Um terapeuta de Manhattan, o Dr. Robert Elliott, enfrenta o momento mais aterrorizante de sua vida, quando um assassino psicopata começa a atacar as mulheres de sua vida - usando uma navalha roubada de seu escritório. Desesperado para encontrar o assassino antes que outra pessoa seja ferida, Elliott logo se vê envolvido em um mundo de escusos e perturbadores desejos.

Christian é o respeitado curador de um museu de arte contemporânea; homem divorciado e bom pai dos seus dois filhos, conduz um carro eléctrico e apoia boas causas. A sua próxima exposição, "O Quadrado", é uma instalação que pretende evocar o altruísmo em quem a vê, recordando-nos o nosso papel enquanto seres humanos responsáveis pelos nossos congéneres. Mas às vezes é difícil viver à altura dos nossos ideais: a resposta incauta de Christian ao roubo do seu telefone vai conduzi-lo a situações das quais ele se envergonha. Entretanto, os Relações Públicas do museu criam uma campanha inesperada para "O Quadrado". A reacção é inflamada e lança Christian, bem como o próprio museu, numa crise existencial.

Charles Bonnet e a sua filha, Nicole, são aparentemente donos de uma grande fortuna e uma vasta colecção de arte particular. Porém, a verdade é diferente: Bonnet é um hábil e orgulhoso falsificador que acredita que jamais será apanhado. O se orgulho leva-o a emprestar uma escultura falsa aos museus franceses, onde é exposta com grande pompa, mas tudo muda quando os Bonnet descobrem que a peça terá de ser examinada por um perito para efeitos de seguro. A fim de evitar que o pai seja finalmente apanhado, Nicole pede a ajuda de Simon Dermott, um ladrão de arte, para roubar a sua própria estátua, que está muito bem guardada.

Acquired in July 1909 by art collector Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929), director general of the Prussian Art Collections and founding director of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, now the Bode-Museum, the Bust of Flora, Roman goddess of flowers, has been the subject of controversy for more than a century.

A young woman who has just started a job at an art museum writes an email to a friend she lived with until recently. The other woman, also young, works as an artist and has just moved to a new city. A narrator reads this email, but we don't know which of the two women the voice belongs to, whether to the sender or to the receiver of the message. Neither are we aware of the details of this relationship; but what we do know is that, in addition to their interest in art, they share a concern for the difficulties of carrying out their personal and professional lives in the present. By focusing on the peripheral or hidden details of some paintings in the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, this narrator relates several stories linked to the social, economic and psychological conditions of the artists, both past and present.

Actor Jeremy Irons embarks on an epic journey through the halls of the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, two hundred years after its inauguration, along corridors where thousands of masterpieces of all time tell the lives of rulers and common people, and tales about times of war and madness and times of peace and happiness; because, as Goya said, imagination, the mother of the arts, produces impossible monsters, but also unspeakable wonders.

Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.

Chronicles the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's most attended fashion exhibition in history, "China: Through The Looking Glass," an exploration of Chinese-inspired Western fashions by Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton.

The political adviser to Australia's Minister of the Arts investigates the suspicious death of a disgruntled artist.

The Kabul National Museum, once known as the "face of Afghanistan," was destroyed in 1993. We filmed the most important cultural treasures of the still-intact museum in 1988: ancient Greco-Roman art and antiquitied of Hellenistic civilization, as well as Buddhist sculpture that was said to have mythology--the art of Gandhara, Bamiyan, and Shotorak among them. After the fall of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan in 1992, some seventy percent of the contents of the museum was destroyed, stolen, or smuggled overseas to Japan and other countries. The movement to return these items is also touched upon. The footage in this video represents that only film documentation of the Kabul Museum ever made.

The history of how the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art of Cuenca was created. In the mid-1950s, the Spanish collector and painter Fernando Zóbel de Ayala (1924-84) becomes fascinated by the young generation of Spanish abstract artists, so he begins to collect their works to show them to the public in Toledo. Until Gustavo Torner, a young forest engineer interested in art, proposes him to visit his city, Cuenca.

CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner, antagonistic forces at play for access to the process of (spiritual) transcendence. These factions find form in the struggle between Hiram Abiff or the Architect ...

To celebrate its 250th anniversary, this documentary tells the story of one of the world’s greatest museums, from its foundation by Catherine the Great, though to its status today as a breathtakingly beautiful complex which includes the Winter Palace. Showcasing a vast collection of the world’s greatest artworks together with contemporary art galleries and exhibitions, it holds over 3 million treasures and world class masterpieces in stunning architectural settings. This is its journey from Imperial Palace to State Museum, encompassing a sometimes troubled past, surviving both the Revolution in 1916 and the siege of Leningrad by the Nazis in 1941-44.

Lao San is a young veteran high in Kungfu power but low in intelligence. After landing on a job as a body guard for a wealthy antique collector, Lao San finds out his boss's plot to rob the National Art Museum.

Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of the world-renowned museum into a magisterial, centuries-spanning reflection on the relation between art, culture and power.

Many twentieth century European artists, such as Paul Gauguin or Pablo Picasso, were influenced by art brought to Europe from African and Asian colonies. How to frame these Modernist works today when the idea of the primitive in art is problematic?

A precocious young girl and her younger brother run away from home and hide in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

A journey through four hundred paintings, all masterpieces, among the more than nine thousand treasured in the Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain.

From the cabinets of curiosities created in Italy during the 16th century to the prestigious cultural institutions of today, a history of museums that analyzes the social and political changes that have taken place over the centuries.

Every night, when the museum closes its doors, the mironins, Blu, Low and Ro, three little drops of paint that live in the paintings created by the Spanish painter Joan Miró (1893-1983), come to life and immerse themselves in an inexhaustible universe where art and imagination reign.