Top 20 movies like De Toorts

Documentary about the Dutch painter Caspar van Wittel.

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Genres: Documentary

1. Making of: Pirelli Tyres (Making of: Pirelli Tyres)

(Making of: Pirelli Tyres)

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

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2. Amalfi Way

This short film takes a look at the sights, sounds, and customs along Italy's Amalfi Coast.

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3. Prampolini-Menarini Express (Prampolini-Menarini Express)

A found footage / object film: the colorful 1960s in Italy, a joyful time, live-giving coating of born-again found images, re-animated, examined, reviewed in a past time, revisited.

It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.

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4. Waiting for Hockney

A young working class Baltimore man spends 10 years on a single portrait, believing it is his means to fame and fortune. But he also believes that only one man can lead him there---the famous artist David Hockney. What happens when you finally meet the god of your own making?

It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.

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5. Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice (Tintoretto - Un ribelle a Venezia)

Five hundred years after his birth, the life and career of the Italian Renaissance's last great painter is explored.

It has an average vote of 8.5 on TMDB.

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6. Pier Paolo Pasolini: An Italian Journey (Pier Paolo Pasolinis Reisen durch Italien)

In the summer of 1959, as a magazine correspondent, writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini traveled along the Italian coast. In 1963, he documented the sexual behavior of the Italians. In the winter of 1970-71, he witnessed the hardships of the most impoverished Italian population suffering from the boot of state power. After these three trips, he came to the conclusion that Italian society had changed drastically for the worse over the years.

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

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7. Stories from Sicily

A documentary about the life of the filmmaker’s grandfather and his life growing up in Fascist Italy to meeting his wife and immigrating to America.

It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.

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8. Excellent Cadavers

In the late-80s and early-90s, two prosecutors went after the mob in Sicily. Archival footage, gruesome photographs and new interviews are shown.

It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.

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9. Ich. Immendorff (Ich. Immendorff)

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.

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10. Van Gogh, deux mois et une éternité (Van Gogh, deux mois et une éternité)

(Van Gogh, deux mois et une éternité)

It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.

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11. Bosch: The Garden of Dreams (El Bosco: el jardín de los sueños)

2016 marks the 500th anniversary of the death of Hieronymus Bosch. It is almost the only information about the artist of The Garden of Earthly Delights that we can put a precise date to. Bosch, the garden of dreams is a film about his most important painting and one of the most iconic paintings in the world: The Garden of Earthly Delights.

It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.

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12. Cannoli, Couscous and Pistachios (Cannoli, Couscous und Pistazien)

Travel through Sicily with pleasure

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13. Michael Palin's Quest for Artemisia

Michael Palin discovers the story of 17th-century Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi. He unearths not only her paintings, but a complex and difficult life.

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

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14. Thoughts and Visions of a Severed Head (Pensées et visions d'une tête coupée)

The theme of death is heavily interwoven in Smolder’s surreal salute to Belgian painter Antoine Wiertz, a Hieronymus Bosch-type artist whose work centered on humans in various stages in torment, as depicted in expansive canvases with gore galore. Smolders has basically taken a standard documentary and chopped it up, using quotes from the long-dead artist, and periodic statements by a historian filling in a few bits of Wiertz’ life.

It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.

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15. Transumanza (Transumanza)

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16. È pericoloso esporsi (È pericoloso esporsi)

During the women's demonstration on March 8, 1972, Mariasilvia SPOLATO was there with a placard: Liberazione omosessuale. A month later, Simone de Beauvoir came to Rome to give an interview, and this placard illustrated her article. Mariasilvia could no longer teach, ended up homeless and spent her life on the trains.

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17. Red & Blue Make Purple

A Local Reno Artist and DJ discusses the many inspirations behind her work and how it impacts herself and others.

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18. Ecce Omo (Ecce Omo)

Rome, a palimpsest: monuments, the Catholic church, the everyday life.

19. Lucian Freud: Portraits

Filmmaker Jake Auerbach decides to offer a description of his friend Lucian Freud that's more truthful than the common media image by asking a number of people who have sat for Freud's portraits to share their experiences with the camera. They include several of Freud's friends and daughters, and the film becomes a depiction not only of his art, but also his private persona. Lucian Freud does not appear, with the exception of a brief shot at the end of the film.

It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.

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