Top 100 Films on Ancient and Mythical Greece
[1] The best films set in ancient or mythical Greece. Also, modern versions of Greek mythology or classic literature. These films are from all over the world: Greece (35), USA (27), Italy (11), United Kingdom (7), France (6), Germany (3), Australia (2), Spain (2), Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Hungary, India and Turkey.
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- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsBrief "trick film" in which Zeus and two other gods romp with dancing girls on Olympian clouds.
- DirectorCharles KentJ. Stuart BlacktonStarsWalter AckermanCharles ChapmanDolores CostelloIn ancient Athens, four young lovers escape into the woods. Meanwhile, tradesmen rehearse a play. All of them suffer from the shenanigans of mischievous fairies.
- DirectorJ. Stuart BlacktonStarsMaurice CostelloMary FullerAgamemmon returns to Argos from the Siege of Troy, bringing, as a prisoner and trophy of war and victory, Cassandra, the beautiful daughter of King Priam of Troy. Clytemnestra, the wife of Agamemnon, has a lover, Aegisthus, who fans the flames of jealousy aroused in Clytemnestra by the arrival of Cassandra, with whom Agamemnon is very much infatuated. With caresses and expressions of admiration, Agamemnon is received by his wife and welcomed by his daughters, Elektra, Chrysothemis, and Orestes, his son. His wife is on the point of following her children from the room when she beholds her husband anxiously looking out of the window and casting longing glances at the beautiful captive, Cassandra, The wife is confronted by her lover, who prompts her to kill her husband with the battle-axe which the King laid aside as he entered the room. Spurred on and lashed into a jealous frenzy, the Queen kills her husband, and when Cassandra, who has seen the murder of Agamemnon through the window, rushes upon the scene, she, too, is killed by the infuriated Clytemnestra. Hearing the commotion, the King's children come into the room and, gazing upon the face of their dead father, are struck with horror. Elektra is so shocked at the sight that she stands spellbound and speechless until her whole nature seems to change and assert itself in an overwhelming denunciation of her mother, calling upon her brother, Orestes, to make a vow to avenge the death of their father. Clytemnestra marries her lover, Aegisthus. Elektra has lost her reason, possessed with vengeance and a hatred for her mother and her consort. Orestes has become a wanderer and adventurer. He causes a false report of his death to be carried to his mother, who rejoices at the news and freedom from the haunting thoughts of his return to avenge Agamemnon. Tears have passed and Orestes, now a young man, returns to Argos and meets Elektra, who does not know him. He compassionately caresses his unfortunate sister and gradually makes himself known to her; then she remembers all, and pleads with him to carry out his vow of retribution upon Aegisthus and his mother. Orestes assures her that is the object of his return. She tears up a stone from the courtyard and reveals the axe with which their father was killed. Orestes seizes it and. rushing into the castle, kills his mother; then goes in search of her lover, whom he comes upon and pursues from hall to turret, through passageway and up winding staircase, and slays him just as he is about to leap from a window, through which Elektra, in the courtyard, beholds the scene with frenzied expressions of delight in the decree of the fates.
- DirectorFrancesco BertoliniAdolfo PadovanGiuseppe de LiguoroStarsSalvatore PapaArturo PirovanoGiuseppe de LiguoroLoosely adapted from Dante's Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré the original silent film has been restored and has a new score by Tangerine Dream.
- DirectorLuigi Romano BorgnettoGiovanni PastroneStarsLuigi Romano BorgnettoGiovanni CasaleggioMadame DavesnesOne of the first epics on the History of Movies, it tells the story of the Fall of Troy: Paris seduces Helen, queen of Sparta, and takes her to Troy, city state of his father, King Priam. The Greeks declare war against the Trojans, and after ten years of siege finally manage to invade the city with a wooden horse.
- DirectorGiovanni PastroneStarsItalia Almirante-ManziniLidia QuarantaBartolomeo PaganoCabiria is a Roman child when her home is destroyed by a volcano. Sold in Carthage to be sacrificed in a temple, she is saved by Fulvio, a Roman spy. But danger lurks, and hatred between Rome and Carthage can only lead to war.The story involves Archimedes and the Siege of Syracuse
- DirectorWinsor McCayA female centaur (a creature half-human and half-horse) enters a clearing in the woods, and picks some flowers. She is soon met by a male centaur, and the two then romance each other. They then seek parental consent for their union.
- DirectorGuido BrignoneStarsBartolomeo PaganoUmberto GuarracinoMario SaioThe devil takes Maciste down to hell in an attempt to corrupt and ruin his morality.
- DirectorDimos VratsanosStarsThanos BourlosDora StratouPopi RigopoulouA short documentary about the theatrical performance of Aeschylus' "Prometheus Bound", which was presented at the Delphic Festivals. The first record of Aggelos Sikelianos' efforts to present ancient Greek tragedy in an ancient theatre.
- DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsLouise BrooksFritz KortnerFrancis LedererThe rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
- DirectorOrestis LaskosStarsApollon MarsyasLoucy MatliMarika RaftopoulouLamonas the shepherd finds a boy sucking milk from the teats of a goat. He calls him Dafnis and takes him as his own child. At the same time, Dryantas, another shepherd, comes across a little girl whom he calls her Chloe.
- DirectorWilfred JacksonStarsDorothy ComptonPinto ColvigWhen a lazy grasshopper prefers to sing and dance rather than forage like his friends the ants, he learns to regret it when winter approaches. The ants save his life and in return he entertains them with his music.From Aesop's fable
- DirectorWilliam DieterleMax ReinhardtStarsJames CagneyDick PowellIan HunterTwo couples and a troupe of actors have an encounter with some mischievous fairies in the forest.
- DirectorWilfred JacksonStarsDorothy ComptonMarcellite GarnerBeatrice HagenBig race. Hare, fast and in lead, stops to loaf and show off to girl bunnies. Tortoise, plodding along at steady, slow pace, wins, although hare tries a last minute burst of speed.From Aesop's fable
- DirectorUb IwerksShamus CulhaneAl EugsterStarsBilly BletcherSpring is coming, but Old Man Winter isn't ready to retire for the year.
- DirectorWalt DisneyStarsBilly BletcherMary ModerClarence NashA dwarf grants the king's wish that everything he touches will turn to gold. When the king finds that he cannot eat, he is no longer happy with the gift. By giving up his worldly property, he finds happiness going from riches to rags.
- DirectorRobert ClampettStarsMel BlancBernice HansenSara BernerPorky is reading the myth of the Greek gorgon, who turned everyone she looked at into stone. Mother tells him it's bed time; he dreams of being the hero that saves Greece, Porkyakarkus. The Gorgon runs a photo studio; Porky sneaks in and grabs her life-restoring needle, saving civilization just before he wakes up.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithLeslie HowardStarsLeslie HowardWendy HillerWilfrid LawsonA phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.
- DirectorLeni RiefenstahlStarsDavid AlbrittonArvo AskolaJack BeresfordThe document of the 1936 Olympics at Berlin.Opening sequence on Ancient Olympics
- DirectorJames AlgarSamuel ArmstrongFord Beebe Jr.StarsLeopold StokowskiDeems TaylorThe Philadelphia OrchestraA series of eight famous pieces of classical music, conducted by Leopold Stokowski and interpreted in animation by Walt Disney's team of artists.
- DirectorSohrab ModiStarsSohrab ModiPrithviraj KapoorVanamalaThe story is set in 326 B.C. The film begins after Alexander the Great (Sikander in Hindi/Urdu) conquers Persia and the Kabul valley and approaches the Indian border at Jhelum. He respects Aristotle and loves Persian Rukhsana (known in the west as Roxana).
- DirectorJack KinneyBen SharpsteenStarsGeorge JohnsonJohn McLeishA narrator explains the history of the Olympic Games while Goofy demonstrates events.
- DirectorAdolf KörnerStarsZehra YumselAvni DilligilHalide PiskinThe story of a woman who climbs the social ladder.A Turkish version of Pygmanlion
- DirectorRobert ClampettTex AveryStarsMel BlancKent RogersMichael MalteseBugs challenges Cecil Turtle to race, only this time he's wearing an aerodynamic suit like Cecil's. Unfortunately, the gambling ring has bet everything on the rabbit, and Bugs now looks like a tortoise.And another parody of Aesop's fable "The Tortoise and the Hare"