A Painter (2013)

Chilsu and Mansu focuses on Chilsu, a smooth-talking billboard painter who struggles to hold down a job, and his evolving friendship with Mansu, a capable and intelligent worker who is held back in life because his father is an unreformed Communist sympathizer.

The year is 1943 and Taiwan is under Japanese colonization. After finishing his studies in Japan, famous Taiwanese sculptor and painter Ching-Cheng Huang receives an offer to teach in Beiping Art School. He decides to visit friends and family back home before leaving for China. He boards the passenger liner "Takachiho Maru" in Kobe, Japan, with his girlfriend, a pianist. Tragically, the luxurious liner is torpedoed by an American submarine and sinks off the coast of Keelung, Taiwan. Decades later, Shou-shou, a fine art restorer with a crippling illness, finds one of Huang's paintings in an exhibition. As she restores the painting, Shou-shou learns about the artist, the stories behind his work and his death at sea. She recreates the story of the painting "Woman in Black", and romantically imagines the ways the artist painted his girlfriend. The more she studies, the more she was inspired by Huang's value of art and of life. Restoring Huang's painting thus becomes Shou-shou's way of ...

Chuck Close, an astounding portrait of one of the world's leading contemporary painters, was one of two parting gifts (her second is a film on Louise Bourgeois) from Marion Cajori, a filmmaker who died recently, and before her time. With editing completed by filmmaker Ken Kobland, Chuck Close lives the life and work of a man who has reinvented portraiture. Close photographs his subjects, blows up the image to gigantic proportions, divides it into a detailed grid and then uses a complex set of colors and patterning to reconstruct each face.

Sara, a cold college professor, and her husband, an ecstatic painter, spend a summer away from the city, straining their rocky relationship.

Bone, wind, Fire, es un viaje íntimo y evocador en los corazones, ojos y mentes de Georgia O'Keefe, Emily Carr y Frida Kahlo. 3 de las artirstas más relevantes del siglo XX. El film usa las palabras de las propias mujeres, cogidas de sus diarios, para revelar 3 procesos creativos en toda su fascinante variedad.

A look a the life of 19th century Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma.

Delilah Miller esta en busca de un "ancla" en su vida. Comenzando así un romance con el musico de rock Rylan Yale, pronto se demuestra que el no puede ser dicha ancla - este es posesivo, independiente e incluso un adicto a la heroína.

It's almost Christmas but these three people are still on the road. The products don't sell, the car is a wreck and the weather is freezing. Moreover there is a problem: how to cope with an emerging friendship?

An exploration of the painting process of the enigmatic Saint Lucian artist, Luigi St. Omer.

Documentary film about the painter and sculptor Jörg Immendorff who ranks among the most important German artists. The filmmakers accompanied Immendorff over a period of two years – until his death in May 2007. The artist had been living for nine years knowing that he was terminally ill with ALS. The film shows how Immendorff continued to work with unabated energy and how he tried not to let himself be restrained by his deteriorating health.

París, finales del siglo XIX. El pintor impresionista Toulouse-Lautrec, miembro de una familia aristocrática francesa, se apasiona por la vida de los bajos fondos parisinos y visita con frecuencia los cabarets, el Moulin Rouge, el Lapin Agile, el Chat Noir, etc. Para muchos de ellos pintará carteles; también pintará cuadros con bailarinas de cabaret como modelos.

Deuce (Rob Schneider), un limpiador de peceras ingenuo y de buen corazón, creía que su carrera de gigoló había terminado. Pero cuando se veía lejos de todo aquello, es tentado a regresar a su increíble profesión de 'placer pagado'. Hicks (Eddie Griffin), su antiguo proxeneta, se ve implicado en los asesinatos de los gigolós más prestigiosos de Europa. Deuce se ve obligado a regresar como espía de incógnito para limpiar el nombre de su gran amigo. Para conseguir sus propósitos, éste debe competir con la poderosa Unidad Europea de Prostitutos e incluso exponerse a otra serie de estrafalarias clientes. Entre todos estos líos, conoce a la hermosa Eva (Hanna Verboom), que sufre de un desorden crónico obsesivo-compulsivo y a su vez es extremadamente talentosa.

Nicholas, un joven artista parisino, viaja con su novia Marianne a un pequeño pueblo de provincias para visitar a Edouard Frenhofer, un famoso pintor que vive allí aislado del mundo. Nicholas intenta persuadirlo para que pinte su último gran cuadro: "La bella mentirosa", con su novia como modelo.

El filme, ambientado en tiempos de Luis XVI, es una reflexión sobre el humor y sobre la importancia del lenguaje en los ambientes cortesanos.

Louise Harrington (Laura Linney) es una mujer divorciada que trabaja en el departamento de admisiones de la Universidad de Columbia. Tiene casi cuarenta años y lleva una vida rutinaria y monótona. Louise nunca se recuperó de la muerte de su novio del instituto, veinte años atrás. Pero, de repente, conoce un joven igual que él.

A painter's new muse becomes his nemesis when he discovers her connection to his past.

When an artist discovers his wife is having an affair with their jungle guide, he lures them into posing for him in a radioactive jungle river.

Autobiografía de François Eugène Vidocq, legendario ladrón del siglo XVIII. Vidocq nació en una cárcel francesa en 1775 y llegó incluso a ser nombrado jefe de la policía de París, pero durante todo ese tiempo no dejó de ser un singular y elegante delincuente.

El pintor Tom Verney (Fred MacMurray) desea cumplir su sueño de irse a vivir a México. Pero necesita dinero, por lo que acepta el empleo de secretario de la ejecutiva de publicidad A. M. MacGregor (Rosalind Russell), una mujer de fuerte personalidad.

Narra las desventuras de unos personajes que se salen de un cuadro inacabado para buscar a su creador en otras obras. Su grafismo se inspira en Matisse, Derain y Bonnard.