Movies and TvShows featuring "struggling-artist" theme.
Full House follows the story of Danny Tanner, a widowed father who calls upon his best friend and brother-in-law to help him raise his three daughters. Set in San Francisco, the sitcom showcases the challenges and heartwarming moments of a single father navigating parenthood with the support of his family and friends.
The Middleman follows the story of a struggling artist who becomes an agent for a secret agency. She is tasked with fighting super villains and supernatural powers while dealing with her own superhero abilities. The show is set in the 2000s and is based on a comic book/graphic novel.
Broad City is a comedy TV show set in New York City that follows the lives of two best friends in their twenties, Abbi and Ilana. The show explores their misadventures and the challenges they face as they navigate their way through the city and try to make it in various aspects of their lives, including relationships, careers, and personal growth. With its unique blend of humor, relatable characters, and unconventional storytelling, Broad City offers a fresh and honest take on the struggles and triumphs of young adults in the modern world.
A lesbian musician struggles to break her patterns of whirlwind romances while serving as the shoulder to lean on for a group of eclectic friends, who offer little in return.
In 19th-century Europe, a doctor investigates the controversial and mysterious death of painter Vincent van Gogh. Through a series of letters and interviews with those who knew him, the doctor unravels the truth behind the artist's struggles, torment, and eventual suicide.
Kaoruko Moeta is a 15-year-old high school student and 4-panel manga artist. After moving to a dorm especially for female manga artists, she meets shoujo manga artist Koyume, teen romance manga artist Ruki, and shounen manga artist Tsubasa. Every day, they'll work all through the night trying to ink and finish their work!
On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship, and the pressure to create something great before time runs out. In 1992, Jonathan Larson performs his rock monologue Tick, Tick... Boom! in front of an audience at New York Theatre Workshop, accompanied by friends Roger and Karessa Johnson. He describes an incessant ticking noise he hears in his head, and begins telling about the week leading up to his 30th birthday and his desire to become a successful musical theater composer. Jonathan juggles work at the Moondance Diner in SoHo with preparing for a workshop at Playwrights Horizons of his musical Superbia. He has a party at home with friends, including his former roommate Michael, who left acting for advertising, his girlfriend Susan, a dancer-turned-teacher, and fellow waiters Freddy and Carolyn. While alone later, Susan tells Jonathan about a teaching job at Jacob's Pillow and asks him to come too. Jonathan visits Michael at his new Upper East Side apartment, celebrating his financial success and higher quality of life from their old apartment. Ira Weitzman, the Musical Theatre Program Director at Playwrights Horizons, asks Jonathan to write a new song for Superbia, as the story needs it. This troubles him, as his idol, Stephen Sondheim, told him the same at the ASCAP Workshop some years ago, but he can't come up with anything and he only has a week. Jonathan tries to get his agent, Rosa Stevens, to invite Sondheim to the workshop, but eventually just cold-calls Sondheim and others. He watches PBS's Sunday in the Park with George with Michael and Susan, and afterwards Michael asks him to join an advertising focus group to earn extra money. Susan also pressures him again to move with her, although he feels his career is just starting in New York. The next day he imagines the Diner full with Broadway stars. Carolyn tells him Freddy, who is HIV-positive, has been hospitalized, adding to Jonathan's anxieties as many of his friends have already died in the HIV/AIDS epidemic. He walks down Broadway to Playwrights Horizons for the start of rehearsals for Superbia. Susan, frustrated by Jonathan's indecisiveness, breaks up with him. To get money to hire a full band for the workshop, Jonathan attends the advertising focus group. Making a good first impression, he considers a corporate future, but realizes he would hate it and deliberately sabotages it. Michael criticizes him for being in a financially unstable theater career, while Jonathan claims with his impending 30th birthday that he is getting too old to be successful. After finally getting an encouraging call from Rosa about his industry invites, he plans to write the new song the night before the workshop, but his power gets cut off before starting. Heading to a swimming pool to cool off, he pictures sheet music lines on the pool floor and finally comes up with the new song, which he writes out by hand. At the workshop are friends, family, and industry professionals, including Sondheim. Karessa brings down the house with the new song, 'Come to Your Senses,' and Jonathan imagines Susan singing it. He receives praise but no offers to produce Superbia. Rosa tells him he must keep writing, hoping that something will succeed, but he will likely face more rejection. Discouraged, Jonathan runs to Michael begging for a corporate job and perceived stability, but Michael changes his mind after seeing the workshop, encouraging Jonathan to continue in musical theater. When Jonathan accuses him of not understanding what it's like to be running out of time, Michael reveals he is HIV-positive. Finally grasping his career obsession has cost him his relationship with Susan and jeopardized his friendship with Michael, Jonathan wanders through New York before finding himself at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Hopping a fence to a piano, he reflects on his friendship with Michael and the sacrifices he must make, affirming he will continue his musical theater career. He and Michael reconcile. On the morning of Jonathan's 30th birthday Sondheim calls, congratulating him on the workshop and wanting to talk more about Superbia, lifting his spirits. Holding his birthday party at the Moondance Diner, attended by his friends, he is relieved to hear Freddy is to be discharged from the hospital. Susan gifts him blank sheet music paper to help in his career, promising to see 'the next one.' She narrates that the 'next one' was Tick, Tick... Boom!, before he returned to working on a previous project, which became Rent. She reveals he died of an undiagnosed aortic aneurysm the night before Rent's premiere Off-Broadway. He never experienced the success he desired, but his work lives on. In 1992, Jonathan performs the final song from Tick, Tick... Boom!, watching his friends and family in the audience, including Susan in the back.
While working as a valet, a struggling artist in Portland, Oregon discovers that one of his customers is a psychopathic killer. He becomes the target of the killer's sadistic games, leading to a thrilling and deadly confrontation.
Never Look Away is a movie set in Germany during World War II and its aftermath. The story follows a young artist as he struggles to survive and find his voice amidst the chaos and destruction of war. He navigates through various personal and historical events, including the oppressive regime of Hitler, the bombing of Dresden, and the division of Germany. Through it all, he explores his art, relationships, and his own identity.
Asou Daisuke is a high school student and a gifted artist - but he is currently suffering from a block, which keeps him from painting. His childhood friend, Tachibana Amane, who loves him deeply, persuades him to do a portrait of Kimikage Yurina, a girl with a heart condition, before Yurina undergoes surgery. In the process of rediscovering his art, Daisuke also realises the love that he and Amane feel for each other.
In the 1800s, a struggling artist finds himself immersed in the world of magic and becomes a famous magician. He uses his skills to overcome obstacles and deal with various challenges, including his dual identity, paranoia, witchcraft, and the complexities of social allegory. As he delves into the realm of the paranormal, he discovers the power of illusion and the thin line between reality and fantasy.
La Vie de Bohème follows the lives of struggling artists in Paris as they face eviction, financial troubles, and the complexities of their relationships. The movie explores themes of friendship, love, and the pursuit of artistic expression in a society that often undervalues their work.
My Masterpiece is a comedy-drama film about an aspiring artist who resorts to faking his own death to escape his problems. He gets caught up in a con game with an art collector, leading to unexpected twists and turns. With elements of black humor, friendship, and art, the film explores the struggles and absurdities of the art world.
After years of hopeful struggle, waiter and aspiring singer-songwriter Al Stone is on his way. He gets his huge break on a magical night when his song wows big-time producer Louis Marcus and gold-digging showgirl Molly, whom Al fancies. Broadway success and marriage follow, but sure enough, hard times are on the way.
Chet & Laura, a songwriting duo in their tenth year of trying to make it, start to realize their chances of success may have already passed them by.
Portrait of Jennie tells the story of a struggling artist who becomes captivated by the beauty and mystery of a young girl named Jennie. As he attempts to capture her essence in his paintings, he discovers that Jennie is not what she seems, and her presence in his life holds a supernatural power that will change everything. Set against the backdrop of Cape Cod and the Great Depression, this film is a moving exploration of love, art, and the mysteries of the human heart.
DC Showcase: Death follows a struggling artist who experiences a tragic event in his life and begins to hear voices. He becomes haunted by his personal demons and enters a limbo-like state where he must confront them. As he navigates his way through this supernatural drama, he learns about life after death and the power of acceptance. This tragic protagonist must come to terms with his past and find a way to move forward.
Meesaya Murukku is a semi-autobiographical movie that tells the story of a young man's struggles as he pursues his dream of becoming a successful hip-hop artist.
When a struggling artist is assigned to paint a portrait of a corporate executive for a company Christmas party, she finds love and success as she navigates the holiday season in New York City.
Pyaasa is a story of a struggling poet named Vijay, who faces poverty and rejection in his pursuit of art. He falls into a love triangle and navigates through societal challenges, including class differences, prostitution, and greed.