List of films based on Greek drama

Films based on plays by Aeschylus

• Hercules Unchained (1959) Italy
• The Family Reunion (1959) TV Movie, Canada
• Les Perses (1961) TV Movie, France
• Aeschylus (1967) TV Movie, Finland
• I Persiani (1967) TV Movie, Italy
• The Forgotten Pistolero (1969) Italyyy
• Agamemnon (1973) Belgium
• Orestea (1975) Italy
• Atreides (1979) TV Movie, Greece
• Oresteia (1979) TV Mini-series, UK
• Prometheus Retrogressing (1998)
• Le Rêve Plus Fort que la Mort (2002) France
• Die Perser (2003) Germany

Films based on Sophocles

• Oedipe roi (1908)
• Oedipus Rex (1909)
• Oedipus Rex (1911)
• Oedipus Rex (1957)
• Antigone (1960)
• Acosados, Los (1960)
• Antigone (1961)
• Antigone (1962)
• Oedipus Rex (1967)
• Edipo re (1967)
• Élo Antigoné (1968)
• Antigone (1970)
• I Cannibali (1970)
• Elektra (1970)
• Antigone (1973)
• Antigone (1973)
• Antigone (1974)
• Antigone (1974)
• Oedipus Rex (1975)
• Elektra (1981)
• Oedipus Rex (1984)
• Oedipus the King (1984)
• Oedipus at Colonus (1984)
• Elettra (1987)
• Électre (1987)
• Elektra (1989)
• Antigone/Rites of Passion (1991)
• Oedipus Rex (1992)
• Elektra (1994)

Films based on Euripides

• Medea (1959) United States - TV play of the week
• Baccanti, Le (1961) Italy
• Phaedra (film) (1962) Greece
• Electra (1962) Greece
• Troyanas, Las (1963)
• Medea (1963)
• Troerinnen, Die (1966)
• Medea (1969 film) (1969)
• Dionysus in '69 (1970)
• The Trojan Women (film) (1971)
• Medéia (1973)
• Bakchen, Die (1974)
• Iphigenia (film) (1977)
• Medea (1983)
• Medea (1983)
• Medea (1989)
• Iphigenia at Aulis (1991)
• Backanterna (1993)
• Médée (2001)
• The Bacchae (2002)
• The Trojan Women (2004)
• Medea (2005)
• The Women of Troy (2006)
• The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

Films based on Aristophanes

• Daughters of Destiny (1954)
• The Second Greatest Sex (1955)
• Sendung der Lysistrata, Die (1961)
• Escuela de seductoras (1962)
• An oles oi gynaikes tou kosmou (1967)
• Flickorna (1968)
• Lysistrate (1982)
• Komediya o Lisistrate (1989)
• Chi-Raq (2015)