Painter Movies

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...

Documentary about the Dutch painter Caspar van Wittel.

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

A recluse painter’s careful routine is shaken up when a mysterious young woman knocks on his door. An encounter that will confront him with his...

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

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 powerful and intimate portrait, Joan Mitchell: Portrait of an Abstract Painter captures Mitchell's independent spirit and testifies eloquently to...

With his vivid oil paintings, Albert Anker captured Swiss folk life like no other. Together with musician Endo Anaconda we discover the...

Goldie, an artist grieving over the loss of her partner, creates space for new love to enter her life.

Daniel is a street painter. He just paints straight lines on the streets. Dotted, solid, white or yellow. Until Ruby, a strange wanderer enters his...

Following her award-winning documentary, One Tree Three Lives, about novelist Hualing Nieh Engle, Hong Kong director Angelina Chan examines the...

Orientalism is a literary and artistic movement born in Western Europe in the 18th century. Through its scale and popularity, throughout the 19th...

He was always busy making the absolute painting, one of Jaap Hillenius' sons says about his father. The artist who was killed in a car accident in...

Explore the life and work of the painter who formed a bridge between the Impressionist and Cubist art movements at the turn of the century.

Tjipto Setiyono, 85, is a rickshaw painter. Despite being past his prime, he lives alone in a 3-by-3 meter square boarding room, in which...

Portrait of the Italian sculptor Donatello (1386-1466), a precursor of the High Renaissance who considerably influenced sculptural art with his...