1. Ulysse est revenu (Ulysse est revenu)
(Ulysse est revenu)
2. Love and the Demonic Psyche
A hallucinatory retelling of the Greek myth about Pan and Syrinx's brutalist romantic love. Inspired by the short films of Maya Deren, Curtis Harrington and the art of Rosaleen Norton and Brett Whiteley, 'Love and the Demonic Psyche' channels French poet Arthur Rimbaud's proclivity for a derangement of the senses, culminating in a Cocteau style blood painting invocating the horned God of Panic. Encompassed in psychedelic visuals and Moroccan trance music, this film should be viewed in the spirit in which it was made.
3. Orpheus (Orphée)
A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.
It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.
4. Echo
A reframing of the classic tale of Narcissus, the director draws on snippets of conversation with a trusted friend to muse on gender and identity. Just as shimmers are difficult to grasp as knowable entities, so does the concept of a gendered self feel unknowable except through reflection. Is it Narcissus that Echo truly longs for, or simply the Knowing he possesses when gazing upon himself?
5. Une petite fille dans les tournesols (Une petite fille dans les tournesols)
The young teacher Marelle goes in search of her husband who mysteriously disappeared while attending the funeral of a childhood friend.
6. Achilles
With the loss of Patroclus , Greek warrior Achilles returns to the Trojan War.
It has an average vote of 5.6 on TMDB.
7. Prometheus Bound
The Titan Prometheus is punished by Zeus for attempting to steal fire for humankind.
8. The Colossus of Rhodes (Il colosso di Rodi)
While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.
It has an average vote of 6.02 on TMDB.
9. Orpheus in the Underworld (Orpheus in der Unterwelt)
This musical comedy based on an opera by Jacques Offenbach incorporates a twist on the classic Greek myth: Orpheus, a music teacher at a girls’ school in the ancient Greek city of Thebes, actually does not miss his wife Eurydice that much – until the gods and Offenbach himself pressure him to retrieve her from Hades.
10. Hercules and the Amazon Women
Hercules and Iolaus take time out from Iolaus' wedding preparations, to help a distant village under attack from "monsters". When they reach their destination, they find the monsters are in fact Amazonian women who are controlled by Hera. "Hercules and the Amazon Women" is the first movie-length pilot episode of the television series "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys".
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
11. PYRAMUS & THISBE (PYRAMUS & THISBE)
In this modern adaptation of the classic Greek myth two young lovers bound by a tragic fate plot to escape their homes to start a new life somewhere far from their families.
12. Oedipus Rex
The story of Oedipus' gradual discovery of his primal crime, killing his father and marrying his mother, filmed by the famed British theatrical director Sir Tyrone Guthrie. This elegant version of Sophocles' play adds a brilliant stroke: the actors wear masks just as the Greeks did in the playwright's day.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
13. Gluck: Iphigenie en Aulide / Iphigenie en Tauride (Gluck: Iphigenie en Aulide / Iphigenie en Tauride)
Before the Trojan War, Agamemnon gathered the Greek armies at the port of Aulis. The goddess Diane sent unfavorable winds to prevent the Greeks from sailing. Her oracle set a condition for Agamemnon: to earn the right to sail forth and destroy an innocent country, he would have to sacrifice his own daughter. Agamemnon accepted these terms and killed his young daughter Iphigénie on the altar. In his play Iphigenia in Tauris Euripides imagines that Diane plucked Iphigénie from that altar and delivered her to a temple in distant Tauride, where Iphigénie began to serve the enemy Scythians as Diane’s high priestess—all the while Iphigénie’s family believing her dead.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
14. The Bright Night (La Nuit claire)
In a montage alternating with moments of Nigel Rogers' interpretation of the most beautiful passages from "Orpheus," the opera by Striggio and Monteverdi, La Nuit Claire is an evocation of the celebrated myth, within which images of the love between its two modern protagonists, Anne and Julien, are inscribed. - BAM/PFA
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
15. Johnny Minotaur
Johnny Minotaur is a lyrical explosion of taboos: incest, intergenerational desire, pansexuality and autoeroticism are a few of the issues Charles Henri Ford grapples with through mythopoeic, sensual imagery, recitations of his diaries and a philosophical debate featuring an impressive narration by such artists as Salvador Dali, Allen Ginsberg, Warren Sonbert and Lynne Tillman.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
16. Sarpedon
A young woman recovers from a traumatic relationship.
17. Medea (Medea)
Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.
It has an average vote of 6.557 on TMDB.
18. The Legend of Daphne (La légende de Daphné)
An ancient Greek legend comes to life, courtesy of the Gaumont studios.
19. Phaedra
A retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. In modern Greece, Alexis's father, an extremely wealthy shipping magnate, is married to the younger, fiery Phaedra. When Alexis meets his stepmother, sparks fly and the two begin an affair. What will the Fates bring this family? Alexis's roadster and the music of Bach figure in the conclusion.
It has an average vote of 5.661 on TMDB.
20. Medea
After escaping from her homeland and now abandoned by the man she loves, Medea must find strength from within to fight against growing injustice - how far is she willing to go?
