Painter Movies

While directing a Caravaggio film, a filmmaker is drawn to his lead actor as a romance unfolds among the cast. Heartbroken, he escapes into fantasy,...

TV-documentary about the German painter Carl Spitzweg

Based on the life of Edmund Thomas Clint, who died at the mere age of six due to kidney failure, Clint focuses on the exemplary talent of the young...

A feature-length documentary portrait of Québécoise painter Johanne Corno, who has lived and worked in New York City for more than 20...

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 life of a great man, his deeds and their impact on his family.

Through vibrant colors and cluttered canvases, a 75-year-old artist reclaims freedom from a past of war and loss.

Documentary film about the Austrian graphic artist Alfred Kubin. Kubin's work is characterized by the depiction of fantastic dream visions, which are...

It is a 1987 independent animated film about a painter struggling to reconcile the vision in his head to the reality on his canvas.

Impression and interpretation: A film that relies on sensory techniques to tell a story about depression, alienation and ultimately loneliness.

A thirteen year old kid, "the boy", lives and works in a cemetery. The cemetery is his whole life, and growing up with the dead instills in him an...

A struggling painter retreats to the countryside with two friends after heartbreak. Their healing getaway takes a dark turn when an ancient force...

Forty years in the making, 'The Painter Sam Francis' is artist Jeffrey Perkins' intimate portrait of abstract expressionist painter Sam Francis. The...

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,...

Poor painter helps a paralysed child.

A young working class Baltimore man spends 10 years on a single portrait, believing it is his means to fame and fortune. But he also believes that...

A documentary about Tintoretto.