Painter Movies

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

An artist looks back on his younger years at the Chongqing Art Academy in the turbulent 1990s. The selection and demands used to be killing. He was...

A street painter meets a woman and asks to paint her. Two years later, the two are now a couple living together but struggle to get by. When the...

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

Oswaldo Guayasamín, one of the most renowned Latin American artists, with more than 600 portraits in his pictorial career, (among which are F....

Whatever Comes Next is a documentary about the curious and dynamic life of Annemarie Mahler-Ettinger. The film portrays the painter and scholar,...

Extract of rushes from the unfinished documentary project written and produced by Henri Langlois on Marc Chagall.

Believing that his model is in trouble, a retired engineer, now an amateur painter, hires a private detective to find her.

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,...

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

For the whole of his long life Emil Nolde, the leading German Expressionist, luxuriated in colour. Before the First World War in Berlin he made many...

A short documentary about Patrick Noze, his art and journey as a migrant in America.

Investigation into the painting "Las Meninas", by Diego Velázquez, exhibited at the Prado Museum, in Madrid, and the way in which reality is...

A documentary about Tintoretto.