Painter Movies

The scene opens in an artist's studio, the artist asleep in his chair. A large old fashioned clock opens and a young lady comes out and awaking the...

A lonely artist leaves his paintings on the front doors of people's homes in an attempt to connect with them. However, one person won't accept his...

A highfalutin art movie crumbles into a meta-fictional disaster that betrays its director’s incompetence in real time, and it’s all on...

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

The artist, whose father died in the war, begins to paint the sadness he experiences under the influence of drugs. However, because he was under the...

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...

While a socially anxious college student is having a hard time finding inspiration for his thesis painting, he meets a stranger in a casual encounter...

An elderly painter, who hasn't touched a paintbrush for quite a while, wanders around the city with a film camera. One day he sees two beautiful...

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

Alma W. Thomas lived a life of firsts: the first Fine Arts graduate of Howard University (1924), the first Black woman to mount a retrospective at...

Three different snapshots of family life are captured through the eyes of a painting, with the progression of technology getting in their way.

Longline: A struggling artist has 24 hours to sell her painting and pay off a ruthless debt collector.

A documentary that portrays not only the poet and painter Mario Cesariny but as well his life, his journey and his individuality.

Filmed 2 years before his death, this documentary portrays New Brunswick folk artist Joseph Sleep (1913-1978) in his later life. He was born at sea...

1950 Belgian short documentary by Paul Haesaerts

The film seeks to address the risks that Ziraldo's work takes. In a building abandoned ten years ago, the cartoonist's "Santa Ceia", a six-meter-high...

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...