Painter Movies

Archibald, an astronaut painter is on a mission to paint his magnum opus, the solar system. Driven by obsession, he is faced with his final piece,...

Marc Chagall was an artist caught between two worlds, between traditional art and modernism, figuration and abstraction. The film accompanies him on...

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

Sara, a cold college professor, and her husband, an ecstatic painter, spend a summer away from the city, straining their rocky relationship.

Tarsilinha sets off on a journey to save her mother’s memory. The only way to do this is to find her mom's stolen keepsakes and overcome her...

An emotionally fragile older woman embarks on an ill-fated love affair with a handsome young artist while traveling through Mexico's Yucatan...

In 2014 a large painting representing Judith Beheading Holofernes was discovered in an attic in Toulouse, France. A controversy ensued immediately...

Short film about the German painter Emil Nolde

In the 17th century, the Netherlands experienced an unprecedented artistic explosion: painters such as Rembrandt, Vermeer and Hals were so prolific...

A painter in search of perfection confronts the anxiety of the blank canvas. 2026.

A comic and melancholic take on the struggling artist, shot on 35mm.

Rare documentary chronicling Keith Haring's visit to Australia in 1984, including working and painting at the National Gallery of Victoria and the...

A highfalutin art movie crumbles into a meta-fictional disaster that betrays its director’s incompetence in real time, and it’s all on...

A girl who suffers from speech and hearing impairment falls in love with a poor man who is speech-impaired. Their lives turn upside down when her...

This controversial film from director Glauber Rocha records the funeral of his friend, major Brazilian painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti.

When a hardened businesswoman who goes by the initials A.B. overhears someone calling her an “Amazon” because of her butch ways, she...

Janina Ramirez explores the BBC archives to create a TV history of Leonardo Da Vinci, discovering what lies beneath the Mona Lisa and even how he...

Piotr manages to buy a splendid though dilapidated villa from the eccentric 80-year-old painter Mimi. The woman treats him like her long-lost only...