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Peter Greenaway

Welsh film director (born 1942)

1.86body-of-work score · ranked #549 of 2631 directors · 4 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
April 5, 1942 · Newport
Nationality
United Kingdom
Work
theatre director, film director, writer, experimental artist
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Peter Greenaway
Sławek · CC BY-SA 2.0

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1
    The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her LoverThe Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

    1989 · France / United Kingdom / Netherlands · drama, romance, crime

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1990 #6 · Sarris's annual top 10 1990 #4 · Ebert's annual top 10 1990 #9

    0.834 citations
  2. 2
    Drowning by Numbers

    1988 · United Kingdom / Netherlands · drama, comedy, crime

    Hoberman's annual top 10 1991 #2 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies

    0.482 citations
  3. 3
    The Draughtsman's Contract

    1982 · United Kingdom · comedy, mystery, drama

    BFI Top 100 British films #80 · Sarris's annual top 10 1983 #10

    0.382 citations
  4. 4
    The Pillow Book

    1996 · United Kingdom / France / Netherlands · drama, romance

    NYT Best 1,000 Movies

    0.171 citation

Complete filmography

All 36 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

  • 1975Windows
  • 1978Vertical Features Remake
  • 1980Act Of God: Some Lightning Experiences 1966-1980
  • 1980The Falls
  • 1982The Draughtsman's Contract
  • 1983Four American Composers
  • 1983The Coastline
  • 198526 Bathrooms
  • 1985A Zed & Two Noughts
  • 1987The Belly of an Architect
  • 1988Drowning by Numbers
  • 1989A TV Dante
  • 1989The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
  • 1991Prospero's Books
  • 1992The Baby of Mâcon
  • 1995Lumière and Company
  • 1995Stairs 1 Geneva
  • 1996The Pillow Book
  • 19998½ Women
  • 1999Death of a Composer
  • 2003The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
  • 2003The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp
  • 2004The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
  • 2004The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
  • 2004Visions of Europe
  • 2005A Life in Suitcases
  • 2007Nightwatching
  • 2007Peopling the Palaces at Venaria Reale
  • 2008Rembrandt's J'Accuse
  • 201092 Atomic Bomb Explosions on the Planet Earth
  • 2012Goltzius and the Pelican Company
  • 20133x3D
  • 2014Just in time
  • 2014The Food of Love
  • 2015Eisenstein in Guanajuato
  • 2019Walking to Paris