Peter Greenaway Movies

Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch prophesies the events of 1492, the start of the modern world.

A narrator relates a variety of peculiar stories involving characters with the initials HC and their dealings with telephones. These are interspersed...

An audiovisual work by Philip Glass and Peter Greenaway.

A personal essay on the legacy of Martin Luther on the basis of 16th-Century drawings and paintings where the director draws parallels with today's...

Peter Greenaway presents this "Commentary in one hundred parts" on Drowning by Numbers (1987), discussing and analyzing many of the film's more...

Searching for the roots of Peter Greenaway in his films, this artful documentary begins with a workshop from 1991 in which Peter Greenaway discusses...

An early work by Peter Greenaway showing ports as diverse as Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Goole, London or Newport.

A numerical journey through the quaint village of Goole.

A film by Peter Greenaway

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,...

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

A short film by Peter Greenaway.

A grim-looking leftist march of young men, edited to the Beatles’ Revolution.

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

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

A mechanical ballet composed of footage of the last steam trains arriving to the Waterloo Station

A film as part of the Spellbound installation at the Hayward Gallery in 1996 by Peter Greenaway.

A short ironic film about a missing nail in the iconography of Christ and his depiction in da Vinci’s painting of The Last Supper.

A short film which has its emphasis on back street walls with peeling posters and the constant pedestrian traffic in the foreground. It has a static...

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