20 best movies like Frida (2002)

List of the best movies like Frida (2002): Pollock, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Maudie, Séraphine, Lust for Life, My Masterpiece, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Midnight in Paris, The Danish Girl, Mr. Turner.

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Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:02

In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genremelodrama, drama, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom, Luxembourg, France, Belgium, USA
Duration01:40

This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting "Girl With A Pearl Earring" by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genremelodrama, drama, biography
CountryRepublic of Ireland, Canada

Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis falls in love with a fishmonger while working for him as a live-in housekeeper.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama, biography
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration02:05

The tragic story of French naïve painter Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (1864-1942), a humble servant who becomes a gifted self-taught painter. Discovered by prominent critic and collector William Uhde, she came to prominence between the wars grouped with other naïve painters like Henri Rouseau only to descend into madness and obscurity with the onset of Great Depression and World War II.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:02

An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo, the tormented Van Gogh eventually leaves Holland for France, where he meets volatile fellow painter Paul Gauguin and struggles to find greater inspiration.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryArgentina, Spain
Duration01:44

Arturo, the successful owner of an art gallery, and Renzo, a talented but decadent painter, are old friends who cannot stop bickering. One day, Arturo comes up with a solution to all their problems, but the plan they concoct turns out to be crazier and riskier than they originally expected.

Markimdb: 8
Genrecomedy, documentary, crime, history
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:27

Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film. Exit Through the Gift Shop tells the incredible true story of how an eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
CountryUSA, Spain
Duration01:34

    A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Japan
    Duration02:35

      When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks on a groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany, USA
      Duration02:30

      Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryRussia, Poland, Serbia
      Duration01:29

      Dovlatov charts six days in the life of brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought to preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky while watching his artist friends get crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genredocumentary, history
      CountryCanada, USA, France, Germany, United Kingdom
      Duration01:30

      Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genremelodrama, drama, crime, biography
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:46

        The story of the awakening of the painter, Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genredrama, biography, history
        CountryRepublic of Ireland, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, France, USA
        Duration01:46

        Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:59

        Fictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

        Markimdb: 7.9
        Genredrama, biography
        CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom
        Duration01:43

        In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to be retarded for the first ten years of his life.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:33

        As influential Italian artist Caravaggio dies in exile in 1610, he recalls his short life, from his childhood to his initial artistic failures to his later triumphs as he catches the eye of a sympathetic cardinal to his destructive relationship with a dashing gambler.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genredrama, cartoon, crime, biography
        CountryPoland, United Kingdom, USA, Luxembourg, Netherlands
        Duration02:17

        The film brings the paintings of Vincent van Gogh to life to tell his remarkable story. Every one of the 65,000 frames of the film is an oil-painting hand-painted by 125 professional oil-painters who travelled from all across the world to the Loving Vincent studios in Poland and Greece to be a part of the production. As remarkable as Vincent’s brilliant paintings are his passionate and ill-fated life and mysterious death.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genremelodrama, drama, biography
        CountryFrance
        Duration02:04

        Paul Gauguin feels smothered by the atmosphere prevailing in Paris in the year 1891. Around him, everything is so artificial and conventional: he needs authenticity to renew his art. Failing to convince his wife Mette and his five children to follow him to Paradise Lost, he sets out for Tahiti alone. Once there, he chooses to settle down in Mataiera, a village far away from Papeete, installing himself in a native-made hut. He soon starts working passionately, painting and carving in a style close to the primitive art specific to the island. During his two-year stay the artist will experience poverty, cardiac problems and other displeasures but also happiness in the arms of Tehura, a beautiful young native girl.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountrySpain
        Duration01:34

        In an attempt to help his friend with his impotence, Jaime sets up two friends together. But after the failure, he comes in to help. What first appeared to be just a sexual experience evolves to a full romantic relationship of three people.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genremelodrama
        CountryFrance
        Duration01:51

        The Côte d’Azur. 1915. In his twilight years, Pierre-Auguste Renoir is tormented by the loss of his wife, the pains of arthritic old age and the terrible news that his son Jean has been wounded in action. But when a young girl miraculously enters his world, the old painter is filled with a new, wholly unexpected energy. Blazing with life, radiantly beautiful, Andrée will become his last model, and the wellspring of a remarkable rejuvenation. Back at the family home to convalesce, Jean too falls under the spell of the new, redheaded star in the Renoir firmament. In their Mediterranean Eden - and in the face of his father's fierce opposition - he falls in love with this wild, untameable spirit... and as he does so, within weak-willed, battle-shaken Jean, a filmmaker begins to grow.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genredrama, biography
        CountryFrance, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, USA
        Duration03:14

        The tragic story of Vincent van Gogh broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. Based on the letters written between the two.

        Markimdb: 5
        Genremelodrama, drama, biography
        CountryFrance, Belgium
        Duration02:26

        Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), man of the people, autodidact and revolutionary sculptor - the most brilliant of his era. At 42, Rodin meets Camille Claudel, a young woman desperate to become his assistant. He quickly acknowledges her as his most able pupil, and treats her as an equal in matters of creation.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genredrama, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:27

        The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrebiography
        CountryItaly
        Duration01:21

        Discover Leonardo da Vinci, the man, the painter, the scientist and the inventor, through a unique, engaging and fascinating journey in the mind of Leonardo.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Australia
        Duration02:35

        In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genredrama, biography, history
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration02:31

          Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.

          Markimdb: 5.1
          Genredrama, biography
          CountryAustria, France, Germany, United Kingdom
          Duration02:11

          A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.

          Markimdb: 7.6
          Genremusical, documentary
          CountryGermany, France, United Kingdom, USA
          Duration01:43

          Pina is a feature-length dance film in 3D with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer, who died in the summer of 2009.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genremelodrama, drama, biography
          CountryFrance, Belgium
          Duration02:19

          Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Près. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two women authors, based on Violette's quest for freedom through writing and on Simone's conviction that she holds in her hands the destiny of an extraordinary writer.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genrefantasy, drama, adventure, family, cartoon
          CountryFrance, Belgium, Canada, USA

          Three characters living in an unfinished painting venture out into the real world in search of their creator to convince him to finish his work.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genredrama, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:41

          An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-tothing dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genredrama, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:48

          The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryFrance, Belgium
          Duration01:38

          In 1971, Carole and Delphine meet and fall in love in Paris. When Carole follows Delphine back to her family farm in Limousin, the two find lesbianism and feminism are not as easy in the countryside.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genrecomedy, drama, biography
          CountryFrance, USA
          Duration01:50

          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.

          Markimdb: 5.2
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryUSA

          After a decade of living in San Francisco, Jesse is forced to move back to his Midwestern roots because he can no longer afford the city. On his final night in the city, friends and ex-lovers gather for a going away party that promises to heighten Jesse's already bittersweet feelings about leaving.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genredrama
          CountryAustria, USA

          The most famous Museum in Vienna appears in the film as a mysterious intersection where the characters explore their own lives, the city and how art reflects the world.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, France, USA
          Duration01:53

          Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA

          Thirty-nine-year old divorcé Louise Harrington (Linney) works in the admissions office at Columbia University School of the Arts. She is unnerved when she receives an application from F. Scott Feinstadt, the same name of her high school sweetheart who was killed in a car crash, and calls the student to arrange an interview. His appearance, mannerisms, and painting style closely resemble those of her former love, and she begins to suspect the young artist may be the reincarnation of her old flame. Hours after meeting, the two embark upon an affair. Also complicating Louise's life are her relationship with her ex-husband Peter , who confesses he is learning to cope with a sex addiction that, unknown to her, plagued their marriage; her ne'er-do-well brother Sammy, who is favored by their mother Ellie despite his shortcomings; and her best friend Missy, who stole the original Scott from Louise before his death and seems intent on doing the same with the contemporary version.

          Markimdb: 8.2
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama, cartoon, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:02

          Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche, in this feature film version of Don Hertzfeldt's animated short film trilogy.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genrecomedy, drama, music
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:00

          Straight out of Jersey comes Patricia Dombrowski, a.k.a. Killa P, a.k.a. Patti Cake$, an aspiring rapper fighting through a world of strip malls and strip clubs on an unlikely quest for glory.

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, biography, history
          CountryUSA, Morocco
          Duration03:10

          A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genremelodrama, drama, biography
          CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Japan, USA
          Duration01:31

          Biography of the British painter Francis Bacon. The movie focuses on his relationship with George Dyer, his lover. Dyer was a former small time crook.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:24

          An immature, newly unemployed comic must navigate the murky waters of adulthood after her fling with a graduate student results in an unplanned pregnancy.

          Markimdb: 7.9
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryFrance, Austria, Germany
          Duration02:07

          Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryUSA

          At the start of the summer, Bridget has an abortion just as she lands a much-needed job in affluent Evanston, Illinois — nannying a six-year old.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountrySaudi Arabia, Netherlands, Germany, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, USA
          Duration01:38

          Wadjda is a 10-year-old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Although she lives in a conservative world, Wadjda is fun loving, entrepreneurial and always pushing the boundaries of what she can get away with. After a fight with her friend Abdullah, a neighborhood boy she shouldn't be playing with, Wadjda sees a beautiful green bicycle for sale. She wants the bicycle desperately so that she can beat Abdullah in a race. But Wadjda's mother won't allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl's virtue. So Wadjda decides to try and raise the money herself...

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genredrama, history
          CountryPoland, Sweden
          Duration01:32

          What would it be like to step inside a great work of art, have it come alive around you, and even observe the artist as he sketches the very reality you are experiencing? From Lech Majewski, one of Poland's most acclaimed filmmakers, The Mill and the Cross is a cinematic re-staging of Pieter Bruegel's masterpiece "Procession to Calvary," presented alongside the story of its creation.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:09

          Mike Leigh’s much praised 2010 tragicomical drama. During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.

          Markimdb: 7.7
          Genredrama
          CountryFrance, Israel, Germany

          The trial story of Viviane Amsalem's five year fight to obtain her divorce in front of the only legal authority competent for divorce cases in Israel, the Rabbinical Court.




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