# The best movies about painters

Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Turner, Pollock: the great painters as seen by cinema, according to Mediafilm's selection and the Cinetrafic audience ranking.

- 93 votes · 13 items
- Jun 4, 2023 · septiemeart_nocturne
- https://even.best/en/l/4243/the-best-movies-about-painters

## Top 12

1. **Van Gogh (1991)** (13 · ▲14 ▼1) — Maurice Pialat and Jacques Dutronc: the painter's last months in Auvers-sur-Oise.
2. **Lust for Life (1956)** (9 · ▲11 ▼2) — Vincente Minnelli and Kirk Douglas.
3. **Frida (2002)** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo, opposite Diego Rivera.
4. **Pollock (2000)** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — Ed Harris directs and stars as Jackson Pollock.
5. **Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — A maid becomes Vermeer's model, with Scarlett Johansson.
6. **Rembrandt (1936)** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Alexander Korda and Charles Laughton: the Dutch master's last years.
7. **Big Eyes (2014)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Tim Burton: Margaret Keane and the husband who signed her paintings.
8. **Basquiat (1996)** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Julian Schnabel on Jean-Michel Basquiat, with David Bowie as Andy Warhol.
9. **Mr. Turner (2014)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Mike Leigh and Timothy Spall on J. M. W. Turner's final years.
10. **Goya's Ghosts (2006)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Milos Forman, the Inquisition and the painter's model.
11. **The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)** (2 · ▲4 ▼2) — Michelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel under pressure from Pope Julius II.
12. **Maudie (2016)** (1 · ▲3 ▼2) — Sally Hawkins as Maud Lewis, the folk painter from Nova Scotia.
13. **Surviving Picasso (1996)** (-3 · ▲0 ▼3) — James Ivory and Anthony Hopkins: ten years of Picasso's life.

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