9,046 | But I like to hear peoples thoughts, artists, historians, anyone on the subject. Michael Murphy, Bernardo Bertolucci | Andy Garcia, | Gross: Hélène Seuzaret, PG Dive into the heart of Van Goghs paintings. Share This Story. But i don't find much else more mystical and wonderful and inspiring. Biopic of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz. | A nearby film editor,... See full summary », Director: | | 123 min The story of the uncompromising artist and fighter for freedom, Domenicos Theotokopoulos, known to the world as "El Greco". | Gross: Described as a “group of allegories,” the film is composed of four distinct segments which trace the theme of the danger and turmoil inherent in the artistic life. A filmed record of Pablo Picasso painting numerous canvases for the camera, allowing us to see his creative process at work. 2,019 $0.14M, Not Rated Stars: Documentary, Biography, Extraordinary works of art fill museums and art galleries around the world. | 90 min $55.49M, PG-13 | Gross: $0.41M, Not Rated Amedeo Nazzari, 128 min | Gross: Julian Bennett Holmes, I really want them to grasp art from cave drawings to modern art. He overcomes a variety of hardships to become one of the biggest icons in the world: Walt Disney. Director: Charlotte Rampling, Willem Dafoe, Bruno Dumont | Martin Provost Stars: Galleries Lists Art Comic Books Movies Art & Design. This is a story of America’s most influential designers. $2.08M, Not Rated 4. #211 of 276 The Best Movies Based On True Stories#1 of 55 The Best Biopics About Women, #319 of 675 The Best Movies Roger Ebert Gave Four Stars#297 of 781 The Greatest Chick Flicks Ever Made, Directed by: Vincente Minnelli, George Cukor, #204 of 1,184 Every Oscar Winning Film Ever#279 of 512 The Greatest Movies Of The 1980s, Ranked, #98 of 175 The Best Movies Of The '60s#468 of 549 The Greatest Epic Movies Ever Made, Directed by: Arthur Patching, Christian Serritiello, #64 of 134 The Best French Movies That Are Absolute Masterpieces#54 of 55 The Best Movies That Are Based in Paris, #656 of 1,506 The Most Rewatchable Movies#783 of 922 The All-Time Greatest Comedy Films, #21 of 40 The Best Movies About Real Artists#2 of 41 The Best Italy Movies, Directed by: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, #255 of 533 The Best Animated Films Ever#77 of 97 The Best Movies of 2017, Ranked, “Don’t think about making art, just get it done. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt for herself and she also becomes his mistress. Kathleen Chalfant, R 6,961 Stars: Marie Jung, R 60 min Written and directed by artist Julian Schnabel, Wright stars as the famed street artist. Gilles Bourdos Movies about art can be fascinating and these are the best art films of that genre. 11,891 Henri-Georges Clouzot Tim Roth, | Bruno Nuytten | Gross: Biography, Drama. A film about the life and career of the American painter, Jackson Pollock. | Jean-Luc Vincent, $0.38M, R Henry Koster Director: 93 min | Nick Clark Windo, Chris Nielsen dies in an accident, and enters Heaven. | | Director: Juan Diego Botto, Jill Clayburgh, $24.00M, R The movie tells the story of her youth, when she was guided and protected by her father, the painter ... See full summary », Director: 10 Art Movies Every Collector Should See | Artland Magazine | | | 3,689 Annabella Sciorra, Director: Michel Piccoli, | $25.89M, Not Rated 1,689 A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Michael Dunbar, | Gross: Harper Higgins is determined to land a tenured position at Boston Art College, and she’s counting on curating a big art gallery at the university to do so. $0.20M, Not Rated Elsa Zylberstein, | Gross: However, there’s a solid few you absolutely must watch at least once in your life including a movie about the notorious Banksy and one on everything you need to know about the beginnings of Walt Disney. Painter Francisco Goya faces a scandal involving his muse, who is labeled a heretic by a monk. Eric Allum, Votes: Linda Fiorentino, Stars: 2,762 | Luca Zingaretti, Votes: Morgan Neville Biography, Drama. John Maybury But as the trip drags on, their attempt at recovering what they once had seems futile. John Malkovich, $1.00M, R Joan Allen, With Netflix, Amazon Prime and all the other on-demand options, I'm sure it'll be easy to revisit a few of these. Tell us what you think about this feature. Salma Hayek, Shepard Fairey, But after a while, she would like to get out of his shadow. And as far as artists go, let us not forget that, "There is no great genius without some touch of madness.". Eve Babitz, Natalie Portman, Stars: Stars: Robin Williams, | Jo Jackson, Votes: | Emmanuelle Béart, $2.29M, Not Rated Find out more about the cast of the romantic Hallmark Channel Original Movie “The Art of Us“ starring Taylor Cole and Steve Lund. Martin Mull, La Belle Noiseuse (The Beautiful Troublemaker), a 1991 Cannes Film Festival award-winning drama directed by Jacques Rivette, frequently appears on lists of best films about art. Claude Renoir, Votes: Choose your favorite movie designs and purchase them as wall art, home decor, phone cases, tote bags, and more! Trevor Morgan, Comedy, Drama, Romance. Agnès Merlet | 82,145 George Gallo 103 min | Nastassja Kinski, Anything that is art (a good movie) does this a lot of the time by existing. Yolande Moreau, Jean-François Perrier, Votes: Kirk Douglas, Director: Stars: Biography, Drama, Romance. Stars: | Gross: Kôtarô Bandô, $0.34M, R Art consumed this Dutch painter, and this movie portrays this fact beautifully. Love takes precedence over art and politics as Spanish painter Goya pines for an aloof duchess. Director: Alan Bates, François Bertrand Alexandra London, 80 min | Geneviève Bujold, Votes: Director: Short. Director: | Laia Marull, Gro Fraas, 131 min | 8,738 Robert Knott, Molly Regan, Votes: 6,262 Stars: 107 min Directed by the artist’s close friend Tamra Davis, this movie features rare footage and interviews with Basquiat’s contemporaries of 1980s downtown New York. Yes the title of this article does say 12 Movies About Artists You Should See, but like art, movies can also be subjective and what one person likes, another may hate. Lakis Lazopoulos, Not Rated Julian Schnabel, Logan Sekulow Marianne Denicourt, Votes: Two ... See full summary », Director: Biography, Drama. Joanna Litwin, Votes: | | Gross: Biography, Drama, History. A somewhat vulgar but dedicated painter searches for the perfect realization of his artistic vision, much to the chagrin of others. | Sienna Miller, There is something about movies set in Tuscany that makes them highly artistic, even if art is not their main topic at all. Stars: Sometimes artists in interviews will talk about it. Alan Rudolph Stars: Director: | Ronald Neame Philip Steadman, Votes: Julian Schnabel Alec Guinness, Dexter Fletcher, 90 min Stars: 122 min A successful 19th century French stockbroker (Sutherland) leaves his profession to become an artist in Paris. | 112 min Henry Miller Vincent Ward My number one struggle in teaching art to my kids is making artists come alive. | | Gross: 97 min Minosuke Bandô, Camille Claude impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. Eleanor Frazetta, 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. Nikolay Grinko, Stars: Stars: | Stars: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Valerie Pachner, 11,106 Kinuyo Tanaka, Lust for Life is a MGM biographical film about the life of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh,... Big Eyes is a 2014 American biographical drama film directed by Tim Burton. $0.10M, R Milos Forman Tamasaburô Bandô, PG-13 | | | | Gross: Tilda Swinton, Comedy, Drama, Musical. Kay Walsh, At his ... See full summary », Director: | | Gross: Anthony Franciosa, Stars: Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. 125 min 138 min | | | Larry Gagosian, Stars: If you don't see your favorite art film on this list of the best art films, make sure to add it so others can get a little bit of your good (art film) taste. | Biography, Drama, History. Director: | | The Art of Love (1965) A comedy starring Dick Van Dyke about the ironies of posthu | Director: | Gross: Biography, Drama, Romance. | Gross: Director: Jane Birkin, John Lurie, Peter Watkins 88 min Stars: $0.00M, See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc, Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon. Matthew McNulty, Exit Through the Gift Shop French filmmaker Jacques Rivette directed one of the most beautiful and intense films about art ever made. Jim McBride | All genres have been included. Shop for movie art from the world's greatest living artists. | | Dieter Berner Campbell Scott, | | A Spanish film about a … | 138 min A world of passion swirls around him, as the women in his life vie for ... See full summary », Director: Mark Stuart, 111 min Robocop (2014) | Gross: Michael Bouson 40 min Benicio Del Toro, Winter, 1915. The owner of the painting tells her that ... See full summary », Director: | Gross: Raoul Ruiz Stars: Biography, Drama. $2.96M, Approved Hiroko Kawasaki, R Biography, Comedy, Drama. 5,885 Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, | Drama. Kenji Sawada, Stars: | Robert Altman 10. Biography, Drama, History. 86 min Linda Hattendorf, Biography, Drama. Director: $1.66M, R | Stars: Also Watch. Thomas Doret, Votes: Director: | About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca. | Robert Pattinson, | Gross: 113 min | Director: James Donald, | Michael York, | Gross: 5,316 All genres have been included. Director: Charles Durning, Votes: And it's THA best. Billy Al Bengston, 125 min Stars: Edo Bertoglio Paudge Behan, Not Rated Tamra Davis Natascha McElhone, | The film tells a bit about their personal lives, and how their designs have withstood the test of time. Lindsay Kemp, 119 min 122 min A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld. | Stellan Skarsgård, | | | Stars: Documentary, Director Tamra Davis pays homage to her friend in this definitive documentary but also delves into Basquiat as an iconoclast. | Gross: $0.27M, 106 min Javier Beltrán, Here's a bit of review of one that didn't make the top 100: Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí were commissioned by Marie-Laurie and Charles de Noailles to produce a follow-up to Un Chien Andalou, 16 minutes that forever changed the face of cinema. Randy Quaid, Votes: How LA Learned to Love Modern Art. | $0.04M, Not Rated $0.02M, Not Rated 89 min 87 min 103,065 Biography, Drama. $8.60M, R Anne Lambton, Votes: Maurice Pialat Jacques Gamblin, Stars: | Kenji Mizoguchi Biography, Drama. | 98 min Art captivates us by allowing us to see the world through someone else's eyes. Cyndy Schneidau, Votes: Director: Nigel Terry, Director: | | The movie perfectly captures the meaning of manuscripts to medieval culture. Stars: | Yannis Smaragdis $2.23M, R Thriller, While restoring an old painting showing a woman and two men playing chess, Julia discovers the text "Who killed the knight" underneath the paint. | Based on the life of French painter Séraphine de Senlis. Recent examples of this include Andrew Wyeth’s classic “Christina’s World” popping up in the recent Tom Cruise sci-fi flick “Oblivion” (2013), as a subtle side plot. The movie tells the story of her youth, when she was guided and protected by her father, the painter... See full summary » Director: Agnès Merlet | Stars: Valentina Cervi, Michel Serrault, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Luca Zingaretti | Gross: Jean Michel Basquiat, | Debra Winger, Ed Harris, Life, passion, love...all these were part of Toulouse-Lautrec's art. 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