Artists Life Movies

The tumultuous and adventurous life of Michelangelo Merisi, controversial artist, called by Fate to become the immortal Caravaggio. A violent genius...

An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing...

A photographer awaits competition results while he wanders around Hong Kong across space and time, pondering his own relationship with love and death.

This documentary recounts the life and work of one of most famous, and yet reviled, German film directors in history, Leni Riefenstahl. The film...

Leonardo da Vinci is not just the most famous and most admired of all painters - he is an icon, a superstar. Yet, the man himself remains elusive....

Writer Sung-jun encourages his once-actor friend Yeon-woo to act again.

Emotionally scarred by a string of unsuccessful relationships, artist Marilyn Ross has her guard up when it comes to men. While she's reluctant to...

Dante Alighieri was a poet, philosopher and politician in 1300 Florence. The visionary author of "Inferno", the first book of the "Divine Comedy", he...

The life and work of New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat have been marked by a long quest for identity, by his Haitian and Puerto Rican family...

A painter recounts the life of Michelangelo.

Hugo Frejer terrorizes his family and surroundings with his unhappy mood.

In 1994, real-life crop artist Stan Herd traveled from Kansas to Manhattan's Upper West Side to create a massive environmental artwork on land owned...

This documentary tells the story of Freddie Mercury in the form of a trip to England in which we retrace his life, visiting the apartments he lived...

A film that looks at the genius of JMW Turner in a new light. There is more to Turner than his sublime landscapes - he also painted machines,...

In this film, Will Young travels to Magritte's native Belgium to find out more about the man whose trademark was a bowler hat and whose apparently...

Federico Fellini died on October 31st, 1993. Thirty years later, he is still considered as one of the most irreverant moviemaker in the history of...

Michael Palin heads for rural Pennsylvania and Maine to explore the extraordinary life and work of one of America's most popular and controversial...

Mark Rothko, a master of abstract expressionism, created 835 paintings during his five-decade career.

The first major profile of the American Pop Art cult leader after his death in 1987 covers the whole of his life and work through interviews, clips...

When the Cows Come Home introduces audiences to Tilly and Maggie, a pair of cows that musician, journalist, artist and cow whisperer, Andrew...