Medea (1963)

Medea

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 revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.

The Trojan Women

In the aftermath of the Trojan Wars, Queen Hecuba takes stock of the defeated kingdom. Her son has been killed, and his widow, Andromache, is left to raise their son, Astyanax, alone. Hecuba's daughter, Cassandra, fears being enslaved by her Greek masters, while Helen of Troy risks being executed. Astyanax also becomes the focus of the Greeks' attention as the last male heir of the Trojan royal family.

Electra

Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.

Phaedra

A modern retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. The young and fiery second wife of an extremely wealthy shipping magnate meets her estranged stepson Alexis and sparks immediately fly. Their love seems doomed from the beginning when she convinces him to come to Paris to meet his father.

Mourning Becomes Electra

Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin. Meanwhile Ezra’s conniving wife Christine and daughter Lavinia vie for the love of a handsome captain with a dark secret while well-meaning neighbor Peter sets his sights on Lavinia.

In the Darkness of the Night

A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.

Kinds of Kindness

A triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.

Grey and Black

The story of Maria, a woman betrayed by his companion, David, when he steals a sack of money and flees, taking refuge in the island of Pico. Furious and determined to avenge herself, she proposes to an Police Inspector, Lucas, to chase and to find David. However, David, on a visit to the island of Faial, falls in love with a local, Marina. Maria and Lucas look for David in the Azores, they cross with Mariana in Faial and the three will discover David in his house of the mountain, at the top of the Peak. In a final confrontation, as in a Greek tragedy, Mary and David adjust the accounts that fate has traced to them.

Medea

Medea is expelled from the mining region in the Atacama Desert and is given just one day to disappear. But in that single day, she comes up with a plan for revenge. In order to carry out this plan, which will culminate in her murdering her own son, she invokes her innermost strength, summoning the power of the female gender.

Beyond Tragedies

Recalling his childhood and relationship with his mother, a film student tries to understand the origin of his love for cinema and tragedies.

Meinir's Tree

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Greek Gossip

In a world where Greek mythology is reality, Ben, a lonely reporter, finds his morals swayed by his desperation for affection.

Gustav Vasa

Gustav Vasa struggles to keep power while dealing with the Dacke War in his own country and his foreign debts.

I denne verden er alt mulig

Drama about a group of young people in 1933 Berlin in search of an identity find themselves drawn to dangerous movements in society.

Dacke

Nils Dacke, leader of the revolt against Gustav Vasa, is torn between his anger over social injustice and royal oppression, and his doubt in the power of himself and weapons.

Twelfth Night

Television adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Den bergtagna

Depicts a woman who commits suicide after being betrayed by a man who, by playing on her low self-esteem, has made herself her superior - and thus deprived her of all right to exist.

Revisorn

When the people of a small corrupt town find out a secret inspector will be arriving shortly they panic, something which a lazy civil servant takes full advantage of and lets them believe that he is that inspector.

Miss Julie

Television adaptation of Strindberg's play about the midsummer romance between the noblewoman and the valet.

Muntra fruarna i Windsor

A light hearted adaptation of Shakespeare's play about middle class life in Elizabethan England.

Körsbärsträdgården

Television adaptation of Chekhov's story about the spoiled widow Madame Ranevskaya.

Trummor i natten

After the first world war Andreas returns to Berlin to find it in chaos after the fall of the empire. The main battle is between the Spartacists and the Freikorps and Andreas needs to find a place for himself in the conflict for the future of Germany.

Ett Dockhem

Television adaptation of Ibsen's play about woman's role in society and marriage.

Easter

Drama about a family going through a crisis during the Easter weekend.

Prometheus

This is a film of the 2013 Cambridge Greek Play production of Prometheus, presented at the Cambridge Arts Theatre.

Misantropen

Alceste has a very low opinion about humanity and is always brutally honest. This gets him into a lot of trouble.

Från regnormarnas liv

The actress Johanne Heiberg and author Hans Christian Andersen bump into each other one night and nothing will ever be the same.

Lek ej med kärleken

The baron wants his niece and her cousin to get married but their own intrigues challenge his plans.

Den beslöjade damen

Fredrik is a male feminist who has a big fight with his wife one morning. When a widow shows up in their home and starts telling his wife how great it is to be a widow he flees the apartment but finds himself constantly followed by a gang of women.

Narcissus

In this short film by Norman McLaren, dancers enact the Greek tragedy of Narcissus, the beautiful youth whose excessive self-love condemned him to a trapped existence. Skilfully merging film, dance and music, the film is a compendium of the techniques McLaren acquired over a lifetime of experimentation.

Karlar är karlar om sanningen ska fram

Carlo Goldoni's comedy 'I rusteghi' as adapted for Swedish television portrays the intrigues of the upper class in Venice in 1760.

The Leper

A simple governess and a wealthy aristocrat fall madly in love with each other. However, his family are prejudiced towards her and have other plans for him.

The House Under the Rocks

Three people – a returned prisoner of war, his beautiful second wife, and the possessive, hunchbacked spinster who is his sister-in-law by his first marriage – are isolated in a little house under an extinct volcano, where each strives for personal happiness but is suffocated by their dependence on the others.

Family Life

This intense chamber drama centers on an ambitious young industrial designer who is summoned home to help his father and sister. Both the aristocratic family he fled in shame and scorn, and their dilapidated country estate, bathed in an oppressively nostalgic light, prove ultimately inescapable.

Big Bad Mama-San: Dekotora 1

Nami’s father was a legendary truck driver, and after his death, Nami inherited the deco-truck With her up-beat personality and super driving technique, Nami is popular among her customers. By coincidence, Nami meets Momoka, a hooker who takes truck drivers as customers. Momoka says to Nami, “I want to start a new life !!” and begs that she wants to be Nami’s assistant. She is overwhelmed by Momoka’s passion, and decides to take her in. One day, after dinner, the two return to the truck and sees that there is a box which they must have forgotten to load. So they load the box back in the truck, and the odd twosome drive away to the next destination. This “box” is the start of trouble for Nami and Momoka. What lies ahead in their destiny?!

Follow the Sun

A biographical film of Ben Hogan, from his start as a golf caddy to being considered one of golf's greatest players.

Loveria

A car mechanic, Aditya, falls in love with hot Sweety, a spoiled child. Although they want to get married, Sweety's rich father is against their relationship.

Kids for Cash

Filmmaker Robert May chronicles the case of a once-respected judge who received kickbacks for sending juvenile offenders to prison, even for minor crimes.

Suffragette

Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.

Three Night Stand

A man's plans for a romantic weekend go awry when he learns that his ex-girlfriend, whom he still secretly loves, manages the ski lodge where he and his wife are staying.

Paglu 2

Dev is a high school drop out from and a worthless village lad. He is hell bent on getting married. But the girl he wants to marry rejects him stating that he doesn't have college education. Dev, who is clever and street-smart decides to go to Kolkata for further education. While travelling in the train, he bashes up a bunch of rowdies teasing college girls. At the college in Kolkata, he meets Riya (and falls in love with her. A city gangster, Rudra,is in love with her and blackmails her to marry him. He beats anyone moving closely with Riya. Meanwhile, henchmen of the dreaded chieftain Dubai Keshto, from Dubai, are looking for Dev in the city.

Nova & Alice

Nova and Alice are two contrasting artists who are reluctantly forced to go on a joint tour by their manager. The clash is inevitable - both musically and personally.

Big World

Liu Chunhe, suffering from cerebral palsy, bravely breaks through the shackles of body and mind to realize the dream stage for his grandmother, while trying to find the coordinates of his own life. After experiencing a summer transformation, he finally embarked on a new journey.

Penguin's Memory: A Tale of Happiness

Mike is a penguin soldier who returns home after being injured during combat. Estranged from his family and friends, he leaves his hometown and starts to roam adrift through the country.

Anything Goes

On an ocean liner, a nightclub singer tries to help a fellow American romance an English heiress who is being forced to return home to marry a man she doesn't love. The American must avoid his boss who is traveling on the same vessel and disguises himself as a gangster traveling with a minister who is, in fact, a disguised gangster on the lam.

Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors

At the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is something wrong, Miss Marple agrees to visit 'Stonygates', the country house of Ruth's sister.

Spinners

In a small desert town, decimated by the economic recession, two teenagers (Jace and Derek) try to get by working as Sign Spinners. Harassment by local bullies leads Jace to make some unfortunate decisions. A single mom living out of her car steps in to help.