Screenplay: Eurípides

Direction Mihalis Kakogiannis

Cast Irene Papas · Tatiana Papamoschou · Kostas Kazakos · Costas Carras

Plot The Greek army is becalmed in Aulis and unable to sail to Troy. King Agamemnon has to face food shortage, the soldiers' mutiny but also soothsayer Calhas' intrigues, who saw...

Direction Mihalis Kakogiannis

Cast Irene Papas · Giannis Fertis · Aleka Katselli · Manos Katrakis

Plot A powerful rendering of the tragedy of Elektra by Euripides. The film begins with a summary treatment without dialogue of the action of the preceding play in the trilogy, The...

Direction Lars von Trier

Cast Udo Kier · Kirsten Olesen · Henning Jensen · Solbjorg Hojfeldt

Plot Shooting entirely on analog video, Lars von Trier directs the made-for-Danish-TV version of the ancient Greek tragedy Medea by Euripides. The screenplay is based on a 1960s adaptation written by...

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Melina Mercouri · Anthony Perkins · Raf Vallone · Elizabeth Ercy

Plot A retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. In modern Greece, Alexis's father, an extremely wealthy shipping magnate, marries the younger, fiery Phaedra. When Alexis meets his stepmother, sparks fly...

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Maria Callas · Giuseppe Gentile · Laurent Terzieff · Massimo Girotti

Plot Featuring Opera Diva Maria Callas in her only film role Based on the Greek classic by Euripides, Pasolini's Medea tells the tale of Jason, the leader of the invincible army...

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Melina Mercouri · Ellen Burstyn · Andreas Filippides · Faidon Georgitsis

Direction Mihalis Kakogiannis

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Vanessa Redgrave · Geneviève Bujold · Irene Papas

Plot After the fall of Troy to the Greek invading army, the Trojan women weep over their lost city, families, and honour, as they are taken away as Greek slaves.

Direction Brian De Palma · Richard Schechner

Cast Will Shepherd · William Finley · Joan MacIntosh · Remi Barclay

Plot Produced, directed, shot, and edited by Brian De Palma, Robert Fiore, and Bruce Rubin, Dionysus in '69 documents a landmark late-'60s experimental-theater work. Adapted by theater director Richard Schechner and...

Direction Mark Cullingham

Cast Zoe Caldwell · Judith Anderson · Mitchell Ryan · Jacqueline Brookes

Direction Don Kent

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Pierre Barrat · Anne Benoît · Jean-Quentin Châtelain

Direction George Zervoulakos

Cast Emilia Ipsilanti · Christo Spyropoulos · Aliki Zanou

Direction Inés de Oliveira Cézar

Cast Carlos Portaluppi · Agustina Muñoz · Eva Bianco · Maciej Robakiewicz

Direction Carrie Cracknell

Cast Helen McCrory · Lorna Brown · Vivien Carter · Michaela Coel

Plot Medea, a woman stricken with grief after learning that her ex-husband has decided to remarry is faced with impossible choices in this exhilarating and breathtaking adaptation of Medea.

Direction Sergio Véjar

Cast Ofelia Guilmáin · Erna Martha Bauman · Mercedes Pascual · Virginia Gutiérrez

Plot Adaptation of Euripides: lamentations of the women of Troy after their defeat in war.

Direction George Zervoulakos

Cast Bente Børsum · Andreas Barkoulis · Christo Spyropoulos · Anda Vartholomeou

Direction Vittorio Cottafavi

Cast Luisa Aluigi · Lia Angeleri · Anna Maria Chio · Vittoria Dal Verme

Plot In 1967 the director Vittorio Cottafavi produces the TV movie Le Troiane from Euripides. He uses the classical Italian translation by Enzio Cetrangolo, but creates an original way of film...

Direction Giorgio Ferroni

Cast Pierre Brice · Akim Tamiroff · Taina Elg · Alessandra Panaro

Direction Gustavo Pérez Puig

Cast Mary Carrillo · Luis Prendes · Paco Morán · Vicente Solar

Direction Juan Collado · Pablo Peris

Cast Ángeles Abad · Paula Andrés · Fran de la Torre · Miguel Angel Jordán

Plot Documentary movie filmed in Valencia with the theater company 'Teatro Implacable'.