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  • Peter Greenaway

    Tales of carnal bargaining, conspiracy, subversion and rage. Peter Greenaway's maverick work embodies all of these and more.

    Greenaway remains one of our most controversial contemporary film-makers.

    Goltzius and the Pelican Company

    An artist stages a series of erotic dramatisations illustrating sexual taboos from the Old Testament, in this startling and shocking return from director Peter Greenaway.

    • Biopic
    • 2012
    • 117 mins
    • Peter Greenaway

    The Draughtsman's Contract

    Peter Greenaway became a director of international status with this witty, stylised, erotic country house murder mystery.

    • Period drama
    • 1982
    • 107 mins
    • Peter Greenaway

    A Zed and Two Noughts

    Following a fatal car crash involving a swan outside a zoo, twin-brother zoologists Oliver and Oswald become fascinated by the processes of decay.

    • Animation & Artists Moving Image
    • 1985
    • 117 mins
    • Peter Greenaway

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