| Title |
Year |
Class |
Time |
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The film unfolds as a three act play performed in a cathedral before an unruly and at times raucous audience. When the play commences the audience, including the pious 17 year old Cosimo participate and at times even directs the drama. The action is set i...
The Baby Of Macon (2002)
Peter Greenaway
Ralph Fiennes,Don Henderson,Jonathan Lacey,Philip Stone,Julia Ormond
General Drama,Foreign,General Foreign,Drama
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2002 |
R |
122 min |
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One of Peter Greenaways finest films, Drowning By Numbers boasts the directors impressive imagination that makes his work such compulsive viewing. The screen drips with teasing, decadent imagery that perfectly mirrors a literary riddle of murder, morality...
Drowning by Numbers (1988)
Peter Greenaway
Joely Richardson,David Morrissey,Jason Edwards,Paul Mooney,John Rogan,Julie Stevenson,Trevor Cooper,Bernard Hill,Bryan Pringle,Joan Plowright
General Drama,Drama
|
1988 |
M |
118 min |
|
Two women passengers die in a car crash as a result of which the female driver has a leg amputated. The zoologist twin husbands of the dead women are fascinated by the processes of decay, start an affair with the amputee and liberate animals from a zoo. T...
ZOO: A Zed and Two Noughts (1985)
Peter Greenaway
Frances Barber, Peter Greenaway, Andrea Ferreol, Brian Deacon, Michael Nyman, Eric Deacon
General Drama,Drama
|
1985 |
M |
112 min |
|
In an apparently idyllic 17th century Wiltshire, an ambitious draughtsman, Mr Neville, (Anthony Higgins) is commissioned by an aristocrat's wife, Mrs Herbert (Janet Suzman) to produce twelve drawings of her husband's estate. In return he will receive paym...
The Draughtsmans Contract (1982)
Peter Greenaway
Anthony Higgins,Hugh Fraser,David Meyer,Nicolas Amer,Janet Suzman,Suzan Crowley,Neil Cunningham,Tony Meyer,David Gant,Anne-Louise Lambert,Dave Hill
Period Drama,General Drama,Drama
|
1982 |
M |
104 min |
|
The Cook serves up gourmet masterpieces in a beautiful restaurant. The thief holds his tyrannical court in the restaurant, terrorising all around him. His wife has a dangerous and illicit passion. Her lover is having the riskiest affair of his life. P...
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, And Her Lover (1989)
Peter Greenaway
Michael Gambon,Alan Howard,Richard Bohringer,Tim Roth,Helen Mirren
General Horror,General Drama,Horror,Drama
|
1989 |
R |
119 min |
|
The smell of white paper is like the scent of the skin of a new lover.Virtuoso director Peter Greenway (The Cook, The Thief & Her Lover) has transformed Sei Shonogan's novel into a stunning visual poem to sexual self-expression. As a child, Nagiko (Vivia...
The Pillow Book (1996)
Peter Greenaway
Ken Ogata,Vivian Wu,Yoshi Oida,Hideko Yoshida,Ewan McGregor
Romantic Drama,Romance,Foreign,French,Drama
|
1996 |
MA |
121 min |
|
Inspired by Fellini's masterpiece 8 1/2, Peter Greenway returns with 8 Women. When businessman Phillip (John Standing - The Elephant Man, Chaplin) is widowed, his playboy son Storey (Shadowlands' Matthew Delamare) convinces his father to turn their Swiss...
8 1/2 Women (1999)
Peter Greenaway
Amanda Plummer,John Standing,Vivian Wu,Polly Walker,Natacha Amal,Kirina Mano,Matthew Delamere,Barbara Sarafian,Shizuka Inoh,Manna Fujiwara,Toni Collette
General Comedy,Comedy
|
1999 |
R |
120 min |
|
As a part of his ambitious multimedia project encompassing television, books and online material, master director Peter Greenaway (The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover,The Pillow Book) created three full length feature films on the life of Tulse Lu...
The Tulse Luper Suitcases (2002)
Peter Greenaway
Raymond J. Barry, Valentina Cervi, Caroline Dhavernas
Drama, General Drama
|
2002 |
MA |
400 min |
|
Extravagant, suspenseful and sensuously beautiful, the mystery behind Rembrant's extraordinary yet infamous painting, The Nightwatch, is perfectly explored by one of the most iconic Directors of our time - Peter Greenaway (The Cook, The Thief, His Wif...
Nightwatching (2007)
Peter Greenaway
Martin Freeman, Jodhi May, Eva Birthistle, Toby Jones, Emily Holmes, Natalie Press
Drama, Biography
|
2007 |
MA |
135 min |
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