art documentary movies

Basquiat (1996)
6.6 / 10

Drama, History

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.

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,...

Room 999 (2023)
6 / 10

Documentary

In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in...

Visions of Light (1992)
7 / 10

Documentary, History

Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography and of the "DP" (the director of photography), illustrating their points with clips...

The Méliès Mystery (2021)
6.8 / 10

Documentary, History

A documentary that details the process of restoring 270 of the 520 lost films of pioneering director Georges Méliès, all orchestrated by a...

Le Grand Méliès (1952)
6.7 / 10

Documentary

A biographical film about cinematic illusionist Georges Méliès featuring Méliès’s widow, Jeanne d’Alcy, as herself, and their son André as...

Geniale Frauen - Malerinnen von der Renaissance bis zum Klassizismus (2024)
8 / 10

Documentary, History

Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty (2020)
7.9 / 10

Documentary

The whole world knows him. Burlesque comedy genius, popular actor, author, director, producer, composer, choreographer, Charlie Chaplin (1899-1977)...

Tadao Ando (1988)
0 / 10

Documentary

Tadao Ando, a self-taught architect, proposes an international architecture that he believes can only be conceived by someone Japanese. His...

Greenfingers (2022)
0 / 10

Documentary

Following fateful scientific reports, protestors pose the argument for a better future against the vested interest of industry. Small to large,...

Van Gogh, deux mois et une éternité (2023)
6.5 / 10

Documentary, TV Movie

Banksy, le Bataclan et la jeune fille triste (2023)
8 / 10

Documentary, Mystery

Wuthering Heights: Love, Hate and Vengeance (2022)
8 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

In 1847, British writer Emily Brontë (1818-48), perhaps the most enigmatic of the three Brontë sisters, published her novel Wuthering Heights, a...

John Singer Sargent: Fashion and Swagger (2024)
0 / 10

Documentary

Filmed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Tate Britain, London, the exhibition reveals Sargent’s power to express distinctive...

NARC. Mini-Doc – Combining The Arts: Spaces For All (2022)
0 / 10

Documentary

Lizzie Lovejoy’s mini-documentary explores the world of non-traditional performance spaces, especially in the Tees Valley and celebrating the...

Die Brust in der Kunst (2024)
0 / 10

Documentary

Charlotte Salomon: Life and the Maiden (2022)
8.5 / 10

Documentary, History

In 1940, the German artist Charlotte Salomon (1917-43) undertook an extraordinary artistic adventure, during which she combined painting, text and...

BENE! Vita di Carmelo, la macchina attoriale (2022)
7.5 / 10

Documentary

Klimt & The Kiss (2023)
8 / 10

Documentary

The Kiss by Gustav Klimt is one of the most recognised and reproduced paintings in the world. It is perhaps the most popular poster on student dorm...

Leonora Carrington: The Lost Surrealist (2017)
7.7 / 10

Documentary, TV Movie

British surrealist Leonora Carrington was a key part of the surrealist movement during its heyday in Paris and yet, until recently, remained a...