Peter Greenaway Movies

A short film which has its emphasis on back street walls with peeling posters and the constant pedestrian traffic in the foreground. It has a static...

Between 1795 and 1801, 306 drowned people were recovered from the Seine river, near Paris. Peter Greenaway propouns a historical approach were 25...

The vulgar gangster Roquey van Smacker extorts and blackmails in order to get what he wants, but when he kills his girlfriend who is beloved by the...

Peter Greenaway presents this "Commentary in one hundred parts" on Drowning by Numbers (1987), discussing and analyzing many of the film's more...

Documentary about Sir Terence Conran, an English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer.

Searching for the roots of Peter Greenaway in his films, this artful documentary begins with a workshop from 1991 in which Peter Greenaway discusses...

Film which explores the relationship of man to water, his mastery of the fear of drowning and accomplishments in swimming.

Greenaway's virtually unseen first film is described by the director as "a work of juvenalia" shot in four London cemeteries, focusing on "church...

A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway

A mechanical ballet composed of footage of the last steam trains arriving to the Waterloo Station

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

Filmed at Leeds Castle in Kent, this short documentary on Scottish cloth manufacturer Reid & Taylor's biennial fashion show extravaganza was produced...

A personal essay on the legacy of Martin Luther on the basis of 16th-Century drawings and paintings where the director draws parallels with today's...

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.

With more than 50 years of experience as film director, Peter Greenaway (Nightwatching, Eisenstein in Guanajuato) combines the worlds of film and...

A numerical journey through the quaint village of Goole.

A promotional film advertising a British tie dye expert’s book in the 60s when it was the fashion.

In this previously unseen backstage documentary, Peter Greenaway responds with great generosity to the open-ended questions posed by an off-camera...

Commissioned by the COI, Peter Greenaway made a biographical short film about fashion designer Zandra Rhodes.

Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch prophesies the events of 1492, the start of the modern world.