Michael Nyman Movies

A film about fragility; about a man obsessed with photographing the accident who discovered that the fate of others was his way of connecting to...

A girl visiting modern day East Germany with her estranged father begins reliving the horrifying events that happened to a young girl living there...

Alice is a promising young artist in Paris. Her boyfriend Franck, a boxer, has just moved in to her attic flat. Then her sister Elsa, a bored...

In 1263, King James I of Aragon organizes a debate between representatives of Judaism and Christianity regarding whether or not Jesus was the Messiah.

Featuring unprecedented access to Michael Nyman's working life, this film shows one of the great composers of our time in all his diversity and...

Ute Lemper sings a collection of art songs by Michael Nyman based on texts by Paul Celan, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, William Shakespeare and Arthur...

Told in the form of a mock documentary in 92 short parts, nineteen million people are left obsessed with birds and flight following a strange...

People claim to know an amnesiac who finds herself in a hotel with a suitcase full of cash.

Close to Greenaway takes us behind the scenes of the first part of the trilogy The Tulse Luper's Suitcases in Barcelona and Almeria. In this film,...

A hot, thirsty man in the desert is tormented when the things he needs drop from the sky only to disappear again or hover out of his reach.

An anonymous narrator outlines a bizarre journey taken through "H", aided by a series of extraordinary maps, and his previous dealings with the...

Detroit, known as Motor City, once the fourth largest city in the United States, home of the Ford Motor Company, General Motors and other major car...

A film made for the Central Office of Information concerning Britain's coastline, with music by Michael Nyman.

Opera singer and professor Dr P is examined both in a clinic and in his home, as he suffers from a degeneration of the occipital lobe that allows him...

Faking an injury for insurance money, a peddler seeks out a cure to support his claims while a suspicious investigator tries to expose the scam.

Peter Greenaway remembers his first meeting with Rotterdam Film Festival director Hubert Bals.

A numerical journey through the quaint village of Goole.

Three criminals pledge to free the soul of their friend from his gibbeted corpse in this short film based on 'The Highwayman' by Lord Dunsany.

Vertical Features Remake is a film by Peter Greenaway. It portrays the work of a fictional Institute of Reclamation and Restoration as they attempt...

A lone man avenges the death of his father.