Children of Paradise (1945), Opening Night (1977), The Swell Season (2011), Quitting (2001), The Man Who Loved Women (1977), Man on the Moon (1999), Song of Love (1947), Who Does She Think She Is? (2008) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Art And Life movies.
Storyline: Strolling indolently around the 1830s vibrant Parisian avenue called the Boulevard du Crime, the graceful and elusive courtesan, Garance, finds herself wrongfully accused of pickpocketing. But, amid a sea of jugglers, sideshow performers, streetwalkers, and crooks, the silently eloquent mime, Baptiste, comes to her rescue, only to hopelessly fall for her. And just like that, love's sweet torture befalls the delicate pantomimist, as the insufferable burden of knowing that the object of his desire can never belong to anyone, will heartlessly haunt him for years to come. Many have tried to seize her heart--the flamboyant thespian, Frédérick Lemaître; the criminal dandy, Pierre-François Lacenaire, and the imperious but loveless Count, Édouard de Montray--however, Garance, after so many barren years, now seems to need only one man. In the end, trusting a frail and modest rose is beautiful but cruel. Is there anyone who can accept the naked truth of an unrequited love?
Plot Keywords: french cinema, classic film, romanticism, theater, paris, 19th century, love ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young woman gets killed in an accident trying to meet her favorite actress Myrtle Gordon after a play. Then Myrtle Gordon felt responsible for the killing leading her down to an emotional crisis that interferes with her professional work as an actress.—Chemi González <chemi01@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, psychological drama, female protagonist, show business, theater, midlife crisis, mental breakdown ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Oscar-winning musicians Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová embark on a world tour, but the pressures of touring and performing threaten their offstage romantic relationship.
Plot Keywords: music documentary, love story, true story, independent music, emotional turmoil, behind the scenes, musical journey ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the late 80s, a new film star, Jia Hongsheng, emerged in China. Labeled the thug idol; he gained fame playing gangsters and heroes in a series of Chinese B movies. Jia went on to star in a stage version of "The Kiss of the Spider Woman." This movie explores his journey, from the cutting edge of China's artistic movement in the early 90s, through a period of conflict with himself and his parents, to a mental institution and finally to the quest to rediscover himself and his family.
Plot Keywords: drama, biography, drug addiction, recovery, chinese cinema, independent film, true story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bertrand Morane's burial is attended by all the women the forty-year-old engineer loved. We then flash back to Bertrand's life and love affairs, told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel. A film about romantic relationships, the need to charm, and the literary creation.—Yepok and Brian McInnis
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, french cinema, desire, women, erotic, psychological analysis ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A biographical film on the late comedian Andy Kaufman. Kaufman, along with his role on Taxi (1978), was famous for being the self-declared Intergender Wrestling Champion of the world. After beating women time and time again, Jerry Lawler (who plays himself in the movie), a professional wrestler, got tired of seeing all of this and decided to challenge Kaufman to a match. In most of the matches the two had, Lawler prevailed with the piledriver, which is a move by spiking an opponent head-first into the mat. One of the most famous moments in this feud was in the early 80s when Kaufman threw coffee on Lawler on Late Night with David Letterman (1982), got into fisticuffs with Lawler, and proceeded to sue NBC.
Plot Keywords: biography, comedy, drama, jim carrey, based on a true story, actor's life, performance art ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifelong friend, composer Johannes Brahms.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: biography, musical, history, romance, drama, classical music, composer ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Society has long pressured women into an either/or situation: Either you raise a family, or you pursue a career. This documentary features five women who do not accept such a division but instead strive to balance their artistic pursuits with raising children. Rather than being detrimental, the challenges of each pursuit reinforce and enrich those of the other. This is examined within the larger context of women's representation in the male-dominated art world.
Plot Keywords: women, artists, identity, creativity, social expectations, gender roles, documentary ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A largely fictionalized account of the career of actress Jeanne Eagels, whose fame was both on stage and on the screen in the 1910s and 1920s, is presented. After losing in a rigged carnival beauty pageant, winning which she believed would be her first step to becoming a serious actress, Jeanne joins the traveling carnival itself under the guidance of the pageant organizer, Sal Satori, who features her in a variety of carnival stage shows. But it's when the carnival approaches New York City that Jeanne demonstrates how she truly mapped out her road to acting fame even before meeting Sal. Under the tutelage of renowned acting coach Nellie Neilson, Jeanne, who does possess true acting talent, is given her big acting break and does achieve fame on the Broadway stage, and ultimately also in Hollywood films. Jeanne is not averse to doing whatever is required to advance her career, even at the expense of others. Achieving fame so quickly takes its toll on Jeanne, who turns to alcohol and drugs which would lead to her tragic end. Although other men would come and go over her life, Sal, who ends up joining forces with his brother in operating lucrative Coney Island attractions, is one constant, he who fell in love with and wanted to marry her.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, historical, female lead, hollywood, acting career, tragedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.
Plot Keywords: historical, comedy, romance, drama, biography, art, renaissance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: During the making of one of his films, French film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 17-year-old actress Anne Wiazemsky and later marries her.
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, romance, french cinema, director, art, marriage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Eric Fane is a composer unwilling to compromise his dream for a steady job back home in the United States.
Plot Keywords: silent film, drama, romance, 1920s, black and white, classic film, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Absent-minded photographer Polly (Sheila McCarthy) lands a job at an art gallery in Toronto operated by a woman named Gabrielle (Paule Baillargeon). Gabrielle tells Polly she regrets she never became a great painter. Polly is impressed with Gabrielle's paintings, however, and after she smuggles one into a gallery show, a critic praises it as a masterpiece. But when it turns out to be the work of Gabrielle's lover (Ann-Marie MacDonald), Polly begins to understand how the art world works.
Plot Keywords: independent film, female director, drama, comedy, coming of age, self-discovery, female perspective ...
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