Michael Nyman Movies

When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful...

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...

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

A French man spies on a lovely younger woman across the way. When he's spotted by the woman shortly after being questioned by the police about a...

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

Paris doctor Catherine starts to think her husband, Bernard, is having an affair when she hears an unfamiliar woman's message on his voice mail....

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 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.

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

People claim to know an amnesiac who finds herself in a hotel with a suitcase full of cash.

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

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...

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...

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

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