Greek Mythology Movies

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....

Set in Ancient Greece, a street clown Cockian is hired by a Roman Commander to impersonate an imprisoned Christian leader in order to learn the...

Shot entirely on vintage VHS-C tapes and loosely following the greek myth, The One and Only Aethon is a surrealist nightmare. The story follows...

A yarn ball woman, an old woman who spends her days looking out the window and a seller of clothes that fall from the clotheslines are connected by a...

Achilles, exiled from Mount Olympus, is tasked by The Fates to help Michelle, an injured US Olympian.

A hallucinatory retelling of the Greek myth about Pan and Syrinx's brutalist romantic love. Inspired by the short films of Maya Deren, Curtis...

This work is a retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in the style of a Greek vase. When his wife Eurydice dies, Orpheus descends into Hell...

A loose interpretation of the Minoan myth, as seen through the monster's point of view. Abandoned in a labyrinthine island, the childlike minotaur...

"Perseus won't bring you luck, Acrisius", oracles the seer Talos at the birth of Perseus, the son of the father of the god Zeus. And that doesn't...

Eileen and Martin are a young couple living in their apartment home. Martin is terminallly ill in an induced coma. With the aid of AI technology, his...

In 1963 Boultenhouse wrote, produced, and directed Dionysius,which he described as a “free treatment of Euripides' The Bacchae.”It...

A modern low-budget adaptation of the myth of Sisyphus, made by film students as an school project.

In the desert outskirts of Tehran, a solitary man works for criminal networks, carrying and burying unidentified bodies. When he learns he has...

Fascinating new translations and fresh research are transforming the myth of Atlantis from the realm of fantasy into an incredible reality. Travel...

A dive into the contemporay void: a passage from life to death

In a queer-positive retelling of the Greco-Roman myth of Iphis and Ianthe, a young transgender man named Iphis falls for a young cisgender woman...

What if the original myth was a lie?

Based on the harrowing love story of Greek soldier Achilles and his 'brother-in-arms' Patroclus, this modern retelling explores Achilles' grief and...