Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "reference-to-pieter-bruegel"

1. Bridge to Terabithia (2007)

PG | 96 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy

A preteen's life turns upside down when he befriends the new girl in school and they imagine a whole new fantasy world to escape reality.

Director: Gabor Csupo | Stars: Josh Hutcherson, AnnaSophia Robb, Zooey Deschanel, Robert Patrick

Votes: 173,789 | Gross: $82.27M

2. Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

PG-13 | 117 min | Drama

A free-thinking art professor teaches conservative 1950s Wellesley girls to question their traditional social roles.

Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal

Votes: 91,215 | Gross: $63.86M

3. 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: 4,435 | Gross: $0.31M

4. 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: 1,661

5. Carnival in Flanders (1935)

95 min | Comedy, History, Romance

Tells the story of the Spanish invasion of Flanders

Director: Jacques Feyder | Stars: Françoise Rosay, André Alerme, Jean Murat, Louis Jouvet

Votes: 1,408

6. The Love She Sought (1990 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 100 min | Drama

Agatha McGee (Dame Angela Lansbury), an aging schoolteacher at a Catholic grammar school in Minnesota, questions her life's existence when she must start battling new Bishop Richard Baker (... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Denholm Elliott, Cynthia Nixon, Gary Hershberger

Votes: 926

7. A Castle in Italy (2013)

104 min | Comedy, Drama

A family is forced to sell their Italian home.

Director: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | Stars: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Louis Garrel, Filippo Timi, Marisa Borini

Votes: 1,253

8. Shadow Man (1999 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Cryptic action adventure about the undead voodoo warrior known as the Shadow Man who must stop Jack the Ripper and the biblical demon called Legion who plan to bring about the apocalypse using the souls of five notorious serial killers.

Stars: Redd Pepper, Barry Meade, Lani Minella, Travis

Votes: 289

9. Il est plus facile pour un chameau... (2003)

110 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

As a little girl, Federica fantasized about having beautiful long hair that would grow back as soon as she cut it, about never-ending cones of cotton candy and about countless adventures ... See full summary »

Director: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | Stars: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Chiara Mastroianni, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Denis Podalydès

Votes: 901 | Gross: $0.02M

10. Vice Versa (2021)

5 min | Animation, Short

The plot is based on the painting called "Dulle Griet" by Pieter Bruegel.

Director: Kristina Kesler | Stars: Tatiana Kaurtseva, Kristina Kesler, Kirill Rogozhnikov

11. R.I.P., Rest in Pieces (1997)

Documentary, Biography, War

R.I.P Rest in Pieces is an intimate portrait of artist Joe Coleman, who is known around the world as a shamanic, moral voice diagnosing the ills of 21st century America.

Director: Robert-Adrian Pejo | Stars: Hasil Adkins, Bill Coleman, Joe Coleman, Manuel De Landa

Votes: 145

12. Mémoire hors champs IX (2010 Video)

25 min | Short

Ninth part of the video installation Mémoire hors champs I (2010), in which video-artist Hervé Penhoat brings back reminiscences of Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel with a continuous and repetitive display of a snowy still shot/single frame.

Director: Hervé Penhoat

13. Mémoire hors champs II (2010 Video)

40 min

Second part of Mémoire hors champs I (2010), in which video-artist Hervé Penhoat brings back, with the tools of his time, a memory of the Low Countries landscape - reminiscent of Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel - whose nature he tries to decipher.

Director: Hervé Penhoat

14. Mémoire hors champs I (2010 Video)

40 min

Painter without brushes, video artist Hervé Penhoat reaches out to Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel through the centuries to fathom what links him to his ancestor with a still shot of a suspended moment, which goes beyond pure film capture.

Director: Hervé Penhoat

15. Mémoire hors champs XI (2010 Video)

21 min | Short

An eleventh variation on the video installation Mémoire hors champs I (2010), in which video-artist Hervé Penhoat brings back reminiscences of Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel with a continuous display of a darkened still shot/single frame.

Director: Hervé Penhoat

16. Jonathan Creek (1997–2016)
Episode: The Grinning Man (2009)

TV-MA | 120 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Stage magician Lance Gessler lives in a mansion known as Metropolis that has a deadly history. When another victim succumbs to an ominous presence in the attic room, it's up to Jonathan to unravel the mystery.

Director: David Renwick | Stars: Andrew Havill, Jon Campling, Patrick Poletti, Eloise Rakic-Platt

Votes: 574

17. Talking Dead (2011– )
Episode: Acheron: Part II (2021)

TV-14 | 41 min | Talk-Show

Josh McDermitt, Emily Kinney and Lauren Cohan discuss the Season 11 episode of The Walking Dead, "Acheron: Part II." Hosted by Chris Hardwick.

Director: Mike Corey | Stars: Chris Hardwick, Josh McDermitt, Emily Kinney, Lauren Cohan

Votes: 24

18. Zagin kinomaniv (2023– )
Rozmova pro 'Pamfir' (2023 Podcast Episode)

Talk-Show

Vitalii Hordiienko and guest Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk talk in-depth about the creation, conception and meaning of Pamfir (2022).

Director: Vitalii Hordiienko | Stars: Vitalii Hordiienko, Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk

19. Great Artists with Tim Marlow (2001– )
Episode: Bruegel (2001)

23 min | Documentary

Very little is known of the life of Pieter Bruegel the Elder whose enigmatic, humorous, sometimes grotesque paintings remain among the most distinctive examples of Netherlandish art.

Directors: Phil Grabsky, Ali Ray, Mehreen Saigol | Star: Tim Marlow

Votes: 6

20. Elementary (2012–2019)
Episode: The Adventure of the Ersatz Sobekneferu (2018)

TV-PG | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Sherlock and his father attempt to repair their strained relationship upon learning of a death within their family. Holmes and Watson discover a link between their latest case and the world of Egyptian antiquities.

Director: Lucy Liu | Stars: Jonny Lee Miller, Lucy Liu, Jon Michael Hill, Aidan Quinn

Votes: 648