Artwork movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant artwork movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, serious, realistic, art film, tense and disturbing films and TV shows about / with artwork, art, painter, painting, artist, art history, biopic, female nudity, famous and nudity plots mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres shot in UK, France, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as artwork: The Mona Lisa Mystery (2006), Artworks (2003), A Real Vermeer (2016), Inside (2023), LUPIN THE 3rd vs. CAT'S EYE (2023), The Hong Kong Affair (2013), Secret in the Mountain (2019), A Clever Crook (2018), Gallery Fake (2005), Blue Period (2021).

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The Mona Lisa Mystery (2006)
Genre: Adventure
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 187 min.
Story: Are there two versions of The Mona Lisa? Is the Mona Lisa the world knows so well the original version? Or had Leonardo da Vinci painted an earlier version of the iconic portrait?
Style: thought provoking, disturbing, captivating
Plot: art theft, mona lisa, heist, louvre, caper, artwork, art forgery, art history, secret, art, unsolved crime, art thief ...
Place: paris france, italy
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 4.8
 372
Artworks (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A police chief's daughter, a sales agent for a home-security firm, meets an art gallery owner. Love and envy lead them to hatch a plot to steal overlooked but valuable paintings from her wealthy clients.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, melancholic ...
Plot: couples, love and romance, love affair, cons and scams, partner, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, thief, theft, artwork, parents and children, art collection ...
Time: 21st century
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 6.1
 581
A Real Vermeer (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Croatia
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Young and talented Han van Meegeren is a rebel in the early 1920's Amsterdam art-scene. Because he paints in the style of his idols Rembrandt and Vermeer, critics find his work old-fashioned and they call him a copycat. Just to prove a point, ...
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: painter, art, artist, escapades, male female relationship, love story, forgery, rags to riches, art forgery, artwork, forbidden love, love triangle ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s
Place: amsterdam
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 5.5
 16K
Inside (2023)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An art thief becomes trapped in a New York penthouse after his heist goes awry. Imprisoned with nothing but priceless works of art, he must use all his cunning and invention to survive.
Style: captivating, exciting, dramatic, suspenseful, one man show ...
Plot: art, thief, art thief, captive, art theft, trapped in a building, trapped, penthouse, burglar, artwork, robbery, heist ...
Place: new york
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Take Five: Should we Steal for Love? (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: Up till 20 years ago, together with his father and 3 other people, Homura Masayoshi was part of the legendary group of thieves that called themselves 「TAKE FIVE」. This group stole from the rich who had acquired their wealth through immoral ...
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological
Plot: artwork, heist, dark past, confronting the past, secret, art thief, bandit, burglar, robbery, criminal, life is a bitch, buddy ...
Place: japan
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LUPIN THE 3rd vs. CAT'S EYE (2023)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Lupin III competes with the Kisugi sisters to steal a triptych of paintings that once belonged to their father, and which hold the key to a long-unsolved mystery.
Style: anime, semi serious, captivating, entertaining
Plot: thief, painting, criminal, art theft, robbery, burglar, battle of wits, female protagonist, heist, adventurer, sisters, undercover ...
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The Hong Kong Affair (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Hong Kong, 2012. The 15th anniversary of the reunification with China is coming up. Victoria Philips (Veronica Ferres), a renowned art expert from Berlin, fills in at short notice as curator for an exhibit organized by her husband (Herbert Knaup), ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating, tense
Plot: robbery, smuggling, theft, uncover truth, art theft, art thief, investigation, art, secret, male female relationship, relationship problems, relationships ...
Place: hong kong
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Secret in the Mountain (2019)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the last days of World War II, Gauleiter Eigruber ordered the blasting of the salt mine. Stolen art treasures are stored there. The villagers oppose it.
Style: thought provoking, captivating
Plot: world war two, social relations, jewelry, fighting the system, war, artwork, art collector, wartime, showdown, art collection, society, arts and culture ...
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 5.9
 331
A Clever Crook (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Commissioner Beffrois waits for retirement with mixed enthusiasm when a theft of paintings catches his attention.
Style: captivating, entertaining, semi serious
Plot: investigation, art theft, fighting crime, heist, crime solving, artwork, police investigation, con artists, theft, robbery, uncover truth, crime investigation ...
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 7.5
 30
Gallery Fake (2005)
Genre: Animation, Action, Mystery
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Gallery Fake is a Japanese manga by Fujihiko Hosono. In 1996, it received the Shogakukan Manga Award.
Style: anime, captivating, tense, disturbing
Plot: art forgery, embezzler, forgery, art gallery, caper, art, fake, gallery, criminal, famous painting, art collector, artwork
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 7.7
 3K
Blue Period (2021)
Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Bored with life, popular high schooler Yatora Yaguchi jumps into the beautiful yet unrelenting world of art after finding inspiration in a painting.
Style: anime, disturbing, captivating, queer cinema
Audience: teen drama
Plot: painter, art, struggling artist, slice of life, coming of age, friend, student, ambitious man, painting, direction and purpose, artwork, teenager ...
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 4.2
 3K
Twist (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Dicken’s classic brought thrillingly up to date in the teeming heartland of modern London, where a group of street smart young hustlers plan the heist of the century for the ultimate payday.
Style: captivating, unusual plot structure, tense, suspense, complex ...
Plot: painter, art theft, art gallery, heist, gang, escapades, criminal, painting, teamwork, young man, gang member, attempted robbery ...
Place: london
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Life is an Art (2010)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min.
Story: You need to suffer, to understand....
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, detective
Plot: investigation, police, murder, killer, crime scene, murder investigation, serial murder, partners against crime, teamwork, police partner, partner, art collection ...
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 8.1
 57K
Andrei Rublev (1966)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 205 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: atmospheric, breathtaking, art house, black and white, philosophical ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: artist, painter, religion, art, biopic, monk, human spirit, medieval, painting, christianity, hunger, art history ...
Time: middle ages, 15th century, medieval times, year 1966, ancient times ...
Place: russia, soviet union, ussr, moscow russia
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Nightwatching (2007)
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: realistic, serious, captivating, disturbing, enigmatic ...
Plot: painter, art, biopic, artist, art history, artists and showbiz, uncover truth, investigation, lifestyle, love affair, ambition, painting ...
Time: 17th century
Place: europe, amsterdam, netherlands
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 6.9
 32K
Goya's Ghosts (2006)
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, intense, factual, realistic, costume drama ...
Plot: rape, artist, art, spanish history, prison, prostitute, painter, biopic, spanish inquisition, life is a bitch, lifestyle, painting ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, regency period, 19th century, year 2006 ...
Place: spain, persia, madrid
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 7.4
 7K
Seraphine (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The tragic story of French naïve painter Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (1864-1942), a humble servant who becomes a gifted self-taught painter. Discovered by prominent critic and collector William Uhde, she came to prominence between the ...
Style: touching, sincere, sentimental, surprise ending, avant garde ...
Plot: painter, artist, art, painting, art collector, mental illness, art dealer, biopic, art history, world war one, lifestyle, anti conformity ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 2008, 1920s, 1930s ...
Place: france, europe
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 6.4
 10K
Little Ashes (2008)
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, factual, tense, art film ...
Plot: poet, friendship, artist, gay, lgbt, painter, closeted homosexual, gay relationship, political unrest, friends, art, spanish civil war ...
Time: 20th century, year 2008, 1920s, year 1936, 1930s
Place: spain, andalusia, europe, italy, paris france ...
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Georgia O'Keeffe (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Biopic of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
Style: serious, tense, emotional, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: biopic, painter, artist, art, couples, rise to the top, destructive relationship, artists and showbiz, obsession, lifestyle, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, 1930s, year 1929, year 1932 ...
Place: usa, new mexico, manhattan new york city, new york, wisconsin
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The Mill and the Cross (2011)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland, Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story: What would it be like to step inside a great work of art, have it come alive around you, and even observe the artist as he sketches the very reality you are experiencing? From Lech Majewski, one of Poland's most acclaimed filmmakers, The Mill ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, serious, bleak, surreal ...
Plot: painter, painting, breast feeding, artist, punishment, art, art history, society, redemption, religions or cults, death sentence, loss of son ...
Time: 16th century
Place: flanders, europe, belgium
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Van Gogh: Painted with Words (2010)
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, semi autobiographical, thought provoking, disturbing, sad ...
Plot: painter, art, painting, artist, art history, famous painting, obsession, mental illness, depression, anguish, loneliness, genius ...
Time: 19th century
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Camille Claudel 1915 (2013)
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: realistic, sincere, factual, aesthetic, costume drama ...
Plot: art, mental illness, biopic, painter, separation from family, mental institution, unfulfillment, artist, art history, faith, paranoia, sculpture ...
Time: 20th century, year 1915, 1910s
Place: france, europe
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 6.5
 6K
Renoir (2012)
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: sincere, touching, scenic, sentimental, historical drama ...
Plot: painter, painting, famous painting, art, artist, art history, world war one, self discovery, fall in love, redheaded woman, wounded soldier, love and romance ...
Time: year 1915, 1910s, 20th century
Place: cote d'azur, france, south of france, europe
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 7.3
 63K
Woman in Gold (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
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, dramatic, motivational ...
Plot: art, holocaust, lawyer, nazi, courtroom drama, art theft, injustice, justice, painting, legal action, courtroom, world war two ...
Time: year 2015, 1900s, 20th century, 90s
Place: austria, vienna, los angeles, pasadena california, california ...
Is relevant ?
 6.8
 27K
Mr. Turner (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA, Belgium
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.
Style: surreal, meditative, sincere, captivating, visual ...
Plot: painter, painting, art, biopic, artist, eccentricity, art history, character study, estrangement, couple relations, society, elderly ...
Time: 19th century, 1820s, year 2014, 1800s, ancient times ...
Place: england, britain, london, holland
Is relevant ?
 7.8
 63K
Loving Vincent (2017)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery
Country: Poland, UK, USA, Switzerland, Netherlands
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, thought provoking, artsy, sincere, visually stunning ...
Plot: painter, art, painting, artist, genius, obsession, suicide, art history, skill, investigation, mental illness, friendship ...
Time: 19th century, year 2017, ancient times, 2010s, year 1990
Place: france, paris france
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Final Portrait (2017)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story of Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti.
Style: intellectual, artsy, thought provoking, philosophical, art house ...
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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Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Austria, Luxembourg
Duration: 110 min.
Story: At the beginning of the 20th Century Egon Schiele is one of the most provocative artists in Vienna. His life and work are driven by beautiful women and an era that is coming to an end. Two women will have a lasting impact on him - his sister and ...
Style: serious, captivating, touching, realistic, art house ...
Plot: painter, art, art history, biopic, love, trial, model, death of brother, terminal illness, art exhibition, money problems, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 1910s, year 1918
Place: vienna
Is relevant ?
 5.0
 1K
Rodin (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), man of the people, autodidact and revolutionary sculptor - the most brilliant of his era. At 42, Rodin meets Camille Claudel, a young woman desperate to become his assistant. He quickly acknowledges her as his most able ...
Style: touching, captivating, tense, suspense, suspenseful
Plot: painter, artist, sculptor, art, nudity, female nudity, biopic, father son relationship, female fight, painting, marriage proposal, art history ...
Time: year 2017
Place: japan, paris france
Is relevant ?
 6.8
 1K
Sin (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Russia, Italy
Duration: 134 min.
Story: The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti.
Style: uplifting, inspirational, sentimental, intellectual, captivating ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: misery, renaissance, painter, dog attack, artist, art school, tudors, fight, wealthy family, sculptor, power struggle, genius ...
Time: 16th century
Place: florence, italy, rome italy
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