Forgers, street artists, cave painters and billion-dollar auction rooms share this list. A few are pranks, a few are portraits, and at least one may not be entirely true.
1Made You Look2020 film on the Knoedler Gallery forgery scandal and its fake Abstract Expressionist paintings.1000pts
2The Lost Leonardo2021 investigation into the Salvator Mundi, sold as a Leonardo for a record 450 million dollars.1000pts
3Faces PlacesAgnès Varda and JR's Oscar-nominated 2017 road trip pasting giant portraits across rural France.826pts
4National GalleryFrederick Wiseman's 2014 observational film inside London's National Gallery.826pts
5AnselmWim Wenders's 2023 3D portrait of German painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer.753pts
6Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present2012 documentary on Abramović's landmark MoMA retrospective and performance.753pts
7The Price of EverythingNathaniel Kahn's 2018 HBO look at money, collectors and artists in the contemporary art market.668pts
8Bill Cunningham New York2010 portrait of the New York Times street-fashion photographer on his bicycle rounds.668pts
9F for FakeOrson Welles's 1973 essay film on art forger Elmyr de Hory and the nature of authorship.565pts
10Finding Vivian MaierOscar-nominated 2013 film about a nanny whose hidden street photographs were found after her death.565pts
11The Mystery of PicassoHenri-Georges Clouzot's 1956 film capturing Picasso painting in real time through translucent canvas.565pts
12Waste LandOscar-nominated 2010 film about Vik Muniz making art with pickers at a Rio landfill.565pts
13Rivers and TidesThomas Riedelsheimer's 2001 film on Andy Goldsworthy's ephemeral sculptures made from nature.565pts
14My Kid Could Paint ThatAmir Bar-Lev's 2007 film on the controversy over four-year-old painter Marla Olmstead.565pts
15Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant ChildTamra Davis's 2010 portrait of Basquiat built around her own interviews with the painter.565pts
16Exit Through the Gift ShopBanksy's 2010 Oscar-nominated film about a shopkeeper who becomes a street-art sensation.439pts
17Cave of Forgotten DreamsWerner Herzog's 2010 3D journey into the Chauvet cave and its 30,000-year-old paintings.439pts
18CrumbTerry Zwigoff's 1994 portrait of underground cartoonist Robert Crumb and his family.439pts
19Herb & Dorothy2008 story of a postal clerk and a librarian who built a world-class minimalist art collection.439pts
20Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?2006 film about a truck driver who may have bought a real Pollock at a thrift store.439pts
21Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right BackMaura Axelrod's 2016 film on the prankster Italian artist behind the banana taped to a wall.439pts
22Cutie and the BoxerOscar-nominated 2013 film about the marriage of painters Ushio and Noriko Shinohara.0pts
23Ai Weiwei: Never SorryAlison Klayman's 2012 film following the Chinese artist and dissident over three years.0pts
24Tim's VermeerPenn and Teller's 2013 film about an inventor trying to paint a Vermeer using optical tools.0pts
25Gerhard Richter PaintingCorinna Belz's 2011 film watching Richter make his abstract squeegee paintings.0pts
26The Art of the Steal2009 film about the battle over the Barnes Foundation's art collection and its move to Philadelphia.0pts
27Kusama: InfinityHeather Lenz's 2018 film tracing Yayoi Kusama's path from rural Japan to art-world fame.0pts
28David Lynch: The Art Life2016 film in which David Lynch recounts his early life as a painter before filmmaking.0pts
29Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery2014 documentary on Wolfgang Beltracchi, the forger who fooled the art market for decades.0pts
