In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer, accepts. After the unique beginning to their love affair, the well-connected and volatile artist assimilates Dyer into his circle of eccentric friends, as Dyer's struggle with addiction strains their bond.

As Dreamers Do

2014

English

3.7

♡ 6

28%

Logan Sekulow Director

Isaiah Stratton as Fred Harman

Travis Tritt as The Narrator

Jim E Chandler as Uncle Robert

Olan Rogers as Walt Disney

The early life of Walt Disney is explored in this family film with an art house twist. Though his reality was often dark, it was skewed by his ever growing imagination and eternal optimism.

Effie Gray

2014

English

6.0

♡ 18

43%

Richard Laxton Director

Dakota Fanning as Effie Gray

Tom Sturridge as John Everett Millais

Emma Thompson as Lady Eastlake

James Fox as Sir Charles Eastlake

A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.

The Color of Time

2012

English

4.1

♡ 18

5%

18%

Action

based on song, poem or rhyme

husband wife relationship

parent child relationship

poet

Romance

Edna Luise Biesold Director

Mila Kunis as Catherine

James Franco as C.K. Williams

Henry Hopper as C.K. Williams

Jessica Chastain as Mrs. Williams

A poetic road trip through Pulitzer prize-winning CK Williams' life over the course of 40 years.

Digging Up the Marrow

2014

English

5.8

♡ 16

58%

Adam Green Director

Tony Todd as Himself

Sarah Elbert as Sarah Elbert

Tom Holland as Tom Holland

Ray Wise as William Dekker

A documentary filmmaker turns his lens on an enigmatic conspiracy theorist who claims he's found the entrance to a vast underground city populated entirely by monsters.

Altman

2014

English

6.8

♡ 12

70%

Ron Mann Director

Sally Kellerman as Herself

Julianne Moore as Herself

Bruce Willis as Himself

Steven Spielberg as Self

Robert Altman's life and career contained multitudes. This father of American independent cinema left an indelible mark, not merely on the evolution of his art form, but also on the western zeitgeist. With its use of rare interviews, representative film clips, archival images, and musings from his family and most recognizable collaborators, Altman is a dynamic and heartfelt mediation on an artist whose expression, passion and appetite knew few bounds.

Killing Jesus

2015

English

4.7

♡ 33

43%

Christopher Menaul Director

Akbar Kurtha as Asher

Rufus Sewell as Caiaphas

Emmanuelle Chriqui as Herodias

Vernon Dobtcheff as Isaiah

Jesus of Nazareth’s life and ministry were subject to seismic social and political events that led to his execution and changed the world forever.

Isadora

1968

English

6.8

♡ 11

80%

Karel Reisz Director

James Fox as Gordon Craig

John Brandon as Gospel Billy

Cynthia Harris as Mary Desti

Jeremy Child as Party Guest

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.

Life

2015

English

6.0

♡ 25

63%

Anton Corbijn Director

Robert Pattinson as Dennis Stock

Barbara Gordon as Grandma Dean

Ben Kingsley as Jack Warner

Dane DeHaan as James Dean

In 1955, young photographer Dennis Stock develops a close bond with actor James Dean while shooting pictures of the rising Hollywood star.

Michael Collins

1996

English

7.1

♡ 51

78%

presidential election

Thriller

War

Neil Jordan Director

Julia Roberts as Kitty Kiernan

Brendan Gleeson as Liam Tobin

Liam Neeson as Michael Collins

Charles Dance as Soames

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.

Burroughs: The Movie

1983

English

7.0

♡ 9

92%

Howard Brookner Director

Lauren Hutton as

Patti Smith as

Terry Southern as

Otto Belue as Self

An exploration of Burroughs’ life story, as told by Burroughs himself along with many of his contemporaries, including Allen Ginsberg, Brion Gysin, Francis Bacon, Herbert Huncke, Patti Smith, Terry Southern, and William Burroughs Jr.

Valentino

1977

English

6.1

♡ 15

46%

Ken Russell Director

Linda Thorson as Billie Streeter

Seymour Cassel as George Ullman

Bill McKinney as Policeman

Ken Russell as Rex Ingram

The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to reminisce about his troubled rise to superstardom.

Anastasia

1956

English

7.0

♡ 19

93%

Anatole Litvak Director

Ingrid Bergman as Anna Koreff

Helen Hayes as Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna

Stratford Johns as Press Photographer

John G. Heller as Reporter

Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While Bounin is coaching her, he comes to believe that she is really Anastasia. In the end, the Empress must decide her claim.

Isadora

1966

English

7.3

♡ 9

Ken Russell Director

Ken Russell as Captain Patterson

Peter Bowles as Paris Singer

Murray Melvin as Photographer

Anna Karen as (uncredited)

The outrageous life of the American dancer of the 1920s, Isadora Duncan, whom Ken Russell described as "part genius and part charlatan".

De Palma

2015

English

7.4

♡ 22

95%

portrait of a filmmaker

Noah Baumbach Director

Mark Hamill as Self

Steven Spielberg as Self Jay Z

Jay Z as Self

Kurt Russell as Self

An intimate conversation between filmmakers, chronicling De Palma’s 55-year career, his life, and his filmmaking process, with revealing anecdotes and, of course, a wealth of film clips.

Notes on Blindness

2016

English

7.0

♡ 60

95%

Peter Middleton Director

Emma Rees as Faculty Member

Mahalia Martin-Jones as Lizzie

Eileen Davies as Madge Hull

Simone Kirby as Marilyn Hull

After losing sight in 1983, John Hull began keeping an audio diary, a unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal, excavating the interior world of blindness. Following on from the Emmy Award-winning short film of the same name, Notes on Blindness is an ambitious and groundbreaking work, both affecting and innovative.

My Name Is Lenny

2017

English

6.0

♡ 36

39%

Ron Scalpello Director

Gino Picciano as Judge

John Hurt as Leslie Salmon

Jack Veal as Little Lenny

Rita Tushingham as Reenie Joyce

The life story of one of Britain's most notorious bare-knuckle fighters, Lenny McLean, also known as "The Guv'nor".

Chuck

2016

English

6.5

♡ 31

82%

Philippe Falardeau Director

Ron Perlman as Al Braverman

Edward Carnevale as Flip Flop

Sadie Sink as Kimberly Age 11

Catherine Corcoran as Sandy

A drama inspired by the life of heavyweight boxer Chuck Wepner.

The Wizard of Lies

2017

English

6.8

♡ 162

73%

64%

Action

based on novel or book

Barry Levinson Director

Kelly AuCoin as Agent Cacioppi

Robert De Niro as Bernie Madoff

Tom Brokaw as Himself

Michelle Pfeiffer as Ruth Madoff

A look behind the scenes at Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme, how it was perpetrated on the public and the trail of destruction it left in its wake, both for the victims and Madoff's family.

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

1994

English

6.4

♡ 14

75%

Alan Rudolph Director

Jon Favreau as Elmer Rice

Maurice Podbrey as Long Island Investor

Matt Malloy as Marc Connelly

Mark Camacho as Writer #1

Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.

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Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

As Dreamers Do

Effie Gray

The Color of Time

Digging Up the Marrow

Altman

Killing Jesus

Isadora

Life

Michael Collins

Burroughs: The Movie

Valentino

Anastasia

Isadora

De Palma

Notes on Blindness

My Name Is Lenny

Chuck

The Wizard of Lies

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle