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1. Bird Box (2018)
R | 124 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a mother and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.
Director: Susanne Bier | Stars: Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, John Malkovich, Sarah Paulson
Votes: 388,124
2. Paranoia (1969)
X | 91 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A rich, alcoholic widow assuages her loneliness through a ménage à trois with two seductive step-siblings, whose true motives threaten her sanity and life.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Carroll Baker, Lou Castel, Colette Descombes, Tino Carraro
Votes: 1,649
3. Daliland (2022)
97 min | Biography, Drama
In 1973, a young gallery assistant goes on a wild adventure behind the scenes as he helps the aging genius Salvador Dali prepare for a big show in New York.
Director: Mary Harron | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Barbara Sukowa, Ezra Miller, Christopher Briney
Votes: 2,277
4. The Collector (1967)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A womanizing art dealer and a painter find the serenity of their Riviera vacation disturbed by a third guest, a vivacious bohemian woman known for her long list of male conquests.
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Patrick Bauchau, Haydée Politoff, Daniel Pommereulle, Alain Jouffroy
Votes: 9,836
5. M.F.A. (2017)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
An art student taps into a rich source of creative inspiration after the accidental slaughter of her rapist. An unlikely vigilante emerges, set out to avenge college girls whose attackers walked free.
Director: Natalia Leite | Stars: Francesca Eastwood, Clifton Collins Jr., Leah McKendrick, Peter Vack
Votes: 7,465
6. Lovers of the Red Sky (2021)
70 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Hong Chun Gi is a female painter with magical painting talent. She is picked as the first female painter. One day she meets Ha Ram whose curse has some magical connection with her talent.
Stars: Kim Yoo-jung, Ahn Hyo-seop, Gong Myoung, Kwak Si-yang
Votes: 1,454
7. Moulin Rouge (1952)
Not Rated | 119 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Fictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Director: John Huston | Stars: José Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Suzanne Flon, Claude Nollier
Votes: 6,553 | Gross: $11.81M
8. The Inventor (2023)
PG | 100 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Inventing flying contraptions, war machines and studying cadavers, Leonardo da Vinci tackles the meaning of life itself with the help of French princess Marguerite de Nevarre.
Directors: Jim Capobianco, Pierre-Luc Granjon | Stars: Daisy Ridley, Matt Berry, Marion Cotillard, Stephen Fry
Votes: 557
9. Portrait of Jennie (1948)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
In Depression-era New York, an impoverished painter has a chance encounter with an enigmatic, old-fashioned little girl in Central Park who inspires him and changes his destiny.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Lillian Gish
Votes: 7,663
10. A Quiet Place in the Country (1968)
R | 106 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After moving into a dilapidated rural villa to reinvigorate his creative energies, a neurotic artist becomes obsessed with a beautiful countess who died there many years prior.
Director: Elio Petri | Stars: Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave, Georges Géret, Gabriella Boccardo
Votes: 2,056
11. Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)
Unrated | 87 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Biography of British painter Francis Bacon focuses on his relationship with his lover, George Dyer, a former small time crook.
Director: John Maybury | Stars: Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton, Anne Lambton
Votes: 4,009 | Gross: $0.34M
12. Bongwater (1998)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An indolent artist in Portland, Oregon becomes addicted to marijuana, prompting his girlfriend to flee to New York City with a heroin addict.
Director: Richard Sears | Stars: Luke Wilson, Alicia Witt, Amy Locane, Brittany Murphy
Votes: 4,398
13. Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden (2016)
110 min | Biography, Drama, History
Vienna, early 20th century: the young Egon Schiele is one of the most discussed artists of his time with his original, erotically charged works.
Director: Dieter Berner | Stars: Noah Saavedra, Maresi Riegner, Valerie Pachner, Marie Jung
Votes: 1,537
14. El Hijo (2019)
TV-MA | 92 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Lorenzo, a 50 y.o. painter, is having a child with his new wife, Sigrid. She gets stranger and stranger - or he does. He claims, the baby's been switched.
Director: Sebastián Schindel | Stars: Joaquín Furriel, Martina Gusmán, Luciano Cáceres, Heidi Toini
Votes: 3,975
15. The Forbidden Room (1977)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Bizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion in Venezia, and it's soon obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Deneuve, Danilo Mattei, Anicée Alvina
Votes: 1,324
16. Maniac (1963)
Not Rated | 86 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
An American painter has an affair with a bar owner in a French village and agrees to help murder her husband, who has escaped from a prison for the criminally insane.
Director: Michael Carreras | Stars: Kerwin Mathews, Nadia Gray, Donald Houston, Liliane Brousse
Votes: 1,557
17. The Painter and the Thief (2020)
106 min | Documentary
An artist befriends the thief who stole her paintings. She becomes his closest ally when he is severely hurt in a car crash and needs full time care, even if her paintings are not found. But then the tables turn.
Director: Benjamin Ree | Stars: Karl Bertil-Nordland, Barbora Kysilkova, Øystein Stene
Votes: 4,329
18. Helene (2020)
121 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A story of renowned Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck, and the love affair between her and a younger art critic Einar Reuter.
Director: Antti J. Jokinen | Stars: Laura Birn, Johannes Holopainen, Krista Kosonen, Pirkko Saisio
Votes: 822
19. Chamber of Horrors (1966)
Unrated | 80 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A one-handed madman uses various detachable devices as murder weapons to gain revenge on those he believes have wronged him.
Director: Hy Averback | Stars: Patrick O'Neal, Cesare Danova, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Laura Devon
Votes: 1,433
20. The Dragon Painter (1919)
TV-PG | 53 min | Drama, Romance
A wild man and genius becomes a master painter's disciple, but loses his divine gift when he finds love.
Director: William Worthington | Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Edward Peil Sr., Toyo Fujita
Votes: 694
21. A Real Vermeer (2016)
115 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life story of Dutch painter Han van Meegeren, from his beginnings as a rebellious young artist in 1920s Amsterdam to his rise to infamy as one of the most ingenious art forgers of all time.
Director: Rudolf van den Berg | Stars: Jeroen Spitzenberger, Lize Feryn, Roeland Fernhout, Porgy Franssen
Votes: 589
22. Little Boy Blues (2005)
22 min | Short
A lonely and shy Michael succumbs to Zeno, a handsome and younger stranger in a gay bar.
Director: John McCrite | Stars: Malcolm Gets, Adam Bloch, Paul Denniston, Edward Enriquez-Cohen
Votes: 188
23. Francek (2020)
31 min | Short, Biography, Drama
The adolescence of Czech painter Frantisek Kupka in the mystical, spiritualistic region of the Orlice Mountains.
Director: Natálie Císarovská | Stars: Vojtech Hrabák, Tereza Hofová, Milan Bahúl, Jan Meduna
24. Enter-Exit (2019)
30 min | Short, Drama
Director: Ales Valtr | Stars: Simona Peková, Jakub Spisák, Erika Stárková, Jirí Svoboda
25. T.M.A. (2009)
Not Rated | 100 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A man leaves his busy city life for the peace of the country home where he spent his early childhood. His new life is soon disturbed by strange events.
Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Ivan Franek, Lenka Krobotová, Malgorzata Kozuchowska, Andrej Hryc
Votes: 208
26. Monnaie de singe (1966)
83 min | Comedy, Crime
Fulbert is a sidewalk artist who is duped into working for a counterfeiter. He accompanies a woman posing as a grieving widow on a trip to Spain in a hearse. Unaware she is the mistress of a notorious gangster, Fulbert is chased by thugs.
Director: Yves Robert | Stars: Robert Hirsch, Sylva Koscina, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Alberto Closas
Votes: 66
27. The Image (1969)
13 min | Short, Horror, Mystery
An artist's painting comes to life, and haunts him.
Director: Michael Armstrong | Stars: Michael Byrne, David Bowie
Votes: 297
28. Portret (1915)
44 min | Short, Drama, Horror
The subject of a mysterious portrait emerges from the painting and terrorizes the young man who hung it in his room.
Director: Wladyslaw Starewicz | Stars: Andrey Gromov, Ivan Lazarev, V. Vasilyev
Votes: 208
29. Z lásky (2023)
20 min | Short, Drama
Director: Lenka Drncová | Stars: Adéla Kalusová, Lucie Pragerová, Karolína Ruzicková, Daniel Toman
30. Podobizna (1948)
96 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
One day Chazaj pays a visit to the poor artist Simon and asks him to paint his portrait. Simon agrees but in the end he commits suicide. After Chazaj's death, the picture changes hands and brings misfortune to all who own it.
Director: Jiri Slavicek | Stars: Otomar Krejca, Ljuba Skorepová, Vladimír Smeral, Ladislav Kulhánek
Votes: 70
31. The Man in the Net (1973 TV Movie)
99 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The small American town of Stoneville is home to a painter named John and his unstable wife Linda. One day Linda, who is admired by everyone, mysteriously disappears and the suspicion of ... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Sequens | Stars: Rudolf Jelínek, Marie Drahokoupilová, Hana Maciuchová, Josef Vinklár
Votes: 18
32. Genij vlasti (1998 TV Movie)
76 min | Biography, Drama, History
Director: Jirí Strach | Stars: Zlata Adamovská, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Vladimír Dlouhý, Tereza Duchková
33. Vnitrní zrak (1983 TV Movie)
103 min | Drama
Abstract painter Renast has an exhibition coming up featuring art collector and connoisseur Tessier. He buys a set of paintings from him and the delighted painter rushes home to his beloved... See full summary »
Director: Antonín Moskalyk | Stars: Josef Bek, Eduard Cupák, Veronika Freimanová, Ladislav Frej
34. Portrét (1972 TV Short)
43 min | Short, Drama, Mystery
Director: Vladimír Kavciak | Stars: Jozef Budský, Eduard Cupák, Ondrej Jariabek, Frantisek Kristof-Veselý
35. Radostny zivot posmrtny (1990 TV Movie)
89 min | Comedy
Director: Zdenek Zelenka | Stars: Viktor Preiss, Lukás Vaculík, Ondrej Vetchý, Oldrich Vízner
Votes: 19
36. Stillman's Portrait (2016)
15 min | Short, Drama
Stillman's Portrait is about a closeted 28 year old in New York who is struggling to paint a self-portait for his solo debut at a Chelsea gallery. In search of inspiration, in the form of ... See full summary »
Director: Joshua Davy | Stars: Rob Brinkmann, David Gibson, Shirley Huang, Max Killough
Votes: 28
37. Heart Beat Fresco (1966)
10 min | Short, Comedy
Nervous painter wrestles with everyday utensils. His clumsy movements also cause trouble in bed.
Director: Pim de la Parra | Stars: Cox Habbema, Marina Schaper, Rob Stam
Votes: 16
38. Otevrený kruh (1973 TV Movie)
88 min | Biography, Drama
The last decades of the life of the now world-renowned painter Karel Purkyne and his struggle for the possibility of creative expression. After studying in Paris, he returned to Prague. He ... See full summary »
Director: Marie Polednáková | Stars: Ludek Munzar, Karel Höger, Jana Hlavácová, Hana Maciuchová