Michael Nyman Movies

Told in the form of a mock documentary in 92 short parts, nineteen million people are left obsessed with birds and flight following a strange...

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

Detroit, known as Motor City, once the fourth largest city in the United States, home of the Ford Motor Company, General Motors and other major car...

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

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.

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

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

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

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...

Ute Lemper sings a collection of art songs by Michael Nyman based on texts by Paul Celan, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, William Shakespeare and Arthur...

Opera singer and professor Dr P is examined both in a clinic and in his home, as he suffers from a degeneration of the occipital lobe that allows him...

Three criminals pledge to free the soul of their friend from his gibbeted corpse in this short film based on 'The Highwayman' by Lord Dunsany.

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

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

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

A pixelated record of the ‘Legalize Pot’ rally in Hyde Park, with appearances by Allen Ginsberg, Heathcote Williams, David Medalla, etc.,...