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Peter Greenaway Filmography

Poster of The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)

In the savage world of gastronomy and crime, brutal mob boss Albert Spica (Sir Michael...

Poster of Eisenstein in Guanajuato

Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015)

In the rousing aftermath of his revolutionary film, Battleship Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein, a filmmaker of...

Poster of 8 ½ Women

8 ½ Women (1999)

In the wake of his wife's passing, Philip Emmenthal (Sir John Standing), a businessman of...

Poster of The Pillow Book

The Pillow Book (1995)

As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her...

Poster of The Baby of Mâcon

The Baby of Mâcon (1993)

A movie about the corruption in all levels of society. A baby is born from...

Poster of Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!

Rembrandt's J'Accuse...! (2008)

An 'essayistic' documentary in which Greenaway's fierce criticism of today's visual illiteracy is argued by...

Poster of Windows

Windows (1975)

Appalled by statistics of South African political prisoners alleged to have died in "accidental" falls...

Poster of H Is for House

H Is for House (1973)

Experimental short film set in the English countryside, with strange narration which has a particular...

Poster of The Greenaway Alphabet

The Greenaway Alphabet (2018)

An intimate portrait of painter and filmmaker Peter Greenaway, directed by his wife Saskia Boddeke....

Poster of Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice

Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice (2019)

A 90-minutes documentary that celebrates the 500th anniversary of the birth of the last great...

Poster of Vertical Features Remake

Vertical Features Remake (1978)

Tongue-in-cheek, early Greenaway short reflects the incredibly meticulous encyclopedic nature of his early films. An...

Poster of A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist

A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist (1979)

An anonymous narrator outlines a bizarre journey taken through "H", aided by a series of...

Poster of Dear Phone

Dear Phone (1976)

A narrator relates a variety of peculiar stories involving characters with the initials HC and...

Poster of Water Wrackets

Water Wrackets (1975)

Hypnotic photography of swirling rivers and misty ponds and droning music (not Michael Nyman for...