Artistic Struggle Movies, Movies about Artistic Struggle

Here we've displayed a list of the best Artistic Struggle films : Khachaturian(2003), Death in Venice(1971), The Cream Will Rise(1998), A Matter of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt(2011), Savage Messiah(1972), Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot(2018), Fingers(1978), Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier(1997), Lautrec(1998), If the Dancer Dances(2018), Leaning Into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy(2017), The Rebel(1961) ... ...

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Khachaturian

A documentary about the life of Soviet Armenian composer Aram Khachaturyan. Among other events, the film covers Khachaturyan's difficulties working as a creative artist during the Stalin era.

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Death in Venice

While recovering in Venice, sickly Composer Gustav von Aschenbach becomes dangerously fixated with teenager Tadzio.

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The Cream Will Rise

The Cream Will Rise is a documentary that exposes the turbulent and troubling side of singer/songwriter Sophie B. Hawkins' early years when a confrontation with her mother forces her to ... See full summary »

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A Matter of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt

Paul Liebrandt is one of the most talented and controversial chefs in the food world and the youngest chef to have received 3 stars from the New York Times. He was 24. NY Times food critic,... See full summary »

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Savage Messiah

Biographical movie of the life of French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (Scott Antony).

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Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot

On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.

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Fingers

A dysfunctional young man is pulled between loyalties to his Italian mob-connected loan shark father and his mentally disturbed Jewish concert pianist mother.

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Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier

A portrait of Denmark's most acclaimed and controversial director, Lars von Trier. A meeting with von Trier on a private level as well as with his film universe. Filmmaker Stig Björkman ... See full summary »

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Lautrec

Life, passion, love...all these were part of Toulouse-Lautrec's art. His artistic development among the masters of the postimpressionism.

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If the Dancer Dances

If a dance is not danced, it vanishes. If the Dancer Dances follows a group of New York City's top modern dancers as they reconstruct an iconic and mysterious work by the legendary Merce ... See full summary »

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Leaning Into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy

Leaning into the Wind follows artist Andy Goldsworthy on his exploration of the world and himself through ephemeral and permanent workings on the landscape, cities and with his own body.

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The Rebel

An aspiring musician who arrives in New York in search of fame and fortune. He soon meets a taxi dancer, moves in with her, and before too long a romance develops.

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Overnight Sensation

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Final Portrait

The story of Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti.

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Prison Song

A young man lives and learns while growing up on the street and in and out of correctional facilities.

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Top of the Town

Diana Borden (Doris Nolan, a bleeding-heart rich-girl, returns from a trip to Russia filled with sympathy for the "little" people of the slums and wants to do "something" artistic and ... See full summary »

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Bliss

A brilliant painter facing the worst creative block of her life turns to anything she can to complete her masterpiece, spiraling into a hallucinatory hellscape of drugs, sex and murder in the sleazy underbelly of Los Angeles.

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A Fine Madness

Samson Shillitoe, mad genius of a poet irresistible to women, but plagued by writer's block, agrees to see a psychiatrist, and his beautiful wife.

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After Louie

After Louie explores the contradictions of modern gay life and history through Sam, a man desperate to understand how he and his community got to where they are today.

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Manifesto

From an anchorwoman to a homeless man, actress Cate Blanchett portrays 13 distinct characters in vignettes that incorporate timeless manifestos.

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My Art

Frustrated by her lack of recognition, a middle-aged artist leaves the city for upstate New York to regain her creative spark.

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The Texture of Falling

This documentary reveals the dazzling and obscure system of American University campuses: a world of money, influence, but also stress, decadence, excess, where alcohol freely flows and ... See full summary »

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Eldorado

A skinhead, a barmaid and a thief are part of a group of six young Canadians attempting to cope with life in the '90s.

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