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Nikolai is an honest, principled man in his mid‑thirties. A reserve officer with extensive experience, he finds it hard to adapt to civilian life, often taking on odd jobs in security. Unable to find common ground with yet another boss, Nikolai quits his job almost as soon as he starts. However, the next morning, the wife of his former employer shows up at his door with a strange proposal: to go to America as an escort for a young lady. For what seems like such an easy job at first glance, the woman is willing to pay a tidy sum — which means the trip is likely to be quite challenging. Desperately in need of money, Nikolai agrees to the offer, not even suspecting how dangerous the trip to luxurious Las Vegas will turn out to be…

A soldier and member of the Dutch resistance investigates stolen art in the wake of the Second World War, including a Vermeer sold to the Nazis by a flamboyant forger.

While her mother is expecting their second child, young Thi befriends Ngoc, a club waitress who has just moved in as a tenant in their family home. As their friendship grows, she discovers that Ngoc is secretly a sex worker. Meanwhile, an art book of Tamara de Lempicka’s female nudes, stolen from a bookshop, silently bears witness.

Victor Millan is a Venezuelan folk artist. The naive painter appears alongside his friends, in his environment, the real world that surrounds him. Here, inventions, myths, obsessions, the sun, the sea, music, and original philosophy are imbued with humor. The film's soundtrack includes commentary and dialogue from the artist himself.

A young artist begins to question her inspirations and relationship when a morbid painting style seeps into her mind.

Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically 150 years before the invention of photography? Spanning a decade, Jenison's adventure takes him to Holland, on a pilgrimage to the North coast of Yorkshire to meet artista David Hockney, and eventually even to Buckingham Palace. The epic research project Jenison embarques on is as extraordinary as what he discovers.

Margaret is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl. Both bride- and groom-to-be still live with their mothers in the humdrum suburb of Croydon. However Margaret has been acting strangely ever since a vacation in Egypt, where she stayed with her mother's friend Marie-Claire. She secretly despises Syl, but does not resist when her mother, who has repressed the failure of her own matrimony, insists on marriage for the sake of social convention.

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How have the changing views on children been reflected in their representation in art? From Baby Jesus to the first photographic portraits, an exploration of six centuries of art history through the prism of childhood.

Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?

Two hapless drifters, Frank and Bruno, team up with Linde to recover her land and trek across 1870's Southern Arizona to find an elusive frontier musician.

A portrait of a man sleeping under the open sky

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After the family moved to the new home, their daughter is possessed by a male demon, which is the same man in an old painting.

A San Francisco couple travels to France in search of Pablo Picasso.

What had initially started out as a Jewish revolt against the Roman occupation, quickly turned into a fierce civil war. The combination of religious messianic zeal and the friction between social classes proved disastrous and resulted in the destruction of Jerusalem and the Holy Temple.

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"In My Nature"/"Dans Ma Nature" follows artist Stefan Horik through the rhythms of his daily life in Charlevoix, Quebec—painting, wandering, and preparing for an exhibition—as he reflects on the landscapes, relationships, and experiences that continue to shape his art.

Le déjeuner sur l’herbe is simultaneously perceived from four different camera positions in a work which engages with the pro-filmic in order to question documentation, illusion and the film viewing process.

According to Bernard Cohn's review, the directors "show that the painter of British society at the beginning of the 18th century was not only ahead of his time in his aesthetic theories, but that he carried within him the signs that allow us to recognize a creator." (Positif, no. 70, June 1965, p. 73.)

A short film documenting a day out with artists practicing their craft through plein air style paintings.