Portrait Of An Artist Movies

On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create something great before time runs out.

The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography,...

Paris, France, December 1897. The young playwright Edmond Rostand feels like a failure. Inspiration has abandoned him. Married and father of two child...

From the rains of Japan, through threats of arrest for 'public indecency' in Canada, and a birthday tribute to her father in Detroit, this documentary...

A personal and captivating account of the extraordinary life and work of Ingrid Bergman (1915-82),a young Swedish woman who became one of the most ce...

Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War (1936-39),writer Miguel de Unamuno supports the...

In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the notorious Marquess of Queensberry, was his lover....

An immersive look at the eventful life and brilliant artistic career of visionary American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (1926-1991).

Paris, 1964. The Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti, one of the most accomplished and respected artists of his generation, asks his friend,...

The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980),from his beginnings as a comic performer on BBC Radio to his huge suc...

Vienna, Austria, 1910. The young painter Egon Schiele is a rising artist, provocative and free, whose work, characterized by eroticism, shocks as much...

An unprecedented and intimate look at the life, work and enduring legacy of British actress Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993).

Tina Turner overcame impossible odds to become one of the first female Black artists to reach a mainstream international audience. Her road to superst...

An in-depth investigation into the private world of the American writer J. D. Salinger (1919-2010),who lived most of his life behind the impenetrable...

The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930),the man of a thousand faces; bear...

A chronicle of the long career of American filmmaker Roger Corman, the most tenacious and ingenious low-budget producer and director in the US film in...

The story of the life, loves and work of US writer Patricia Highsmith (1921-95),told through her unpublished diaries, her own voice and that of those...

Hollywood, 1942. The US government pressures Hungarian-born film director Michael Curtiz, who is about to finish shooting Casablanca, to accentuate th...

November 2, 1975: Pier Paolo Pasolini is murdered in the outskirts of Rome. The suspect, a 17-year-old hustler, pleads to have acted in self-defense,...

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982),a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems relat...