Michael Nyman Movies

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...

This film charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife and is being shot over the course of five years, a few...

A biography of the eighteenth century Viennese physician, Franz Anton Mesmer, who used unorthodox healing practices based on his theory of "animal...

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

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

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

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.

Faking an injury for insurance money, a peddler seeks out a cure to support his claims while a suspicious investigator tries to expose the scam.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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...

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