Painter Movies

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

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

Henri Matisse's great-granddaughter Sophie traces the story of how the artist fought personal tragedies and critical ridicule to become one of the...

A story about a father with mental problems and his 13-year-old daughter who live in a cabin in the woods. He is obsessed with completing his...

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

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...

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...

I had heard of a Chilean painter, author of a thousand paintings, who had disappeared long ago. I had been given an address on the banks of the...

This film follows the life of Jacob Kainen, a prolific but often overlooked artist of 20th Century America. From his immigrant upbringing to his...

TV-Documentary about the German painter Anselm Feuerbach

Short film about the German painter Emil Nolde

TV-documentary about the German painter Carl Spitzweg

Documentary film about the Austrian graphic artist Alfred Kubin. Kubin's work is characterized by the depiction of fantastic dream visions, which are...

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...

A cinematic approach to the reclusive painter Joe Hackbarth, who became known as a jazz musician in the 1950s.