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A list of the best in Art House and philosophical cinema, from Eraserhead to Enter the Void, with ratings, summaries and reviews. Explore the crazy, the beautiful, the horrifying and the thought-provoking in this genre-bending collection.
A personal collection of 40 movies that are considered artistic by IMDb user voiletlej. The list includes genres such as musical, animation, action, sci-fi, fantasy, horror and crime.
- Jeremy Urquhart
- Feature Writer/Senior List Writer
- 'Beau Travail' (1999) Director: Claire Denis. Beau Travail is a film that’s unwilling to spell too many things out, instead feeling intensely emotional and even somewhat mysterious at times, but nevertheless still gives viewers tons to think about both during and after the film.
- 'Stalker' (1979) Director: Andrei Tarkovsky. A definitive and singular science fiction film, Stalker is an eerie and mesmerizing film from Andrei Tarkovsky, and stands as perhaps the greatest one he ever made during his directing career.
- 'Holy Motors' (2012) Director: Leos Carax. You could call Holy Motors a work of fantasy, but you could also call it just about anything else… or forego trying to label it with a genre at all, because it’s incredibly obscure, confronting, and unwaveringly strange.
- 'Days of Heaven' (1978) Director: Terrence Malick. More than three decades before The Tree of Life was released, Terrence Malick reached his arguable peak with the release of Days of Heaven.
- Driven to Abstraction (2020) Amazon or iTunes ($4.99) and in virtual theaters. Undoubtably one of the biggest art scandals of the 21st century, the Knoedler forgery ring saw the eminent U.S. gallery sell some $80 million in forged mid-century masterpieces.
- Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art (2020) Netflix (free with subscription) Knoedler forgery scandal, take two. This documentary interviews Ann Freedman, the gallery’s president, and a central figure in the forgery ring.
- Wojnarowicz: F–k You F-ggot F–ker (2020) In virtual theaters. Chris McKim draws on the audio journals of the late artist David Wojnarowicz—plus commentary from the likes of Fran Lebowitz, art dealer Gracie Mansion, and art critic Carlo McCormick—to paint a full picture of the queer painter, photographer, writer, and activist, who died in 1992 of AIDS.
- Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible (2019) iTunes ($4.99), Amazon ($4.99) Artist Matthew Taylor directs a love letter to Marcel Duchamp, who changed the course of art history not once, but twice.
- Frida, Amazon Prime and Netflix
- Pollock, Amazon Prime
- Caravaggio, Netflix
- Who Killed Caravaggio?, YouTube
- Big Eyes, Amazon Prime and Netflix
- Basquiat, Amazon Prime and Netflix
- Loving Vincent, Youtube, Hulu & Amazon Prime
- Rodin, Amazon Prime
- Camille Claudel, Amazon Prime
- Surviving Picasso, Amazon Prime
This film is a graphic biopic about the controversial and tragic life of Mexican Surrealist painter Frida Kahlo, played by Salma Hayek. She was married to the philandering painter Diego Rivera, played by Alfred Molina. Together, the outrageous and legendary pair became the most acclaimed artists in Mexican history. The splendid film follows both Ka...
This may be the most well known movie for art lovers on the planet. But this 2000 classic earns its keep. Jackson Pollock was the bad boy of the postwar New York art world, a testosterone-fueled society of brash artists. They drank and raged as much as they painted. Pollock was a pioneer of the Abstract Expressionist movement, inventing the “drip” ...
Caravaggio was the bad boy of the Baroque period in art history. He lead a life of violence and intrigue. He murdered a man and may have been murdered himself. His dramatic paintings were a mirror of his dramatic life. He revolutionized the art world with his use of chiaroscuro and emotional, naturalistic renderings. Caravaggio is a British drama, ...
This four part BBC documentary takes a look at whether our troubled Caravaggio may have been murdered. Most historians think he died at age 37 of a physical ailment — complications from constant boozing, lead poisoning from his paints, malaria, etc. But Caravaggio had a history of fighting, dueling, and getting into scrapes. He would be embraced by...
In Tim Burton’s Big Eyes, Amy Adams plays stifled artist Margaret Keane. She’s exploited by her husband, wannabe artist Walter Keane. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Margaret painted portraits of sad, saucer eyes waifs. Walter (played by a creepy Christoph Waltz) takes credit for her work, insisting that women artists “don’t sell.” With marketin...
This Julian Schnabel biopic is a great movie for art lovers. It chronicles the truncated life of Jean-Michel Basquiat, a graffiti artist who rose to fame in the1980s. With the help of art world Wizard of Oz Andy Warhol (played by David Bowie), virtually overnight Basquiat becomes the leader of Neo-Expressionist painting. He goes from scribbling on ...
Loving Vincent is an animated film imagining the last months of tormented Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh. The film charmingly explores Van Gogh’s life and supposed self-inflicted death from a gunshot wound. Although accepted wisdom is that Van Gogh killed himself, there’s ample evidence that he may have been murdered. The film is...
Rodin is an excellent dramatic film for art lovers. The French artist Auguste Rodin is considered the father of modern sculpture. You will likely known him from his most famous pieces —The Kiss, The Thinker, and the Gates of Hell. Rodin was passionate and absurdly talented, his works a torrent of expressive power. While his titular film is rather i...
Camille Claudel is a serious dramatic film about the life of sculptor Camille Claudel, with a heavy dose of her ill-fated relationship with her mentor Auguste Rodin. It’s a lusty biopic with Isabella Adjani and Gerard Depardieu in the starring roles. When Rodin notices the raw sculpting talent of a precocious Claudel, like moth to flame, the two ar...
Surviving Picasso is told from the POV of one of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso’s long time loves and fellow artist, Francoise Gilot. Picassois played by Anthony Hopkins. The film explores the union of the manipulative legend and the young artist. It’s based primarily on Ariana Huffington’s book Picasso Creator and Destroyer, not Gilot’s own autobiog...
Dec 22, 2023 · Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV. Narrated by actor Steven Yeun, this PBS-produced documentary takes us deep into the electric world of Nam June Paik, from his earliest years in Japan-occupied ...
21. Paradise Found. A successful 19th century French stockbroker (Sutherland) leaves his profession to become an artist in Paris. 22. The Death of Salvador Dali. "The Death of Salvador Dali" brings the paranoiac, flamboyant Dali into the office and head-space of an unsuspecting Sigmund Freud. When Salvador seeks Freud's assistance to inject ...
