The Runestone (1990)

Joan Severance plays artist Marla Stewart

Rich art lovers are attend an exhibition where they are given sledge hammers and invited to smash the walls of gallery

 the walls of the gallery being destroyed by an art lover

 a gold mask on a plynth in the gallery slowly spinning around

The gallery owner gloating

The artist Marla Stewart

A painting of her ex by the artist Marla Stewart

The artist

The Runestone on IMDB

A runestone is discovered after having being buried for many years, it has the power to give the owner of the stone their greatest desires but with terrible consiquences.
Sam Stewart and wife Marla find it has some connection to their friend Martin. A young boy named Jacob is haunted by terrifying nightmares of what is to come, and his grandfather explains these dreams through stories from Norse legend, which says that the only one who can destroy Fenrir is Týr, the Norse god of single combat, victory and heroic glory, who is prophesied to return to fight the creature. In the nick of time, the mystical Clockmaker , who actually is Týr, one-handed Norse God of combat, begins fighting Fenrir
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The Fate of the Artist's Model (1903)

Unknown silent movie actor plays the artist

The artist with the model in his studio

The artist begins to paint the model

The Fate of the Artist's Model on IMDB

An artist meets a young woman in the park and asks to paint her in his studio. Once they get back to his studio he seduces her. The film ends with the woman abandoned and wandering the streets with the artist's baby

Britannia Mews aka The Forbidden Street (1949)

Dana Andrews plays artist Henry Lambert

Adelaide 'Addie' Culver "I could never get Britannia Mews out of my mind I made it subject of my very first drawing. Those were the day when all young ladies were taught some graceful accomplishment, and cousin Alice and I were very well brought up"

Adelaide's family hire the artist Henry Lambert to teach her and her cousin Alice drawing and painting

Adelaide 'Addie' Culver drawing Britannia Mews (the rough street across the road from her house)

Cousin Alice drawing

The artist Henry Lambert critiques Adelaide Culver's drawing of Britannia Mews

"very gratifying Miss Culver for a first lesson. But since there is always room for improvement even in those of us whose whole soul is devoted to art, let us put this aside for future comparison"

The artist Henry Lambert watches cousin Alice drawing

He critiques Alice's work

"A remarkable effort Miss Hambro"

Alice Hambro's drawing

The artist Henry Lambert admires Adelaide Culver's shapely ankle as he leaves her drawing lesson

Below are a selection of works from Adelaide Culver's portfolio

Britannia Mews on IMDB

In Victorian London, a young woman marries a poor drunken artist and struggles to make ends meet. After his death, she takes in a lodger whom she soon falls in love with.
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La traversée de Paris aka Four Bags Full (1956)

Jean Gabin plays artist Grandgil






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In Paris in 1942, under German occupation, unemployed taxi-driver Marcel Martin makes his living delivering parcels by night for the black market. One evening he must carry by foot, to the other side of the capital, four suitcases containing pork meat. He goes to the basement of a grocer named Jambier and plays the accordion to mask the noise while the animal is slaughtered. Martin then goes with his wife Mariette to the restaurant where he must meet his accomplice, but learns that the man has been arrested by the police.

A stranger then enters the restaurant and, after a misunderstanding, Martin invites him to share his meal and replace his former accomplice. This decision quickly turns out calamitous as the new character, named Grandgil, isn't very co-operative. He first asks for a drastic increase in payment, terrorizing the unfortunate grocer Jambier. Then, taking a dislike to the owners of a bar where the two hide with their suitcases of fresh meat to avoid policemen checking papers, he starts wrecking the place. Outside again, when they are stopped by a lone policeman, he head butts the man to the ground. When two more policeman approach, he starts talking loudly in German and they discreetly withdraw.

The two drop into the hotel where Martin lives with his wife and Grandgil makes a quick phone call, again speaking in German. An air raid begins, and the two take refuge in what turns out to be Grangil's apartment. Martin is stunned to discover that his companion is in fact a world-famous painter, who has agreed to come along mainly for his own entertainment and insists on returning the money he extorted.
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Marcel Martin and Grangil's in his art studio

A shot of Grandgil's table in his art studio from the trailer

I Am David (2003)

Joan Plowright plays artist Sophie




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Seven years after World War II, a 12-year old boy named David (Ben Tibber) escapes a Stalinist concentration camp in Bulgaria where he has spent his entire life. He sets out on a risky journey to Denmark, initially believing he is on an important mission to deliver a letter, but eventually discovering that the "mission" was to reunite him with his mother, of whom he only has faint memories. Along his journey, he faces danger, fear, loneliness, hunger, and encounters various people.

Johannes (Jim Caviezel), his friend and mentor in the camp, who prepares him for escape, is killed by a guard, leaving David to face escape on his own. David is helped by a guard to escape, who gives him a compass and tells him he must go southwest to Greece, take a boat to Italy and finally go north to Denmark, a peaceful and neutral country. Since David was locked in a camp all his life, he has repressed feelings and trusts no one, and so feels lost and disoriented in the world.

Along his journey, though he is mistreated by some people, he is well-treated by others. Gradually he learns that some people can be trusted, and to open up and experience his own feelings. Finally, with the help of decent people whom he has learned to trust, David and his mother are reunited.
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