Direction: Peter Greenaway

Direction Peter Greenaway

Cast Richard Bohringer · Michael Gambon · Helen Mirren · Alan Howard

Plot One of the most controversial films of all time, the title of this Jacobean revenge-tragedy, set in an upscale French restaurant, says it all. The restaurant is visited nightly by...

Direction Peter Greenaway

Cast Vivian Wu · Ken Ogata · Ewan McGregor · Yoshi Oida

Plot As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from "The Pillow Book", the diary of a 10th-century lady-in-waiting. Nagiko...

Direction Peter Greenaway

Cast Brian Dennehy · Chloe Webb · Lambert Wilson · Sergio Fantoni

Plot A thespian feast for the larger-than-life Dennehy as blustering American architect whose personal life and health both crumble as he obsesssively readies an exhibition in Rome. A multi-tiered, carefully composed...

Direction Peter Greenaway

Cast Peter Westley · Aad Wirtz · Michael Murray · Lorna Poulter

Plot The world has been affected by a mysterious occurrance known as the Violent Unknown Event or VUE. It has caused immortality and disability. Sufferers have learned new and peculiar languages....

Direction Peter Greenaway

Cast Anthony Higgins · Janet Suzman · Anne-Louise Lambert · Neil Cunningham

Plot A beguiling mystery begins when a wealthy woman hires an artist to make drawings of her home. Their contract is quite unusual, as is their relationship. Everything is going along...

Direction Peter Greenaway

Cast Andrea Ferréol · Brian Deacon · Eric Deacon · Frances Barber

Plot Oliver Deuce, a successful doctor, is shattered when his wife is killed in a freak car accident involving the car being driven by Alba Bewick colliding with a very large...

Direction Peter Greenaway

Plot J'accuse is an 'essay-istic' documentary in which Greenaway's fierce criticism of today's visual illiteracy is argued by means of a forensic search of Rembrandt's Nightwatch.

Direction Peter Greenaway

Cast Joan Plowright · Joely Richardson · Juliet Stevenson · Bernard Hill

Plot An ironic black comedy of love and death that takes place in a lyrically beautiful landscape. Three related women, all named Cissie Colpitts share a solidarity for one another which...

Direction Peter Greenaway

Cast Julia Ormond · Ralph Fiennes · Philip Stone · Jonathan Lacey

Plot A movie about the corruption in all levels of society. A baby is born from a supposed-to-be virgin woman, so a chain of hysteria about divine intervention in the birth...

Direction Peter Greenaway

Cast Colin Cantlie · Jean Williams

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

Direction Peter Greenaway

Cast John Gielgud · Michael Clark · Michel Blanc · Erland Josephson

Plot An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling...

Direction Peter Greenaway

Cast Colin Cantlie

Plot Tongue-in-cheek, early Greenaway short reflects the incredibly meticulous encyclopedic nature of his early films. An attempt is made to "reconstruct" a proposed, but never made, film according to some reasonably...

Direction Peter Greenaway

Plot A short film that reflects on the use and the custom of the bath in England. An affable, ironic and critical look at the design and structure of this space...

Direction Peter Greenaway

Cast F. Murray Abraham · Ramsey Nasr · Francesco De Vito · Flavio Parenti

Plot The film is based on the life of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints. He seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for...

Direction Abbas Kiarostami · Hugh Hudson · David Lynch · John Boorman

Cast Romane Bohringer · Pascal Duquenne · Bruno Ganz · Neil Jordan

Plot In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Lumière brothers' first films, filmmakers Sarah Moon and Philippe Poulet challenged 39 renowned international directors to each complete a 52-second film using...

Direction Peter Greenaway

Plot Peter Greenaway's celebration of water, and the human relationship with it, choreographed to Michael Nyman music and culminating with a synchronised swimming sequence!

Direction Peter Greenaway

Cast John Standing · Matthew Delamere · Vivian Wu · Toni Collette

Plot After his wife dies, 55-year-old businessman Philip Emmenthal, at the prompting of his playboy son Storey, populates his Geneva villa with eight and a half concubines. Three are from Kyoto,...

Direction Fatih Akin · Barbara Albert · Šarūnas Bartas · Andy Bausch

Cast Safia Aggoune · Abel Alves · Benzirar Baroudi · Ina-Marija Bartare

Plot The idea is simple: Twenty-five countries, twenty-five visions from respected film directors from each of the respective countries that form the new European Community. Each director will give a personal...

Direction Peter Greenaway

Cast Colin Cantlie · Hannah Greenaway · Peter Greenaway

Plot Greenaway demonstrates his love of the English countryside and displays a distinctive (if rare) autobiographical self with H Is for House.

Direction Peter Greenaway

Cast Martin Freeman · Emily Holmes · Eva Birthistle · Jodhi May

Plot The year 1642 marks the turning point in the life of the famous Dutch painter, Rembrandt, turning him from a wealthy respected celebrity into a discredited pauper. At the insistence...