movies about art and artists (+writers, composers etc.)

In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.

A look at the life of painter Vincent van Gogh during the time he lived in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, France.

A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.

The story of Amedeo Modigliani's bitter rivalry with Pablo Picasso, and his tragic romance with Jeanne Hebuterne.

Focusing on eight iconic works of art, Power of Art reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages.

In a little Chilean town, the son of an uprooted couple formed by a rigorous communist father and a loving but weak mother tries to pave his own path in a society that does not understand their Jewish-Ukrainian origins.

In a time of political and social unrest in nineteenth-century Korea, an uncouth, self-taught painter explores his natural talent amidst the repressive world around him.

This biopic of Norwegian Expressionist painter Edvard Munch focuses on the influences that shaped his art, his devastating affair with a married woman that will haunt him for the rest of his life

A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.

The life of brilliant but tortured artist Vincent van Gogh.

The intimate story of the most illustrious brotherhood of impressionist artists: Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne and Manet.

Chronicling the last year of the life of Modigliani, an Italian painter living in abject poverty in Paris who falls in love with Jeanne, a girl from a wealthy family whose parents do not approve of him.

This movie focuses on a dozen of the five hundred characters depicted in Bruegel's painting. The theme of Christ's suffering is set against religious persecution in Flanders in 1564.

J.M.W. Turner, an unconventional British painter, goes down memory lane and recalls his romantic relationship with a seaside landlady and the various accolades he received for his works of art.

Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.

A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.

During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

The familiar tragic story of Vincent van Gogh is broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. The movie also provides a nice view of the locations which Vincent painted.

The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.

The year is 1919, the Great War is over, and Dörte Helm becomes part of a group of young artists and revolutionaries who evolve from the Lost to the Golden Generation. The series introduces the teachers and students of Bauhaus who inspired our modern lifestyle while telling a story of love, betrayal, and the loss of paradise.

Kafka works during the day at an insurance company, where events lead him to discover a mysterious underground society with strange suppressive goals.

Various situations and image transformations are organized around the central theme of the phototropic vision of the moth and its relation to the ecstasy of self-annihilation.

Giacomo Casanova uses his sexuality to find his place in life amid eccentric and strange characters.

After aspiring poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fails his law exams, he's sent to a sleepy provincial court to reform. Instead, he falls for Lotte, a young woman who is promised to another man.

In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.