Michael Nyman Movies

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

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...

During 1950, Miguel Contreras Torres led a group of filmmakers to officially denounce William O. Jenkins' monopoly on film theaters, which was built...

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.

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

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

Alice is a promising young artist in Paris. Her boyfriend Franck, a boxer, has just moved in to her attic flat. Then her sister Elsa, a bored...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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.

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...

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.

Peter Greenaway remembers his first meeting with Rotterdam Film Festival director Hubert Bals.

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

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

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

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