Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "art-restoration"

1. Ghostbusters II (1989)

PG | 108 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business.

Director: Ivan Reitman | Stars: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis

Votes: 225,853 | Gross: $112.49M

2. Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009)

G | 93 min | Biography, Drama, Family

Professor Wilson discovers a lost Akita puppy on his way home. Despite objections from his wife, Hachi endears himself to the family and grows to be Parker's loyal companion. As their bond grows deeper, a beautiful relationship unfolds.

Director: Lasse Hallström | Stars: Richard Gere, Joan Allen, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Sarah Roemer

Votes: 312,882

3. The Best of Youth (2003)

R | 374 min | Drama, Romance

An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.

Director: Marco Tullio Giordana | Stars: Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Jasmine Trinca, Adriana Asti

Votes: 23,350 | Gross: $0.27M

4. Obsession (1976)

PG | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his wife.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow, Sylvia Kuumba Williams

Votes: 11,698 | Gross: $1.00M

5. Head Over Heels (2001)

PG-13 | 86 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance

A young woman is attracted to a man despite her thinking she's seen him kill someone.

Director: Mark Waters | Stars: Monica Potter, Freddie Prinze Jr., Shalom Harlow, Ivana Milicevic

Votes: 15,380 | Gross: $10.40M

6. Tea with Mussolini (1999)

PG | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, War

An orphaned Italian boy is raised amongst a circle of British and American women living in Mussolini's Italy before and during World War II.

Director: Franco Zeffirelli | Stars: Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Cher

Votes: 14,269 | Gross: $14.35M

7. Gemma Bovery (2014)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After moving to the French countryside with her husband, the British beauty Gemma Bovery draws the attention of a local baker who finds in the moving couple a resemblance to the heroes of Madame Bovary.

Director: Anne Fontaine | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Gemma Arterton, Jason Flemyng, Isabelle Candelier

Votes: 6,927 | Gross: $0.19M

8. A Month in the Country (1987)

PG | 96 min | Drama

Two soldiers (Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh) recover from World War I while spending a summer in a Yorkshire village.

Director: Pat O'Connor | Stars: Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, John Atkinson, Jim Carter

Votes: 1,966 | Gross: $0.44M

9. The Lost Leonardo (2021)

PG-13 | 96 min | Documentary, Mystery

The mystery surrounding the Salvator Mundi, the first painting by Leonardo da Vinci to be discovered for more than a century, which has now seemingly gone missing.

Director: Andreas Koefoed | Stars: Mohammad Bin Salman, Martin Kemp, Doug Patteson, Robert Simon

Votes: 2,752

10. The House with Laughing Windows (1976)

110 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Stefano, a young restorer, is commissioned to save a controversial mural located in the church of a small, isolated village.

Director: Pupi Avati | Stars: Lino Capolicchio, Francesca Marciano, Gianni Cavina, Giulio Pizzirani

Votes: 5,988

11. The Gleaners & I (2000)

Not Rated | 82 min | Documentary

Varda films and interviews gleaners in France in all forms, from those picking fields after the harvest to those scouring the dumpsters of Paris.

Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: François Wertheimer, Agnès Varda, Jean La Planche, Bodan Litnanski

Votes: 8,819 | Gross: $0.15M

12. The Rape of Europa (2006)

Unrated | 117 min | Documentary, History, War

The story of Nazi Germany's plundering of Europe's great works of art during World War II and Allied efforts to minimize the damage.

Directors: Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, Nicole Newnham | Stars: Joan Allen, E. Randol Schoenberg, Maria Altmann, Wolfgang Fischer

Votes: 1,660

13. Quid Pro Quo (I) (2008)

R | 82 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A semi-paralyzed radio reporter is sent out to investigate a story that leads him into an odd subculture and on a journey of disturbing self-realization.

Director: Carlos Brooks | Stars: Nick Stahl, Vera Farmiga, Leonardo Nam, Rachel Black

Votes: 2,595 | Gross: $0.01M

14. National Gallery (2014)

Not Rated | 180 min | Documentary

A documentary that goes inside one of the great museums of the world: The National Gallery in London.

Director: Frederick Wiseman | Stars: Leanne Benjamin, Kausikan Rajeshkumar, Jo Shapcott, Edward Watson

Votes: 1,660 | Gross: $0.10M

15. H.P. Lovecraft: Two Left Arms (2013)

80 min | Horror, Thriller

Carter, an art conservator, arrives in Italy to restore a fresco in an old church. He discovers that the strange locals are hiding something and a mystery relating to a nearby lake that legend says was created by a meteor.

Directors: Adam Rehmeier, Domiziano Cristopharo | Stars: Yvonne Sciò, Paolo Stella, Carlo De Mejo, Yuri Antonosante

Votes: 92

16. Francofonia (2015)

Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, History

A history of the Louvre during the Nazi occupation and a meditation on the meaning and timelessness of art.

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Benjamin Utzerath, Vincent Nemeth, Johanna Korthals Altes

Votes: 3,009 | Gross: $0.30M

17. The Witness (1978)

90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A sexually adventurous young woman approaches Antonio, an Italian art-restorer working at a cathedral in France. He resists getting involved with her but later he finds out she was raped and murdered in a derelict house.

Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Philippe Noiret, Roland Dubillard, Gisèle Préville

Votes: 409

18. Obsession (1997)

PG | 105 min | Drama, Music, Romance

Two men become entangled in a torrid love affair with the same woman. Pierre is Miriam's longtime lover. John is desperately searching for clues about his past when he and Miriam have a ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Sehr | Stars: Heike Makatsch, Charles Berling, Daniel Craig, Seymour Cassel

Votes: 392

19. Cursed (1990)

85 min | Horror

When a gargoyle falls off a church during a storm, a scientist and his assistant take it back to their lab, where they are doing genetic experiments. However, the gargoyle is possessed by ... See full summary »

Director: Mychel Arsenault | Stars: Ron Lea, Catherine Colvey, Tom Rack, Joy Boushel

Votes: 116

20. From Dust to Light (2024)

56 min | Documentary

The documentary follows a group of conservators of antiquities and works of art on their journey, with the goal of preserving Byzantine iconography. The dialogue between them and the hagiographers of the past comes to life.

Director: Antonis Kartezos | Stars: Babis Apostolidis, Petros Apostolidis, Yovica Bogoev, Babis Galanopoulos

Votes: 6

21. El pájaro de la felicidad (1993)

115 min | Drama

Carmen, an art restoration expert, suffers a trauma soon after meeting her estranged son, and decides to embark on a lonely journey towards her past.

Director: Pilar Miró | Stars: Mercedes Sampietro, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, José Sacristán, Carlos Hipólito

Votes: 172

22. Belle al bar (1994)

110 min | Comedy

Leo has a marriage crisis. Fortunately he has to go to another town for work. In the new town he's followed by a mysterious person. One day he has collapses and gets first aid from the ... See full summary »

Director: Alessandro Benvenuti | Stars: Alessandro Benvenuti, Eva Robins, Andrea Brambilla, Assumpta Serna

Votes: 248

23. Quantum Project (2000)

40 min | Short, Adventure, Drama

Quantum Project is the story of physicist and prodigy Paul Pentcho (Stephen Dorff), whose exploration of the quantum universe leads him on a collision course with life, destiny, and true love.

Director: Eugenio Zanetti | Stars: Stephen Dorff, Fay Masterson, John Cleese, Russell Brown

Votes: 50

24. Behold the Monkey (2016 TV Movie)

G | 30 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

A well-intentioned parishioner restores a church fresco in a small Spanish town, which leads him to become a global overnight internet sensation.

Director: Adam Wimpenny | Stars: Tamsin Greig, Imma Colomer, Assumpta Serna, Amparo Moreno

Votes: 100

25. Fu shih kuang ying (2005)

105 min | Drama, Romance

A fine art restorer discovers a famous painting from decades ago that triggers her curiosity about the deceased painter and his life.

Director: Yu-Shan Huang | Stars: Ding-ya An, Chih-yu Chang, Huei-Wun Chang, Janine Chun-Ning Chang

Votes: 10

26. L'affaire Caravage (2019 TV Movie)

86 min | Documentary

In 2014 a large painting representing Judith Beheading Holofernes was discovered in an attic in Toulouse, France. A controversy ensued immediately about the attribution of the painting's ... See full summary »

Director: Frédéric Biamonti | Stars: Eric Turquin, Laurence Baron, Frédéric Biamonti, James Bradburne

Votes: 20

27. Nancy Drew: The Phantom of Venice (2008 Video Game)

E | Adventure, Mystery

Teen detective Nancy Drew goes undercover in Venice to track down an art thief known as "The Phantom".

Director: Mike Paganini | Stars: Lani Minella, Adrienne MacIain, Jonah Von Spreecken, Gin Hammond

Votes: 67

28. Dieu vomit les tièdes (1991)

100 min | Drama

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Director: Robert Guédiguian | Stars: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Ariane Ascaride, Pierre Banderet, Gérard Meylan

Votes: 56

29. Hinter dem Vorhang: Das Geheimnis Vermeer (2021 TV Movie)

53 min | Documentary

Jan Vermeer was once forgotten, his paintings misidentified as Rembrandt masterpieces. Now considered one of the finest Dutch Masters, what secrets are still hidden behind the curtain of one of his most brilliant works?

Directors: Christoph Goldmann, Leif Karpe | Stars: Marion Ackermann, Hanno Rauterberg, Virginie Spenlé, Abbie Vandivere

Votes: 11

30. Eine Liebe in Venedig (2009 TV Movie)

88 min | Drama

Stefan, the husband of Nina has to go to Venice for business(he is shipbuilder).Nina decides to travel to Venice to give a surprise to Stefan for his birthday.She arrives at the hotel (... See full summary »

Director: Klaus Wirbitzky | Stars: Mira Bartuschek, Markus Böker, Oliver Bootz, Michaela May

Votes: 37

31. Exergo (2024)

18 min | Documentary, Short, Drama

By focusing on the peripheral or hidden details of some paintings in the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, a female narrator relates several stories linked to the social, economic and psychological conditions of the artists, both past and present.

Director: Jorge Moneo Quintana | Stars: Ilazki Azaldegi, Elorri Sarasola Barandiaran, Elena Montejo, Miren Barrena Rebe

32. 007: Licence to Restore (2006 Video)

13 min | Documentary, Short

A short documentary featurette made for DVD about the film restoration of the original film negatives of the Eon Productions James Bond series. Focuses mainly on the 1960 Bond movies.

Director: Michael Arick | Stars: Scott Grossman, James Owsley, Michael Inchalik, John Lowry

Votes: 78

33. Midsomer Murders (1997– )
Episode: Beyond the Grave (2000)

TV-14 | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Barnaby and Troy, with an actor tagging along for research, investigate a slashed painting at a museum, which later turns out to be the site of a murder.

Director: Moira Armstrong | Stars: John Nettles, Daniel Casey, Jane Wymark, Laura Howard

Votes: 1,026

34. The Private Life of a Masterpiece (2001–2011)
Episode: Rembrandt Van Rijn: The Night Watch (2004)

49 min | Documentary

An appreciation of Rembrandt's 1642 painting "The Night Watch," featuring the Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq and Lt. William van Ruytenburch. The iconic painting's creation and history are detailed by art historians and critics.

Director: John Bush | Stars: Samuel West, Gary Schwartz, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Jonathan Jones

Votes: 11

35. Les Trésors de... (2014– )
Episode: Les Trésors de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (2020)

90 min | Documentary, History

The National Library of France is the guardian of priceless treasures that tell our history, our illustrious thinkers, writers, scholars and artists. Telling the story of the exceptional ... See full summary »

Directors: Marie David, Guillaume Perez | Stars: Sophie Jovillard, Stéphanie Coudurier, Guillaume Apollinaire, Arletty

Votes: 5

36. Le monde en face (2009– )
Episode: The Savior for Sale (2021)

97 min | Documentary

Story behind the disappearance and reappearance during a New Orleans auction of painting "Savior of the World" attributed, with controversy, to Leonardo Da Vinci.

Director: Antoine Vitkine | Stars: Matthew Landrus, Loïc Gouzer, Dianne Dwyer Modestini, Scott Reyburn

Votes: 166

37. White Collar (2009–2014)
Episode: Pilot (2009)

TV-PG | 55 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

United States Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Peter Burke teams up with an unlikely partner to hunt an elusive and vicious counterfeiter known as the "Dutchman."

Director: Bronwen Hughes | Stars: Matt Bomer, Tim DeKay, Willie Garson, Marsha Thomason

Votes: 1,827

38. The Private Life of a Masterpiece (2001–2011)
Episode: Leonardo Da Vinci: The Last Supper (2006)

Documentary

The rise, fall, and rise again of Leonardo's Last Supper is recounted by critics, historians, and the work's primary restorer. The iconic painting's recreations, spoofs, and its pivotal role in The Da Vinci Code are also discussed.

Stars: Samuel West, Cristine Acidini, Pinin Brambilla Barcilon, Martin Clayton

Votes: 16

39. Elementary (2012–2019)
Episode: The Woman (2013)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Holmes reconnects with Irene, his one true love that he thought had been taken from him by Moriarity. He tries to protect her as she recovers from her trauma but he soon learns that it isn't she that needs protection.

Director: Seith Mann | Stars: Jonny Lee Miller, Lucy Liu, Jon Michael Hill, Aidan Quinn

Votes: 1,511

40. Les rivières pourpres (2018– )
Episode: Le Jour des Cendres: Partie 1 (2018)

TV-MA | 49 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

In a wine-growing region at harvest time, a battered corpse is discovered under rubble when a vault collapses during the renovation of a chapel, destroying a fresco. Was it an accident or foul play?

Director: Julius Berg | Stars: Olivier Marchal, Erika Sainte, Daniel Njo Lobé, Camille Sansterre

Votes: 189