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He had a lust for life. Sometimes he was brutal, sometimes delicate – always he lived with insatiable passion!
Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 207 ratings · 15 Sept 1956 · English · 2h 2m · Released
An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo, the tormented Van Gogh eventually leaves Holland for France, where he meets volatile fellow painter Paul Gauguin and struggles to find greater inspiration.
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Nightwatching
Movie · 6.2 / 10 · 2 Nov 2007 · English
An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night Watch.
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
Movie · 6.0 / 10 · 16 Sept 1998 · English
In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer, accepts. After the unique beginning to their love affair, the well-connected and volatile artist assimilates Dyer into his circle of eccentric friends, as Dyer's struggle with addiction strains their bond.
Modigliani
Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 18 May 2004 · English
Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and Jeanne's bigoted parents send the baby to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns.
The Danish Girl
Movie · 7.5 / 10 · 27 Nov 2015 · English
When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks on a groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.
Pollock
Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 6 Sept 2000 · English
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral.
The Tenant
Movie · 7.6 / 10 · 26 May 1976 · English
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
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A group of friends' fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Mexico and they're left alone stranded at sea and struggling for survival.
You Don't Know Jack
Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 27 Jun 2010 · English
Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian as he advocates assisted suicide.
Mo' Better Blues
Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 3 Aug 1990 · English
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.
Factory Girl
Movie · 6.0 / 10 · 29 Dec 2006 · English
In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although she seems to have it all, Edie cannot have the love she craves from Andy, and she has an affair with a charismatic musician, who pushes her to seek independence from the artist and the milieu.
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Movie · 8.0 / 10 · 6 Oct 2000 · English
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