Foujita

2015

Japanese

6.1

♡ 3

Kôhei Oguri Director

Ryô Kase as

Miki Nakatani as Kimiyo

Sebastien Sisak as Leader des pirates

Takehiro Hira as Lieutenant

A biopic of seminal 20th century artist Leonard Foujita, a contemporary of Picasso and Modigliani, who was famous for mixing up European and Japanese styles.

Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists

2018

English

8.0

♡ 3

100%

Jonathan Alter Director

Robert De Niro as Self

Tom Brokaw as Self

Tony Bennett as Self

Charles Bronson as Self

Directors Jonathan Alter, John Block and Steve McCarthy bring New York columnists Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill’s courageous writing to life, celebrating the acclaimed journalists and the city they loved.

The Witch of Kings Cross

6.3

Sonia Bible Director

Oliver Levi-Malouf as Party boy

Marguerite Johnson as Self

Richard Kaczynski as Self

John Martensen as Self

Sydney, in the 50s. Rosaleen Norton is a painter specialised in occult themes, infernal sabbatical visions exuding wanton sexuality. In conservative Australia, the Witch of King's Cross was soon accused of obscenity, and of taking part in satanic rituals, orgies and whatnot...

Michael Palin's Quest for Artemisia

2015

English

7.0

♡ 1

Eleanor Yule Director

Michael Palin as Self - Presenter

Michael Palin discovers the story of 17th-century Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi. He unearths not only her paintings, but a complex and difficult life.

Hockney

2014

English

6.8

♡ 1

85%

Randall Wright Director

George Lawson as Self

Celia Birtwell as Self

Betty Freeman as Self

Colin Self as Self

A documentary about the work and personality of artist David Hockney.

F for Fake

1973

French

7.7

♡ 18

88%

Orson Welles Director

Laurence Harvey as Himself

Don Ameche as Himself

Paul Stewart as Himself - Special Participant

Joseph Cotten as Himself - Special Participant

Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.

Lust for Life

1956

English

7.3

♡ 23

80%

George Cukor Director

Len Lesser as Cartoonist

Betty Blythe as Dowager

Everett Sloane as Dr. Gachet

Henry Corden as Waiter

An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo, the tormented Van Gogh eventually leaves Holland for France, where he meets volatile fellow painter Paul Gauguin and struggles to find greater inspiration.

Tove

2020

Finnish

6.8

♡ 1

93%

Zaida Bergroth Director

Sara Soulié as Coco

Kajsa Ernst as Signe 'Ham' Jansson

Alma Pöysti as Tove Jansson

Krista Kosonen as Vivica / Kurt's wife

Helsinki, 1945. The end of the war brings a new sense of artistic and social freedom for painter Tove Jansson. While focusing her artistic dreams on painting, the enchanting tales of the ‘Moomin’ creatures she told to scared children in bomb shelters, rapidly take on a life of their own, bringing international fame.

Daisy Kenyon

1947

English

6.8

♡ 4

86%

Otto Preminger Director

Norman Leavitt as Fourth Cab Driver

Connie Marshall as Marie O'Mara

Henry Fonda as Peter Lapham

George E. Stone as Waiter

Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer and family man named Dan O'Mara. Daisy meets a single man, a war veteran named Peter Lapham, and after a brief and hesitant courtship decides to marry him, although she is still in love with Dan.

Waste Land

2010

English

7.8

100%

Lucy Walker Director

Vik Muniz as Self

An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.

Andrei Rublev

1966

Russian

8.0

♡ 41

96%

Andrei Tarkovsky Director

Anatoliy Solonitsyn as Andrey Rublev

Klara Rumyanova as Deti knyazya

Yuriy Nikulin as Patrikey, monakh

Yuriy Nazarov as Velikiy knyaz, Malyy knyaz

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 a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he begins to ease his troubled soul, he takes steps towards becoming a painter once again.

Kedi

2016

Turkish

7.6

♡ 68

98%

human animal relationship

urban setting

Ceyda Torun Director Bengu

Bengu as Herself Deniz

Deniz as Himself Duman

Duman as Himself Gamsiz

Gamsiz as Himself

A profile of Istanbul and its unique people, seen through the eyes of the most mysterious and beloved animal humans have ever known, the Cat.

Love Beats Rhymes

2017

English

5.5

44%

RZA Director

John David Washington as Mahlik

Lorraine Toussaint as Nichelle

Caleb Eberhardt as Reasons

Mary Christina Brown as Sapphire

A young woman dreams of making it big in the world of hip hop, but her parents demand that she finish her university degree. She dutifully agrees to complete her education, but her spoken word proves to have a powerful impact in the classroom.

The World According to Ion B.

8.0

Alexander Nanau Director

Ion Barladeanu as Ion B.

The fascinating portrait of Ion Bârlàdeanu. The touching and inspiring story of a man who literally lived in the gutter for 20 years - and in the meantime managed to create paintings and collages which are now exhibited alongside works by Andy Warhol or Marcel Duchamp.

Caravaggio: The Soul and the Blood

2018

Italian

6.6

♡ 1

Jesus Garces Lambert Director

Humanroot Awosika as Muse 1

Suzana Karurkova as Muse 2

Rossella Vodret as Self

Simone D'Andrea as Self - Narrator

An exciting and unsettling cinematic journey through the life, work and torments of Caravaggio.

Night of Dark Shadows

1971

English

5.4

♡ 3

41%

husband wife relationship

Dan Curtis Director

John Karlen as Alex Jenkins

Nancy Barrett as Claire Jenkins

David Selby as Quentin Collins / Charles Collins

Kate Jackson as Tracy Collins

Recently married, Quentin and Tracy Collins have just moved into Collinwood, a New England estate that has long been in the Collins family and which Quentin has just inherited. They soon find themselves plagued by spirits of past residents.

Not Broken

2021

English

6.0

♡ 3

Lauren Havel Director

Ramona Flierl as Coffee Patron / Prom Extra

Presley Clark as Rowan's Girlfriend

Lauren Havel as Sage

Anne Marie Ryan as Winter Knight

A young dyslexic and artistic woman is overcome with despair as she finds herself defined, not by her talents, but by her disabilities.

The Divorce

2003

English

4.9

♡ 8

James Ivory Director

Kate Hudson as Isabel Walker

Bebe Neuwirth as Julia Manchevering

Glenn Close as Olivia Pace

Naomi Watts as Roxeanne de Persand

While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.

Art of Falling in Love

2019

English

6.0

♡ 6

Justin G. Dyck Director

Lily Gao as Carolyn

Kelly Bishop as Iris

Josh Dean as Nate

Kimberly-Sue Murray as Vanessa

A spirited artist with a mysterious bucket list gets a commission to paint a mural on a new hospital wing in a charming community. When she finds herself falling for the handsome architect designing the addition, she must decide if she can trust him with her list, and the painful memory behind it, or if he’ll break her heart and prove that it’s better to be alone than to be close to someone who will leave.