Peter Greenaway

Peter Greenaway

April 5, 1942 · 84 years old

Peter Greenaway, CBE (born 5 April 1942) is a Welsh writer-director, painter, and video artist based in Amsterdam. Throughout the late 1960s and '70s, he produced several experimental documentary/mockumentary shorts while working as a film editor for the Central Office of Information. This early per…

Known For

13 titles
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

1989 · 2h 4m · Movie

At an opulent gourmet restaurant, a woman carries on an affair with deadly consequences.

7.5
2
The Pillow Book

The Pillow Book

1995 · 2h 6m · Movie

A woman with a body-writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.

6.5
3
A Zed & Two Noughts

A Zed & Two Noughts

1985 · 1h 55m · Movie

Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.

7.2
4
The Belly of an Architect

The Belly of an Architect

1987 · 1h 59m · Movie

An architect supervising an exhibition starts to have mysterious stomach pains while his life slowly falls apart.

6.9
5
The Baby of Mâcon

The Baby of Mâcon

1993 · 2h 2m · Movie

Plagued with infertility, the inhabitants of Mâcon are naturally involved in the spectacle that is a masque about the miracle child born to a virgin mother.

6.9
6
8 ½ Women

8 ½ Women

1999 · 1h 58m · Movie

Following the death of a mother, a father and son open up their very own harem in their Genevan estate after watching 8½ (1963).

5.6
7
Nightwatching

Nightwatching

2007 · 2h 14m · Movie

An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting 'The Night Watch'.

6.5
8
Eisenstein in Guanajuato

Eisenstein in Guanajuato

2015 · 1h 45m · Movie

The venerated filmmaker Eisenstein is comparable in talent, insight and wisdom, with the likes of Shakespeare or Beethoven; there are few - if any - directors who can be elevated to such heights. On the back of his revolutionary f...

6.3
9
The Falls

The Falls

1982 · 3h 15m · Movie

92 BBC documentary-style shorts that record the lives of 92 victims of the VUE (Violent Unexplained Event), each with last names beginning with "Fall."

7.2
10
Goltzius and The Pelican Company

Goltzius and The Pelican Company

2012 · 2h 8m · Movie

Hendrik Goltzius, a late-16th-century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints, seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books.

6.5
11
Visions of Europe

Visions of Europe

2004 · 2h 20m · Movie

An anthology film is a collection of short film projects by different directors for a common aim. Usually they are unified by a common theme - in this case, the European Union.

5.8
12
The Greenaway Alphabet

The Greenaway Alphabet

2018 · 1h 0m · Movie

An intimate portrait of painter and filmmaker Peter Greenaway, directed by his wife Saskia Boddeke. Together with his daughter Pip, Greenaway formulates an alphabet that represents his personality and thoughts about art and life.

7.2
13
Making a Splash

Making a Splash

1984 · 25m · Movie

Peter Greenaway's celebration of water, and the human relationship with it, choreographed to Michael Nyman music and culminating with a synchronised swimming sequence!

6.8