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

1. Triangle of Sadness (2022)

R | 147 min | Comedy, Drama

A fashion model celebrity couple join an eventful cruise for the super-rich.

Director: Ruben Östlund | Stars: Thobias Thorwid, Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Jiannis Moustos

Votes: 178,600

2. The Shape of Water (2017)

R | 123 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.

Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon, Doug Jones

Votes: 447,866 | Gross: $63.86M

3. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

R | 122 min | Drama, Romance

On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

Director: Céline Sciamma | Stars: Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami, Valeria Golino

Votes: 109,739 | Gross: $3.76M

4. Little Women (1994)

PG | 115 min | Drama, Family, Romance

The March sisters live and grow in post-Civil War America.

Director: Gillian Armstrong | Stars: Susan Sarandon, Winona Ryder, Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes

Votes: 63,624 | Gross: $50.08M

5. Barbarians (2020–2022)

TV-MA | 569 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Torn between the mighty empire that raised him and his own tribal people, a Roman officer's conflicted allegiances lead to an epic historical clash.

Stars: Laurence Rupp, Jeanne Goursaud, David Schütter, Florian Schmidtke

Votes: 30,303

6. Loving Vincent (2017)

PG-13 | 94 min | Animation, Drama, Mystery

In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.

Directors: DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman | Stars: Douglas Booth, Jerome Flynn, Robert Gulaczyk, Helen McCrory

Votes: 63,700 | Gross: $6.74M

7. Waking Life (2001)

R | 99 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy

A man shuffles through a dream meeting various people and discussing the meanings and purposes of the universe.

Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Trevor Jack Brooks, Lorelei Linklater, Wiley Wiggins

Votes: 66,951 | Gross: $2.89M

8. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

Director: Albert Lewin | Stars: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury

Votes: 14,456

9. Mr. Turner (2014)

R | 150 min | Biography, Drama, History

An exploration of the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric, British painter J.M.W. Turner's life.

Director: Mike Leigh | Stars: Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey

Votes: 27,188 | Gross: $3.96M

10. Man in the Wilderness (1971)

GP | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Left for dead after a bear attack, a fur-trapper recuperates and pursues his former companions through dangerous Indian territory.

Director: Richard C. Sarafian | Stars: Richard Harris, John Huston, Henry Wilcoxon, Percy Herbert

Votes: 3,478

11. Hour of the Wolf (1968)

Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.

Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Gertrud Fridh, Georg Rydeberg

Votes: 22,584

12. Little Ashes (2008)

R | 112 min | Biography, Drama, History

About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.

Director: Paul Morrison | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Javier Beltrán, Matthew McNulty, Marina Gatell

Votes: 9,627 | Gross: $0.48M

13. The Joy of Painting (1983–1994)

TV-G | 25 min | Documentary, Family

In this half-hour program, artist Bob Ross paints a beautiful oil painting on canvas.

Stars: Bob Ross, Steve Ross, Dana Jester, Peep

Votes: 6,176

14. My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday (2016)

111 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

On the way to his university in Kyoto, a 20 y.o. man falls in love with a woman on the train. He tells her. They start dating. She has a supernatural secret.

Director: Takahiro Miki | Stars: Sôta Fukushi, Nana Komatsu, Masahiro Higashide, Yuki Yamada

Votes: 5,266

15. Melody Time (1948)

Approved | 75 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

An anthology of animated vignettes set to contemporary music.

Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske | Stars: Roy Rogers, Trigger, Dennis Day, Laverne Andrews

Votes: 6,948

16. The Forger (2012)

PG-13 | 94 min | Drama, Family, Mystery

A teenager wanders into Carmel, California, where he is soon introduced to the art-forgery community.

Director: Lawrence Roeck | Stars: Lauren Bacall, Josh Hutcherson, Alfred Molina, Billy Boyd

Votes: 4,853

17. Carrington (1995)

R | 121 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The platonic relationship between artist Dora Carrington (Dame Emma Thompson) and writer Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce) in the early twentieth century.

Director: Christopher Hampton | Stars: Emma Thompson, Jonathan Pryce, Steven Waddington, Samuel West

Votes: 5,779 | Gross: $3.24M

18. Vincent & Theo (1990)

PG-13 | 138 min | Biography, Drama

The familiar tragic story of Vincent van Gogh is broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. The movie also provides a nice view of the locations which Vincent painted.

Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Tim Roth, Paul Rhys, Adrian Brine, Jean-François Perrier

Votes: 4,207 | Gross: $2.23M

19. The Marsh (2006)

R | 92 min | Horror, Mystery

A young beautiful but stressed out children's writer seeks out a holiday in the country but becomes the lead character in a supernatural mystery she must solve to save her life

Director: Jordan Barker | Stars: Gabrielle Anwar, Louis Ferreira, Forest Whitaker, Peter MacNeill

Votes: 3,369

20. Color Me Blood Red (1965)

Not Rated | 79 min | Comedy, Horror

A crackpot artist kills various people to use their blood as his new crimson red color for his paintings.

Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis | Stars: Gordon Oas-Heim, Candi Conder, Elyn Warner, Pat Finn-Lee

Votes: 2,027

21. The Dead Are Alive! (1972)

R | 105 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A photographer on an archaeological expedition digging up Etruscan ruins in Italy begins to suspect that not all the Etruscans buried there are actually dead.

Director: Armando Crispino | Stars: Alex Cord, Samantha Eggar, John Marley, Nadja Tiller

Votes: 1,060 | Gross: $0.11M

22. Me and Kaminski (2015)

124 min | Comedy, Drama

Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that he can cash in on his article.

Director: Wolfgang Becker | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Jesper Christensen, Amira Casar, Geraldine Chaplin

Votes: 1,530

23. The Woman on the Beach (1947)

Approved | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A Coast Guardsman suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.

Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford, Nan Leslie

Votes: 2,648

24. Midnight Son (2011)

Not Rated | 88 min | Horror

Forced by a disease to drink human blood, Jacob must control his violent tendencies as local law enforcement narrow their focus on him as a suspect in a series of grisly murders.

Director: Scott Leberecht | Stars: Zak Kilberg, Maya Parish, Jo D. Jonz, Larry Cedar

Votes: 1,913

25. I Go Pogo (1980)

PG | 86 min | Animation, Comedy

Pogo the Possum attempts to run for President with help of his fellow animal friends.

Director: Marc Paul Chinoy | Stars: Jonathan Winters, Vincent Price, Ruth Buzzi, Stan Freberg

Votes: 159

26. Life Lessons (2013 Video)

27 min | Short, Drama, Mystery

In this Story by Richard Price, Lionel Dobie is an acclaimed artist who finds himself unable to paint before a gallery exhibition and uses his messy lifestyle to create artwork.

Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: David Fichtenmayer, Kellie Marie McGhee, Hayley Pendergrass, Alexander Raye Pimentel

Votes: 55

27. T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous (1998)

45 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

A youth who finds a dinosaur egg accidentally breaks it. Soon after, she begins to have surreal visions of dinosaurs, including the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Director: Brett Leonard | Stars: Peter Horton, Liz Stauber, Kari Coleman, Charlene Sashuk

Votes: 794 | Gross: $53.35M

28. Japanese Girls at the Harbor (1933)

72 min | Drama, Romance

Two schoolgirl friends drift apart when one of them falls for a handsome boy.

Director: Hiroshi Shimizu | Stars: Michiko Oikawa, Yukiko Inoue, Ureo Egawa, Ranko Sawa

Votes: 747

29. Pop Goes the Easel (1935)

TV-PG | 20 min | Comedy, Short

The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of ... See full summary »

Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Bobby Burns

Votes: 887

30. Hunting Humans (2002 Video)

R | 89 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Meet Aric Blue. He's young. He's handsome. He's successful. He's also a serial killer. He picks his victims at random, stalking them and taking advantage of the patterns in their life to ... See full summary »

Director: Kevin Kangas | Stars: Rick Ganz, Bubby Lewis, Lisa Michele, Trent

Votes: 484

31. Ten Empty (2008)

95 min | Drama

A disillusioned son's trip home is complicated when ten years of family secrets explode over one weekend.

Director: Anthony Hayes | Stars: Daniel Frederiksen, Geoff Morrell, Lucy Bell, Tom Budge

Votes: 221

32. Cloportes (1965)

Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Crime

Three petty criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful ... See full summary »

Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Lino Ventura, Charles Aznavour, Irina Demick, Maurice Biraud

Votes: 597

33. The Warren (2022)

73 min | Mystery | Completed

A kidnapping told from 5 points of view, where everyone is the hero of their own story and the villain in someone else's.

Director: John Olvera | Stars: Robert Santana Jr., Tallulah Miles, Cory Storey, Renee Duron

34. Kôdaike no hitobito (2016)

116 min | Comedy, Romance

Who among us does not spend a portion of the time daydreaming or fantasizing? The difference is that for most when it comes to romantic fantasies the subject of our thoughts is unaware of ... See full summary »

Director: Masato Hijikata | Stars: Haruka Ayase, Mao Daichi, Charlotte Kate Fox, Masachika Ichimura

Votes: 268

35. Mga uod at rosas (1982)

Drama

A painter's passion for his art, his contradictions, frustrations, and pains affect his relationships with his wife and his model mistress.

Director: Romy Suzara | Stars: Nora Aunor, Lorna Tolentino, Johnny Delgado, Joseph Sytangco

Votes: 11

36. Exhibition on Screen: Tokyo Stories (2023)

90 min

Based on a major exhibition at the Ashmolean in Oxford, Tokyo Stories spans 400 years of incredibly dynamic art - ranging from the delicate woodblock prints of Hokusai and Hiroshige, to Pop... See full summary »

Director: David Bickerstaff | Stars: David Bickerstaff, Clare Pollard, Lena Fritsch, Daido Moriyama

Votes: 26

37. Painting Anna (2019)

76 min | Documentary, Drama

A young accountant finally pursues her dreams of becoming a painter.

Director: Vanessa Pantley | Stars: Emily Goss, G. To'mas Jones, Jessica Bassett, Gene Thorkildsen

Votes: 27

38. Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull (2007 Video Game)

E | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

Teen detective Nancy Drew and her best friend Bess Marvin travel to New Orleans and search for a missing crystal skull rumored to make its owner immortal.

Director: Mike Paganini | Stars: Lani Minella, Jennifer Pratt, Scott Carty, Jason Sharp

Votes: 100

39. The Painter and the Pointer (1944)

Passed | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

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 ... See full summary »

Director: Shamus Culhane | Stars: Sara Berner, Phil Kramer, Walter Tetley

Votes: 90

40. Hello My Name Is: German Graffiti (2015)

65 min | Documentary

Graffiti is variegated. As much variety as the styles does have the people doing it. Still one thing connects them all - the love of their art. From illegal street and train graffiti over ... See full summary »

Director: Stefan Pohl | Stars: Hendrik Beikirch, Cantwo, Markus Christl, Martha Cooper

41. Arts and Flowers (1956)

Approved | 6 min | Family, Animation, Short

Woody and a temperamental artist compete for a big prize to see who can paint the best painting of a desert flower.

Director: Paul J. Smith | Stars: Dal McKennon, Grace Stafford

Votes: 115

42. Writing on the City (2016)

60 min | Documentary, History

The formation of a city named Tehran goes back to 200 years ago. Before that it was a small village resting between surrounding mountains. Many political and social events have happened in ... See full summary »

Director: Keywan Karimi | Stars: Salman Razavi, Farahnaz Sharifi

Votes: 54

43. Brush It Up! (2017 TV Movie)

Family

Get ready to go behind the artist's palette, with a guided tour through the fascinating process of creating portrait and landscape artworks in oil.

Directors: Anabelle D. Munro, Huntly Munro | Stars: Lily Munro, Alexander Schaefer, Lauren Annette Schoth

44. Jackson Pollock 51 (1951)

11 min | Documentary, Short, Biography

Artist Jackson Pollock is seen at work painting a large canvas, then later on painting on a large sheet of glass.

Director: Hans Namuth | Star: Jackson Pollock

Votes: 32

45. The Face (1966)

6 min | Short, Drama

Portrait of an artist as a young manic. First, a montage of still photographs of an artist's face. Then motion. He stirs in sleep; he paints and expresses frustration. He looks for a light ... See full summary »

Director: Piotr Studzinski | Star: Krzysztof Kieslowski

Votes: 194

46. Hey, Allison (2014)

3 min | Short, Music

A young artist struggling for inspiration finds it in an interesting place.

Director: Matt Schichter | Stars: Devan Christodoulou, Yitzy Holton-Hinshaw, Mike Lauder, Nicole Muñoz

47. Bread, Bus and the Second First Love (2017)

110 min | Comedy

A girl who works at a bakery coincidentally finds herself face-to-face with a customer who was her crush at junior high school. The girl received a proposal from another man recently, but ... See full summary »

Director: Rikiya Imaizumi | Stars: Mai Fukagawa, Kenjirô Yamashita, Sairi Itô, Sara Shida

Votes: 82

48. Immaculate Memories: The Uncluttered Worlds of Christopher Pratt (2018)

72 min | Documentary, Biography

The life and art of Christopher Pratt. 'Canada's most famous living painter' - The Globe & Mail. This is the first feature-length documentary that Christopher Pratt has agreed to ... See full summary »

Director: Kenneth J. Harvey | Stars: Christopher Pratt, Jeanette Meehan, Barbara Pratt, Mary Pratt

Votes: 7

49. Stick 'Em Up! Reloaded (2014)

Not Rated | 81 min | Documentary

When the city is your gallery, the streets are your canvas ... you better move quick. Welcome to the shadowy world of the street art subculture.

Director: Alex Luster | Stars: Alejandro Arboleda, Christian Azul, Michael Berry, Bomit

50. Art in the Raw (1933)

19 min | Short, Comedy

Edgar turns artist and tries to paint his latest masterpiece in peace, but is constantly thwarted by a howling dog, freeloaders, his family, and a prissy fellow artist.

Director: Harry Sweet | Stars: Edgar Kennedy, Florence Lake, Dot Farley, William Eugene

Votes: 14