1. Vermeer: Beyond Time (La revanche de Vermeer)
Narrator Steve Martin explains Vermeer's fall into obscurity and rebound into worldwide sensation, all while examining themes in his paintings, comparisons to Renaissance masters, and relevant history of Europe's politics and art market.
It has an average vote of 8.5 on TMDB.
2. Caravaggio's Shadow (L'ombra di Caravaggio)
The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.
It has an average vote of 6.394 on TMDB.
3. The Song of the Butterflies (El canto de las mariposas)
Rember Yahuarcani is an indigenous artist from the Uitoto Nation who lives in Lima, Peru. From his clan, the White Heron, only two families remain in Peru. Rember's paintings are inspired by the stories his grandmother Martha told him before she died. However, he has never dived into the darkest part of his nation’s history: the indigenous massacre during the rubber boom. Martha is a survivor of the horror and she speaks to Rember in dreams guiding him in a spiritual journey back to the jungle. He first visits his parents, who are also artists, in the Peruvian jungle. And finally, he sails to La Chorrera, in Colombia, where he confronts the past and meets other members of his clan.
4. Michael Palin In Wyeth's World
Michael Palin heads for rural Pennsylvania and Maine to explore the extraordinary life and work of one of America's most popular and controversial painters, Andrew Wyeth. Fascinated by his iconic painting Christina's World, Palin goes in search of the real life stories that inspired this and Wyeth's other depictions of the American landscape and its hard grafting inhabitants. Tracking down the farmers, friends and family featured in Wyeth's magically real work, Palin builds a picture of an eccentric, enigmatic and driven painter. He also gets a rare interview with Helga, the woman who put Wyeth back in the headlines when the press discovered he had been painting her nude, compulsively but secretly for 15 years.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
5. Tout impossible est simultanément à chaque instant possible (Tout impossible est simultanément à chaque instant possible)
(Tout impossible est simultanément à chaque instant possible)
6. Amargosa
The inspirational story of Marta Becket: 76-yr old singer, writer, dancer, painter, visionary, and her creation Amargosa.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
7. Salvador Dalí: In Search of Immortality (Salvador Dalí: In Search of Immortality)
The documentary proposes an exhaustive journey through the life and work of Salvador Dalí, and also of Gala, his muse and collaborator. It starts in 1929, a crucial year in Dalí's career and life, as he joined the surrealist group and met Gala, and advances until the year of the artist's death in 1989.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
8. Hannah and Her Sisters
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
It has an average vote of 7.504 on TMDB.
9. Donatello: Renaissance Genius (Donatello - Schöpfer der Renaissance)
Portrait of the Italian sculptor Donatello , a precursor of the High Renaissance who considerably influenced sculptural art with his innovative way of conceiving space. Donatello is already a legend in his own lifetime. The sculptor is the forefather of the High Renaissance and pioneer for artists such as Raphael or Michelangelo. His bronze sculpture of the "David" or the "Pazzi Madonna" in marble are icons of art history and testify to his sculptural power of renewal.
10. Liniers, el trazo simple de las cosas (Liniers, el trazo simple de las cosas)
Winter 2007. Two artists from Argentina receive a grant to develop their work in Montreal . The only catch? They have to share an apartment. In this way filmmaker Franca González and cartoonist Ricardo Siri Liniers come to know each other. From the moment González becomes the roommate of Liniers, a friendship emerges between them and she makes him the proposal of doing a documentary about him. The film starts with an argument to get Liniers permission to chase him with videocameras and ends up becoming one of the most tender portraits ever done of the artist, reflecting the transcendence that ensues from the simple line of his drawings.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
11. Ludvík Kuba (Ludvík Kuba)
(Ludvík Kuba)
12. Carla's Song
A Glasgow man visits war-torn Nicaragua with a refugee tormented by her memories.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
13. Inn Signs Through the Ages
Fred Taylor displays a number of items from the Building Centre's 'Inn Sign Exhibition' held in November 1936. Some signs in the exhibition date back to the reign of Charles II, while others are more contemporary.
14. Underwater Guest (Поиски под водой)
Mounting of the film by Dmitry Frolov on the basis of documentary frames of performances of Russian ballet dancers and lifeless margins of the Russian outback. Symbolizes the slowly naked and dying Russian world.
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
15. The Science of Sleep (La Science des rêves)
A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
16. L'Atelier du Val de Grâce (L'Atelier du Val de Grâce)
Home movie from Man Ray with a view of his home/gallery
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
17. La Garoupe (La Garoupe)
Home movie from Man Ray while on vacation with Pablo Picasso, Paul, Nusch and Cecile Eluard, Emily Davies, Valerie and Roland Penrose. The friends have fun with themselves and performing for the camera.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
18. Ady (Ady)
Very brief view of Man Ray and his friend Ady Fidelin while at a seaside resort
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
19. Juliet (Juliet)
A late period home movie with Man Ray and his lovely friend Juliet Browner lounging together in the US. Man Ray had returned to America when the Germans occupied France.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
20. 24×36
A documentary exploring the birth, death and resurrection of illustrated movie poster art. Through interviews with a number of key art personalities from the 70s and 80s, as well as many modern, alternative poster artists, “Twenty-Four by Thirty-Six” aims to answer the question: What happened to the illustrated movie poster? Where did it disappear to, and why? In the mid 2000s, filling the void left behind by Hollywood’s abandonment of illustrated movie posters, independent artists and galleries began selling limited edition, screenprinted posters — a movement that has quickly exploded into a booming industry with prints selling out online in seconds, inspiring Hollywood studios to take notice of illustration in movie posters once more.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.