List of films based on Greek drama

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Films based on plays by Aeschylus[edit]

Title Release date 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[edit]

Title Release date 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[edit]

Title Release date 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[edit]

Title Release date 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

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