Movies and TvShows featuring "painting-a-portrait" theme.

A graduate student named Finn seeks guidance on love and relationships as she prepares to complete her thesis, which focuses on the history of quilt making. She joins a quilting circle and becomes immersed in the lives and stories of the women in the group. As Finn delves into their experiences, she gains insights into love, marriage, motherhood, and friendship. Along the way, she also discovers her own path to self-discovery and learns the value of community and connection.

Final Portrait is a biographical comedy-drama film that tells the story of sculptor Alberto Giacometti inviting American writer James Lord to sit for a portrait. The film is set in 1964 and explores the struggles of an artist and their relationship with the subject of their artwork.

After surviving multiple suicide attempts, a man becomes obsessed with a theory that some people can only die through the hands of others. He forms a dangerous alliance with a troubled hitman, leading them on a dark and unpredictable journey.

After experiencing sleep paralysis herself, Kate Bowman becomes determined to uncover the truth behind a string of mysterious deaths linked to the terrifying condition. As she delves deeper into the investigation, Kate encounters an ancient evil entity that preys on people while they are asleep. With the help of a social worker and a wraith, she must fight the creature and prevent more deaths before it's too late.

Effie Gray tells the story of Effie Gray, a young woman who finds herself in a loveless and unconsummated marriage in Victorian England. As she struggles to find happiness and love, she must navigate the complexities of societal expectations and the domineering presence of her mother-in-law. This period drama explores themes of love, desire, and personal liberation.

Three women strive to find their place at an elite Northeastern university. When anonymous racist attacks target a Black freshman, who insists she is being haunted by ghosts, each woman must determine where the real menace lies.

When a struggling writer becomes a last-minute substitute for Santa, he embarks on a hilarious adventure to find the real Santa Claus and save Christmas.

In 1970s London, a disabled woman gets caught up in a crime involving an art expert, a thief, and an auction house. Along the way, she also finds romance. The story explores themes of disability, art, and love.

Set in a boarding school in Potsdam, Germany, 'Girls in Uniform' explores the intense and forbidden relationship between a student named Manuela von Meinhardis and her beautiful and charismatic teacher, Fräulein von Bernburg. As Manuela navigates school life and her own burgeoning sexuality, she becomes infatuated with Fräulein von Bernburg, leading to a series of emotionally charged events that culminate in a dramatic suicide attempt. This groundbreaking film, based on Christa Winsloe's play, delves into themes of lesbianism, female empowerment, and the complexities of love.

To exist in daylight, Countess Elizabeth Bathory -- the infamous Blood Countess and widow of legendary vampire Count Dracula -- makes a blood pact with an Egyptian goddess involving three lovely victims and a living Mummy. A centuries-old craving collides with an ancient curse in this horrific climax to Frontline Entertainment's Countess Dracula and Mummy's Kiss movie series!

Heaven's daughter Annie finds herself orphaned and crippled. Whisked off to Farthinggale Manor by Tony Tatterton, Annie pines for her lost family, especially for her half-brother Luke. Without the warm glow of Luke's love, she is lost in the shadows of despair and forced into submission by nurse Broadfield. When Annie discovers a cottage hidden in Farthinggale's woods, the mystery of her past deepens. Even as she yearns to see Luke again, her hopes and dreams are darkened by the sinister Casteel spell.

Such Good Friends (1971) is a comedic drama that takes place in 1970s New York City. The story follows a group of friends dealing with infidelity, bureaucracy, and the challenges of life in a hospital. The plot revolves around the main character's journey as she navigates through the complexities of relationships and the intricacies of the hospital system.

Alix Miller arrives at the isolated Crompton mansion in New Hampshire to paint the portrait of the mysterious Leland Crompton. When they meet, she discovers that he is horribly disfigured from a disease called acromegaly. Nevertheless, friendship, romance, and a deeper understanding develop between the two.

A bored little prince makes a poor rat hunter his whipping boy but after his pranks at the royal court almost causes a war with the neighbor king he runs away with the whipping boy to escape from his first spanking. After being in the real world his life will change making him a prince fit to rule.

Married couple have romantic interludes in the summer, she at their summer cottage, him in the apartment in town.

Merette is a pretty child, living within a patrician, strictly Calvinist family in the Switzerland of the 19th century. She is happy, until her mother dies, and Merette blames God, and gives up her religion. Her family turns against her, the villagers reject her, and her priest drives her into isolation.

As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in King and Church, yet he is also a Spaniard who dearly loves his people. This contradiction presents him with a dilemma.

An artist's painting comes to life, and haunts him.

In 'La mujer que engañamos', a woman is betrayed by her husband and faces humiliation and sacrifice. She falls in love with another man and faces the consequences of her affair, including a tragic car accident. The story explores themes of love, sacrifice, and the consequences of infidelity.