Portrait Of An Artist Movies

Lisbon, Portugal, 1927. The writer and journalist Fernando Pessoa accepts from his boss the commission to create an advertising slogan for the drink C...

American dancer and choreographer Hermes Pan recalls his life and work as he relives the glorious history of the Hollywood musical.

Born in Campo de Criptana, a small village in the Spanish region of La Mancha, Sara Montiel (1928-2013) conquered Mexico, Hollywood, and the hearts of...

A moving and very funny portrait of the personal and professional life of the magnificent French comedian Louis de Funès (1914-83),as well as a detai...

A portrait of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017),a witness of the Tiananmen Square massacre (1989),a dissident, a woodpecker who tirelessly pecke...

When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came very close to winning the prestigious Prix Goncourt....

A journey through the work of Spanish filmmaker Juan Piquer Simón (1935-2011).

The story of Enrique Herreros (1903-1977),cartoonist, advertiser, poster designer, talent manager, actor, producer and filmmaker, and the most daring...

An immersion into the life and writings of the extraordinary American science fiction writer Philip K. Dick (1928-82),whose outstanding work predicte...

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

In this hybrid political thriller and verité portrait documentary, Sara Nodjoumi, working with co-director and husband, Till Schauder, makes her direc...

An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84),a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the Western...

As the eldest son of the legendary actor and producer Kirk Douglas (1916-2020),it was not easy for Michael Douglas to make his way in Hollywood and,...

80 years are gone since The Little Prince was released. Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was also a pilot, and we follow his last four years from his U...

Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress Barbara Stanwyck (1907-90),a Hollywood legend.

A portrait of French filmmaker Michel Gondry, creator, for three decades, of an imperfect, astonishing, fascinating, damaged and poetic work.

Spain, April 14, 1931. The Second Republic is born. From the beginning, the writer Miguel de Unamuno is considered one of the ethical pillars of the n...

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...

In the late 1990s, iconic photographer Bruce Weber barely managed to convince legendary actor Robert Mitchum (1917-97) to let himself be filmed simply...