Painter Movies

This film portrait of the artist Josef Lada was made for the purpose of popularising the works of the contemporary artist, whose creative body of...

Matthew Greco is fascinated by death. As a successful artist, he paints gruesome portraits of murders and suicides. Yet, despite his success, he is...

Delilah Miller is looking for an anchor in her life. She starts a romance with rock musician Ryland Yale, but soon it shows he can not be such an...

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

A movie about James Tissot (1836-1902), a French painter and portraitist

Gerhard Richter has spent over half a century experimenting with a tremendous range of techniques and ideas, addressing historical crises and mass...

La Garoupe, a beach in Antibes, in 1937. For one summer, the painter and photographer Man Ray films his friends Pablo Picasso, Dora Maar, Paul Eluard...

Apuntes is a sort of prologue to ‘The Quince Tree Sun’. With images shot by Erice in the Summer of 1990, as he was preparing such film,...

A documentary about Tintoretto.

Documentary about the life and work of Mário Eloy, one of the greatest painters of the second generation of modernism in Portugal.

A visual journey into the life and legacy of one of Australia's most celebrated artists, Brett Whiteley.

A feature-length documentary celebrating the life and work of Trinity Bay artist and storyteller Clifford George.

This film follows the life of Jacob Kainen, a prolific but often overlooked artist of 20th Century America. From his immigrant upbringing to his...

Hardly anyone knows the artist, but almost everyone knows her paintings: Tamara de Lempicka, icon of the 1920s. Her art deco paintings of women in...

Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka the one-ideaed Hungarian painter was thought to be crazy by his peers, but he eventually became a significant artist.

A lost chapter in black British film: extraordinary rushes from a documentary showcasing talented members of the black community.

The real story about the camel ride around Mallorca, that journalist Miguel Vidal and painter Gustavo Peñalver did in 1964. Sometimes truth is...