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Kanopy
87
8.1
/214325/
78
/3466/
81
/3254/
4.3
/371097/
93
/73/
93
/3120/
88
/15/
cc age 13+

The Seventh Seal (1957)
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.
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Criterion Channel
85
8.0
/60077/
78
/887/
79
/915/
4.4
/90103/
96
/46/
93
/674/

Andrei Rublev (1966)
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.
poster
YouTube Premium
84
7.6
/16681/
76
/955/
75
/353/
4.0
/34111/
98
/133/
85
/127/
cc age 8+

Kedi (2017)
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.
poster
Kanopy
84
7.8
/81033/
74
/1246/
75
/1126/
4.0
/87333/
92
/59/
90
/1335/
90
/12/
cc age 15+

Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
poster
84
7.6
/94261/
75
/2809/
75
/1667/
4.1
/396334/
90
/70/
87
/1215/
89
/9/

After Hours (1985)
Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
83
8.0
/519/
78
/28/
71
/9/
3.6
/611/
100
/12/
94
/4/

Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists (2018)
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.
poster
Criterion Channel
83
7.7
/105178/
75
/2443/
75
/3265/
4.1
/150233/
91
/135/
81
/658/
86
/34/
cc age 17+

The Great Beauty (2013)
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
poster
Netflix
82
7.4
/19880/
74
/1217/
76
/466/
3.8
/222486/
97
/30/
93
/73/

Entergalactic (2022)
Ambitious artist Jabari attempts to balance success and love when he moves into his dream Manhattan apartment and falls for his next-door neighbor.
poster
82
8.0
/22871/
76
/568/
75
/273/
4.2
/38370/
70
/9/
93
/21/

Crumb (1994)
This movie chronicles the life and times of R. Crumb. Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew Keep On Truckin', Fritz the Cat, and played a major pioneering role in the genesis of underground comix. Through interviews with his mother, two brothers, wife, ex-wife and ex-girlfriends, as well as selections from his vast quantity of graphic art, we are treated to a darkly comic ride through one man's subconscious mind.
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Netflix
81
7.5
/127599/
76
/4685/
76
/2246/
3.8
/823501/
88
/224/
96
/29/
74
/44/
cc age 13+

tick, tick... BOOM! (2021)
On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create something great before time runs out.
poster
Kanopy
81
7.8
/9509/
80
/219/
75
/123/
3.7
/6052/
100
/71/
90
/351/
78
/20/
cc age 14+

Waste Land (2010)
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.
poster
MGM Plus
81
7.4
/28048/
74
/440/
71
/477/
3.8
/23000/
100
/29/
84
/446/
82
/17/

Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli. Rose's one-man talent agency represents countless incompetent entertainers, including a one-legged tap dancer, and one slightly talented one: washed-up lounge singer Lou Canova, whose career is on the rebound.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
7.7
/19538/
76
/560/
73
/354/
4.2
/58156/
88
/52/
88
/511/
87
/18/

F for Fake (1973)
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.
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Fandango at Home Free
80
7.2
/4791/
71
/147/
69
/79/
3.7
/4595/
95
/74/
76
/118/
83
/25/

Cutie and the Boxer (2013)
This candid New York love story explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of famed boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife, Noriko. Anxious to shed her role as her overbearing husband's assistant, Noriko finds an identity of her own.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
80
7.7
/5949/
79
/376/
75
/183/
4.1
/18106/
92
/24/
86
/57/
75
/12/
cc age 9+

The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (2013)
Follows the behind-the-scenes work of Studio Ghibli, focusing on the notable figures Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and Toshio Suzuki.
poster
79
7.6
/16985/
76
/310/
74
/365/
4.2
/52311/
86
/22/
88
/249/

The Lovers on the Bridge (1991)
Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven to a life on the streets because of a failed relationship and an affliction which is slowly turning her blind.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
7.5
/24650/
73
/488/
73
/531/
4.0
/62210/
92
/26/
86
/382/

Hour of the Wolf (1968)
While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
poster
78
7.7
/32152/
77
/667/
77
/534/
4.2
/94414/
67
/30/
86
/799/

Dreams (1990)
Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.
poster
Kanopy
77
7.2
/7632/
74
/339/
69
/213/
3.8
/34595/
90
/80/
75
/13/
75
/17/

David Lynch: The Art Life (2017)
An intimate journey through the formative years of David Lynch's life. From his idyllic upbringing in small town America to the dark streets of Philadelphia, we follow Lynch as he traces the events that have helped to shape one of cinema's most enigmatic directors.
poster
77
7.4
/6301/
74
/95/
70
/82/
3.8
/7336/
80
/20/
84
/117/

Strawberry and Chocolate (1993)
In 1979 Cuba, flamboyant gay artist Diego attempts to seduce straitlaced David, an idealistic young communist, and fails dismally. But David conspires to be "friends" with Diego so he can monitor the artist's subversive life for the state. As Diego and David discuss politics, individuality and personal expression in Castro's Cuba, a genuine friendship develops between the two.
poster
FXNow
76
7.1
/165050/
70
/5851/
70
/2879/
3.7
/936358/
75
/320/
76
/313/
75
/57/
cc age 15+

The French Dispatch (2021)
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.8
/67642/
79
/3135/
79
/2563/
4.0
/251578/
84
/161/
87
/361/
62
/21/
cc age 13+

Loving Vincent (2017)
A young man arrives at the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.
poster
76
7.4
/98291/
74
/8216/
72
/3498/
3.7
/133307/
86
/265/
81
/725/
76
/40/
cc age 12+

A Monster Calls (2016)
12-year-old Conor encounters an ancient tree monster who proceeds to help him cope with his mother's terminal illness and being bullied in school.
poster
75
7.1
/27144/
69
/342/
66
/294/
3.6
/12382/
74
/100/
83
/800/
85
/26/

Before Night Falls (2000)
Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.
poster
75
7.0
/30855/
68
/473/
66
/338/
3.4
/15760/
79
/110/
74
/634/
77
/31/
cc age 17+

Pollock (2000)
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral.
poster
MGM Plus
74
6.9
/7778/
65
/136/
66
/132/
3.6
/9731/
83
/30/
70
/103/
cc age 15+

Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.
poster
Kanopy
73
7.0
/3529/
69
/100/
66
/82/
3.5
/2970/
86
/43/
75
/5/
75
/14/

Afterimage (2016)
In 1945, as Stalin sets his hands over Poland, famous painter Wladislaw Strzeminski refuses to compromise on his art with the doctrines of social realism. Persecuted, expelled from his chair at the University, he's eventually erased from the museums' walls. With the help of some of his students, he starts fighting against the Party and becomes the symbol of an artistic resistance against intellectual tyranny.
poster
73
7.6
/25441/
77
/821/
78
/495/
3.6
/18412/
58
/19/
85
/554/
66
/11/

Shelter (2007)
Forced to give up his dreams of art school, Zach works dead-end jobs to support his sister and her son. Questioning his life, he paints, surfs and hangs out with his best friend, Gabe. When Gabe's older brother returns home for the summer, Zach suddenly finds himself drawn into a relationship he didn't expect.
poster
Kanopy
72
7.1
/279276/
69
/4458/
67
/3927/
3.5
/201977/
80
/211/
74
/10319/
70
/36/
cc age 17+

Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.
poster
Kanopy
71
6.3
/23657/
65
/1364/
63
/693/
3.2
/32112/
93
/54/
65
/208/
72
/10/

The Devil's Candy (2016)
A struggling painter is possessed by satanic forces after he and his young family move into their dream home in rural Texas.
poster
MGM Plus
77
71
7.3
/7109/
71
/134/
69
/120/
3.7
/10020/
92
/12/
71
/86/
91
/8/

Love Affair (1939)
A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed their mind.
poster
71
7.9
/37275/
80
/931/
81
/1478/
4.0
/23237/
64
/14/
94
/1855/
47
/12/

Bound by Honor (1993)
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his "carnal", Miklo.
poster
Criterion Channel
76
70
7.2
/7917/
70
/151/
70
/185/
3.8
/23504/
95
/22/
85
/124/
67
/9/

The Blood of a Poet (1932)
In a poet’s room, an armless statue abruptly comes to life. It invites the poet to step through a mirror and to discover another world. Strange places and characters present themselves to him. The poet tears himself away from these twisted fascinations and returns, with some difficulty, to his room.
poster
79
70
7.6
/8360/
72
/113/
71
/118/
3.8
/7221/
93
/15/
85
/135/

Portrait of Jennie (1948)
A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.
poster
75
70
7.2
/8732/
75
/216/
71
/147/
3.5
/4626/
86
/7/
78
/128/

The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes his mind and asks the sculptor to paint a mural in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo doubts his painting skills and abandons the project. Divine inspiration returns Michelangelo to the mural, but his artistic vision clashes with the pope's demanding personality and threatens the success of the historic painting.
poster
70
6.5
/3469/
59
/53/
57
/46/
3.4
/2142/
81
/27/
66
/42/
81
/18/

Georgia (1995)
Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer. Unfortunately it is this very obsession — coupled with her self-destructive tendencies and rampant drug abuse — that keeps her spiraling down the drain.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
6.9
/23595/
67
/398/
66
/305/
3.4
/31374/
67
/30/
77
/615/
65
/20/

Basquiat (1996)
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.
poster
Netflix
69
6.9
/7094/
70
/556/
67
/103/
3.3
/13567/
79
/29/
72
/20/
55
/10/
cc age 13+

Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed (2021)
Bob Ross brought joy to millions as the world's most famous art instructor. But a battle for his business empire cast a shadow over his happy trees.
poster
74
69
7.3
/13138/
72
/199/
72
/203/
3.7
/8231/
80
/15/
81
/205/
68
/14/

Lust for Life (1956)
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.
poster
69
6.7
/3714/
67
/273/
67
/152/
3.5
/7521/
93
/59/
70
/26/
74
/16/
7.1
/15390/
cc age 13+

Miss Hokusai (2015)
A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own mark in the world.
poster
The Roku Channel
69
7.0
/52280/
70
/3300/
67
/1173/
3.7
/95635/
88
/212/
82
/323/
68
/40/
cc age 15+

American Animals (2018)
Lexington, Kentucky, 2004. Four young men attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in the history of the United States.
poster
69
7.1
/205708/
72
/6910/
75
/5889/
3.4
/240991/
66
/238/
72
/1054/
66
/41/
cc age 17+

The Danish Girl (2015)
When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks on a groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
68
6.3
/7256/
59
/352/
58
/121/
3.5
/54473/
89
/167/
47
/53/
86
/38/
cc age 15+

Showing Up (2023)
In the days leading up to a possibly career-changing exhibition, a sculptor navigates her relationships with family, friends, and colleagues.
poster
67
6.9
/104129/
71
/3916/
69
/3576/
3.4
/157043/
72
/193/
68
/1044/
62
/40/
cc age 13+

Big Eyes (2014)
In the late 1950s and early '60s, artist Walter Keane achieves unbelievable fame and success with portraits of saucer-eyed waifs. However, no one realizes that his wife, Margaret, is the real painter behind the brush. Although Margaret is horrified to learn that Walter is passing off her work as his own, she is too meek to protest too loudly. It isn't until the Keanes' marriage comes to an end and a lawsuit follows that the truth finally comes to light.
poster
67
6.9
/1915/
62
/20/
61
/25/
3.6
/2012/
55
/11/
78
/19/

Savage Messiah (1972)
In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska. Though the couple is 20 years apart in age, Gaudier finds that his untamed work is complemented by the older woman's cultural refinement. He then moves to London with Brzeska, where he falls in with a group of avant-garde artists. There, Gaudier encounters yet another artistic muse in passionate suffragette Gosh Boyle.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
67
7.2
/49586/
72
/783/
71
/627/
3.8
/70417/
47
/74/
77
/2031/
57
/24/

Candy (2006)
A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle — and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.
poster
MGM Plus
67
7.4
/327919/
78
/17798/
79
/13014/
3.5
/1099057/
55
/177/
73
/1508/
51
/36/
cc age 14+

Me Before You (2016)
Lou Clark, a directionless 26-year-old from the English countryside, takes a job at the local castle as a caregiver and companion to a wealthy young banker, Will Traynor. Wheelchair-bound from an accident two years prior, the once adventurous Will has all but given up — that is until Lou determines to show him that life is worth living.
poster
80
66
7.8
/4727/
77
/76/
72
/89/
4.2
/5869/
87
/15/
82
/26/

The Travelling Players (1975)
A traveling theatre troupe tours the Greek countryside from 1939 to the early 1950s, staging “Golfo the Shepherdess”. As the years pass, its members endure persecution, betrayal, executions, and exile. Their personal stories become entangled with the country’s major historical events, in a seemingly endless cycle of violence and loss.


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