Michael Nyman Movies

Documentary film by Peter Greenaway made for Thames Television, in which people who have survived being struck by lightning relate their experiences...

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...

The year is 1904; the setting is Cockshute Towers, one of England's stateliest homes. When the household is threatened with bankruptcy, both the...

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

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...

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

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

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

A lone man avenges the death of his father.

While working alongside his long-time friend and colleague in building a hospital for the residents of a Buenos Aries shantytown, a troubled priest...

The resurrection of Zambia's national football team after losing 18 players in a plane crash in Gabon in 1993. A 18-year road of reconstruction until...

A disillusioned writer follows the intertwining stories of several people, but are they his own inventions or do they really exist?

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.

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.

A song cycle combining texts written by World War I poets, most all of whom lost their lives during the war, chansons vieilles from European poets,...

A numerical journey through the quaint village of Goole.

Is as much a celebration of the world as its inspiration, Dziga Vertov's silent masterpiece, "Man With a Movie Camera," celebrates Soviet society....

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

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.

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