Painted Lips

The life and the lovers of a few young women in a provincial town.

From the Painter's View

Siavash, a 6-year-old, won a painting award, and now his parents analyze his TV interview about a wall-less home in the painting. Everyone's searching for an explanation, but none are correct.

The Painting of the Future

Edgardo Marranti paints guided by beings from other dimensions. When he started, his family and friends thought he was crazy, and so did he. In search of answers, he embarked on a path of self-knowledge that confirmed hi

The Painted Lie

A socialite accepts a portrait sitting with a renowned artist, despite her fiancé's objections. After the sitting, the artist tries to embrace her, but she repulses him. In retaliation, the artist conceives a plan to pai

The Angel that Stands by Me: Minnie Evans' Paintings

Fifth in the series "Visions of Paradise." Directed by Allie Light and Irving Saraf. 1983. Minnie Evans is the embodiment of the visionary artist. She is an 88-year-old Black painter in North Carolina who has created a

The Painter and the Engines

The Painter and the Engines (1967) follows painter David Shepherd’s race against time to record on canvas the magic and romance of steam during the locomotives’ last weeks at South London’s Nine Elms sheds.

The Painter

Oil Painting

Nikolai is an honest, principled man in his mid‑thirties. A reserve officer with extensive experience, he finds it hard to adapt to civilian life, often taking on odd jobs in security. Unable to find common ground with y

A Little Phantasy on a 19th-century Painting

Taking "Isle of the Dead," a work by the Swiss symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin as his starting point, Norman McLaren creates a deeply disturbing surrealist dream.

Casta Painting

An aesthetic order in racial terms.

A Painter Who Farms

Allen Whiting is a farmer who has been living off the land as his family has for 12 generations, though he is known more for his plein-air paintings, depictions of island landscapes that can be found in the collections o

God's Painting

Dimitris returns to Greece after his mother's death, planning to place his disabled sister in an institution and live with fiancé. His return however is filled with surprises that completely overturn personal life & view

The World's Most Expensive Paintings

Art critic Alastair Sooke tracks down the ten most expensive paintings to sell at auction, and investigates the stories behind the astronomic prices art can reach. Gaining access to the glittering world of the super-rich

Jörg Ratgeb, Painter

On the eve of the German Peasants' Revolt, painter Joerg Ratgeb is occupied by a crisis of his own: finding a model for a Christ figure. He sets off on a journey to consult with his artistic role model, Albrecht Dürer. A

A Sentimental Trip to My Homeland. Music of Russian Painting

Nikita Mikhalkov introduces his favorite paintings by Russian painters of the XIX century. The viewer is presented with a qualified look at the artistic trends and preferences of that period. The series tells about the f

Tales of Terror: The Painted Face

Here is a school where hangs a portrait of a female whose face has been painted over. If you scratch away a portion of the whitewash, the woman actually appears to haunt and harass you. Her face is said to defy descripti

Painter and Poet No. 1

An illustrated version of Twa Corbies made as the BFI’s contribution to the Festival of Britain. Enlivened by the distinctive voice of John Laurie, and paired with Michael Rothenstein’s delightfully textured drawings. F

Painting the mountains

They're All Painted If You Actually Look

An observational documentary following Steven Brooke and how the solitude of painting impacts his life and artwork.

The Painter and the Pointer

Andy Panda is the painter and his dog, Butch, is the pointer, and Andy is trying to paint a portrait of Butch doing what a bird-dog is supposed to do...standing still and pointing to the game-bird. But Butch won't stand