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Michael Nyman
Michael Laurence Edward Nyman, CBE (born 23 March 1944, Stratford, London) is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, perhaps best known for the many movie scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi...
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Gattaca
Gattaca is a 1997 science fiction drama film written and directed by Andrew Niccol, starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law with supporting roles played by Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Gore Vidal and Alan Arkin. The film was a 1997 nominee...
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- Oct 24, 1997
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- 101 min (60.6 hs )
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The Piano
The Piano is a 1993 film about a mute female pianist and her daughter, set during the mid-19th century in a rainy, muddy frontier New Zealand backwater. The film was written and directed by Jane Campion, and stars Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam...
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- 1993
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- 121 min (72.6 hs )
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- 7,000,000 (US$)
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Drowning by Numbers
Drowning by Numbers is a 1988 British film directed by Peter Greenaway. It was entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.
The film's plot centers on three women — a grandmother, mother and daughter — each named Cissie Colpitts. As the story...
Initial release date:
- Sep 10, 1988
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- 118 min (70.8 hs )
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The Falls
The Falls is a 1980 film directed by Peter Greenaway. It was Greenaway's first feature-length film after many years making shorts. It does not have a traditional dramatic narrative; it takes the form of a mock documentary in 92 short parts.
The...
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- 1980
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- 185 min (111 hs )
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Ravenous
Ravenous is a 1999 horror/drama film directed by Antonia Bird and starring Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle and Jeffrey Jones. The film revolves around cannibalism in 1840s California and some elements bear similarities to the story of the Donner Party...
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- 1999
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- 100 min (60 hs )
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The Draughtsman's Contract
The Draughtsman's Contract is a 1982 British film written and directed by Peter Greenaway. Originally produced for Channel 4 the film is a form of murder mystery, set in 1694. The period setting is reflected in Michael Nyman's score, which borrows...
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- 1982
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Runtime:
- 103 min (61.8 hs )
Prospero's Books
Prospero's Books (1991), written and directed by Peter Greenaway, is a cinematic adaptation of The Tempest, by William Shakespeare. John Gielgud is Prospero, the protagonist who provides the off-screen narration and the voices to the other story...
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- Nov 15, 1991
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- 129 min (77.4 hs )
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A Zed & Two Noughts
A Zed & Two Noughts (A.K.A. Z00) is a 1985 film written and directed by Peter Greenaway.
The plot centres on twin brothers, Oswald and Oliver Deuce, whose wives are killed in a car accident. The brothers enter a relationship with Alba Bewick, the...
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- 1985
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- 115 min (69 hs )
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The Hairdresser's Husband
The Hairdresser's Husband (French: Le Mari de la coiffeuse), a 1990 French film written by Patrice Leconte and Claude Klotz, and directed by Leconte. Jean Rochefort stars as the title character. Anna Galiena co-stars.
It won Patrice Leconte the Prix...
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- 1990
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is a 1989 film release written and directed by Peter Greenaway starring Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren and Alan Howard in the titular roles. The film's graphic scatological, violent and nude...
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- 1989
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- 123 min (73.8 hs )
The Libertine
The Libertine is a 2004 movie starring Johnny Depp, John Malkovich, Samantha Morton, and Rosamund Pike. It is directed by Laurence Dunmore (his debut film) from Stephen Jeffreys' adaptation of his play of the same name. Johnny Depp plays the main...
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- Nov 23, 2005
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- 130 min (78 hs )
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The Claim
The Claim is a 2000 British Western/romance film directed by Michael Winterbottom. The screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce is loosely based on the novel The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. The original music score is composed by Michael Nyman....
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- Dec 29, 2000
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- 120 min (72 hs )
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- 20,000,000 (US$)
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Nathalie...
Nathalie... is a 2004 French film directed by Anne Fontaine, and starring Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Béart, and Gérard Depardieu. It is distributed by Koch-Lorber Films.
The main character, Catherine (Fanny Ardant) discovers that her husband (Gérard...
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- Jan 7, 2004
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- 100 min (60 hs )
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A Cock and Bull Story
A Cock and Bull Story (released in the United States and Australia as Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story) is a 2006 British comedy directed by Michael Winterbottom. It is a film-within-a-film, featuring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon playing...
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- Jan 20, 2006
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- 94 min (56 hs )
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Carrington
Carrington is a film released in 1995 about the life of the English artist Dora Carrington, who was known simply as Carrington.
The film, starring Emma Thompson in the title role, focuses on her unusual relationship with the author Lytton Strachey,...
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- 1995
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- 121 min (72.6 hs )
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The Actors
The Actors is a 2003 film written and directed by Conor McPherson and starring Dylan Moran and Michael Caine. In supporting roles are Michael Gambon, Miranda Richardson and Lena Headey .
The Actors is a contemporary comedy set in Dublin. It follows...
Initial release date:
- 2003
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Runtime:
- 91 min (55 hs )
À la folie
À la folie ("To Madness") (English: Six Days, Six Nights) is a 1994 film by Diane Kurys with music by Michael Nyman.
Two rival sisters, Alice and Elsa, have been apart for two years. Alice, a promising young artist, lives in an attic flat in Paris....
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Runtime:
- 98 min (59 hs )
Teresa, el cuerpo de Cristo
Teresa, el cuerpo de Cristo (English: Theresa: The Body of Christ) is a 2007 biopic written and directed by Ray Loriga and starring Paz Vega as the title character, Saint Teresa of Ávila.
The film has been criticised by Spanish bishops for its...
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- 2007
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Runtime:
- 97 min (58 hs )
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Wonderland
Wonderland is a 1999 drama film about the lives of a London couple, their three adult daughters and absent son. Directed by Michael Winterbottom, the film stars Jack Shepherd, Kika Markham, Shirley Henderson, Gina McKee, Molly Parker and Stuart...
Initial release date:
- May 13, 1999
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- 108 min (64.8 hs )
The End of the Affair
The End of the Affair is a 1999 drama film directed by Neil Jordan and starring Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore and Stephen Rea.
The film is based on The End of the Affair, a 1951 novel by British author Graham Greene.
Novelist Maurice Bendrix (Ralph...
Initial release date:
- Dec 3, 1999
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- 102 min (61.2 hs )
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Man on Wire
Man on Wire is a 2008 documentary film directed by James Marsh. The film chronicles Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center. It is based on Philippe Petit's book, To Reach the Clouds, recently...
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- 2008
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- 90 min (54 hs )
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The Cold Room
The Cold Room is a 1984 cable television film by James Dearden. Based on an eponymous 1978 science fiction novel by Jeffrey Caine, the film stars George Segal, Amanda Pays (in her film debut), Anthony Higgins, Renée Soutendijk, and Warren Clarke....
Initial release date:
- Mar 24, 1984
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- 95 min (57 hs )
Nabbie's Love
Nabbie's Love (Nabbie no koi) is a 1999 film written and directed by Yuji Nakae about a grandmother named Nabbie Agarikinjo, played by Tomi Taira. The film score is by Kenichiro Isoda and Michael Nyman, working separately. The film tied with...
Initial release date:
- Dec 4, 1999
Mesmer
Mesmer is a 1994 film focusing on the life of the 18th century pioneer physician Franz Anton Mesmer, portrayed by Alan Rickman. The story is set in Vienna, where Mesmer's controversial medical methods gained him a rather bad reputation. The...
Initial release date:
- 1994
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Runtime:
- 107 min (64.2 hs )
