Paperhouse (1988)

Charlotte Burke plays artist Anna Madden

Anna's original drawing of the house

We see that Anna was drawing the picture of the house in class at school

 Anna is sent out of class for arguing with another girl over her drawing book

 She faints in the hallway and whilst she is unconscious she sees the house she has drawn

 The empty house from the dream

 Her doctor comes to visit as she has a high fever, she is told to rest in bed until she is well, Anna is very unhappy about staying in bed. The doctor tells her she has another patient who is a boy who is so ill he never gets to leave bed, Anna says she would rather die than be bedridden

 Whilst in bed Anna draws a person to visit in the house she has drawn

 The face she draws comes out unhappy, she tries to erase the sad mouth but it won't work

 She falls asleep and again visits the house she has drawn

 The face she has drawn in the window is a boy who cannot answer the door as there are no stairs in the house

 Anna wakes with a high fever and draws the inside of the house with stairs

 Anna on her bedroom floor with a fever drawing stairs for the house

 The stairs

 Anna falls asleep and goes back to the house in her dream, this time she can go inside and upstairs 

 She visits the boy in the room, he tells her his name is Marc and that he cannot walk. Anna says this is because she drew him without legs

 When she next wakes up she adds lots of nice things for Marc to use in the house. Including an ice-cream machine, a computer and books

 She draws oranges on the tree for Marc to eat

 Anna drawing in bed

 She draws hills that lead to the sea and a lighthouse

 She draws Marc on the stairs, but this time with legs

 When she falls asleep she visits the paperhouse again

 When she opens the door the legs she has drawn for Marc are on the stairs

 She tries the ice-cream machine and realises she hasn't drawn any cones

 She goes upstairs to visit Marc, he is trying to fix the computer she has drawn for him. She says that if her dad was here he would save them from this paper house

 When she wakes up she draws a picture of her dad but again the mouth comes out wrong and he looks angry. She tries to erase the picture but that doesn't work

 She scribbles out the picture of her dad in frustration 

 Then she scribbles out the picture of Marc at the window

 She scrunches up the drawing and throws it in the bin

 When her mum cleans her room she throws the scrunched up paper in the rubbish bin

 The scrunched picture

 Now when she visits everything in the house is broken and dirty

 Plus her dad has now come into her dream and is angry as she scribbled out his eyes in her drawing so he cannot see, he chases her with a hammer

 Marc guides her to pick up the drawing in her sleep and rip off the part of the drawing with her dad on it.

 She wakes in hospital and asks for her drawing book, she redraws the house with lots of nice things for Marc

 Anna Drawing in her hospital bed

 This time she draws a pencil on the drawing incase they need anything else whilst they are in the dream world

 Marc uses this pencil to make a drawing which Anna finds

Paperhouse on IMDB

While suffering from glandular fever, 11-year-old Anna Madden draws a house. When she falls asleep, she has disturbing dreams in which she finds herself inside the house she has drawn. After she draws a face at the window, in her next dream she finds a disabled boy named Marc living in the house. She learns from her doctor that Marc is a real person.
Anna sketches her father into the drawing so that he can help carry Marc away, but she inadvertently gives him an angry expression which she then crosses out, and the father (who has been away a lot and has a drinking problem, putting a strain on his marriage) appears in the dream as a furious, blinded ogre. Anna and Marc defeat the monster and shortly afterward Anna recovers, although the doctor reveals that Marc's condition is deteriorating.
Anna's father returns home and both parents seem determined to get over their marital difficulties. The family goes on holiday by the sea, where Anna finds an epilogue to her dream.
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Arena Brains (1987)

Ray Liotta plays "The Artist"

Eric Bogosian plays performance artist listed as "The Entertainer"

In the section of the film titled "The Party"

Sean Young plays "artist"

Tom Gilroy plays"artist"

Ray Liotta as the artist pensively walking away from his friend who is an art critic, as his friend tells him "Why don't you design some t-shirts and designer watches" to pay his bills.

Ray Liotta as the artist standing in front of a projection preparing to trace the image

Ray Liotta as the artist standing in front of a projection preparing to trace the image during a dinner party 

Ray Liotta as the artist tracing a projected image on the wall of his apartment/studio where he is hosting a dinner party.

A young Michael Stipe makes an appearance as 'The Watcher'. In his only scene with any dialogue he orders a sandwich from a disgruntled deli clerk

A Short 30 minute film made by artist turned film maker Robert Longo. It attempts to satirise the New York Lower Manhattan art community in a series of vignettes (each by a different screenwriter)

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So Evil My Love (1948)

Ray Milland plays artist Mark Bellis

The missionary's widow Olivia Harwood visits her old school friend to ask for money for her and the evil artist Mark Bellis to support themselves with

The evil artist Mark Bellis

 The artist Mark Bellis asks Olivia Harwood to take her hair down and step into the light

 He begins to sketch Olivia

 Olivia poses for a portrait by Mark Bellis

 he asks her if she would like to see the portrait and is disappointed when she says she never wants to see it

He shows her the portrait despite her wishes and she hates it, as he has painted her looking young and seductive. She no longer sees herself like this and believes he painted her like this in order to taunt her.

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On board a ship returning to England from the West Indies, missionary's widow Olivia Harwood is prevailed on to help nurse malarial patients on the lower decks. There she meets the suavely handsome Mark Bellis, who has been taken ill. Despite Mark's vagueness about his life and past, the couple strike up a friendship. Fully recovered by the time the ship docks, Mark persuades Olivia to allow him to take up residence in the lodging house she has inherited from her late husband. He proceeds to work a smooth line of seduction on her, while still finding time to also use his charms on the more wordly and vulgar Kitty.

Mark's past as an art thief and forger is revealed as he reunites with former partner-in-crime Edgar Bellamy and the two plan a daring art heist. Things go awry, and they are forced into a rooftop flight, narrowly avoiding police bullets. Returning to Olivia, he tells her he intends to leave London to try to make good elsewhere. However she has now fallen under his romantic spell and is prepared to do anything to keep him with her. The couple are in dire need of money, and Olivia is persuaded to insinuate herself into the home of her wealthy former schoolfriend Susan Courtney and her older husband Henry. She finds Susan in a state of neurosis and barely suppressed hysteria, worn down by the criticisms of the cold and sneering Henry, who agrees to employ her as Susan's live-in companion. Under Mark's urging, she immediately begins to pilfer stocks and bonds and small valuables from the Courtney household, passing them on to Mark to turn into cash.

Mark meanwhile has discovered an old bundle of letters from Susan to Olivia, containing youthfully indiscreet descriptions of romantic dalliances and questionable moral conduct. Realising that making public the contents of the letters would ruin the Courtneys' social reputation, he believes that he has hit the financial jackpot. As low as she has already sunk under his influence however, Olivia finds the notion of blackmail repugnant and a step too far down the road of criminality. She flees from the Courtneys and looks into the possibility of a return to overseas missionary work, only to find that a lone woman is not wanted. She finds herself sheltering in a gloomy church, where Mark somehow manages to track her down. In despair, she falls for his blandishments and submits herself again to his control and instructions, blackmail and all.

Olivia returns to the Courtney household and sets in motion the blackmail plan, while Mark continues to dally with Kitty and gifts her a locket which was given to him by Olivia. Unknown to Olivia or Susan, Henry has become exasperated by Susan's apparent inability to produce the heir he craves, and is plotting to have her committed to a distant mental asylum. He has also employed a private detective who has managed to trace the missing stocks and bonds back to Mark and has built up a dossier of his criminal past.

Henry locks the horrified Susan in her room to await the arrival of the sanatorium doctors and orders Olivia out of the house. At Mark's behest, she returns to step up the blackmail threat, but is countered by Henry confronting her with the information he has on Mark, which would be more than enough to hang him. A struggle ensues and Henry collapses with a life-threatening heart attack. Olivia releases Susan and tricks her into giving her husband a dose of medicine laced with poison. Henry succumbs, the police are summoned and the hopelessly confused and incoherent Susan makes what sounds like a confession to murder. She is taken away to prison to face the prospect of the gallows.

Mark announces his intention to take Olivia away with him to a new life in America, beyond the reach of British justice. Olivia however is conscience-stricken about Susan, and matters take a fatal turn when she runs into Kitty, wearing the incriminating locket. All her illusions about Mark's love for her suddenly shattered, she finally realises that she has all along been no more than a willing pawn in his game. Keeping her own counsel, she waits until the opportunity arises in a hansom cab to take her ultimate revenge.

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