Movies by Lists - Greco-Roman Mythology (42 [62]) Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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AmphitryonLamenting Thebian women are waiting for the men to come back from war. God Jupiter is attracted to one of them: Alkmene. He goes to earth and tries to seduce her as himself: an old man. Failing in this, he disguises himself as Amphit | 1935 | Reinhold Schünzel | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical | 6.6 (155 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
Avenger, The [La leggenda di Enea]Aeneas leads escapees from the Trojan war to new land in Italy, and must deal with new threats to his people. | 1962 | Giorgio Venturini | Adventure, Drama | 5.3 (406 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
Black OrpheusA retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro. | 1959 | Marcel Camus (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance | 7.5 (10.9K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
Cannibal the MusicalThe sole survivor of an ill-fated mining expedition tells how his taste for gold was replaced by that of human flesh. | 1993 | Trey Parker | Comedy, Musical, Thriller, Western | 7.1 (12.3K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
Clash of The TitansPerseus, a demigod and the son of Zeus, battles the minions of Hades and the Underworld in order to stop them from conquering Olympus and Earth. | 2010 | Louis Leterrier | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 5.8 (278.4K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
Clash of the TitansPerseus must battle Medusa and the Kraken to save the Princess Andromeda. | 1981 | Desmond Davis | Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 6.9 (43.4K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
Damon and Pythias [Il tiranno di Siracusa]Pythias, a liberal Athenian who believes all men are brothers, is condemned to death by Dionysus, the tyrant of Syracuse, who finds this view dangerous. However, Dionysus allows Pythias to return to Athens to visit his ailing wife wi | 1962 | Curtis Bernhardt | Adventure | 5.0 (241 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
Days of Rage - A Requiem for Europe [Meres orgis, ena requiem gia tin Evropi]Daedalus escapes from the Labyrinth to find the ideal state, but soon he falls into tragic moments of history. | 1995 | Vasilis Mazomenos | Animation | 7.2 (28 votes) | 73 | 20230806 |
Delicate Delinquent, TheSidney Pythias is a bumbling janitor picked up by cop Mike Damon as a teenage gang member worth saving from delinquency. With Damon's help, Sidney works his way through the Police Academy to become a cop too. | 1957 | Don McGuire | Comedy | 6.4 (1.4K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
Duel of Champions [Orazi e Curiazi]In the 5th century BC, rival kingdoms Rome and Alba entrust their fate to a duel to death between their respective chosen champions, the 3 Orazi brothers for Rome and the 3 Curiazi brothers for Alba. | 1961 | Ferdinando Baldi, Terence Young | Action, Drama, History | 5.1 (315 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
Duel of the TitansTwin brothers revolt against tyranny in pre-Roman Italy and then come to a parting of the ways as they lead their people toward the founding of a new city. | 1961 | Sergio Corbucci | Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War | 5.9 (747 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
Electra [Ilektra]Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge. | 1962 | Michael Cacoyannis | Drama | 7.6 (1.5K votes) | 110 | 20220723 |
Euridice BA 2037 [Evridiki BA 2037]Awaiting for Orpheus to save her from a modern Hades, Euridice faces her fears, desires, hallucinations and memories. | 1975 | Nikos Nikolaidis (*) | Drama, Fantasy | 6.9 (458 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
Goliath and the DragonA warrior returning home to his country must battle giant bats, three-headed dogs and a vicious dragon to save his wife, and his people, from the machinations of an evil ruler. | 1960 | Vittorio Cottafavi | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance | 5.3 (500 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
Hero of Rome [Il colosso di Roma]A story of justice and tyranny with the fate of Rome in the balance. | 1964 | Giorgio Ferroni | Action, Adventure, Drama | 4.8 (218 votes) | 90 | 20240313 |
HydraA former Marine has been kidnapped with three convicts, taken to a deserted island, and forced to participate in a deadly game. The super-rich pay a fortune to hunt human prey. But the island isn't deserted--it's home to Hydra the Be | 2009 | Andrew Prendergast | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 3.2 (1.4K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
ImmortalsTheseus is a mortal man chosen by Zeus to lead the fight against the ruthless King Hyperion, who is on a rampage across Greece to obtain a weapon that can destroy humanity. | 2011 | Tarsem Singh | Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 6.0 (166.1K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
Iphigenia [Ifigeneia]To appease offended gods before going to war, a commander must sacrifice his favorite daughter to them but does so under the pretext of marrying her off. | 1977 | Michael Cacoyannis | Drama | 7.7 (1.8K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
MannequinA young artist, searching for his vocation, makes a mannequin so perfect he falls in love with it. Finding the mannequin in a store window, he gets a job there and his creation comes to life. | 1987 | Michael Gottlieb | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance | 6.0 (31.2K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Mars, God of WarThe king of Telbia defeats an African army through the intervention of the war god Mars. Remaining on Earth, Mars falls in love with the human girl Daphne, but she is forced to become a priestess in the temple of Venus. | 1962 | Marcello Baldi | Action, Fantasy | 4.7 (50 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
Metamorphoses [Winds of Change]Several animated stories from "Metamorphoses", Roman poet Ovid's narrative of legends, are presented. | 1978 | Takashi | Animation, Fantasy | 6.6 (150 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Mighty AphroditeWhen he discovers his adopted son is a genius, a New York sportswriter seeks out the boy's birth mother: a ditzy porn star and prostitute. | 1995 | Woody Allen (*) | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance | 7.0 (39.8K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete, The [Teseo contro il minotauro]A mythological hero attempts to rescue a princess from being sacrificed to a half-man, half-bull creature. | 1960 | Silvio Amadio | Adventure, Fantasy | 5.0 (329 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
My Fair LadyIn 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make crude flower girl Eliza Doolittle presentable in high society. | 1964 | George Cukor (*) | Drama, Family, Musical, Romance | 7.8 (93K votes) | 170 | 20211228 |
My Son, the Hero [Arrivano i titani]An evil king makes a bargain with a devil in order to get away with murdering his wife. | 1962 | Duccio Tessari | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance | 6.2 (419 votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
Night In ParadiseStory-teller Aesop tries to help loony King Croesus and manages to fall in love on the way. | 1946 | Arthur Lubin | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 5.4 (170 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
Oedipus the KingThis classic (Greek) tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father (deliberately) and ends up paying a terrible price for invoking the wrath of the Gods. | 1968 | Philip Saville | Drama, History | 6.4 (329 votes) | 97 | 20220723 |
OrfeuIn a dangerous but human Rio's slum, rises the love affair betwen Orfeu and Eurídice, provoking jealousy and violence in times of carnival. | 1999 | Carlos Diegues | Crime, Drama, Music, Romance | 5.5 (953 votes) | 110 | 20240313 |
OrphéeA poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld. | 1950 | Jean Cocteau (*) | Fantasy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (11.9K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
OrpheusA poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld. | 1950 | Jean Cocteau (*) | Fantasy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (11.9K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
Percy Jackson & the Olympians The Lightning ThiefA teenager discovers he's the descendant of a Greek god and sets out on an adventure to settle an on-going battle between the gods. | 2010 | Chris Columbus (*) | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 5.9 (184.8K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
Percy Jackson Sea of MonstersIn order to restore their dying safe haven, the son of Poseidon and his friends embark on a quest to the Sea of Monsters, to find the mythical Golden Fleece, all the while trying to stop an ancient evil from rising. | 2013 | Thor Freudenthal | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 5.8 (115.6K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
Sinbad And The MinotaurSinbad discovers an ivory scroll case in the desert camp of the evil sorcerer Al-Jibar, leading him to the golden head of the Colossus of Rhodes. | 2011 | Karl Zwicky | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 3.1 (1.2K votes) | 88 | 20220423 |
SisyphusThe film is an artistically spare depiction of the Greek myth of Sysiphus, sentenced to eternally roll a stone up a mountain. The story is presented in a single, unbroken shot, consisting of a dynamic line drawing of Sysiphus, the st | 1974 | Marcell Jankovics | Animation, Short | 7.0 (837 votes) | 3 | 20211228 |
Son of Hercules vs. Venus [Marte, dio della guerra], TheThe king of Telbia defeats an African army through the intervention of the war god Mars. Remaining on Earth, Mars falls in love with the human girl Daphne, but she is forced to become a priestess in the temple of Venus. | 1962 | Marcello Baldi | Action, Fantasy | 4.7 (50 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
Three Stooges Meet Hercules, TheThree goofy druggists travel back to Ancient Greece on a milquetoast inventor's time machine. | 1962 | Edward Bernds | Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 6.1 (1.1K votes) | 89 | 20240228 |
Thunder of Battle [Coriolano eroe senza patria]Coriolanus leads the Volsci in a war against Rome. | 1964 | Giorgio Ferroni | Action, Adventure, Drama, History | 4.6 (120 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
Time BanditsA young boy accidentally joins a band of time travelling dwarves, as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal. | 1981 | Terry Gilliam (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 7.0 (62.1K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
Vulcan Son of JupiterA superhero battles lizard men and other monsters that are terrorizing the countryside. | 1962 | Emimmo Salvi | Action, Drama, Fantasy, War | 4.3 (187 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
Wonder WomanWhen a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, Diana, an Amazonian warrior in training, leaves home to fight a war, discovering her full powers and true destiny. | 2017 | Patty Jenkins | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, War | 7.4 (624.4K votes) | 141 | 20211228 |
Wonder WomanA modern man's trespass of the island of the Amazons enables an imprisoned war god to escape and Princess Diana wins the responsibility to recapture him. | 2009 | Lauren Montgomery | Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 7.2 (17.5K votes) | 74 | 20220423 |
Wrath of the TitansPerseus braves the treacherous underworld to rescue his father, Zeus, captured by his son, Ares, and brother Hades who unleash the ancient Titans upon the world. | 2012 | Jonathan Liebesman | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 5.7 (186.8K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
12 | 2003 | Lawrence Bridges | Comedy, Music | 7.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
El apóstol | 1917 | Quirino Cristiani | Animation, Comedy, Drama | 7.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Cyclops | 2008 | Declan O'Brien | Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 3.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Dafnis kai Hloi | 1931 | Orestis Laskos | Drama, Romance | 6.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Goddess of Love | 1988 | Jim Drake | Comedy, Fantasy | 3.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
The Goddess of Spring | 1934 | Wilfred Jackson | Animation, Short, Family, Fantasy, Musical | 6.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
The Golden Touch | 1935 | Walt Disney | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family, Musical | 6.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Kôchû ôja mushikingu: Mori no tami no densetsu | 2005 | nan | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 7.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Appunti per un'Orestiade africana | 1970 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Documentary | 6.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Narcissus | 1983 | Norman McLaren | Musical, Short | 6.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
King Neptune | 1932 | Burt Gillett | Animation, Short, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical | 6.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Jason and the Heroes of Mount Olympus | 2001 | nan | Animation | 6.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Le guerriere dal seno nudo | 1973 | Terence Young | Adventure, Action, Drama | 4.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Trombone Trouble | 1944 | Jack King | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 6.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Springtime for Pluto | 1944 | Charles Nichols, Clyde Geronimi | Animation, Comedy, Family, Short | 6.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Spike | 2008 | Robert Beaucage | Fantasy, Horror, Romance | 3.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Scrambled Eggs | 1939 | Alex Lovy | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family | 6.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Il ratto delle sabine | 1961 | Richard Pottier | Adventure, Comedy, Romance | 4.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
El rapto de las sabinas | 1962 | Alberto Gout | Action, Adventure, Drama | 5.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Playful Pan | 1930 | Burt Gillett | Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Short, Musical | 6.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |