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Characters: Painters & Sculptors

by lpetrequin • Created 2 years ago • Modified 6 months ago
Step into the lives of history's most renowned painters and sculptors, from classical masters like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Rembrandt to pioneering modern figures like Picasso, Van Gogh, and Warhol. Lavish biopics and fictional tales chronicle the passions, politics, and eternal artistry of legendary creators who defined visual culture through the ages.

Lose yourself in the Renaissance as Michelangelo wages war with marble and da Vinci envisions futures unseen. Witness the fictionalized triumphs and turmoils of artists like Georges Seurat and Jackson Pollock. These films unlock exhilarating inspiration and destructive vice driving geniuses whose masterworks withstood the test of time.

Prepare for a celebration of artistry through the ages ...

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    1. Sin

    20192h 14m65Metascore
    6.8 (1.5K)
    The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti.
    DirectorAndrei KonchalovskyStarsAlberto TestoneJakob DiehlFrancesco Gaudiello
  • Michelangelo - Infinito (2017)

    2. Michelangelo - Infinito

    20171h 37m
    7.2 (614)
    A painter recounts the life of Michelangelo.
    DirectorEmanuele ImbucciStarsEnrico Lo VersoIvano Marescotti
  • Jacques Dutronc in Van Gogh (1991)

    3. Van Gogh

    19912h 38mR
    7.1 (3.4K)
    The final sixty-seven days of Van Gogh's life are examined.
    DirectorMaurice PialatStarsJacques DutroncAlexandra LondonBernard Le Coq
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    4. Van Gogh

    An intoxicating biopic about the art world's "mad genius" Vincent Van Gogh.
  • Van Gogh in Love (2021)

    5. Van Gogh in Love

    20211h 33m
    6.8 (58)
    Léo, a contemporary artist, wants to reconnect with Élise, his former companion but Vincent Van Gogh, who returned to our time, fell in love with her. An over-realistic love triangle emerges and artistic issues appear in the background.
    DirectorJean-Luc AyachStarsFrédéric DiefenthalHande KodjaSteve Driesen
  • Guillaume Canet and Guillaume Gallienne in Cezanne et Moi (2016)

    6. Cezanne et Moi

    20161h 57mR54Metascore
    6.1 (1.5K)
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    DirectorDanièle ThompsonStarsGuillaume CanetGuillaume GallienneAlice Pol
  • Ed Harris in Pollock (2000)

    7. Pollock

    20002h 2mR77Metascore
    7.0 (30K)
    A film about the life and career of the American painter, Jackson Pollock.
    DirectorEd HarrisStarsEd HarrisMarcia Gay HardenRobert Knott
  • Yolande Moreau in Seraphine (2008)

    8. Seraphine

    20082h 5mUnrated84Metascore
    7.4 (6.7K)
    In 1912 German collector Wilhelm Uhde rents a flat in Senlis to write and take a break from Parisian life. He hires a 48-year old cleaning lady, Séraphine. Some time later, he notices a small painting on wood at a local notable home.
    DirectorMartin ProvostStarsYolande MoreauUlrich TukurAnne Bennent
  • Andy Garcia in Modigliani (2004)

    9. Modigliani

    20042h 8mR25Metascore
    7.2 (13K)
    The story of Amedeo Modigliani's bitter rivalry with Pablo Picasso, and his tragic romance with Jeanne Hebuterne.
    DirectorMick DavisStarsAndy GarciaElsa ZylbersteinOmid Djalili
  • Riccardo Scamarcio in Modi: Three Days on the Wing of Madness (2024)

    10. Modi: Three Days on the Wing of Madness

    20241h 50m29Metascore
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    DirectorJohnny DeppStarsRiccardo ScamarcioAntonia DesplatBruno Gouery
  • Modigliani et ses secrets (2020)

    11. Modigliani et ses secrets

    202055mTV Movie
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    Sometimes reduced to the image of a cursed artist, Amedeo Modigliani, an admirer of the masters of the Italian Renaissance, has traced an unparalleled path in modern art.
    DirectorJacques LoeuilleStarsPierre DeladonchampsNancy IresonMarie-Amélie Senot
  • Leonardo (2003)

    12. Leonardo

    20033 epsTV Mini Series
    7.9 (187)
    An exploration of the life of Leonardo da Vinci.
    StarsMark RylanceChe CartwrightEvelyn Welch
  • The Lost Leonardo (2021)

    13. The Lost Leonardo

    20211h 36mPG-1379Metascore
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    The mystery surrounding the Salvator Mundi, the first painting by Leonardo da Vinci to be discovered for more than a century, which has now seemingly gone missing.
    DirectorAndreas KoefoedStarsMohammad Bin SalmanDoug PattesonRobert K. Wittman
  • 14. Leonardo da Vinci

  • Aidan Turner in Leonardo (2021)

    15. Leonardo

    2021– 8 epsTV-PGTV Series
    7.2 (4.6K)
    The series recounts Leonardo da Vinci's extraordinary life through the works that made him famous, through the stories hidden within those works, revealing little by little the inner torment of a man obsessed with attaining perfection.
    CreatorsFrank SpotnitzSteve ThompsonStarsAidan TurnerMatilda De AngelisFreddie Highmore
  • John Lynch, Daniel Sharman, Francesco Montanari, and Synnove Karlsen in Medici (2016)

    16. Medici

    2016–201924 epsTV-14TV Series
    7.8 (23K)
    A political family drama set in Florence in the early fifteenth century. Cosimo de Medici finds himself at the helm of his banking dynasty when his father, Giovanni, dies suddenly.
    CreatorsNicholas MeyerFrank SpotnitzStarsDaniel SharmanAlessandra MastronardiSynnove Karlsen
  • Camille Claudel (1988)

    17. Camille Claudel

    19882h 55mR
    7.3 (7.7K)
    Camille Claude impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt for herself and she also becomes his mistress. But after a while, she would like to get out of his shadow.
    DirectorBruno NuyttenStarsIsabelle AdjaniGérard DepardieuMadeleine Robinson
  • Juliette Binoche in Camille Claudel 1915 (2013)

    18. Camille Claudel 1915

    20131h 35mNot Rated65Metascore
    6.5 (4K)
    Winter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's reclusive life, as she waits for a visit from her brother, Paul Claudel.
    DirectorBruno DumontStarsJuliette BinocheJean-Luc VincentAlexandra Lucas
  • Vincent Lindon in Rodin (2017)

    19. Rodin

    20171h 59mNot Rated39Metascore
    5.0 (1.5K)
    An account of the famous French sculptor's romance with Camille Claudel.
    DirectorJacques DoillonStarsVincent LindonIzïa HigelinSéverine Caneele
  • Goltzius and The Pelican Company (2012)

    20. Goltzius and The Pelican Company

    20122h 8mNot Rated
    6.5 (1.4K)
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    DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsRamsey NasrF. Murray AbrahamHendrik Aerts
  • Tintoretto. A Rebel in Venice (2019)

    21. Tintoretto. A Rebel in Venice

    20191h 36mG
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    A 90-minutes documentary that celebrates the 500th anniversary of the birth of the last great artist of the Italian Renaissance, the most unexpected mind that the art of painting has ever produced: Tintoretto.
    DirectorsGiuseppe Domingo RomanoPepsy RomanoffStarsHelena Bonham CarterPeter GreenawayMelania Gaia Mazzucco
  • Leonardo 500 (2019)

    22. Leonardo 500

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    DirectorFrancesco InvernizziStarsAntonio BicchiStefano BoeriMassimo Cacciari
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    A documentary about Gian Lorenzo Bernini, creator of the Baroque sculptural style. It shows more than 60 masterpieces exhibited in Villa Borghese, Rome. These prestigious masterpieces are explained and analyzed in detail.
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    DirectorGero von BoehmStarsHelmut NewtonSigourney WeaverGrace Jones
  • Ben Kingsley, Kenneth Colley, and Peter Egan in The Love School (1975)

    25. The Love School

    19756 epsTV Series
    7.2 (22)
    1848, the year of revolutions throughout Europe, reflected in London by a group of young painters.
    StarsBen KingsleyPatricia QuinnDavid Burke

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