Michael Nyman Movies

In the 16th century, the daughter of a Spanish nobleman joins a convent and becomes a spiritual leader.

This film charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife and is being shot over the course of five years, a few...

During 1950, Miguel Contreras Torres led a group of filmmakers to officially denounce William O. Jenkins' monopoly on film theaters, which was built...

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

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

The hour before actors go on stage at the National Theatre in London is a performance in and of itself.

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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.

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.

Close to Greenaway takes us behind the scenes of the first part of the trilogy The Tulse Luper's Suitcases in Barcelona and Almeria. In this film,...

Engaging profile of legendary band leader, Edmundo Ros, who brought Latin American music to England in the 1930's. In the 1940's & 50's he became a...

a short film by @RockyPlanetesimal.