Andrei Tarkovsky's films are similar to David Foster-books Wallace's in their genius and the daunting quality of their work. Tarkovsky's several classics are all complex and long affairs that may appear incomprehensible to the ordinary filmgoer.

Those wishing to ascend cinematic mountains, on the other hand, should go no farther than Tarkovsky's immensely renowned, and infamous, masterpiece Andre Rublev. The film attempts to relate the narrative of the titular icon painter while simultaneously attempting to recreate medieval Russia, which it absolutely succeeds at. One of the best films ever created.

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Produced by: Tamara Ogorodnikova

Release date: 16 December 1966

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060107

Exit Through the Gift Shop: A Banksy Film is a British documentary film directed by street artist Banksy that was released in 2010. It follows Thierry Guetta, a French immigrant living in Los Angeles, and his passion for street art. Guetta's constant filming of his every waking moment, from a chance encounter with his cousin, the artist Invader, to his introduction to a slew of street artists, with a focus on Shepard Fairey and Banksy, whose anonymity is preserved by obscuring his face and altering his voice, to Guetta's eventual fame as a street artist himself, is chronicled in the film.

Exit Through the Gift Shop, directed by the enigmatic graffiti artist Bansky, is a film that might or could not be a hoax. Despite the fact that the film was released over a decade ago, the line between fact and fiction is still blurred. Regardless of the film's veracity, Exit Through the Gift Shop is a mind-boggling experience that virtually transcends description. Thierry Guetta, or Mr. Brainwash, is a filmmaker-turned-art-sensation who may or may not be an art exhibit himself. Weird, humorous, scary, and one-of-a-kind, it's a crazy adventure worth returning to uncover its riddles.

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Produced by: Jaimie D'Cruz
Release date: 5 March 2010
Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587707

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown, usually known simply as My Left Foot, is a 1989 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Jim Sheridan and based on Christy Brown's 1954 memoir of the same name. It is a co-production between Ireland and the United Kingdom, and it stars Daniel Day-Lewis as Brown, an Irishman born with cerebral palsy who can only move his left foot.

Brown was born with cerebral palsy and could only use his left foot, which he used to write his memoirs and make his one-of-a-kind artworks. At this point, it should be expected, but Day-Lewis completely disappears into the part, reviving a guy with a great intellect and a shattered body who united to produce ultimate expression.

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Produced by: Noel Pearson

Release date: 24 February 1989

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097937

Frida is a 2002 American biographical drama film directed by Julie Taymor about the surrealist Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's professional and domestic life. The film, which starred Salma Hayek in an Academy Award-nominated performance as Kahlo and Alfred Molina as her husband, Diego Rivera, was adapted by Clancy Sigal, Diane Lake, Gregory Nava, Anna Thomas, Antonio Banderas, and unofficially by Edward Norton from Hayden Herrera's 1983 book Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo. Frida earned mostly excellent reviews from reviewers and went on to win two Academy Awards for Best Makeup and Best Original Score out of six nominations.

When Salma Hayek dies, the part she will be remembered for as Frida Kahlo in director Julie Taymor's exquisite biopic Frida will be her most celebrated and remembered. Taymor, a theatrical great, adds her own sensibility to the turbulent life of painter and icon Frida Kahlo, who is powerfully portrayed by Hayek. The film does an excellent job of depicting how Kahlo's turbulent life was channeled to great effect in her work, portraying the artist as a feminine revolutionary who smashed taboos throughout her career.

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Produced by: Sarah Green
Release date: August 29, 2002
Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120679

Modigliani is a 2004 drama biographical film written and directed by Mick Davis and starring Andy García, Elsa Zylberstein, Omid Djalili, Hippolyte Girardot, Eva Herzigova and Udo Kier. It is based on the life of the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. Andy Garcia plays the legendary painter Amedeo Modigliani in this little-known 2004 film. The film focuses on the artist's final years as he gets into a risky connection with a younger lady, as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso.

Modigliani garnered excellent user ratings but was harshly derided by critics (4 percent on RT), resulting in one of the list's worst disparities in reaction. The film is a shambles that has been chastised for its historical errors, however, Garcia's portrayal of Modigliani is not the worst. Only for those who want to see which side they are on.

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Produced by: Philippe Martinez

Release date: 29 September 2004

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367188

Rembrandt is a 1936 British biographical film about the life of 17th-century Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn produced by London Film Productions. Alexander Korda produced and directed the picture, which was based on a screenplay by June Head and Lajos Bró and a narrative by Carl Zuckmayer. Geoffrey Toye composed the soundtrack, while Georges Périnal shot the film.

The brilliant Charles Laughton brought his particular combination of passion and sorrow to the narrative of Rembrandt van Rijn, a prominent Renaissance painter. The film is a loosely organized sequence of vignettes about a melancholy painter during his worst years. Outside of academic "Art History" seminars, the film is virtually forgotten now, yet it offers a remarkably powerful peek into the life of a creative staring face his own legacy in the twilight of his life. Laughton offers a very spectacular performance, and the film's distinctive presentation makes it well worth seeing in this day and age.

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Produced by: Alexander Korda
Release date: 6 November 1936
Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163180

Big Eyes is a 2014 American biographical drama film directed by Tim Burton, written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, and starring Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz. It is about the relationship between American artist Margaret Keane and her second husband, Walter Keane, who, in the 1950s and 1960s, took credit for Margaret's phenomenally popular paintings of people with big eyes.

Big Eyes is an odd outlier among the films Tim Burton has made over the previous two decades. Much of the gothic filmmaker's work has been fanciful big-budget studio entertainment, making it all the more interesting that he took the time to produce this undervalued oddball small film about Margaret Keane's troubles with her art and her sleazy husband's selfish desires. The lives of the core couple, played by Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz, make for an intriguing drama about betrayal and the role of the artist in promoting their work.

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Produced by: Tim Burton
Release date: December 15, 2014
Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1126590

Pollock is a 2000 American biographical film about American painter Jackson Pollock. It was directed by Harris and starred Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Jennifer Connelly, Robert Knott, Bud Cort, Molly Regan, and Sada Thompson. Marcia Gay Harden earned the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal as Pollock's wife, Lee Krasner. Ed Harris was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his depiction of Pollock. Harris's film was a long-term personal endeavor inspired by his earlier study of Jackson Pollock's 1989 book Jackson Pollock: An American Saga.

Pollock was a passion project for actor/director Ed Harris that took over a decade to complete. Harris' enthusiasm for the material is clear not just in his competent direction, but also in his main performance as the titular painter, Jackson Pollock. Because of his temper and alcoholism, Pollock was a famously unpleasant man to be around and work with. With this Hollywood picture, one of the better attempts at capturing the artist's once-in-a-generation brilliance in an honest manner, his sad life is brought to the big screen in a fair but ultimately appreciative way.

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Produced by: Peter M. Brant

Release date: September 6, 2000

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183659

At Eternity's Gate is a 2018 biographical drama film about the final years of painter Vincent van Gogh's life. The film dramatizes the controversial theory put forward by van Gogh biographers Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, in which they speculate that van Gogh's death was caused by mischief rather than suicide.

Schnabel's most recent film is another picture of the wounded artist archetype, this time focusing on Vincent van Gogh. Willem Dafoe plays the notoriously unstable painter in an Academy Award-nominated performance. Schnabel chose to focus on a specific moment in van Gogh's life, in contrast to his prior cinematic endeavors, which covered the full history of the topic. As a result, the film is far more personal and does a better job of conveying the figure at its core, flaws and all.

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Produced by: Jon Kilik
Release date: September 3, 2018
Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6938828

Basquiat is a 1996 biographical drama film directed, co-written and co-composed by Julian Schnabel in his feature directorial debut. The film is based on the life of American postmodernist/neo-expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. It is the first film about an American painter written and directed by another artist.

When Julian Schnabel chose to film a biography of his late friend and collaborator Jean-Michel Basquiat, he was mostly recognized as a very successful artist himself. Basquiat is an amazing, if somewhat simplistic, an homage to one of the art world's most mysterious and distinctive talents. Jeffrey Wright, well known for his performance in Westworld, plays the titular troubled genius, whose life is almost as unique and terrible as the remarkable work he made during his brief career, which was cruelly cut short when the artist overdosed at the age of 27.

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Produced by: Julian Schnabel

Release date: August 9, 1996

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115632