Michael Nyman Movies

A girl visiting modern day East Germany with her estranged father begins reliving the horrifying events that happened to a young girl living there...

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

A strange young man has a sinister effect on the family of a middle-aged writer.

Alexander McQueen's rags-to-riches story is a modern-day fairy tale, laced with the gothic. Mirroring the savage beauty, boldness and vivacity of his...

A comic drama about the weird and wonderful world of Salvador Dali and the Surrealists. This film charts Dali's meteoric rise from obscurity to the...

On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rigged between New York's World Trade Center twin...

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.

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

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...

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...

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

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

In 1263, King James I of Aragon organizes a debate between representatives of Judaism and Christianity regarding whether or not Jesus was the Messiah.

The year is 1904; the setting is Cockshute Towers, one of England's stateliest homes. When the household is threatened with bankruptcy, both the...

Nanako returns to her hometown on the tiny island of Aguni to meet her grandmother Nabbie. However, when Nanako's ferry arrives, it is also carrying...

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

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

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...

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.

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