10 films that inspire creativity

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Lifehacker has compiled a selection of films that perfectly motivate creativity. After watching them, it is possible that inspiration and desire to move mountains, following your dream, may appear.

Achilles and the turtle

• Drama, comedy.
• Japan, 2008.
• Duration: 119 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 4.

Matisu is a painter who has never been successful, but always hoped that someday fame would overtake him. He constantly worked on himself, overcame life's troubles and remained steadfast despite family difficulties, but after meeting with an art dealer evaluating paintings, a lot has changed.

Wonderland

• Drama, family, biography.
• USA, UK, 2004.
• Duration: 97 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 8.

This biographical drama tells about the difficult life of James Matthew Barry, who is known throughout the world as the author of a series of fairy-tale books about Peter Pan. Success did not come to the writer immediately: a series of failures and one very significant meeting that influenced his entire future life and career led to him.

Trumbo

• Drama, crime, biography.
• USA.
• Duration: 124 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 5.

The successful and highly sought-after screenwriter Dalton Trumbo did not suspect the existence of the Hollywood blacklist exactly until he fell into it because of his political views. But even this circumstance did not stop him, and even more so did not prevent him from creating, although it caused a lot of problems.

Frida

• Drama, melodrama, biography.
• USA, Canada, Mexico, 2002.
• Duration: 118 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 4.

A biographical story about the life of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, who was able to recover from a severe accident. She was forced to live for many years overcoming pain and worrying about her husband's infidelities, but art and love did not give her completely despair.

Frank

• Drama, comedy.
• UK, Ireland, USA, 2013.
• Duration: 95 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 0.

A crazy story about a guy from the province named Joe, who really wanted to become famous and write his own songs. A dream come true: once he was lucky enough to meet a rock band led by the quirky Frank, who never takes off his papier-mâché head mask, and even became a keyboard player in this group. Needless to say, this event completely changed his life.

Julie and Julia: Cooking the recipe for happiness

• Drama, melodrama, biography.
• USA, 2009.
• Duration: 123 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 0.

The story of Julia Child, who was mastering the cooking profession at a very difficult time, is intricately intertwined with the story of the telephone operator Julia Powell, trying to learn how to cook from Child's book. These are two different women who have never known each other, but have a common passion - the love of food.

Exit through the souvenir shop

• Documentary, comedy, crime, history.
• UK, 2010.
• Duration: 87 minutes
• IMDb: 8, 0.

An eccentric amateur filmmaker is trying to track down Banksy, a controversial street art artist no one has ever seen.

Hitchcock

• Drama, history, biography.
• USA, UK, 2012.
• Duration: 98 minutes
• IMDb: 6, 9.

The film is about the famous director and master of whipping up the atmosphere of suspense Alfred Hitchcock. It tells about what difficulties Hitchcock faced during the creation of the film "Psycho" and what sacrifices it cost him.

Genius

• Drama, biography.
• UK, USA, 2016.
• Duration: 104 minutes
• IMDb: 6, 5.

Maxwell Perkins is an accomplished literary editor who has given the world such talented authors as Francis Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Thomas Wolfe is an aspiring writer with a proven track record. When absolutely all publishers refuse to publish Wolfe's new novel, he turns to Perkins, and this becomes the beginning of a long, but very fruitful collaboration.

Artist

• Drama, melodrama, comedy.
• France, Belgium, 2011.
• Duration: 96 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 9.

The era of silent films is coming to an end, and talented actor George Valentine has to adapt to rapidly changing conditions. Pippi Miller, an extra in love with him, helps the actor not to despair and find his place in the cinema with sound.