Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus (1986)

Em seu único papel no cinema, a diva María Callas vive a feiticeira Medéia, que mata o próprio irmão para fugir com o amado, Jasão, que roubara o velo de ouro. Anos mais tarde, Jasão a abandona, para se casar com a jovem e bela filha do Rei Creonte. Indignada, Medéia planeja uma terrível vingança contra Jasão.

O filme nos apresenta uma mostra da cultura gay japonesa em fins da década de 1960. Usufruindo da inclusão de ornamentos visuais vindos diretamente do mundo do design gráfico, da pintura, quadrinhos e da animação contemporânea, Toshio Matsumoto adentra a Novelle Vague japonesa com uma obra totalmente inovadora e polêmica. Sexo, nudez, consumo de drogas e o cotidiano de travestis foram articulados e trabalhados com uma desenvoltura ímpar. Um choque febril entre a estética de vanguarda e os sobressaltos típicos de filmes B. Em meio à sexo e violência, presenciamos um triângulo amoroso: Eddie é um jovem travesti, que se torna o mais popular do clube em que trabalha e inicia um romance com o companheiro e cafetão de Leda, um travesti que fora a grande estrela da noite, mas que com o passar dos anos já perdeu o encanto.

Kashou Minaduki, the son of a long line of Japanese confection makers moved out to open his own shop "La Soleil" as a patisserie. But upon moving out, hidden amongst his things were two of the catgirls, Chocola and Vanilla, that the family had been raising. When he tried to send them back, they begged and pleaded until he gave in and now they've opened La Soleil together. With two catgirls who really, REALLY love their master trying their very best and occasionally failing -- a heartful comedy opens for business!

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.

In Thebes in ancient Greece, King Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother Jocasta, having two sons - Eteocles and Polyneices - and two daughters - Ismene and Antigone. King Oedipus dies a beggar in the exile after gouging out his own eye, and Eteocle agrees to reign in Thebes in alternating years with Polynices. However, he refuses to resign after the first year and Polynieces raises an army and attacks Thebes, and they kill each other. The ruler of Thebes Creon decrees that Eleocles should have an honorable burial while the body of the traitor Polyneices should be left on the battlefield to be eaten by the jackals and vultures. However, Antigone, who was betrothed to Creon's surviving son Haemon, defies Creon's orders and buries her brother. When Creon is reported of the attitude of Antigone, he sentences her to be placed in a tomb alive. Antigone hangs herself in the tomb and Haemon tries to kill his father first and then he kills himself with his sword...

No qual Xerazade narra como a desolação invadiu os homens: “Oh venturoso Rei, fui sabedora de que uma juíza aflita chorará em lugar de ditar a sua sentença, na noite de três luares. Um assassino em fuga vagueará pelas terras interiores durante mais de quarenta dias e teletransportar-se-à para fugir à Guarda, sonhando com putas e perdizes. Lembrando-se de uma oliveira milenar, uma vaca ferida dirá o que tiver a dizer e que é bem triste! Moradores de um prédio dos subúrbio salvarão papagaios e mijarão em elevadores, rodeados por mortos e fantasmas; mas também por um cão que…”. E vendo despontar a manhã, Xerazade calou-se.

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.

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.

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.

Li Jie, a lawyer, is taking divorce proceedings to try to get custody of her daughter. As she is working hard to earn a better life for her daughter, she hires a baby sitter, Sun Fang, to watch her child. One day, Li comes home only to find her child and Sun have disappeared. Unfortunately, Li is suspected by both her family and the police, and must lean on herself to trace Sun alone.

Baseado em uma história verídica, Agnus Dei é uma espécie de Édipo dos nossos dias. Pedro deve encontrar o seu caminho para a redenção. Mas o passado dar-se a conhecer e o destino concede misericórdia com moderação. Ele pode salvar a si mesmo, ou mesmo ser salvo?

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.

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

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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.

The story of Oedipus' gradual discovery of his primal crime, killing his father and marrying his mother, filmed by the famed British theatrical director Sir Tyrone Guthrie. This elegant version of Sophocles' play adds a brilliant stroke: the actors wear masks just as the Greeks did in the playwright's day.

Constance is a bored, movie-loving schoolteacher in post-WW2 New Zealand who begins to fantasize that she's a Hollywood star - with tragic consequences.

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.

Poet Lord Byron decides to fight with the Greek revolutionaries in Missolonghi against the Turks but instead the glorious battle wrestles with fever and his own demons.