Peter Greenaway Movies

The vulgar gangster Roquey van Smacker extorts and blackmails in order to get what he wants, but when he kills his girlfriend who is beloved by the...

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

Fashions and pageantry put fabrics to the fore in this COI cinemagazine story filmed at Leeds Castle in Kent.

Peter Greenaway discussing a variety of topics, with each segment ranging in length from 6s to 2m47s.

A television documentary about John Cage and his music.

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

Greenaway's short documentary shows 26 bathrooms, each representing a letter of the alphabet.

A promotional film advertising a British tie dye expert’s book in the 60s when it was the fashion.

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...

Calligraphy on water. The first joint work of director Peter Greenaway and composer David Lang.

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

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 numerical journey through the quaint village of Goole.

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

An audiovisual work by Philip Glass and Peter Greenaway.

Ostensibly, a film about a child's pictorial alphabet stuck on the letter H.

A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway.

In this previously unseen backstage documentary, Peter Greenaway responds with great generosity to the open-ended questions posed by an off-camera...

Like plants, people can either thrive or wither when removed from their native soil, as this short film explores.

Greenaway's profile of one of Savile Row’s best regarded tailoring establishments, Kilgour, French & Stanbury, placing Britain at the helm of...