Michael Nyman Movies

During the run of a particularly awful interpretation of Richard III, the star, Anthony O'Malley, begins to frequent a rough pub to develop his...

The film begins with a flashback from the titular character, Antoine. We are introduced to his fixation with female hairdressers which began at a...

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...

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...

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

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.

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

The resurrection of Zambia's national football team after losing 18 players in a plane crash in Gabon in 1993. A 18-year road of reconstruction until...

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