Movies Featuring Classical Mythology

Perseus must battle Medusa and the Kraken to save the Princess Andromeda.

Perseus, a demigod and the son of Zeus, battles the minions of Hades and the Underworld in order to stop them from conquering Olympus and Earth.

Perseus braves the treacherous underworld to rescue his father, Zeus, captured by his son, Ares, and brother Hades who unleash the ancient Titans upon the world.

A movie adaptation of Homer's second epic, that depicts Ulysses' efforts to return to his home after the end of ten years of war.

Follows Odysseus on his wanderings back to Ithaca following the Trojan War.

After the Trojan War, Odysseus is lost at sea. Suitors pressure Penelope to remarry as they invade his kingdom. She weaves a shroud daily, undoing it nightly to delay them. Telemachus hopes to find his father as their kingdom declines.

Helena is a 1924 German silent drama film directed by Manfred Noa and starring Edy Darclea, Vladimir Gajdarov and Albert Steinrück.

The Iliad's story of the Trojan war, told from the Trojan viewpoint.

The abduction of beautiful Helen, wife of Spartan King Menelaus, by Paris of Troy triggers a long war.

An adaptation of Homer's great epic, the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces.

A retelling of the events leading to the use of the Trojan Horse, to bring down the great city of Troy.

This epic opera follows Virgil, beginning as the Greeks appear to have ceded the field after ten years of the Trojan War. Cassandra tries to warn of the terrible fate to come, but fate is set and Troy falls. The first two acts cover this tragic end, then the flight of survivors to Carthage and events at Carthage continue in acts 3 - 5, culminating in the further voyage for Italy and Rome. This is Virgil's classic epic, in operatic form, in about a three and a half hour performance from French Opera.

The legendary Greek hero leads a team of intrepid adventurers in a perilous quest for the legendary Golden Fleece.

Aeneas leads escapees from the Trojan war to new land in Italy, and must deal with new threats to his people.

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

The women of Troy face enslavement after the fall of their city.

To appease offended gods before going to war, a commander must sacrifice his favorite daughter to them but does so under the pretext of marrying her off.

Odysseus' journey told in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Itaka.

At the end of the war, Odysseus, the wandering hero, with his companions begins his sail back home to the Mediterranean. The conclusion of his adventure is delayed by many natural obstacles and he takes an internal journey of fleeting memories of his childhood, his parents, love for a beautiful girl, nostalgia for the past, regret for what he did, and the deep silence that envelops everything. He confronts the most terrible loneliness following a shipwreck in which all the comrades perish.

One of the most legendary adventures in all mythology is brought to life in an epic saga of one man's quest for the Golden Fleece, a gift from the gods.

The muscular Hercules performs his Labors, sails with the Argonauts, and romances the fair Iole.

Athena, The Goddess of War (2015) launches viewers into a universe filled with Gods and Goddesses, Humans and betrayals, love and redemption. When Zeus learns of a plan by Hades to enslave mankind and force them to fight alongside his army Zeus forges a key to restrict passage between the realms to protect mankind. Unfortunately, Hades one step ahead of Zeus has already sent his bride and Queen of the Underworld Persephone to earth to find the key to open the passage way to earth allowing Hades' evil and demonic creation called The Harbinger of Death to attack. The only thing standing between the impending invasion and certain annihilation of mankind is Athena, The Goddess of War and seven brave humans courageous enough to join the fight to save mankind.

Having endured his legendary twelve labors, Hercules, the Greek demigod, has his life as a sword-for-hire tested when the King of Thrace and his daughter seek his aid in defeating a tyrannical warlord.

The story of the Greek mythological figure Hercules, battling the wizard King Minos, who uses "science" in an attempt to take over the world. Hercules must stop him and rescue his princess love in the process.