Topic: Ancient Greece

Direction Chris Marker

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Astrid Ofner · Ursula Ofner · Albert Hetterle · Stephan Wolf-Schönburg

Synopsis Based on a translate to german by Friedrich Hölderlin of texts by Sofokles and Bertold Brecht. Antigone, daughter to Oedipus, opposes tyrant of Thebes, Creon's edict that her brother Polynice's body remain unburied, because he had betrayed the city. She...

Direction Franco Piavoli

Cast Christopher Holm · Branca de Camargo · Mariella Fabbris · Paola Agosti

Direction Zack Snyder

Cast Gerard Butler · Lena Headey · David Wenham · Dominic West

Synopsis In 300 (2006), King Leonidas leads 300 elite Spartan warriors in a desperate stand against the massive Persian army led by Xerxes. Set in 480 BC, the Spartans, known for their unparalleled combat skills, use the narrow Hot Gates of...

Direction David Maloney

Cast Patrick Troughton · Frazer Hines · Wendy Padbury · Jane Sherwin

Synopsis This ambitious ten-part adventure is the last Second Doctor story, with the introduction of the Time Lords. The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe believe the TARDIS has brought them back to Earth, in the midst of World War One. But they...

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Jean Sylvère · Anne Caprile · Giuseppe Mannajuolo · Ricardo Palacios

Synopsis This is one of several biographical films by the famed Italian neorealist director Roberto Rossellini, one of whose better-known films is Stromboli. The script is based on Platonic dialogues and the few-known historical facts about the philosopher Socrates. Socrates was...

Direction Mihalis Kakogiannis

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

Synopsis 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 the King killing his sacred cows, during a demonstration of...

Direction Franco Rossi · Mario Bava · Piero Schivazappa

Cast Bekim Fehmiu · Irene Papas · Renaud Verley · Barbara Bach

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Silvana Mangano · Franco Citti · Alida Valli · Carmelo Bene

Synopsis In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is taken into the desert to be killed. He is rescued, given...

Direction Don Chaffey

Cast Todd Armstrong · Nancy Kovack · Gary Raymond · Michael Gwynne

Synopsis Jason has been prophesied to take the throne of Thessaly. When he saves Pelias from drowning, but does not recognize him as the man who had earlier killed his father, Pelias tells Jason to travel to Colchis to find the...

Direction John Musker · Ron Clements

Synopsis In Hercules (1997), a young demigod, Hercules, is stripped of his godhood and raised as a mortal on Earth. Determined to prove himself a true hero and reclaim his divine place on Mount Olympus, he embarks on a journey filled...

Direction Mario Camerini

Cast Kirk Douglas · Silvana Mangano · Anthony Quinn · Rossana Podestà

Synopsis A movie adaptation of Homer's second epic, that talks about Ulysses' efforts to return to his home after the end of ten years of war.

Direction David Garfath · John Madden · Tony Smith · Paul Weiland

Cast Michael Gambon · Brian Henson · Mark Ashman · Frances Barber

Synopsis A storyteller in a labyrinth tells his dog the stories of Perseus and Medusa, Icarus and Daedalus, Theseus and the Minotaur, and Orpheus & Euridyce.

Direction Bob Kline

Synopsis The film briefly gives Hercules' history after defeating Hades for good, in which he marries Meg and revisits his teenage years. In particular, it shows an adolescent Hercules's enrollment and the beginning of his adventures at the Prometheus Academy, a...

Direction Takao Yotsuji

Synopsis Pollon is the sweet daughter of Apollo, the god of the sun. Pollon wanting to prove herself of being a worthy goddess trys to become one by doing kind deeds, but always fails to succeed causing much trouble for the...

Direction Desmond Davis

Cast Harry Hamlin · Laurence Olivier · Judi Bowker · Claire Bloom

Synopsis The classic Greek myth of Perseus and Andromeda re-told with an all-star cast. To win the right to marry his love (Andromeda) and fufill his destiny, Perseus must complete various tasks including taming Pegasus, capturing Medusa, and answering riddles. The...

Direction Mihalis Kakogiannis

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

Synopsis 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 Agamemnon, in which the wicked Queen Clytemnestra and her lover...

Direction Wolfgang Petersen

Cast Brad Pitt · Eric Bana · Orlando Bloom · Brian Cox

Synopsis Troy (2004) is an epic tale of love, honor, and war set in ancient Greece. The story begins when Prince Paris of Troy falls in love with Helen, the queen of Sparta, and takes her to Troy, sparking a conflict...

Direction Masaaki Ôsumi

Synopsis Hiromi Nozawa is a young girl growing up in a home where both of her parents are busy and are seldom home. Her most trusted companion is her dog, Junkers. But this is no ordinary dog! Gifted with the ability...

Direction David Padrusch

Cast Brian Danner · Orion Barnes · David C. Hernandez · Johnny Winscher

Synopsis In the year 480 B.C., the Greeks and the Persians fight one of the most famous battles in history at a place called Thermopylae. Here, the mighty Persian war machine, which has conquered most of the known world, will attempt...