Michael Nyman Movies

A girl visiting modern day East Germany with her estranged father begins reliving the horrifying events that happened to a young girl living there...

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

Two show-business women leave Los Angeles for Las Vegas, but phoney state troopers abduct them in the desert and they are taken to a...

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...

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

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

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

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

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,...

People claim to know an amnesiac who finds herself in a hotel with a suitcase full of cash.

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

A numerical journey through the quaint village of Goole.