# What is the best Peter Greenaway film of all time?

> Counted corpses, framed paintings, elaborate cruelty. Some of these were canonised; others barely got screened.

*By YPB Team · Published September 4, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-best-peter-greenaway-film-of-all-time*

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1. **The Tulse Luper Suitcases** — score 1000/1000
   The 2003-2004 trilogy tracking a prisoner of the 20th century through 92 suitcases.
2. **Prospero's Books** — score 873/1000
   A 1991 version of The Tempest with John Gielgud speaking every part.
3. **The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover** — score 753/1000
   The 1989 restaurant revenge fable with Helen Mirren and Michael Gambon.
4. **A Zed & Two Noughts** — score 753/1000
   A 1985 story of twin zoologists filming decay after a car crash kills their wives.
5. **The Baby of Mâcon** — score 667/1000
   A 1993 play-within-a-film about a miracle child sold by his sister.
6. **Nightwatching** — score 565/1000
   A 2007 film about Rembrandt hiding an accusation of murder inside The Night Watch.
7. **The Draughtsman's Contract** — score 439/1000
   Greenaway's 1982 breakthrough, a country-house puzzle of twelve drawings and a disappearance.
8. **The Falls** — score 439/1000
   A 1980 mock encyclopedia of 92 survivors of a mysterious Violent Unknown Event.
9. **The Pillow Book** — score 439/1000
   A 1996 film of a calligrapher who writes on human skin, drawn from Sei Shonagon.
10. **Vertical Features Remake** — score 439/1000
   A 1978 short mockumentary about academics reconstructing a lost film of vertical objects.
11. **Goltzius and the Pelican Company** — score 439/1000
   A 2012 story of a printmaker staging biblical taboos for a Alsatian margrave.
12. **8 1/2 Women** — score 282/1000
   A 1999 comedy of a father and son opening a private brothel in their Geneva mansion.
13. **Drowning by Numbers** — score 282/1000
   A 1988 comedy in which three women named Cissie Colpitts drown their husbands, counted from 1 to 100.
14. **The Belly of an Architect** — score 282/1000
   A 1987 drama of an American architect unravelling in Rome, with Brian Dennehy.
15. **Eisenstein in Guanajuato** — score 282/1000
   A 2015 account of ten days Sergei Eisenstein spent in Mexico in 1931.

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