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7.3

♡ 1

95%

Oren Jacoby Director

Andy Warhol as Self

Richard Hell as Self

Carlo McCormick as Self Ramones

Ramones as Themselves

Richard Hambleton was a founder of the street art movement before succumbing to drugs and homelessness. Rediscovered 20 years later, he gets a second chance. But will he take it?

Amy George

2011

5.7

♡ 5

33%

Yonah Lewis Director

Emily Henry as Amy

Gabriel del Castillo Mullally as Jesse

Brian Scott Carleton as Mr. Fontana

Natasha Allan as Tara

Thirteen-year-old Jesse wants to be an artist and believing that his mundane, middle-class life has left him unprepared, he sets out looking for wildness and women.

The Driller Killer

1979

5.2

♡ 7

64%

Abel Ferrara Director

Peter Yellen as Bus Stop Derelict

Paula Nichols as Friend

Abel Ferrara as Reno Miller

Jack O'Connell as Rooftop Victim

An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.

Dead Man's Eyes

1944

6.0

♡ 4

17%

blindness and impaired vision

Reginald Le Borg Director

Pierre Watkin as Attorney

Thomas Gomez as Captain Drury

Acquanetta as Tanya Czoraki

John Elliott as Travers the Butler

Artist David Stuart is blinded by a jealous model whose portrait he is painting. His fiance's father generously offers his eyes for a sight restoring operation. There's only one hitch: Stuart has to wait until after the man dies. Not surprisingly, when the benefactor dies a very premature death, suspicion falls on the artist.

Dreams

1990

Japanese

7.7

♡ 29

Akira Kurosawa Director

Noriko Hayami as

Mieko Suzuki as 'I's sister

Mieko Harada as The Snow Fairy

Martin Scorsese as Vincent Van Gogh

Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.

Tiptoes

2002

4.2

♡ 13

Matthew Bright Director

Kate Beckinsale as Carol

Chad Everett as Kirk

Gary Oldman as Rolfe

Matthew McConaughey as Steven Bedalia

A man is reluctant to tell his fiancee that his parents, uncle and brother are dwarfs.

Sunday Bloody Sunday

1971

6.9

♡ 22

John Schlesinger Director

Glenda Jackson as Alex Greville

Martin Lawrence as Barmitzvah Guest

Arthur Goodman as Rabbi

Aileen Lewis as Woman Under Umbrella

Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.

Miyagino

2010

Japanese

5.8

♡ 2

based on play or musical

Tatsuji Yamazaki Director

Jun Kunimura as A Man like Toshusai Sharaku

Kirin Kiki as Madam

Aimi Satsukawa as Okayo

Ainosuke Kataoka as Yatarô

In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds consolation in the company of a prostitute, and becomes entangled in a love triangle. A mystery emerges involving two portraits and the sudden disappearance of the artist Sharaku. Helmed by Cannes-selected director Tatsuji Yamazaki, the film employs kabuki-inspired sequences and stylised sets.

Savage Messiah

1972

6.9

♡ 6

55%

78%

based on novel or book

Ken Russell Director

Harry Fielder as Angry Man in Crowd

Helen Mirren as Gosh Boyle

Ken Russell as Passenger Getting Off Train

Dorothy Tutin as Sophie Brzeska

In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska. Though the couple is 20 years apart in age, Gaudier finds that his untamed work is complemented by the older woman's cultural refinement. He then moves to London with Brzeska, where he falls in with a group of avant-garde artists. There, Gaudier encounters yet another artistic muse in passionate suffragette Gosh Boyle.

Love in Whitbrooke

2021

5.8

♡ 6

John Bradshaw Director

AnnaMaria Demara as Beth

Corey Sevier as Jason Taylor

Julia Tomasone as Molly Taylor

Richard Waugh as Roland Marsh

An ambitious project manager is offered the career opportunity of a lifetime in London. But when she returns to her hometown to help the family business in an emergency and meets the perfect guy, her passion and talent for painting is rekindled, giving her a new outlook on life and love.

Surrender

1987

5.4

♡ 6

22%

Jerry Belson Director

Sally Field as Daisy Morgan

Christian Clemenson as Dream Lawyer

Bruce French as Dream Lawyer

Michael Caine as Sean Stein

A wealthy writer who has had terrible experiences with money-hungry girlfriends & ex-wives pretends to be a broke, washed-up novelist to see if the woman he loves wants him for himself or just for his money.

Wojnarowicz

2020

7.6

♡ 4

97%

Chris McKim Director

Nancy Reagan as Self

Fran Lebowitz as Self Ed Koch

Ed Koch as Self

David Wojnarowicz as Self

A collage-like, incisive look at the life of writer, painter and thinker David Wojnarowicz, whose powerful, unapologetic way of seeing the world gave voice to queer rights at a critical time in US history.

Beneath a Sea of Lights

2020

5.6

♡ 29

57%

Neel Kumar Director

Shabbir Beguwala as Barber

Barkhad Abdi as Caweys

Jim Sarbh as Jimmy

Megan Pormer as Lucille

A Somali billboard repairman working in Dubai decides he wants to experience some of the products advertised on his billboards. It’s an experience that begins innocently enough, but quickly spins out of control, especially when a con man enters the picture.

Fear of Clowns

2004

3.2

♡ 1

Kevin Kangas Director

Kevin Kangas as Cop Who Ate Too Many Doughnuts

Jacqueline Reres as Lynn Blodgett

John Patrick Barry as Officer Patrick

Andrew Schneider as Phillip

An artist who purges her fears through painting is terrified to discover that her nightmarish creations have taken on a life of their own.

The Headless Eyes

4.1

Kent Bateman Director

Bo Brundin as Arthur Malcolm

Ramon Gordon as (as Gordon Ramon)

Kelly Swartz as (as Kelley Swartz)

Ann Wells as (as Mary Jane Early)

A New York artist gouges eyes out with a spoon after the same is done to him.

Something in the Air

2012

French

6.4

♡ 4

81%

Olivier Assayas Director

Johnny Flynn as

Paul Spera as Carl

Lola Créton as Christine

India Menuez as Leslie

During the 1970s a student named Gilles gets entangled in contemporary political turmoils although he would rather just be a creative artist. While torn between his solidarity to his friends and his personal ambitions he falls in love with Christine.

Call Me Genius

1961

6.8

♡ 4

81%

Comedy

Robert Day Director

Aileen Lewis as Art Gallery Patron

Dennis Price as Jim Smith

John Le Mesurier as Office Manager

Ric Young as Party Guest

Anthony Hancock gives up his office job to become an abstract artist. He has a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics scorn his work. Nevertheless, he impresses an emerging very talented artist. Hancock proceeds to con the art world into thinking he is a genius.

Manhattan Undying

2016

4.8

♡ 4

33%

Babak Payami Director

Milton Barnes as Andrew

Christopher Jacot as Det. Bradimore

Noah Danby as Johnny

Sarah Roemer as Vivian

A vampire seeks out an artist to paint her a portrait so that she can see her image for the first time.

Downtown 81

2000