art history movies

Miss Hokusai (2015)
6.7 / 10

Animation, Drama, History

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own mark in the world.

Midnight in Paris (2011)
7.535 / 10

Fantasy, Comedy, Romance

A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the...

Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
6.94 / 10

Drama, History, Romance

Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953. Determined to...

Jubilee (1978)
5.9 / 10

Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music

Queen Elizabeth I visits late 1970s England to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.

Tim's Vermeer (2013)
7.223 / 10

Documentary

Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer manage to...

Phantasia (2024)
8 / 10

Documentary, Animation, Drama, Horror

X-ray images were invented in 1895, the same year in which the Lumière brothers presented their respective invention in what today is considered to...

Hyperland (1990)
7 / 10

Documentary

This made-for-TV documentary introduces the layperson to concepts and technologies that were emerging in computer interface design in the late 1980s...

Beethoven Reloaded (2020)
8 / 10

Documentary, Music

A Good Marriage (1982)
6.785 / 10

Drama, Romance

Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy...

Goering's Catalogue: A Collection of Art and Blood (2021)
7.3 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

For more than a decade, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, Adolf Hitler's right-hand man during the infamous Third Reich, assembled a collection of...

The Savior for Sale (2021)
7.2 / 10

Documentary, History

In November 15, 2017, the painting Salvator Mundi, attributed to Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), was sold for an unprecedented $450...

Botticelli – Inferno (2016)
7 / 10

Documentary

The Renaissance master Botticelli spent over a decade painting and drawing hell as the poet Dante described it. The film takes us on a journey...

Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence (2017)
7.2 / 10

Documentary

In this unique, compelling film, those who knew him speak freely, some for the first time, to reveal the many mysteries of Francis Bacon.

Battlefield Gender (2019)
7 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

Both a visit to a very peculiar exhibition at the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany, as well as an unprejudiced look at the...

The Painting (2019)
7.3 / 10

Documentary, History, Animation

For three and a half centuries, from the same day that Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) applied his last brushstroke to the canvas, the enigma of “Las...

M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity (2018)
6.9 / 10

Documentary, History

A portrait of the visionary Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898-1972), according to his own words, taken from his diary, his correspondence and the texts...

Picturing the Presidents (2009)
7 / 10

Documentary, History

We go behind the scenes and into the minds of artists as they capture, commemorate, and, at times, condemn our presidents.

Lee Miller: A Life on the Frontline (2020)
7.8 / 10

Documentary

A documentary celebrating Lee Miller, a model turned photographer turned war reporter who defied anyone who tried to pin her down, put her on a...

Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World (2014)
6.786 / 10

Documentary

An account of the life and work of Swiss painter, sculptor, architect and designer H. R. Giger (1940-2014), tormented father of creatures as fearsome...

Leonardo da Vinci and the Bust of Flora (2020)
6.5 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

Acquired in July 1909 by art collector Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929), director general of the Prussian Art Collections and founding director of the...