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

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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

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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

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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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A Welsh Singer (1915)

Henry Edwards plays artist Leuan

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A romance set in Wales. A shepherdess and shepherd fall in love but become separated by their careers. She becomes and opera star and the shepherd becomes a sculptor
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Leaving Metropolis (2002)

Troy Ruptash plays artist David











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'David (Troy Ruptash) is a well-known artist who is blocked. He decides to take a job as a waiter to try to find inspiration. His friend and roommate Shannon (Thom Allison), a pre-op male-to-female transsexual, stumbles across the Main St. Diner, owned by Matt (Vince Corazza) and Violet (Lynda Boyd), who are looking for a waiter. David gets hired and quickly becomes close with the couple although they don't know of his standing in the art community and are surprised to learn that he's gay. David's friend Kryla (Cherilee Taylor), a columnist for the Winnipeg Tribune, tracks David down at the diner against his wishes. An annoyed David demands that she write up the diner in her column, which she does. The diner's business picks up considerably.
Shannon, whose sex reassignment surgery has been repeatedly delayed because of her HIV-positive status, begins to become ill. David has a painting installed and Kryla gets his photo in the paper. Matt and Violet see the photo and realize that he's famous.
David and Matt start hanging out. Matt, who had tried his hand at drawing comic books, pesters David to show him his paintings but David resists. Matt confesses that he had once fallen in love with another man in college although he hadn't acted on it. David, finding himself drawn to Matt, paints him nude (although Matt doesn't pose). He tells Matt that there's a painting he needs to see. Matt comes to David's place and sees the painting. He becomes aroused and the two begin an affair.
David paints two more portraits of Matt, who still doesn't actually pose. Kryla and Shannon hail them as his best work and entreat him to exhibit them but Matt, nervous about how Violet would react, makes him promise not to. Each also tells the other that he loves him. They keep the relationship secret, though, especially in the face of the vehement disapproval Kryla expresses to David at the idea of his sleeping with a married man.
Kryla soon discovers the affair when she walks in on David and Matt having sex. A panicked Matt tells David that he lied about loving him and flees. In the aftermath of the affair, Shannon convinces David to break his promise and exhibit the paintings. He does so under the title "Straightman." When Matt learns of the show he confronts David, first threatening to destroy the paintings and then offering himself again sexually. David contemptuously dismisses him. Matt tells Violet about the paintings and about the affair and admits that he is in love with David. She demands a divorce.
Shannon, who has grown progressively more ill, decides to take her life. As she dies, David runs into Kryla at a bar and they have a bitter fight.
Violet attends the opening but merely tells David that the paintings are very good. As she's leaving Matt arrives and she refuses to give him another chance. After the opening Matt again approaches David who also rebuffs him.
At film's end, Matt has left town. David has also decided to leave. He and Kryla reconcile.'
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You Can't Buy Luck (1937)

Vinton Hayworth plays artist and gigolo Paul Vinette

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Superstitious New York gambler Joe Baldwin (Onslow Stevens), owner of the thoroughbred racing horse Sarcasm, believes that luck can be bought with charitable deeds. Before the Kentucky Derby, to "buy luck," he finances an expensive trip to Europe for gold-digger Jean Jason, his "good luck charm," not knowing she is taking her lover with her, gigolo and sometime artist Paul Vinette (Vinton Hayworth).
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Fascinating Youth (1926)

Ivy Harris plays artist Jeanne King

Ivy Harris as artist Jeanne King (with Thelma Todd as Lorraine Lane)

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A playboy wants to marry an artist against the wishes of his father. With her help he mounts a big advertising campaign for his wealthily father's struggling resort.
Many silent film stars make guest appearances in this feature, it is now considered a lost film
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Poison Ivy II: Lily (1996)

Alyssa Milano plays artist Lily Leonetti

Xander Berkeley plays artist Donald Falk

Johnathon Schaech plays artist Gredin

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Lily is a sheltered art student from Michigan attending college in California. She finds an apartment and she soon notices her roommates Tanya, Bridgette and Robert, all art students, aren't quite normal. For the first time out of her village, she is still used to her protected life in Michigan and frequently calls her parents. One day she discovers a box of items belonging to Ivy, a girl she has never met before. In the box, she finds nude pictures of the girl and her diary. She is soon drawn to the content, also desiring for the girl's sexual confidence and fearlessness. In class, she has trouble expressing herself, unlike Gredin, an attractive co-student and sculptor she soon starts dating. Meanwhile, she has found a job, babysitting Daphne, the daughter of her art teacher Donald Falk.
Lily slowly becomes obsessed with Ivy's letters and photos, attempting to take over her image. Soon enough, she cuts her hair, pierces her belly button and starts wearing more revealing clothes. Gredin grows even more attracted to her and it doesn't take long before they start having sex. He is unamused by the amount of private time she spends with Donald, though, but she explains it's because of the babysitting. She inspires Donald to perform art again, having long been afraid to express himself. She agrees to posing nude for him and finds a way to express herself in the meantime. During this process, he secretly falls in love with her, which has a great deal of impact on his marriage to Angela.
One day, Lily catches Gredin and Bridgette together. Feeling upset, she starts to rebel, thereby estranging herself from her friends. At a party, she enjoys the attention she is getting from men and she amuses herself, until she sees Gredin intimately dancing with another girl. Trying to make him jealous, she kisses a masked guy, turning out to be Robert. She eventually spends the night with Gredin, but he dumps her the next day, explaining she has changed too much. Meanwhile, Angela has found Donald's drawing of Lily and thinks he has an affair with her. Donald, already depressed since he saw Lily kissing Gredin, takes it out on Lily. He later claims he is in love with her and tries to kiss her. She is initially unamused by his attempts, but they eventually heavily make out with each other, until they are interrupted. She leaves and soon reunited with Gredin.
Not much later, she is invited for dinner at the Falk family and brings Gredin with her, which upsets Donald. When they are alone in a room, Donald forces himself up to Lily. She tries to stop him, but has no success. They are eventually caught in the act by Daphne, who runs away and is hit by a car. Lily, traumatized by what happened that night, returns home and destroys everything that has to do with Ivy. She is surprised by a psychotic Donald, who attacks her. Gredin tries to save her, but Donald beats him up and even tries to stab him. She tries to run away by going to the roof. He follows her and eventually falls off to his death. In the end, Lily and Gredin say they love each other and they finally decide to be with each other.
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