Controversial Artist Movies
- 2021
The Worst Person in the World
The Worst Person in the World7.52021HD
The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career...
- 2017
Loving Vincent
Loving Vincent82017HD
A young man arrives at the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his...
- 2016
Dark Crimes
Dark Crimes4.62016HD
Tadek, a Polish detective, becomes suspicious of a controversial author when the incidents described in his unpublished novel resemble the inner...
- 2016
The Family Fang
The Family Fang5.8292016HD
A brother and sister return to their family home in search of their world famous parents who have disappeared.
- 2022
Town Destroyer
Town Destroyer02022HD
Controversy erupts over a New-Deal-era mural of the namesake of San Francisco’s George Washington High School. The thirteen-panel artwork "The...
- 2021
Killer, Trader and Psychopath: The America of Bret Easton Ellis
Killer, Trader and Psychopath: The America of Bret Easton Ellis62021HD
In 1991, American Psycho, the third novel by controversial writer Bret Easton Ellis, provoked heated discussions among critics and readers alike; an...
- 2023
Inside a Nazi Mind: The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
Inside a Nazi Mind: The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell7.22023HD
An analysis of The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's controversial novel, published in 2006, which dissects the ruthless mechanisms of the Shoah from...
- 2019
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail6.62019HD
An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses (1988), thirty years after the fatwa...
- 2017
The Clouzot Scandal
The Clouzot Scandal6.52017HD
Great filmmakers claim the artistic influence of French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907-1977), a master of suspense, with a unique vision of the...
- 1984
Merton: A Film Biography
Merton: A Film Biography81984HD
In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social criticism. For nearly 27 years he was a monk of the...
- 2019
Dorian Gray: A Portrait of Oscar Wilde
Dorian Gray: A Portrait of Oscar Wilde7.22019HD
The Picture of Dorian Gray, the seminal work of Irish writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), continues to find new readers and inspire artists and creators...
- 2020
Who's Afraid of Lady Chatterley?
Who's Afraid of Lady Chatterley?82020HD
England, 1960. The Crown sues the publisher Penguin Books in order to ban the publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover, a novel by the British writer...
- 2019
Yo soy Arturo Fernández
Yo soy Arturo Fernández62019HD
A gentle portrait of the mythical Spanish actor Arturo Fernández (1929-2019) in the hour of his passing, in his own words, through his latest...
- 2019
The First Motion of the Immovable
The First Motion of the Immovable6.32019HD
It all begins with a childhood memory: that day when the father of the future filmmaker Sebastiano d'Ayala Valva forces him to listen to certain...