Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "tableau-vivant"

1. The French Dispatch (2021)

R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional twentieth century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in "The French Dispatch Magazine".

Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Benicio Del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux

Votes: 150,724

2. Contempt (1963)

Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Romance

A French writer's marriage deteriorates while working on Fritz Lang's version of "The Odyssey", as his wife accuses him of using her to court favor with the film's brash American producer.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli, Giorgia Moll

Votes: 36,052 | Gross: $0.04M

3. Caravaggio (1986)

93 min | Biography, Drama, History

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.

Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Noam Almaz, Dexter Fletcher, Nigel Terry, Sean Bean

Votes: 7,023 | Gross: $0.00M

4. The Color of Pomegranates (1969)

Not Rated | 79 min | Biography, Drama, History

The life of the Armenian poet Sayat-Nova, from childhood to death: his spiritual journey, artistic endeavors, and inner conflicts within the cultural and historical context of Armenia. Hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.

Director: Sergei Parajanov | Stars: Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Alekyan, Vilen Galstyan, Gogi Gegechkori

Votes: 13,577

5. Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005)

R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Laura Henderson (Dame Judi Dench) buys an old London theater and opens it up as the Windmill, a performance hall which goes down in history for, amongst other things, its all-nude revues.

Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Christopher Guest, Will Young

Votes: 16,455 | Gross: $11.03M

6. Sade (2000)

100 min | Biography, Drama, History

A man prepares himself to be transferred to a detention center and rest home where he will relive one more time the highlights of his youth.

Director: Benoît Jacquot | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Marianne Denicourt, Jeanne Balibar, Grégoire Colin

Votes: 1,834 | Gross: $0.03M

7. The Mill and the Cross (2011)

Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, History

This movie focuses on a dozen of the five hundred characters depicted in Bruegel's painting. The theme of Christ's suffering is set against religious persecution in Flanders in 1564.

Director: Lech Majewski | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Michael York, Charlotte Rampling, Joanna Litwin

Votes: 4,430 | Gross: $0.31M

8. Augustine (2012)

Not Rated | 102 min | Biography, Drama, History

A look at the relationship between pioneering 19th century French neurologist Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot and his star teenage patient, a kitchen maid who is left partially paralyzed after a seizure.

Director: Alice Winocour | Stars: Vincent Lindon, Stéphan Wojtowicz, Soko, Chiara Mastroianni

Votes: 1,640 | Gross: $0.11M

9. The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)

Passed | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

After greedy men have Edmond Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to get his revenge on them.

Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer

Votes: 3,242

10. Passion (1982)

R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama

A film director has an inspirational crisis while working on the production, Passion, and struggles with the nature of work and art.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli, Jerzy Radziwilowicz

Votes: 2,848

11. Loro 1 (2018)

104 min | Biography, Drama

A film about the life of Silvio Berlusconi.

Director: Paolo Sorrentino | Stars: Toni Servillo, Elena Sofia Ricci, Riccardo Scamarcio, Kasia Smutniak

Votes: 5,306

12. Martyr (2017)

Unrated | 84 min | Drama

A young man's tragic death at Beirut's seaside causes his friends to grapple with loss and to partake in his community's rites and ceremonies, exposing the city's schisms and its society's fault lines.

Director: Mazen Khaled | Stars: Carol Abboud, Hadi Bou Ayash, Moustafa Fahs, Hamza Mekdad

Votes: 738

13. Lola Montès (1955)

Not Rated | 116 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

When she is reduced to appearing in a circus, a notorious beauty thinks back on her past loves.

Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Henri Guisol

Votes: 6,052 | Gross: $0.11M

14. Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden (2016)

110 min | Biography, Drama, History

Vienna, early 20th century: the young Egon Schiele is one of the most discussed artists of his time with his original, erotically charged works.

Director: Dieter Berner | Stars: Noah Saavedra, Maresi Riegner, Valerie Pachner, Marie Jung

Votes: 1,532

15. The Profession of Arms (2001)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, History, War

The history of the first victim of modern artillery and its moving agony, amidst conspiracies and betrayals of the powerful. Life and death of Giovanni De' Medici, a young brave captain in ... See full summary »

Director: Ermanno Olmi | Stars: Christo Jivkov, Sergio Grammatico, Dimitar Rachkov, Fabio Giubbani

Votes: 1,909

16. The Metamorphosis of Birds (2020)

101 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama

The passing away of their mothers makes Catarina and her own father meet in an emotional place that is different from the one most fathers and daughters know.

Director: Catarina Vasconcelos | Stars: Manuel Rosa, João Móra, Ana Vasconcelos, Henrique Vasconcelos

Votes: 1,620

17. Luminous Procuress (1971)

74 min | Fantasy

The Procuress leads two young men through a surreal peepshow of fantastic, bizarre, androgynous, mystical, spiritual, and sexual vignettes.

Director: Steven Arnold | Stars: Pandora, Steve Solberg, Ronald Farrell, Doro Franco

Votes: 162

18. Salome (1972)

76 min | Drama

A psychedelic re-telling of the biblical story. Salome is the daughter of the second wife of King Herod. The King is infatuated with her and after she fails to seduce the prophet John (The ... See full summary »

Director: Carmelo Bene | Stars: Carmelo Bene, Lydia Mancinelli, Alfiero Vincenti, Donyale Luna

Votes: 442

19. Arsenal (1929)

Not Rated | 70 min | Drama, War

A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.

Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: Semyon Svashenko, Georgi Khorkov, Amvrosi Buchma, Dmitri Erdman

Votes: 2,336

20. L'hypothèse du tableau volé (1978)

66 min | Drama, Mystery

Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, ... See full summary »

Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Jean Rougeul, Chantal Paley, Jean Raynaud, Daniel Grimm

Votes: 1,205

21. In the Crosswind (2014)

90 min | Drama, History

"Risttuules" is a very emotional, tragic movie about mass deportation to Siberia based on the memories of Erna. It all started on June 14, 1941, when trucks came for the innocent families ... See full summary »

Director: Martti Helde | Stars: Laura Peterson-Aardam, Tarmo Song, Mirt Preegel, Ingrid Isotamm

Votes: 1,705

22. Joan of Arc at the Stake (1954)

80 min | Biography, Drama, History

Surreal musical about the time of the execution of Joan of Arc.

Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Tullio Carminati, Giacinto Prandelli, Augusto Romani

Votes: 392

23. Genealogies of a Crime (1997)

103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

At her son's funeral, Solange, a lawyer famous for losing hopeless cases, agrees to defend René, her son's age, accused of murdering his wealthy aunt, Jeanne, who's part of the ... See full summary »

Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Melvil Poupaud, Andrzej Seweryn

Votes: 948 | Gross: $0.08M

24. The Will Rogers Follies (1991 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 144 min | Comedy, Musical

A filmed version of the Broadway musical focusing on the life of Will Rogers.

Director: Walter C. Miller | Stars: Keith Carradine, Dee Hoty, Roxane Barlow, Bonnie Brackney

Votes: 27

25. Hallo Baby (1976)

106 min | Drama

About a girl growing up in a big city in the seventies. She cultivates her artistic ambitions. After a series of relationships, she gets a small part in a play and becomes pregnant.

Director: Johan Bergenstråhle | Stars: Marie-Louise Ekman, Malin Gjörup, Anders Ek, Björn Gustafson

Votes: 97

26. It's the Cats (1926)

9 min | Animation, Comedy, Short

Neighborhood cats come to the tiny Ko-Ko Theatre to watch Ko-Ko and Fitz stage a variety of entertaining acts, from acrobatics to high-diving to statuelike tableaux vivants.

Directors: Dave Fleischer, Max Fleischer

Votes: 103

27. Between/Frames/Again (2010)

13 min | Short, Drama

On the hunt for the ultimate thrill, David strolls around Hamburg on a Sunday afternoon. His searching for a life on top has become a repetitive process. Similar to the intention of ... See full summary »

Director: Tanja Schwerdorf | Stars: Jens Kraßnig, Daniel Matlas, Kathleen Basteck, Armin Dahncke

28. La destruction du monde (2010)

2 min | Short

19th Century French nudes, depicting white women, are re-created with an Asian-American male.

Director: Felix Else | Star: Raymond Ampil

29. American Playhouse (1980–1994)
Episode: Sunday in the Park with George (1986)

Not Rated | 146 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Video production of the Pulitzer-prize winning musical stage production. In the first act, "George", a fictionalized Georges Seurat paints his lover, Dot, and "A Sunday Afternoon on the ... See full summary »

Director: Terry Hughes | Stars: Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Barbara Bryne, Mary D'Arcy

Votes: 975

30. Family Ties (1982–1989)
Episode: Philadelphia Story (1985)

TV-PG | 24 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Alex has a cold, but insists on working all night on his term paper on the Declaration of Independence - which he had used as an example to encourage his dad Steven, who out of inexperience... See full summary »

Director: Will Mackenzie | Stars: Meredith Baxter, Michael Gross, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman

Votes: 146

31. Lillie (1978)
Episode: The Sailor Prince (1978)

51 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

A scandal sheet trumpets a rumored Langtry divorce, and Edward is unable to collect his Irish rents. Lillie makes a new friend: W.E. Gladstone. Edward files suit against the scandal sheet ... See full summary »

Director: Christopher Hodson | Stars: Francesca Annis, Anton Rodgers, Denis Lill, Peter Egan

Votes: 24

32. Somebody's Gotta Do It (2014– )
Episode: Pageant of the Masters (2014)

Documentary

Mike holds a perfect pose as Bartholomew in a live display of Da Vinci's Last Supper for the Laguna Beach annual The Pageant of the Masters event and visits D'Artagnan Gourmet Foods specialty chickens in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Director: Steve Korkis | Stars: Mike Rowe, Dan Duling, Butch Hill, Richard Doyle

Votes: 10

33. Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014– )
Episode: Jerry Seinfeld/David Remnick/Live New Yorker Cartoons/Jon Theodore (2015)

TV-14 | 57 min | Comedy, Talk-Show

Jerry Seinfeld (Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (2012)); New Yorker editor David Remnick is interviewed and presents live versions of the magazine's cartoons. Also: Jon Theodore sits in with The 8G Band.

Director: Alexander J. Vietmeier | Stars: Seth Meyers, Jerry Seinfeld, David Remnick, Jon Theodore

34. National Geographic Today (2002)
Episode: Pageant of the Masters: Living Pictures (2002)

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Director: Claire Callahan

35. Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014– )
Episode: Bobby Cannavale/David Remnick/New Yorker Cartoons (2016)

TV-14 | 57 min | Comedy, Talk-Show

Bobby Cannavale (Vinyl (2016)); New Yorker editor David Remnick is interviewed and presents live versions of the magazine's cartoons.

Stars: Seth Meyers, Bobby Cannavale, David Remnick, Allison Miller

36. Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014– )
Episode: Michael Fassbender/David Remnick/New Yorker Cartoons/Craig Finn (2016)

TV-14 | 57 min | Comedy, Talk-Show

Michael Fassbender (Assassin's Creed (2016)); David Remnick (book "The 60s: The Story of a Decade") discusses the new administration and presents Christmas-themed live New Yorker cartoons. Also: Craig Finn sits in with The 8G Band.

Stars: Seth Meyers, Michael Fassbender, David Remnick, Fred Armisen