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Peter Greenaway has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 1990s.
Drowning by Numbers
1988 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 24%Tubi · Free w/ ads
The Baby of Mâcon
1993 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 45%Tubi · Free w/ ads
The Belly of an Architect
1987 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 48%Tubi · Free w/ ads
The Pillow Book
1995 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 69%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads
When churlish mobster Albert Spica acquires an upscale French restaurant in London, he dines there nightly, effectively scaring off the clientele with his bad manners. His wife, Georgina, is especially disgusted by him, and soon begins an affair with regular guest Michael. Despite their best efforts to keep it secret, Spica learns about their trysts, and he plots a terrible revenge.
Dir. Peter Greenaway · With Michael Gambon, Richard Bohringer, Helen Mirren
Cissie Colpitts drowns her cheating husband and, in the ensuing cover-up, enlists the help of lonely coroner Henry Madgett, an old friend with a longstanding weakness for her charms. But when Cissie's daughter and granddaughter—both also named Cissie Colpitts—decide to resort to the same methods for solving conflicts with their own frustrating husbands, the women and their repeated appeals for help begin to wear on Madgett's conscience.
Dir. Peter Greenaway · With Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson
Identical twin zoologists lose their wives in a car crash caused by a white swan. They become obsessed with the death and decay of animals, and develop a strange and unusual relationship with the driver of the car, a woman who is now an amputee.
Dir. Peter Greenaway · With Frances Barber, Joss Ackland, Brian Deacon
R. Neville, a brash young draftsman, is hired to make a dozen landscape illustrations at the estate of Mr Herbert and his wife Virginia. Aside from monetary compensation, the arrangement includes a sexual liaison offered to Neville by Virginia while her estranged husband is away. But when the murdered body of Mr Herbert is discovered at the estate, mysterious clues found in Neville's drawings point to the identity of the killer.
Dir. Peter Greenaway · With Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Dave Hill
In 17th-century Tuscany, a church play is performed for the benefit of young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. The child's older sister is quick to exploit the situation, selling blessings from the baby, and even claiming she's the true mother by virgin birth. However, when she attempts to seduce the bishop's son, the Church exacts a terrible revenge.
Dir. Peter Greenaway · With Julia Ormond, Ralph Fiennes, Philip Stone
Stourley Kracklite, a driven, detail-obsessed architect, travels from America to Rome with his much younger wife, Louisa, to oversee an architectural homage to a personal hero, 18th-century master builder Etienne-Louis Boullée. En route by train, Stourley and Louisa conceive a much-wanted child — but Stourley's obsession with his wife's expanding belly, her perceived infidelity, and his own recurrent bouts of abdominal pain reach epic and dangerous proportions.
Dir. Peter Greenaway · With Brian Dennehy, Chloe Webb, Lambert Wilson
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 uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.
Dir. Peter Greenaway · With John Gielgud, Michael Clark, Michel Blanc
Nagito has a fetish for calligraphy on the human body and meets her ideal soulmate Jerome, an English translator sent to Japan. However, once Nagiko's father's gay publisher rejoins the scene, the story is overtaken by treachery and bloodlust.
Dir. Peter Greenaway · With Vivian Wu, Yoshi Oida, Ken Ogata