Painter Movies

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

The film, inspired by Goya’s paintings – mostly his darker works – and made in the same way as 2017’s Loving Vincent.

The idle rich have their own particular problems. Case in point, Georg and Monika Hedberg were once poor and happy but since Georg became an...

In Renaissance Italy, a gifted painter becomes entranced by a merchant's wife when commissioned to paint her necklace. Their forbidden connection...

An art dealer asks a number of local artists for paintings centered around the nude female form; a nudie-cutie ensues.

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

Never before has the extraordinary life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo been framed in relation to the full spectrum of the historical and cultural...

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

The year is 1943 and Taiwan is under Japanese colonization. After finishing his studies in Japan, famous Taiwanese sculptor and painter Ching-Cheng...

A journey into the hearts, minds and eyes of Georgia O’Keeffe, Emily Carr and Frida Kahlo - three of the 20th century’s most remarkable...

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,...

Short film about the German painter Emil Nolde

When given the rare opportunity to capture images of an enigmatic famous painter, a photographer is forced to confront the limits she will go for her...

An intimate portrait of the Franco-Iranian painter Davoud Ghanbariha, filmed in the outskirts of Paris. Through a dialogue between his voice and his...

After exhausting his resources, a painter’s effort to complete his work becomes an act of dissolution.

As her 80th birthday is approaching, Vera Klement, an oil painter in Chicago, adamantly starts yet another new figure painting: a portrait of an...

An aspiring painter promises to return home from Yogyakarta after his studies and marry a local woman, but a gallery owner tests his commitment.

Known for his vibrant reinterpretations of classical portraits featuring African-American men, New York-based painter Kehinde Wiley has turned the...