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Peter Greenaway Movies

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  • The Falls (1980)

    1. The Falls

    19803h 15mNot Rated
    7.1 (1.8K)
    92 BBC documentary-style shorts that record the lives of 92 victims of the VUE (Violent Unexplained Event), each with last names beginning with "Fall."
    DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsPeter WestleyAad WirtzMichael Murray
    The Falls turns cinema into a puzzle or game-one that Greenaway continues to play, with increasing indifference to the amusement of lesser minds.
  • The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)

    2. The Draughtsman's Contract

    19821h 48mR
    7.2 (12K)
    A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.
    DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsAnthony HigginsJanet SuzmanAnne-Louise Lambert
    Smart and utterly original, The Draughtsman's Contract is a period piece that marks the further maturation of a writer-director with a thrillingly unique vision.
  • Frances Barber in A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)

    3. A Zed & Two Noughts

    19851h 55mNot Rated
    7.2 (8K)
    Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.
    DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsBrian DeaconEric DeaconAndréa Ferréol
    An enjoyably decadent, ridiculously convoluted thingamajig.
  • The Belly of an Architect (1987)

    4. The Belly of an Architect

    19871h 59mR56Metascore
    6.9 (6.5K)
    An architect supervising an exhibition starts to have mysterious stomach pains while his life slowly falls apart.
    DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsBrian DennehyChloe WebbLambert Wilson
    There's a good deal here to relish, even if the piece as a whole eventually descends into the same hermetic serialism of motifs that has consumed most of Greenaway's pictures.
  • Joely Richardson in Drowning by Numbers (1988)

    5. Drowning by Numbers

    19881h 58mR
    7.1 (11K)
    Three generations of women share the same problem--marriage woes--and want to put an end to it.
    DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsBernard HillJoan PlowrightJuliet Stevenson
    Here is a movie so personal and quirky that perhaps you will enjoy it more than I did, and I do not want to spoil your fun, since the movie is playful above everything else.
  • Helen Mirren in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)

    6. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

    19892h 4mNC-1762Metascore
    7.5 (44K)
    At an opulent gourmet restaurant, a woman carries on an affair with deadly consequences.
    DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsRichard BohringerMichael GambonHelen Mirren
    This romantic crime drama may not be to everyone's taste, but The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is an audacious, powerful film.
  • John Gielgud, Isabelle Pasco, Mark Rylance, and Michael Clark in Prospero's Books (1991)

    7. Prospero's Books

    19912h 4mR
    6.8 (6.9K)
    The magician Prospero attempts to stop his daughter's affair with an enemy.
    DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsJohn GielgudMichael ClarkMichel Blanc
    There is no middle ground for viewers of Peter Greenaway's work, but for his fans, Prospero's Books is reliably daring.
  • The Baby of Mâcon (1993)

    8. The Baby of Mâcon

    19932h 2mNot Rated
    6.9 (5.3K)
    Plagued with infertility, the inhabitants of Mâcon are naturally involved in the spectacle that is a masque about the miracle child born to a virgin mother.
    DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsJulia OrmondRalph FiennesPhilip Stone
    I watched it to the end out of a sense of duty, not with pleasure or any hope of edification.
  • Vivian Wu in The Pillow Book (1995)

    9. The Pillow Book

    19952h 6mNot Rated64Metascore
    6.5 (14K)
    A woman with a body-writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.
    DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsVivian WuEwan McGregorYoshi Oida
    The Pillow Book is undeniably sensual and visually ravishing, but the film's narrative lacks the hypnotic pull of its imagery.
  • 8 ½ Women (1999)

    10. 8 ½ Women

    19991h 58mR36Metascore
    5.6 (4.3K)
    Following the death of a mother, a father and son open up their very own harem in their Genevan estate after watching 8½ (1963).
    DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsJohn StandingMatthew DelamereVivian Wu
    Peter Greenaway's exploration of sexual exploitation exhibits his fondness for breaking taboos, but this seedy exercise's ideas never come together into a satisfying whole.
  • The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story (2003)

    11. The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story

    20032h 7m
    6.7 (1.3K)
    The first of three parts, we follow Tulse Luper in three distinct episodes: as a child during the first World War, as an explorer in Mormon Utah, and as a writer in Belgium during the rise of fascism. Packed with stylistic flourishes, it's a dense, comic study of 20th century history, revolving around the contents of one man's suitcases.
    DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsJJ FeildRaymond J. BarryMichèle Bernier
  • The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp (2003)

    12. The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp

    20032h
    6.2 (162)
    Tells the picaresque adventures through the world of multi disciplinary artist and professional prisoner Tulse Luper.
    DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsEnrique AlcidesRaymond J. BarryMichèle Bernier
  • The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea (2004)

    13. The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea

    20041h 48m
    6.9 (691)
    Tulse Luper is a 20th century everyman whose collection of 92 suitcases intersects with every person, event and movement in history. Here in the second of a three part story, we find him working in a cinema, which gives him ample opportunity to cross paths with virtually every artistic device and dramatic character known to man.
    DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsJJ FeildRoger ReesAna Torrent
  • Visions of Europe (2004)

    14. Visions of Europe

    20042h 20m
    5.8 (989)
    An anthology of short film projects by different directors, unified by the common theme of the European Union.
    DirectorsFatih AkinBarbara AlbertSharunas BartasStarsAlan ReesYohanna TroellAgneta Ulfsäter-Troell
  • The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish (2004)

    15. The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish

    20042h 4m
    6.8 (497)
    The story of Tulse Luper, whose life is reconstructed through the evidence from 92 suitcases. He is the author and project manager, and constantly end up in prisons around the world.
    DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsJJ FeildRoger ReesStephen Billington
  • A Life in Suitcases (2005)

    16. A Life in Suitcases

    20052h
    6.1 (312)
    Tulse Luper is swept into the ill-fortuned tides of the 20th century and forced to spend his life in a succession of imprisonments.
    DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsRaymond J. BarryNoraly BeyerStephen Billington
  • Nightwatching (2007)

    17. Nightwatching

    20072h 14mR
    6.5 (3.6K)
    An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting 'The Night Watch'.
    DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsMartin FreemanEmily HolmesEva Birthistle
    It's not just Greenaway's best film in years, but one of his best films, period.
  • Goltzius and The Pelican Company (2012)

    18. Goltzius and The Pelican Company

    20122h 8mNot Rated
    6.5 (1.4K)
    Hendrik Goltzius, a late-16th-century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints, seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books.
    DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsRamsey NasrF. Murray AbrahamHendrik Aerts
    No one else could have made this film - a fascinating and somewhat heart-sinking realisation.
  • 3x3D (2013)

    19. 3x3D

    20131h 10m
    5.9 (377)
    A triptych of short stereoscopic films by Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard and Edgar Pêra.
    DirectorsPuttipong NakthongJean-Luc GodardPeter GreenawayStarsTiago CorreiaAkarin AkaranitimaytharattPedro Almendra
  • Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015)

    20. Eisenstein in Guanajuato

    20151h 45mUnrated60Metascore
    6.3 (3.2K)
    The venerated filmmaker Eisenstein is comparable in talent, insight and wisdom, with the likes of Shakespeare or Beethoven; there are few - if any - directors who can be elevated to such heights. On the back of his revolutionary film Battleship Potemkin, he was celebrated around the world, and invited to the US. Ultimately rejected by Hollywood and maliciously maligned by conservative Americans, Eisenstein traveled to Mexico in 1931 to consider a film privately funded by American pro-Communist sympathizers, headed by the American writer Upton Sinclair. Eisenstein's sensual Mexican experience appears to have been pivotal in his life and film career - a significant hinge between the early successes of Strike, Battleship Potemkin, and October, which made him a world-renowned figure, and his hesitant later career with Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible and The Boyar's Plot.
    DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsElmer BäckLuis AlbertiMaya Zapata
    Eisenstein in Guanajuato is certainly bold, but its provocations aren't always enough to overcome a lack of depth and clear narrative purpose.
  • Walking to Paris (2025)

    21. Walking to Paris

    20251h 23m
    The 27-year-old sculptor Constantin Brâncusi walked from Bucharest to Paris in 1903 and 1904 as a preparation and prelude to becoming the most important sculptor of the twentieth century.
    DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsEmun ElliottCarla JuriRemo Girone
  • 22. The Food of Love

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  • Tower Stories

    23. Tower Stories

    A writer takes a sabbatical to visit the city of Lucca.
    DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsDustin HoffmanHelen HuntSofia Boutella
  • Eisenstein in Hollywood

    24. Eisenstein in Hollywood

    Renowned Soviet filmmaker travels from Moscow to Mexico City, meeting intellectuals on his journey through Switzerland.
    StarsJakob ÖhrmanElmer BäckRasmus Slätis

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