Portrait Of An Artist Movies

A portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959),a genius of modern architecture, whose life passed between glory, scandal and tragedy.

A walk through the life and career of the legendary French photojournalist Christine Spengler, known as Moonface, one of the few female war reporters...

French artist Maurice Chevalier (1888-1972),a legend of stage and screen, was an accomplished singer, actor and entertainer, who embodied the charm o...

The story of the rise to stardom of Joaquin Phoenix, an actor of magnetic physique, tumultuous past, socially committed, who for years has offered out...

The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in...

A surreal journey into singer José González’s inner world of thoughts and shadows. Staged with dark humour in the picturesque Swedish countryside arou...

The life and professional career of the Spanish filmmaker Florián Rey (1894-1962),a brilliant artist who began his career in silent films and had gre...

A two-hour documentary special Robin Williams: Behind Closed Doors which gives viewers an intimate look at his life from his childhood in the suburbs...

A look at the life and work of Christina Lindberg, the most famous Swedish model of the 1970s and star of exploitation cinema.

Several high-budget epic films became Omar Sharif (1932-2015) a film star. He was an actor, but also a bridge player, a womanizer, a bon vivant; he wa...

Ferruccio Castronuovo was the only authorized eye, between 1976 and 1986, to film the brilliant Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini (1920-1993) in his...

In 1956, actress and Hollywood star Grace Kelly (1929-82),then at the height of her film career, unexpectedly dropped everything to marry Prince Rain...

British author Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is the world's most translated author: her heroes, private detective Hercule Poirot and amateur sleuth Miss...

In 1864, the Spanish poet Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836-70),suffering from health problems, retires to the monastery of Veruela. Far from the noise an...

More than anyone in the cynical film industry, legendary artist Robert Redford embodies the United States' brightest side: perseverance, independence,...

At the end of his life, gravely ill, François Truffaut took refuge with his ex-wife Madeleine Morgenstern. She tried to keep him occupied during his l...

A portrait of the Spanish-German actor Daniel Brühl, a versatile performer capable of moving easily from the gentlest to the darkest role.

The incredible story of the mythical Russian-American actor and filmmaker Yul Brynner (1920-85),the most exotic sex-symbol since Rudolph Valentino; t...