The Return from Olympus

To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, half-God-half-mortal Perseus must complete various...

A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.

When Eros shoots his arrows on the god Apollo, he falls madly in love with Daphne. But the nymph does not correspond to his love and escapes as she...

Hercules is sent from Mount Olympus to modern-day Manhattan, where he takes up professional wrestling before getting mixed up with a gang of mobsters.

The Cyclops Polyphemus falls in love with the beautiful nymph Galatea, but she rejects him in favor of Acis, a shepherd. Furious, Polifemo goes in...

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...

Pioneer of silhouette animation, Lotte Reiniger, uses this technique in a retelling of the Greek legend in which the sculptor, Pygmalion, brings a...

Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus is helpless to save his family from Hades, vengeful god of the underworld. With nothing to lose, Perseus...

A homoerotic exploration of the Odyssey mixing black and white, color, and old film clips.

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...

Hercules, a semi-divine being, squares off against King Minos, who is attempting to use science to gain power and take over the world. With the help...

The cunning king Polidekt of the island of Serif sends the young hero Perseus to get the head of Gorgon Medusa, whose gaze turns people to stone. He...

The story of the titan Prometheus, who stole fire from Olympus for people and was severely punished for this by Zeus: Prometheus' friend the...

A cartoon version of the Greek myth of Labyrinth.

Hercules searches for the Seven Thunderbolts of Zeus, which have been stolen by renegade gods.

In the early 20th century a village experienced a series of inexplicable murders. All the victims were young men who had been turned to stone. The...

A lonely, recluse sculptor must confront his inner turmoil and reckon with his romantic desires when his statue comes to life.

Long ago in the Iron Age, a shadow loomed over a lonely village. For generations, the village youths are stolen from their families and delivered as...

In a montage alternating with moments of Nigel Rogers' interpretation of the most beautiful passages from "Orpheus," the opera by Striggio and...