th century ...
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr, siberia, europe ...
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Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A very rich and successful playboy amuses himself by stealing artwork, but may have met his match in a seductive detective.
Style:
romantic, witty, detective, sexy, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
caper, museum, art theft, art thief, stolen painting, heist, cat and mouse, famous painting, art, love story, businessman, painting ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 90s
Place:
usa, new york
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32K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A researcher at Chicago's Natural History Museum returns from South America with some crates containing his findings. When the crates arrive at the museum without the owner there appears to be very little inside. However, police discover ...
Style:
scary, exciting, serious, splatter, suspenseful ...
Plot:
monster, human versus monster, museum, violence, deadly creature, gory, creature feature, fear, creature, police detective, superstition, police investigation ...
Time:
90s, jurassic
Place:
chicago, brazil, usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
An adventure set in the early part of the 20th century, focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters, and other distractions.
Style:
exciting, semi serious, period piece, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, family friendly, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
strong female character, egyptology, mummy, archaeologist, adventurer, adventuress, dinosaur, sister sister relationship, pterodactyl, obsessive quest, escapades, tomb ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 2010, victorian era
Place:
paris france, france, europe, egypt
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.
Style:
romantic, feel good, witty, clever, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, kids
Plot:
heist, fall in love, forgery, art theft, love story, museum, perfect crime, love and romance, art collector, caper, insurance, robbery ...
Time:
60s, year 1966, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, canada
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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:
disturbing, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
art, art critic, museum, female nudity, forgery, painting, villa, male nudity, painter, murder, art collector, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
future, year 1968, year 1955
Place:
italy, minnesota, new york, milan italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
A boy in New York is taken in by a wealthy family after his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In a rush of panic, he steals 'The Goldfinch', a painting that eventually draws him into a world of crime.
Style:
atmospheric, non-linear, period piece, psychological, enigmatic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
tragic event, friendship, teenager, teenage boy, painting, adaptation, museum, art, brother brother relationship, parent child relationship, lgbt, coming of age ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019
Place:
amsterdam, manhattan new york city, new york
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6K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Mexico, 1985. Juan and Wilson, two perennial Veterinary students, perpetrate an audacious heist in the National Museum of Anthropology, running away with a loot of more than hundred invaluable pieces of Mayan art, unaware of the consequences of ...
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, suspense, tense, art house ...
Plot:
museum, mission, art dealer, anthropology, heist, art theft, christmas eve, father son relationship, danger, best friend, gold, friendship ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
mexico city, mexico, acapulco mexico
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When the magic powers of The Tablet of Ahkmenrah begin to die out, Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) spans the globe, uniting favorite and new characters while embarking on an epic quest to save the magic before it is gone forever.
Style:
light, entertaining, humorous, cute, funny ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, chick flick, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot:
obsessive quest, fantasy world, night watchman, magic, museum, curses spells and rituals, culture clash, ancient egypt, volcano, archaeologist, transformation, kids and family ...
Time:
year 2014, year 1938, 20th century, 2010s, stone age ...
Place:
london, pompeii, england, new york, usa ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Denmark, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Two bumbling scrap metal thieves - father and son - steal the wrong painting during a museum heist. The painting turns out to be the only original Rembrandt painting in Denmark, and all hell breaks loose. What do you do when you've got ...
Style:
semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, realistic, dark comedy ...
Plot:
museum, nothing goes right, painting, crime gone awry, on the run, heist, art theft, unlikely criminals, dishonesty, disorder, chases and races, small time ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
europe, denmark
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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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144K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, gothic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, group of friends, torture, murder, violence, small town, gory, brutality, ghost town, wax museum, masked man ...
Time:
year 2005, year 2000, 2000s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place:
usa, florida, louisiana, new york, paris france
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Freelance reporter Jennifer and her two friends, Karen and Vicki, accept an invitation for cheap room and board in a large farmhouse offered by a friendly, but shady, museum owner named Ernest Keller since all the motels in and around town are ...
Style:
slasher, scary, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
reporter, museum, serial killer, murder, small town, stalking, woman in danger, captivity, isolation, journalism, estate, exploitation ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
california
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, China
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Several years after the demise of Jurassic World, a volcanic eruption threatens the remaining dinosaurs on the island of Isla Nublar. Claire Dearing, the former park manager and founder of the Dinosaur Protection Group, recruits Owen Grady to help ...
Style:
surprise ending, perverse, exciting, gothic, saga ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, teens, adult
Plot:
dinosaur, tyrannosaurus rex, jurassic park, genetic engineering, creature, eaten alive, animal attack, reptile, prehistoric creature, monster, clone, raptor ...
Time:
jurassic, 2010s, prehistoric times, 21st century
Place:
northern california, las vegas, san francisco
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201K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
After waking up in a hospital with amnesia, professor Robert Langdon and a doctor must race against time to foil a deadly global plot.
Style:
suspense, exciting, suspenseful, realistic, saga ...
Audience:
chick flick, family friendly, boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
conspiracy, ancient mystery, twists and turns, danger, riddles and clues, treasure hunt, memory loss, religions or cults, church, biohazard, conspiracy theory, chase ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place:
italy, florence, venice, europe, istanbul turkey ...
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Khamis is a terrible football player, while playing football with his friends he shoots the ball away and broke an abandoned museum's window. After entering the museum he finds that statues become alive at 17:00.
Style:
funny, feel good, humorous, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
museum, arab, statue comes to life, escapades, toy comes to life, opportunist, objects come to life, supernatural, humour, football player, curiosity, soccer ...
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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: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany, Australia, France, Pakistan
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Tim Avery, an aspiring cartoonist, finds himself in a predicament when his dog stumbles upon the mask of Loki. Then after conceiving an infant son "born of the mask", he discovers just how looney child raising can be.
Style:
humorous, light, slapstick, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, adult
Plot:
baby, villain, mischievous children, museum, party, transformation, cartoonist, rivalry, superhero, pet dog, showdown, split personality ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
pakistan, new jersey
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Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
An U.S. Spaceship lands on a desolate planet, stranding astronaut Taylor in a world dominated by apes, 2000 years into the future, who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his ...
Style:
philosophical, visually stunning, twist ending, surprise ending, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
kids, date night, adult
Plot:
ape, astronaut, post apocalypse, planet of the apes, dystopia, gorilla, space and aliens, space exploration, trial, time travel, plot twist, desert ...
Time:
future, distant future, year 1968, near future, 20th century ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A woman has a romance with a past his prime musician revered by a man in her life.
Style:
thought provoking, romantic, humorous, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
fandom, musician, infidelity, english countryside, museum, love triangle, music, pregnancy, rock musician, father son relationship, dysfunctional relationship, obsession ...
Place:
england, london
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Philippines, Canada, France, China
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Nick Daley is following in his father's footsteps as night watchman at the American Museum of Natural History, so he knows what happens when the sun goes down. But when the maniacal ruler Kahmunrah escapes, it is up to Nick to save the museum ...
Style:
3d animation, feel good, semi serious, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
museum, magic, tyrannosaurus rex, mummy, magical object, supernatural ability, supernatural, workplace, adventure hero, friendship, workplace situations, supernatural power ...
Place:
new york, egypt
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Chile, Argentina, Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A portrait of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra filled with her musical work, her memories, her loves and her hopes.
Style:
serious, sentimental, sincere, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
museum, music, folklore, follow your dream, loss of daughter, lifestyle, musician's life, performer's life, artists and showbiz, rising to stardom, hopes, musical tour ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s, 60s, 50s
Place:
chile, latin america, europe, france, paris france ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A cartoon about the famous four-legged inhabitants of the St. Petersburg Winter Palace - museum cats that protect the territory of the State Hermitage from rats and mice.
Style:
humorous, feel good, funny, cute, semi serious ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
mouse, friendship, museum, cat, group of friends, animal, interspecies friendship, friends, famous painting, friend, love, picture ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A Cincinnati museum director goes on trial in 1990 for exhibiting sadomasochistic photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe.
Style:
disturbing, serious, captivating, thought provoking, erotic ...
Plot:
museum, art, lawsuit, courtroom, jury, politics, courtroom drama, against the rules, fighting the system, perversion, righting the wronged, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
90s, 80s, year 1990
Place:
ohio, usa, cincinnati ohio
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Franck wants a quiet life and a fresh start. After 15 years of a failed theatre career, he finds a seemingly perfect job: museum guard. But that is before he meets Sybille, his neurotic colleague.
Style:
semi serious, entertaining, disturbing, captivating, satirical ...
Plot:
museum, relationships, workplace, coworker, satire, male female relationship, co worker co worker relationship, security guard, couple relations, workplace situations, personal growth, intimate ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story:
The lease on the Dupayne Museum is almost up and under the terms of their father's will, all three of the Dupayne children must agree to continue or the museum is to close. Neville Dupayne is dead set against continuing the museum when the ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, detective, realistic ...
Plot:
museum, uncover truth, investigation, police detective, who done it, murder, dishonesty, law enforcement, protagonist as suspect, detective inspector, mission of murder, police inspector ...
Place:
england, europe, london
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Genre: History
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Hosted by actor Tom Cavanagh, Stories from the Vaults is a series of 30-minute shows featuring a behind-the-scenes look at the Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum complex. The new series, produced by Caragol Wells Productions, ...
Style:
educational, informative, entertaining, thought provoking, period piece ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly
Plot:
museum, storytelling, science, conservation, behind the scenes, inheritance, education, historical figure, knowledge, natural history, culture, exploration ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
washington d.c.
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A comedy centered on three museum security guards who devise a plan to steal back the artworks to which they have become attached after they are transferred to another museum.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, exciting, feel good ...
Plot:
happy ending, art theft, forgery, museum, caper, bank robbery, security guard, heist, unlikely criminals, buddies, robbery, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
denmark, new york, miami, boston, new jersey
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Kip is an intelligent and sensitive boy with a great passion for anthropology, thanks to his mother who is studying the glacier mummy Ötzi, displayed in the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano. When a tragic accident changes Kip’s life, ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, educational, mysterious, teen ...
Plot:
mummy, museum, magic, child protagonist, adventure hero, team, adventurer, archaeology, curiosity, friendship, discovery, bonding ...
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