List of films based on Greek drama
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Films based on plays by Aeschylus
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Release date ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| Hercules Unchained
|1959 |Italy |
| The Family Reunion
|1959 |TV movie, Canada |
| Les Perses
|1961 |TV movie, France |
| Aeschylus
|1967 |TV movie, Finland |
| I Persiani
|1967 |TV movie, Italy |
| The Forgotten Pistolero
|1969 |Italy |
| Agamemnon
|1973 |Belgium |
| Orestea
|1975 |Italy |
| Atreides
|1979 |TV movie, Greece |
| Oresteia
|1979 |TV mini-series, UK |
| Prometheus Retrogressing
|1998 | |
| Le Rêve Plus Fort que la Mort
|2002 |France |
| Die Perser
|2003 |Germany |
Films based on Sophocles
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Release date ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| Oedipe roi
|1908 | |
| Oedipus Rex
|1909 | |
| Oedipus Rex
|1911 | |
| Oedipus Rex
|1957 | |
| Antigone
|1960 | |
| Acosados, Los
|1960 | |
| Antigone
|1961 | |
| Antigone
|1962 | |
| Edipo re
|1967 | |
| Oedipus the King
|1968 | |
| 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
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Release date ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| Medea
|1959 |United States - TV play of the week |
| Le Baccanti
|1961 |Italy |
| Phaedra
|1962 |Greece |
| Electra
|1962 |Greece |
| Troyanas, Las
|1963 | |
| Medea
|1963 | |
| Troerinnen, Die
|1966 | |
| Medea
|1969 | |
| Dionysus in '69
|1970 | |
| The Trojan Women (film)
|1971 | |
| Medéia
|1973 | |
| Bakchen, Die
|1974 | |
| Iphigenia
|1977 | |
| A Dream of Passion
|1978 |Greece |
| Medea
|1983 | |
| Medea
|1983 | |
| Medea
|1989 | |
| Iphigenia at Aulis
|1991 | |
| Backanterna
|1993 | |
| Médée
|2001 | |
| The Bacchae
|2002 | |
| The Trojan Women
|2004 | |
| Medea
|2005 | |
| The Women of Troy
|2006 | |
| The Killing of a Sacred Deer
|2017 | |
Films based on Aristophanes
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Release date ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 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 | |
| Chi-Raq
|2015 | |
See also
- Fiction set in ancient Rome
- Fiction set in ancient Greece
- List of films based on classical mythology
- List of films based on Germanic mythology
- List of films based on Slavic mythology
- List of films set in ancient Greece
- List of films set in ancient Rome
- List of films set in ancient Egypt
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Category:Ancient Greek theatre
Category:Lists of works based on plays
Category:Ancient Greece in art and culture