Topic: Ancient Greece

Direction Chris Marker

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot Based on the epic graphic novel by Frank Miller, 300 is a ferocious retelling of the ancient Battle of Thermopylae in which King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and 300 Spartans fought...

Direction David Maloney

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

Plot 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...

Direction Roberto Rossellini

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

Plot 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...

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 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

Plot 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...

Direction Don Chaffey

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

Plot 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,...

Direction John Musker · Ron Clements

Plot Hercules, son of the Greek God, Zeus, is turned into a half-god, half-mortal by evil Hades, God of the Underworld, who plans to overthrow Zeus. Hercules is raised on Earth...

Direction Mario Camerini

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

Plot 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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

Direction Takao Yotsuji

Plot 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,...

Direction Desmond Davis

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

Plot 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...

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 Wolfgang Petersen

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

Plot Based on the epic poem 'The Iliad' by Homer, the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved. The...

Direction Masaaki Ôsumi

Plot 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....

Direction David Padrusch

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

Plot 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,...