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.

Drowning by Numbers

1988

English

7.1

♡ 11

88%

Peter Greenaway Director

Joely Richardson as Cissie Colpitts 3

Trevor Cooper as Hardy

Janine Duvitski as Marina Bellamy

Natalie Morse as The Skipping Girl

Three generations of women who seek to murder their husbands share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings.

The Pillow Book

1995

English

6.5

♡ 13

68%

Peter Greenaway Director

Ewan McGregor as Jerome

Miho Tanaka as Model Friend in Cafe Typo

Hideko Yoshida as The Aunt / The Maid

Ken Ogata as The Father

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

The Baby of Mâcon

1993

English

6.9

♡ 16

38%

Peter Greenaway Director

Philip Stone as The Bishop

Ralph Fiennes as The Bishop's Son

Julia Ormond as The Daughter

Tony Vogel as The Father

Set halfway through the 17th century, a church play is performed for the benefit of the young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. The child's older sister is quick to exploit the situation, selling blessings from the baby, and even claiming she's the true mother by virgin birth. However, when she attempts to seduce the bishop's son, the Church exacts a terrible revenge.

Eisenstein in Guanajuato

2015

English

6.3

♡ 3

62%

Peter Greenaway Director

Maya Zapata as Concepción Cañedo

Stelio Savante as Hunter S. Kimbrough

Lisa Owen as Mary Craig Sinclair

Luis Alberti as Palomino Cañedo

In 1931, following the success of the film Battleship Potemkin, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, to shoot a new film. Freshly rejected by Hollywood, Eisenstein soon falls under Mexico’s spell. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino Cañedo, the director opens up to his suppressed fears as he embraces a new world of sensual pleasures and possibilities that will shape the future of his art.

A Zed & Two Noughts

1985

English

7.2

♡ 13

78%

Peter Greenaway Director

Wolf Kahler as Felipe Arc-en-Ciel

Brian Deacon as Oswald Deuce

Joss Ackland as Van Hoyten

Frances Barber as Venus de Milo

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

The Falls

1980

English

7.1

♡ 2

80%

Peter Greenaway Director

Peter Greenaway as Interviewer

Stephen Quay as Ipson Fallari

Hilary Thompson as Narrator

Timothy Quay as Pulat Fallari

The exploration of the effects of an unexpected catastrophe, known as VUE (violent unknown event) through the bios of 92 survivors.

The Draughtsman's Contract

1982

English

7.2

♡ 13

97%

Peter Greenaway Director

Michael Carter as Mr Clarke

Dave Hill as Mr Herbert / Mrs Herbert's husband

Anne-Louise Lambert as Mrs. Talmann / Mrs. Herbert's daughter

David Meyer as The Poulencs

A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.

Prospero's Books

1991

English

6.8

♡ 12

62%

Peter Greenaway Director

Mark Rylance as Ferdinand

Deborah Conway as Juno

Isabelle Pasco as Miranda

Kenneth Cranham as Sebastian

An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.

The Belly of an Architect

1987

English

6.9

♡ 7

85%

older man younger woman relationship

rome, italy

Peter Greenaway Director

Alfredo Varelli as Julio

Francesco Carnelutti as Pastarri

Fabio Sartor as Policeman

Brian Dennehy as Stourley Kracklite

The American architect Kracklite arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibiton for a French architect, Boullée, famous for his oval structures. Tirelessly dedicated to the project, Kracklite's marriage quickly dissolves along with his health.