List of films based on Greek drama
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Films based on plays by Aeschylus
- Ercole e la regina di Lidia (1959)
- Perses, Les (1961)
- The Illiac Passion (1967)
- Agamemnon (1973)
- Orestea (1975)
- Le Rêve plus fort que la mort (2002)
- Die Perser (2003)
Films based on Sophocles
- Oedipe roi (1908)
- Oedipus Rex (1909)
- Oedipus Rex (1911)
- Oedipus Rex (1957)
- Antigone (1960)
- Acosados, Los (1960)
- Antigone (1961)
- Antigone (1962)
- Oedipus Rex (1967)
- Edipo re (1967)
- Élo Antigoné (1968)
- Antigone (1970)
- I Cannibali (1970)
- Elektra (1970)
- Antigone (1973)
- Antigone (1973)
- Antigone (1974)
- Antigone (1974)
- Oedipus Rex (1975)
- Elektra (1981)
- Oedipus Rex (1984)
- Oedipus the King (1984)
- Oedipus at Colonus (1984)
- Elettra (1987)
- Électre (1987)
- Elektra (1989)
- Antigone/Rites of Passion (1991)
- Oedipus Rex (1992)
- Elektra (1994)
Films based on Euripides
- Medea (1959) United States - TV play of the week
- Baccanti, Le (1961) Italy
- Phaedra (1962) Greece
- Electra (1962) Greece
- Troyanas, Las (1963)
- Medea (1963)
- Troerinnen, Die (1966)
- Medea (1969)
- Dionysus (1970)
- The Trojan Women (1971)
- Medéia (1973)
- Bakchen, Die (1974)
- Iphigenia (1977)
- Medea (1983)
- Medea (1983)
- Medea (1989)
- Iphigenia at Aulis (1991)
- Backanterna (1993)
- Médée (2001)
- The BacchaeThe BacchaeThe Bacchae is an ancient Greek tragedy by the Athenian playwright Euripides, during his final years in Macedon, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedon. It premiered posthumously at the Theatre of Dionysus in 405 BC as part of a tetralogy that also included Iphigeneia at Aulis, and which...
(2002) - The Trojan WomenThe Trojan WomenThe Trojan Women is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides. Produced during the Peloponnesian War, it is often considered a commentary on the capture of the Aegean island of Melos and the subsequent slaughter and subjugation of its populace by the Athenians earlier in 415 BC , the same year...
(2004) - MedeaMedeaMedea is a woman in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children, Mermeros and Pheres. In Euripides's play Medea, Jason leaves Medea when Creon, king of...
(2005) - The Women of Troy (2006)
Films based on Aristophanes
- Daughters of Destiny (1954)
- The Second Greatest Sex (1955)
- Sendung der Lysistrata, Die (1961)
- Escuela de seductoras (1962)
- An oles oi gynaikes tou kosmou (1967)
- Flickorna (1968)
- Lysistrate (1982)
- Komediya o Lisistrate (1989)