Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "art-auction"

1. Uncharted (2022)

PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure

Street-smart Nathan Drake is recruited by seasoned treasure hunter Victor "Sully" Sullivan to recover a fortune amassed by Ferdinand Magellan, and lost 500 years ago by the House of Moncada.

Director: Ruben Fleischer | Stars: Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg, Antonio Banderas, Sophia Ali

Votes: 141,941

2. Carnival Row (2019– )

TV-MA | 56 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

A human detective and a fairy rekindle a dangerous affair in a Victorian fantasy world, where the city's uneasy peace collapses when a string of murders reveals an unimaginable monster.

Stars: Jamie Harris, Orlando Bloom, Cara Delevingne, Simon McBurney

Votes: 60,054

3. North by Northwest (1959)

Approved | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis

Votes: 323,273 | Gross: $13.28M

4. Something's Gotta Give (2003)

PG-13 | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A swinger on the cusp of being a senior citizen with a taste for young women falls in love with an accomplished woman closer to his age.

Director: Nancy Meyers | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, Keanu Reeves, Amanda Peet

Votes: 121,281 | Gross: $124.73M

5. Heartbreakers (2001)

PG-13 | 123 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

A mother and daughter con team seduce and scam wealthy men.

Director: David Mirkin | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Gene Hackman, Ray Liotta

Votes: 54,499 | Gross: $40.34M

6. The Best Offer (2013)

R | 131 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A lonely art expert working for a mysterious and reclusive heiress finds not only her art worth examining.

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Sylvia Hoeks, Donald Sutherland

Votes: 117,880 | Gross: $0.09M

7. Mortdecai (2015)

R | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Juggling angry Russians, the British Mi5, and an international terrorist, debonair art dealer and part-time rogue Charlie Mortdecai races to recover a stolen painting rumored to contain a code that leads to lost gold.

Director: David Koepp | Stars: Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ewan McGregor, Olivia Munn

Votes: 72,809 | Gross: $7.61M

8. An Education (2009)

PG-13 | 100 min | Drama

A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.

Director: Lone Scherfig | Stars: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Olivia Williams

Votes: 133,801 | Gross: $12.57M

9. The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A debonair, adventuresome bank executive believes he has pulled off the perfect multi-million dollar heist, only to match wits with a sexy insurance investigator who will do anything to get her man.

Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston

Votes: 25,062

10. Sudden Impact (1983)

R | 117 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A rape victim is exacting revenge on her aggressors in a small town outside San Francisco. "Dirty" Harry Callahan, on suspension for angering his superiors (again), is assigned to the case.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, Bradford Dillman

Votes: 44,831 | Gross: $67.64M

11. Hudson Hawk (1991)

R | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A cat burglar is forced to steal Da Vinci works of art for a world domination plot.

Director: Michael Lehmann | Stars: Bruce Willis, Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell, James Coburn

Votes: 56,459 | Gross: $17.22M

12. How to Steal a Million (1966)

Approved | 123 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

The daughter of an art forger teams up with a burglar to steal one of her father's forgeries and protect his secret.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith

Votes: 27,441

13. The Lost Leonardo (2021)

PG-13 | 96 min | Documentary, Mystery

The mystery surrounding the Salvator Mundi, the first painting by Leonardo da Vinci to be discovered for more than a century, which has now seemingly gone missing.

Director: Andreas Koefoed | Stars: Robert K. Wittman, Jerry Saltz, Dianne Dwyer Modestini, Morten Bjørn

Votes: 1,417

14. The Divorce (2003)

PG-13 | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

French vs. American social customs and behaviors are observed in a story about an American visiting her Frenchman-wed sister in Paris.

Director: James Ivory | Stars: Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Stockard Channing, Jean-Marie Lhomme

Votes: 11,572 | Gross: $9.07M

15. The American Friend (1977)

Not Rated | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain

Votes: 16,230

16. Junebug (2005)

R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama

A dealer in "outsider" art travels from Chicago to North Carolina to meet her new in-laws, challenging the equilibrium of this middle class Southern home.

Director: Phil Morrison | Stars: Embeth Davidtz, Alessandro Nivola, David Kuhn, Alicia Van Couvering

Votes: 22,883 | Gross: $2.68M

17. Incognito (1997)

R | 108 min | Crime, Romance, Thriller

Harry Donovan is an art forger who paints a fake Rembrandt picture for $500,000. Marieke, the woman he meets in Paris and gets into bed with, turns out to be the art expert whom Harry's ... See full summary »

Director: John Badham | Stars: Jason Patric, Irène Jacob, Thomas Lockyer, Ian Richardson

Votes: 3,809

18. Possession (2002)

PG-13 | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A pair of literary sleuths unearth the amorous secret of two Victorian poets only to find themselves falling under a passionate spell.

Director: Neil LaBute | Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhart, Jeremy Northam, Jennifer Ehle

Votes: 13,325 | Gross: $10.10M

19. The Magic Christian (1969)

M/PG | 92 min | Comedy

The world's richest man and his adopted hobo son set out to test the limits of human vanity and greed through a series of "money games".

Director: Joseph McGrath | Stars: Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Isabel Jeans, Caroline Blakiston

Votes: 3,565 | Gross: $0.69M

20. Ballet (1989)

101 min | Fantasy, Romance, Thriller

Young American ballerina enrolls in a prestigious ballet school in Hungary. She suddenly becomes inexplicably obsessed with Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and her personality completely changes. A young man in love with her investigates.

Director: Peter Del Monte | Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Gary McCleery, Laurent Terzieff, Olimpia Carlisi

Votes: 668

21. Endless Night (I) (1972)

Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A working-class young Englishman marries an affable American heiress, but their marital bliss is soon interrupted when they begin constructing a home on land alleged to be cursed.

Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Britt Ekland, Per Oscarsson

Votes: 1,978

22. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)

Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary, Music

The iconic metal band struggles for two years to create their album St. Anger, dealing with alcoholism, the loss of their bass player, and the challenge of working with a psychotherapist.

Directors: Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky | Stars: James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Lars Ulrich, Robert Trujillo

Votes: 19,042 | Gross: $1.22M

23. The Barbarian Invasions (2003)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

During his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.

Director: Denys Arcand | Stars: Rémy Girard, Dorothée Berryman, Stéphane Rousseau, Marie-Josée Croze

Votes: 29,249 | Gross: $3.43M

24. Welcome (I) (2007)

Not Rated | 159 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A man falls in love with a beautiful woman, but later discovers that her brothers are gangsters.

Director: Anees Bazmee | Stars: Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Nana Patekar, Anil Kapoor

Votes: 22,222 | Gross: $1.09M

25. Friendship (2008)

Not Rated | 145 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Two straight guys pretend to be gay in order to secure a Miami apartment. When both of them fall for their roommate Neha, hilarity ensues as they strive to convince one and all that they're gay whilst secretly trying to win her heart.

Director: Tarun Mansukhani | Stars: Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Kirron Kher

Votes: 15,059 | Gross: $1.24M

26. Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)

PG-13 | 126 min | Drama

Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.

Director: James Ivory | Stars: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Saundra McClain, Margaret Welsh

Votes: 3,092 | Gross: $7.70M

27. Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art (2020)

94 min | Documentary, Crime

Made You Look is an American crime documentary about the largest art fraud in American history set in the super rich, super obsessed and super fast art world of New York.

Director: Barry Avrich | Stars: Ann Freedman, M.H. Miller, Perry Amsellem, Patricia Cohen

Votes: 4,224

28. The Good Thief (2002)

R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An aging gambler on a losing streak attempts to rob a casino in Monte Carlo. But someone's already tipped off the cops before he even makes a move.

Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Nick Nolte, Ralph Fiennes, Nutsa Kukhianidze, Ouassini Embarek

Votes: 10,522 | Gross: $3.52M

29. The Girl in a Swing (1988)

R | 119 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

A London art broker goes to Copenhagen where he requires the services of a secretary fluent in Danish, English, and German. He falls deeply in love with the woman, despite the fact that he ... See full summary »

Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Meg Tilly, Rupert Frazer, Nicholas Le Prevost, Elspet Gray

Votes: 730 | Gross: $0.75M

30. Waste Land (2010)

Not Rated | 99 min | Documentary

On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro is Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill, where men and women sift through garbage for a living. Artist Vik Muniz produces portraits of the workers and learns about their lives.

Directors: Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, João Jardim | Star: Vik Muniz

Votes: 9,135 | Gross: $0.19M

31. The Price of Everything (2018)

TV-14 | 98 min | Documentary

With unprecedented access to pivotal artists and the white-hot market surrounding them, this film dives deep into the contemporary art world, holding a fun-house mirror up to our values and times.

Director: Nathaniel Kahn | Stars: Jeff Koons, Paul Schimmel, Larry Poons, Stefan Edlis

Votes: 1,150 | Gross: $0.09M

32. And Now Ladies & Gentlemen (2002)

PG-13 | 133 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A jazz singer and a British jewel thief are brought together by their mutual desire to forget the past.

Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Patricia Kaas, Thierry Lhermitte, Alessandra Martines

Votes: 2,256 | Gross: $0.74M

33. The Detective (1954)

Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.

Director: Robert Hamer | Stars: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch, Cecil Parker

Votes: 1,431

34. Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World (2017)

TV-PG | 84 min | Documentary

An overview of the major players in the contemporary art market and of the economic factors that motivate those individuals and institutions.

Director: Barry Avrich | Stars: Marina Abramovic, Katherine Arnold, Leon Black, Amy Cappellazzo

Votes: 417

35. The Goya Murders (2019)

TV-MA | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A serial killer looking to imitate art. Two cops looking for the lethal artist.

Director: Gerardo Herrero | Stars: Maribel Verdú, Aura Garrido, Roberto Álamo, Ginés García Millán

Votes: 790

36. One Last Deal (2018)

95 min | Drama

An elderly art dealer investigates the history behind an unsigned painting that promises to bring his suffering career to a successful end.

Director: Klaus Härö | Stars: Heikki Nousiainen, Pirjo Lonka, Amos Brotherus, Stefan Sauk

Votes: 1,440

37. Orchestra Seats (2006)

PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young woman arrives in Paris where she finds a job as a waitress in bar next on Avenue Montaigne that caters to the surrounding theaters and the wealthy inhabitants of the area. She will meet a pianist, a famous actress and a great art collector, and become acquainted with the "luxurious" world her grandmother has told her about since her childhood.

Director: Danièle Thompson | Stars: Cécile de France, Valérie Lemercier, Albert Dupontel, Claude Brasseur

Votes: 4,247 | Gross: $2.04M

38. Helene (2020)

121 min | Biography, Drama, History

A story of renowned Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck, and the love affair between her and a younger art critic Einar Reuter.

Director: Antti Jokinen | Stars: Laura Birn, Johannes Holopainen, Krista Kosonen, Pirkko Saisio

Votes: 548

39. The Rape of Europa (2006)

Unrated | 117 min | Documentary, History, War

The story of Nazi Germany's plundering of Europe's great works of art during World War II and Allied efforts to minimize the damage.

Directors: Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, Nicole Newnham | Stars: Joan Allen, E. Randol Schoenberg, Maria Altmann, Wolfgang Fischer

Votes: 1,505

40. Art Heist (2004)

R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

When a painting owned by one of her clients is stolen from a Barcelona museum, a New York-based artexpert is sent there to help investigate. After more paintings are stolen, she learns that... See full summary »

Director: Bryan Goeres | Stars: Ellen Pompeo, William Baldwin, Abel Folk, Simón Andreu

Votes: 845

41. My Rembrandt (2019)

Not Rated | 97 min | Documentary

This is set in the world of the Old Masters and offers a mosaic of gripping stories in which unrestrained passion for Rembrandt's paintings leads to dramatic developments and unexpected plot turns.

Director: Oeke Hoogendijk | Stars: Eijk De Mol van Otterloo, Jan Six, Rose-Marie De Mol van Otterloo, Martin Bilj

Votes: 363

42. Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe (2007)

Not Rated | 77 min | Documentary, Biography, Romance

A documentary on the relationship between curator Sam Wagstaff, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, and musician/poet Patti Smith.

Director: James Crump | Stars: Pierre Apraxine, Dick Cavett, Dominick Dunne, Raymond Foye

Votes: 280

43. Two Bellmen (2015)

18 min | Short, Action, Comedy

Two bellmen, Christian and Gage, compete for the honor of employee of the month at a chic downtown Los Angeles Hotel while simultaneously trying to foil a group of international art thieves who have targeted the hotel.

Director: Daniel Malakai Cabrera | Stars: Henry Simmons, Caine Sinclair, William R. Spencer, Josue Anthony

Votes: 41

44. Lot 248 (2014)

6 min | Documentary, Short

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Director: Amie Siegel

45. Jessica Jones (2015–2019)
Episode: A.K.A I Have No Spleen (2019)

TV-MA | 56 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Itching to get back out on the streets and find her attacker, Jessica defies her doctor's advice. Jeri reconnects with her college flame Kith.

Director: Anton Cropper | Stars: Krysten Ritter, Rachael Taylor, Eka Darville, Benjamin Walker

Votes: 1,811

46. Death in Paradise (2011– )
Episode: An Artistic Murder (2014)

TV-PG | 59 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A gigolo, an old friend of Fidel's, is murdered after an art exhibition.

Director: Dusan Lazarevic | Stars: Danny John-Jules, Gary Carr, Don Warrington, Adrian Scarborough

Votes: 461

47. Taxi (1978–1983)
Episode: Art Work (1980)

TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy

Upon discussing how an artist's work rises in value after they're gone,Elaine ends up helping the guys try and win a painting at an auction by one who's rumored ill at the time.

Director: James Burrows | Stars: Judd Hirsch, Jeff Conaway, Danny DeVito, Marilu Henner

Votes: 123

48. Grand Hotel (2019)
Episode: Art of Darkness (2019)

TV-PG | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Teresa hosts a charity auction at the hotel; Alicia and Javi learn more about Beatriz and the unmarked room, bringing back confusing childhood memories.

Director: Nicole Rubio | Stars: Demián Bichir, Roselyn Sanchez, Denyse Tontz, Bryan Craig

Votes: 136

49. Hudson & Rex (2019– )
Episode: Art of Darkness (2019)

TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery

With a gallery curator found murdered on his showroom floor and a missing sculpture, Charlie, Rex and Sarah are thrown into the world of high art. Jesse feels the burn when Sarah picks him as her new running buddy.

Director: John Vatcher | Stars: John Reardon, Mayko Nguyen, Kevin Hanchard, Justin Kelly

Votes: 104

50. Beck (1997– )
Episode: Den japanska shungamålningen (2007)

TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Martin Beck gets a phone call from his German colleague, Hans Sperling, who is in Stockholm to buy a painting at auction. Sperling has found a dead woman in his hotel, and needs Martin's ... See full summary »

Director: Kjell Sundvall | Stars: Peter Haber, Mikael Persbrandt, Marie Göranzon, Stina Rautelin

Votes: 1,205