Lucian Freud: Portraits (2004)

Na Copenhague de 1926, os artistas Einar e Gerda Wegener se casam. Gerda então decide vestir Einar de mulher para pintá-lo. Einar começa a mudar sua aparência, transformando-se em uma mulher, e passa a se chamar de Lili Elbe. Com o apoio, ainda que conturbado, da esposa, um Einar deprimido passa por uma das primeiras cirurgias de mudança de sexo da história para tentar se transformar por completo em Lili e recuperar o gosto pela vida.

David Lynch nos leva em uma viagem através de seus anos de formação. Desde a educação idílica em uma pequena cidade dos EUA até as ruas escuras da Filadélfia, seguimos Lynch enquanto ele traça os eventos que ajudaram a moldar sua carreira, ao mesmo tempo em que tentamos compreender melhor o diretor.

Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film. Exit Through the Gift Shop tells the incredible true story of how an eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner.

Theo vê o seu mundo virado do avesso quando ele e a sua mãe são vítimas de um ataque terrorista no Metropolitan Museum of Art, em Nova Iorque, a sua cidade natal. A mãe morre, e Theo escolhe uma família rica conhecida para o acolher temporariamente. É aqui que é acarinhado pela austera mas carinhosa Mrs. Barbour.

Em pleno século XVII vive Griet, uma jovem camponesa. Devido a dificuldades financeiras, Griet é obrigada a trabalhar na casa de Johannes Vermeer, um renomado pintor. Aos poucos, ele começa a prestar atenção na jovem, de apenas 17 anos, fazendo dela a sua musa inspiradora para um dos seus mais famosos trabalhos: "Rapariga com Brinco de Pérola".

Vencedor do Oscar de Melhor Filme Estrangeiro, este conto à la Fellini de decadência e amor perdido encontra um jornalista envelhecido na Itália relembrando seus dias em meio à exuberante vida noturna de Roma após seu 65º aniversário.

Após uma separação dolorosa, Ben desenvolve insônia. Para ganhar tempo, ele começa a trabalhar no turno da noite no supermercado local, onde sua imaginação artística corre solta.

Gil Pender é um jovem escritor em busca da fama. De férias em Paris com sua noiva, ele sai sozinho para explorar a cidade e conhece um grupo de estranhos que são, na verdade, grandes nomes da literatura. Eles levam Gil a uma viagem ao passado e, quanto mais tempo passam juntos, mais o jovem escritor fica insatisfeito com o presente.

O filme retrata fielmente a vida do mestre da pintura: Van Gogh. Dividido entre a genialidade e sua mente atormentada, Van Gogh é interpretado pelo aclamado ator Kirk Douglas. Sede de Viver captura todo o êxtase da arte e a agonia da vida de um gênio da pintura.

Esquisitão e rebelde, George não tem nenhuma ambição a não ser cabular a próxima aula. Até que um dia, uma garota lhe dá o motivo perfeito para que ele descubra quem realmente é.

How did the Impressionists view the world? What relationship did they have with technique, with color, with light and with the universe of shapes that made up reality before their eyes? How were their works received? How did they go from being rejected by critics and the public to becoming among the most loved in the world in a few years? Secret Impressionists is an immersive journey into the intimacy of the Impressionists and their paintings which aims to offer a "privileged" visit that stimulates the spectators' curiosity and gives them a perspective on the works complementary to the live experience, allowing spectators in the hall to immerse themselves in the work of painters and grasp unpublished details.

Space and time is intertwined into a surreal dream-like journey beyond places and is an abstract nonlinear narrative summary of artist Anders Weberg's time spent with the moving image.

Prisão, drogas e guerra de gangues tocam três jovens (Damian Chapa, Jesse Borrego, Benjamin Bratt) no leste de Los Angeles de 1970 a 1990.

Em uma noite chuvosa, duas belas mulheres batem à porta de Evan Webber (Keanu Reeves). Ele está sozinho em casa, já que a esposa e filho estão viajando. Não demora muito para que ambas o seduzam, tendo uma noite de amor com ele. Só que, no dia seguinte, elas passam a persegui-lo implacavelmente.

Um assassino de uma secreta organização chinesa costuma derramar lágrimas depois de assassinar alguém. Um dia nas colinas de São Francisco, uma bela artista o vê executando três homens da Yakuza. Emu (Julie Condra), a pintora, se encanta por ele, e mesmo sabendo que ele iria matá-la por ter testemunhado o crime, ela espera por ele para poder lhe pedir um último desejo. Por causa da execução, ele está sendo perseguido pela máfia japonesa Yakuza, mas a organização não deveria subestimar o poder de matar de Freeman (Mark Dacascos).

A man struggling through modern day muddle is troubled by an imperfection in a painting.

Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) foi um dos principais nomes da história artística do México. Conceituada e aclamada como pintora, ele teve um agitado casamento aberto com Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), seu companheiro também nas artes, e ainda um controverso caso com o político Leon Trostky (Geoffrey Rush), além de várias outras mulheres.

Durante uma festa na casa de James Franco, uma série de eventos catastróficos se iniciam e aos poucos destroem Los Angeles. Seis amigos conseguem escapar, porém a falta de suprimentos traz à tona intrigas do passado. Eventualmente, eles são forçados a sair da casa, encarando seu destino e o verdadeiro significado de amizade e redenção.

Holanda, século XVII. O artista Jan van Loos (Dane DeHaan) é contratado para pintar o retrato do casal Sandvoort e imediatamente se apaixona pela jovem esposa do rico comerciante, Sophia (Alicia Vikander). Completamente envolvida no tórrido romance e cansada da existência infeliz ao lado do marido, ela decide fugir de casa para viver o amor.

Década de 1980. Maria Altmann é uma judia sobrevivente da Segunda Guerra Mundial que decide processar o governo austríaco para recuperar o quadro "Woman in Gold", de Gustav Klimt - retrato de sua tia que foi roubado pelos nazistas durante a ocupação. Ela conta com a ajuda de um jovem advogado, inexperiente e idealista.

A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to be on a national network from its humble beginning at a Nevada radio station. Jack Haley is a producer with only half-rights to the program while Ozzie Nelson and Helen Walker are the radio writers and supply the romance. Rudy Vallee, always able to burlesque himself intentional and, quite often, unintentional, is the owner of the sought-after sponsoring company. Frances Langford, as herself, sings "I'm in the Mood for Love" while the Vagabonds quartet (billed 12th and last) chimes in on "Angeline" and "The Old Square Dance is Back Again."

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries including Georges Danton.

Produced in 1943 under the guidance of Army Air Force Lieutenant Clark Gable, this film follows a single 8th Air Force B-17 crew from training through a series of missions over Europe.

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.

Iskyss is a strong and poetic love story based on Gunvor Galtung Haavik’s double life through 30 years. During the Cold War, she was employed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and assigned to the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow. With the information she had access to in the capacity of her position as interpreter and secretary, she frequently fed the KGB secret information.

A girl has to decide who to marry: a poor country boy or a rich nightclub owner.

Moody, atmospheric ghost story starring Mason as a retired tradesman who purchases an old mansion that has been vacant for 40 years because it is believed to be haunted by the spirit of a young woman who had died there. Unaware of the mansion's reputation, Mason and his wife Mullen move in and hire a young woman, Lockwood, to keep house. Soon after Lockwood's arrival, strange things begin to happen in the household, and it becomes apparent that she is possessed by the spirit of the dead girl, though Mason scoffs at the idea. On death's door and bedridden, Lockwood asks for the same doctor who treated the woman who died 40 years ago. He arrives and treats her. The next morning Lockwood is cured, and it is revealed by the police that the doctor's dead body was found in his carriage hours before the time Mason claims he arrived to see Lockwood. Convinced that not only the ghost of the girl but that of the doctor as well entered his home, Mason finally believes in the supernatural.

A loving couple struggle to fend for themselves in modern day Los Angeles, One a loner and down and out, the other a lonely but hardworking secretary. Eventually, as cracks form in their passionate relationship, they resort to robbing an aging actress for money.

A filmmaker returns to Normandy thirty years after a working on a movie based on a local homicide and tries to find the actors who worked on the project.

This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear.

The story of the Dassau family, a family of artists: Frau Dassau is a composer, her husband is a writer, and their children are equally gifted as painters, poets and musicians. But unfortunately, no one wants to invest money in their art. The family is about to starve when Nicole comes up with a marvelous idea: She is going to write the "most scandalous book", the sex memoirs of a teenager. For this, she hides under the pseudonym of Eva. The book becomes an enormous success indeed, but Nicole's parents are decent people, and the public interest in their sluttish daughter begins to bother them. Things begin to get even more unpleasant when Nicole falls in love with an American publisher who'd prefer a virgin…

Four nights in Caracas. A documentary essay about chaos and civilization.

On Christmas Eve, Léa and Juliette, a couple, want to rob a supermarket that Juliette knows is empty of surveillance on this festive evening. But, as much for each of them as for Eric, the vigil who is there after all, nothing will happen as planned. Besides, shortly before leaving him alone, the store manager gave Eric a gun, just in case.

While Douglas Coupland works on a grand art project about Canada, the writer recounts his life and his musings about the various aspects of Canadian identity.

I love Vienna is a social comedy that explores the clash of cultures and values.

Based on a story by Vietnam veteran Paul Staples, the film concerns six American Green Berets, held for 17 years in a Vietnamese POW camp. They are finally released in secret, during a delicate trade-talk session between Vietnam and the United States. Captain Tom Watkins, the ex-prisoners' CO, begins to suspect that government-man Adam Roth, who is in charge of the debriefing, may be pursuing a hidden agenda that will result in the early deaths of Watkins and the five men under his command.

A humorous and satirical comedy, which places a man from the year 2222 one day in the (then) present day life in GDR, East Germany under Communist regime. Using a crystal for mind reading he uncovers some improprieties and moral weaknesses in the "Beautiful future" professed by VEB ("Volkseigener Betrieb" – "State Owned Holdings").

The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the characters in the drama come to epitomize the best and worst of each pole of the political sphere. A 17-year-old hoodlum by the name of Gladow works hand-in-glove with a local white-collar criminal to rob and pillage every day and night, defying capture. While he and his gang of thugs are terrorizing the people of Berlin, the Soviets are trying to make the blockade of their region of control impermeable. The future casts long shadows over the drama, as Berlin's problems take the shape of times to come.

The same day of their marriage, Jean's wife dies of a strange ailment in the middle of surgery. Afflicted by the loss, the young man abandons his medical studies and takes refuge in the memories of his time of courtship. At the same time that this happens, a wave of murders shakes the city with the same pattern of behavior: the victims are surgery students whose bodies have had both hands amputated.