modern art movies

The Kill Room (2023)
6.1 / 10

Comedy, Crime

A hitman, his boss, an art dealer and a money-laundering scheme that accidentally turns the assassin into an overnight avant-garde sensation, one...

Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
7.535 / 10

Documentary

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...

Exergo (2024)
0 / 10

Documentary, Drama

A young woman who has just started a job at an art museum writes an email to a friend she lived with until recently. The other woman, also young,...

Cremaster 3 (2002)
6.5 / 10

Drama, Fantasy

CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner,...

River of Fundament (2014)
6.6 / 10

Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In...

Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance (2001)
0 / 10

Documentary

A history of the work of Merce Cunningham.

Obsessed with Light (2023)
8 / 10

Documentary

Loïe Fuller, stage name of Marie Louise Fuller: the American actress and dancer trained in burlesque, circuses and variety shows who, in the 1890s,...

Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History (2018)
5.5 / 10

Documentary, TV Movie

Many twentieth century European artists, such as Paul Gauguin or Pablo Picasso, were influenced by art brought to Europe from African and Asian...

Museum Town (2019)
0 / 10

Documentary

A rural American town suffering economically from factory closures finds an unconventional route to recovery with the help of MASS MoCA.

A Brief History of John Baldessari (2012)
6 / 10

Documentary

The epic life of a world-class artist, jammed into six minutes.

Cremaster 2 (1999)
6.4 / 10

Fantasy, Horror, Western

CREMASTER 2 (1999) is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of...

John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It (1990)
0 / 10

Documentary, Music

This 56-minute documentary on America's most controversial and unique composer manages to cover a great many aspects of Cage's work and thought. His...

Sick Film (2006)
0 / 10

Martin Creed has said that part of living is coming to terms with horrible feelings. 'The problem with horrible feelings is you can't paint them. But...

Básnik Pavol Ušák Oliva (2000)
0 / 10

Documentary

Pablo Picasso et Françoise Gilot : la femme qui dit non (2020)
7.2 / 10

Documentary

Rouge ! L'Art au pays des soviets (2019)
7.8 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

Hanging from a Dream (2013)
10 / 10

Documentary, TV Movie

The history of how the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art of Cuenca was created. In the mid-1950s, the Spanish collector and painter Fernando Zóbel de...

Manet: The Man Who Invented Modern Art (2009)
5.3 / 10

Documentary

Manet is one of the main candidates for the title of the most important artist there has been. As the reluctant father of Impressionism, and the...

Bauhaus 100 (2019)
8 / 10

History, Documentary

In 1919 an art school opened in Germany that would change the world forever. It was called the Bauhaus. A century later, its radical thinking still...

Joe Lycett: Summer Exhibitionist (2022)
8 / 10

Documentary

Art-loving comedian Joe Lycett joins artists hoping to make it onto the walls of the RA Summer Exhibition 2022, the world’s largest open-submission...