Painter Movies

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

An exploration of the painting process of the enigmatic Saint Lucian artist, Luigi St. Omer.

A girl who suffers from speech and hearing impairment falls in love with a poor man who is speech-impaired. Their lives turn upside down when her...

Documentary about the Dutch painter Caspar van Wittel.

The real story about the camel ride around Mallorca, that journalist Miguel Vidal and painter Gustavo Peñalver did in 1964. Sometimes truth is...

Up against his money-grabbing relatives, his compromised superiors, and the state, a firm painter decides to protest by bricking up the windows of...

Set in Philippine post-American colonialist era, where the American influence was still apparent, Ilusyon tells the story of Miguel, a young man from...

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...

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

1950 Belgian short documentary by Paul Haesaerts

Beth Moore-Love is perhaps the greatest living artist working in America today. Her works can be found in private collections throughout the United...

Gerhard Richter has spent over half a century experimenting with a tremendous range of techniques and ideas, addressing historical crises and mass...

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

Michael Palin discovers the story of 17th-century Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi. He unearths not only her paintings, but a complex and...

A smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.

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

It's almost Christmas but these three people are still on the road. The products don't sell, the car is a wreck and the weather is freezing. Moreover...

Hardly anyone knows the artist, but almost everyone knows her paintings: Tamara de Lempicka, icon of the 1920s. Her art deco paintings of women in...

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...