8 1/2 Women
(1999) [R]

A startling and challenging voyage into the taboo worlds of sex and death from Peter Greenaway. When wealthy Swiss architect Philip Emmenthal (John Standing) takes financial control of a group of Pachinko game parlours in Japan, and puts his strange son Storey (Matthew Delamare) in charge, his...  More

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
(1989) [R]

At Le Hollandais gourmet restaurant, every night is filled with opulence, decadence, and gluttony. But when the cook (Richard Bohringer), a thief (Michael Gambon), his wife (Helen Mirren) and her lover (Alan Howard) all come together, they unleash a shocking torrent of sex, food, murder and...  More

A Zed And Two Noughts
(1985) [M]

Two women passengers die in a car crash as a result of which the female driver has a leg amputated. The zoologist twin husbands of the dead women are fascinated by the processes of decay, start an affair with the amputee and liberate animals from a zoo. Tirelessly provocative, sexy, funny and...  More

The Baby Of Mâcon
(1993) [R]

Reality and illusion collide in the baby of Macon, a masque performed to a 17th Century audience. An old woman gives birth and the community celebrate it as a miracle. The child seems imbued with mystical powers, which are exploited not least by his sister (Julia Ormond). When she seduces the...  More

Drowning By Numbers
(1988) [M]

3 generations of women share a name and an aversion to marriage. 3 husbands have reason to be afraid of water. Add to the equation 1 amorous coroner and 1 inventive little boy, and so begins the game. Drowning By Numbers is a sharp and witty tale of female camaraderie with Joan Plowright, Juliet...  More

The Pillow Book
(1996) [MA]

In Kyoto, Japan, in the 1970s, a calligrapher delicately writes a birthday greeting on his daughter's face. When she grows up, Nagiko (Vivian Wu) remembers the event with much affection and excitement and begins a search for an ideal calligrapher-lover who will use her whole body as his personal...  More

The Draughtsman's Contract
(1982) [M]

The Draughtsman's Contract is a visual and narrative treat and established Peter Greenaway as one of Britain's most original and talented filmmakers. Set in the opulent 17th Century when double standards between the sexes prevailed, this elaborate conspiracy thriller tells of an opportunistic and...  More

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story (Disc 1 of 3)
(2003) [MA]

THE TULSE LUPER SUITCASES follows the titular character on a series of cross-country adventures starting in 1928 - the year uranium was discovered - until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Traveling through such diverse terrain as the mid-West of America, Japan, Manchuria and Siberia, Tulse...  More

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea (Disc 2 of 3)
(2004) [MA]

Tulse Luper is a 20th century everyman whose collection of 92 suitcases intersects with every person, event and movement in history.

Here in the second of a three part story, we find him working in a cinema, which gives him ample opportunity to cross paths with virtually every...  More

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish (Disc 3 of 3)
(2003) [MA]

The Tulse Luper Suitcases is Tristan Shandy gone haywire - or Monty Python taken to even more absurd depths The contents of the suitcases are revealed one by one. Suitcase number twelve : frogs. 92 Ways of Representing the World: #5 The bath. The number 92 is derived from the element number of...  More