Peter Greenaway Movies

The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.

A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.

A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.

Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.

In 1931, following the success of the film Battleship Potemkin, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, to...

Set halfway through the 17th century, a church play is performed for the benefit of the young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman...

Three generations of women who seek to murder their husbands share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings.

An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a...

A sort of documentary on the people known to have fallen out of windows in a certain time frame in a certain geographical location. One of...

The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born...

A short made for TV with director Peter Greenaway discussing the dazzling 3.5 minute opening sequence from his film, 'Prospero's Books'. As Prospero...

Goltzius and the Pelican Company tells the story of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints. A contemporary...

The American architect Kracklite arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibiton for a French architect, Boullée, famous for his oval structures....

Following the death of a mother, a father and son open up their very own harem in their Genevan estate after watching 8½.

The exploration of the effects of an unexpected catastrophe, known as VUE (violent unknown event) through the bios of 92 survivors.

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...

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...

A narrator relates a variety of peculiar stories involving characters with the initials HC and their dealings with telephones. These are interspersed...

The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born...

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under...