Kinds of Kindness

Kinds of Kindness 2024

6.60

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

Medea

Medea 1970

6.60

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

Phaedra

Phaedra 1962

5.70

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

Mourning Becomes Electra

Mourning Becomes Electra 1947

6.30

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

The Trojan Women

The Trojan Women 1971

6.10

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

Electra

Electra 1962

7.10

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

Oedipus the King

Oedipus the King 1968

4.70

This classic Greek tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father and ends up paying a terrible price for invoking the wrath of the Gods.

1968

Theban Plays: Antigone

Theban Plays: Antigone 1986

1

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

Narcissus

Narcissus 1983

5.20

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.

1983

Prometheus

Prometheus 2015

1

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

2015

Antigone, or Let's Make Movies in Transylvania!

Antigone, or Let's Make Movies in Transylvania! 2011

6.00

A crew of young filmmakers from Translyvania set out to make an adaptation of the Greek classic Antigone. The film is a summary of their mishaps and obstacles during shooting.

2011

Medea

Medea 1963

1

Medea is a powerful witch who gets revenge on her cheating husband Jason by killing their children.

1963

Grey and Black

Grey and Black 2015

6.10

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.

2015

Beyond Tragedies

Beyond Tragedies 2022

4.00

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

2022

Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus

Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus 1986

1

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

Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

Theban Plays: Oedipus the King 1986

2.00

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

Antigone

Antigone 2021

1

Antigone asks the question of the difference between the spirit of the Law and the letter of the Law. This elemental ancient play about - honor, loyalty, love, betrayal and conviction - resonates as sharply and as damning today as it did when it was written 2,500 years ago.

2021

Stone Cold

Stone Cold 2023

1

A lonely, recluse sculptor must confront his inner turmoil and reckon with his romantic desires when his statue comes to life.

2023

Mourning Becomes Electra

Mourning Becomes Electra 1978

1.00

In a Greek tragedy updated to the 1860s, young New Englanders exact vengeance after the murder of their father.

1978