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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
1989 • Drama • Crime
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,…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Nightwatching
2007 • Drama • History
An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Nigh…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
The Pillow Book
1995 • Drama • Romance
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 rej…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
8 ½ Women
1999 • Drama • Comedy
After his wife dies, middle-aged businessman Philip Emmenthal, at the prompting of his playboy son Storey, populates his Geneva villa with eight-and-a-half concubines. Three are…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Goltzius & the Pelican Company
2012 • Comedy • History
Goltzius and the Pelican Company tells the story of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints. A contemporary of Rembrandt and, indeed, m…
Why matched: genres Comedy, History
Drowning by Numbers
1988 • Drama • Crime • Comedy
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 c…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
The Baby of Mâcon
1993 • Drama • History
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…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
The Draughtsman's Contract
1982 • Mystery • Comedy • History
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 ar…
Why matched: genres Mystery, Comedy
Visions of Europe
2004 • Drama • Comedy • Documentary
Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Prospero's Books
1991 • Drama • Fantasy
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…
Why matched: genres Drama, Fantasy
The Belly of an Architect
1987 • Drama
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,…
Why matched: genres Drama
Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!
2008 • Mystery • Documentary
J'accuse is an 'essay-istic' documentary in which Greenaway's fierce criticism of today's visual illiteracy is argued by means of a forensic search of Rembrandt's Nightwatch. Gr…
Matched on: Greenaway
A Zed & Two Noughts
1985 • Drama • Comedy
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 rel…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
2015 • Romance • Comedy
In 1931, following the success of the film Battleship Potemkin, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, to shoot a new film. Freshly reject…
Why matched: genres Romance, Comedy
The Falls
1982 • Science Fiction • Comedy
Told in the form of a mock documentary in 92 short parts, nineteen million people are left obsessed with birds and flight following a strange occurrence. A documentarian analyse…
Why matched: genres Science Fiction, Comedy
Vertical Features Remake
1978 • Comedy
Vertical Features Remake is a film by Peter Greenaway. It portrays the work of a fictional Institute of Reclamation and Restoration as they attempt to assemble raw footage taken…
Matched on: Greenaway