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.

1970-01-28 | it

Orestea

The story of the “Oresteia” begins with King Agamemnon's return to Argos after the fall of Troy. The chorus, composed of old Argives, recalls the sacrifice offered to the gods by Agamemnon, in Aulis, of his daughter Iphigenia to gain their favor.

1972-01-01 | it

Семь крестиков в записной книжке

1983-07-23 | ru

Frine cortigiana d'Oriente

1953-12-02 | it

Nattcafé

Shows the people who visit a café that is open late at night

1965-01-18 | sv

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.

1962-05-25 | en

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.

1971-05-01 | en

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.

1962-05-25 | el

Muntra fruarna i Windsor

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

1998-04-01 | sv

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.

2024-05-30 | en

In the Darkness of the Night

A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.

2004-10-21 | pt

Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that the gods are unhappy. The murder of the former king has gone unavenged, and Oedipus sets out to find the killer.

1986-09-16 | en

Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus

Oedipus's wanderings come to an end when he finds his final resting place, as foretold by the gods. But his brother-in-law and his son each try to take him away.

1986-09-17 | en

Theban Plays: Antigone

In a final battle for the control of Thebes, Oedipus's two sons kill each other. Creon issues an order that no one is to bury Polynices upon pain of death. But Antigone is determined that her brother's body will have the proper rites of burial.

1986-09-19 | en

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.

1947-11-19 | en

Twelfth Night

Television adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

1967-01-05 | sv

Ett Dockhem

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

1970-12-27 | sv

Han som fick leva om sitt liv

The story of a man who has committed a crime but gets the chance to live his life again and avoid all of his past mistakes.

1987-12-08 | sv

Kamraterna

Axel and Bertha are a married couple who are both artists in 1880s Paris, the film addresses the topic of gender equality in marriage and society, for example the property rights of married women.

1982-10-04 | sv

Stängda dörrar

Inès, Estelle, and Garcin are condemned to be together in a single room and soon start arguing and accusing each other.

1981-11-10 | sv