Michael Nyman Movies

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...

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

An anonymous narrator outlines a bizarre journey taken through "H", aided by a series of extraordinary maps, and his previous dealings with the...

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.

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

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...

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

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 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 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 disillusioned writer follows the intertwining stories of several people, but are they his own inventions or do they really exist?

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

A numerical journey through the quaint village of Goole.

A lone man avenges the death of his father.

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

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

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,...

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