The Cyclops (2011)

Actors: Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin (producer), Steve Toms (writer), Ryan Bruce (actor), Romuald Hivert (actor), Andrew Gust (editor), Nathan Baker (actor), Josiah Black (actor), Victor Lohr (actor), Christine Baudry (director), Joshua Santos (producer), Shawn Corrigan (actor), Miguel Fernandes Ribeiro (producer), Rebecca Hardwick (costume designer), Tae Won Lee (producer), Richie Yu (producer),

Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Short,

Lotus Eaters (2011)

Actors: Michael Chase (director), Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin (producer), Cristina Tamez-Rodriguez (actress), Adam DiMarco (actor), Sebastien Dryland (actor), Sebastien Dryland (miscellaneous crew), Josiah Black (actor), Joseph Taormina (actor), Barbara Backman (producer), Barbara Backman (miscellaneous crew), Joshua Santos (miscellaneous crew), Zachary Kerrholden (editor), Rebecca Hardwick (costume designer), Stefanie Sutherland (actor), John Quick (writer),

Plot: Returning from the battle of Troy, two of Odysseus' men venture onto Lotus Island to find supplies. Tempted by the mystical Lotus Eaters into eating seemingly harmless lotus blossoms, the men enter a euphoric state after which their perception of the world will never be the same again...

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Short,

Troy (2004)

Actors: Julie Christie (actress), Brad Pitt (actor), Rose Byrne (actress), John Shrapnel (actor), Orlando Bloom (actor), Saffron Burrows (actress), Peter O'Toole (actor), Sean Bean (actor), Eric Bana (actor), Brian Cox (actor), Brendan Gleeson (actor), Julian Glover (actor), James Cosmo (actor), Wolfgang Petersen (producer), Diane Kruger (actress),

Plot: It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband, Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the never before defeated Trojans. But they come to a stop by Hector, Prince of Troy. The whole movie shows their battle struggles and the foreshadowing of fate in this remake by Wolfgang Petersen of Homer's "The Iliad."

Keywords: achilles'-heel, achilles-tendon, achilles-tendon-cut, adulterous-wife, adultery, aegean-sea, ancient-civilization, ancient-greece, ancient-troy, ancient-world
Genres: Adventure, Drama,
Taglines: For Honor For Victory For Love For Destiny For Passion For Troy

Quotes:

Agamemnon: Peace is for women and the weak.

Andromache: [to Hector] I can't imagine life without you.

Priam: I've fought many wars in my time. Some I've fought for land, some for power, some for glory. I suppose fighting for love makes more sense than all the rest.

Glaucus: [the Appolonians are making their last stand] Soldiers of Troy! You men are warriors! To lead you has been my honor! [to Paris] My prince! The boatman waits for us! I say, we make him wait a little longer!::[Trojans attack as the Greeks break down the last barricade]

Agamemnon: I see you're not hiding behind your high walls. Valiant of you. Ill-advised, but valiant.::Hector: You come here uninvited. Go back to your ships and go home.::Agamemnon: We've come too far, Prince Hector.::Menelaus: Prince? What prince? What son of a king would accept a man's hospitality, eat his food, drink his wine, embrace him in friendship, and then steal his wife in the middle of the night?::Paris: The sun was shining when your wife left you.::Menelaus: She's up there, watching, isn't she? Good. I want her to watch you die.::Agamemnon: Not yet, brother. Look around you, Hector. I brought all the warriors of Greece to your shores.::Nestor: You can still save Troy, young prince.::Agamemnon: I have two wishes. If you grant them, no more of your people need die. First, you must give Helen back to my brother. Second, Troy must submit to my command, to fight for me whenever I call.::Hector: You want me to look upon your army and tremble? Well I see them. I see 50,000 men brought here to fight for one man's greed.::Agamemnon: Careful boy, my mercy has limits.::Hector: And I've seen the limits of your mercy and I tell you now, no son of Troy will ever submit to a foreign ruler.::Agamemnon: Then every son of Troy shall die.

[Paris cowardly bows out of a duel with Menelaus, leaving everyone aghast, especially Menelaus]::Menelaus: [shouts to Helen] Is this what you left me for?

[Eyes closed, Briseis has blade against his throat]::Achilles: Do it. [Briseis doesn't do anything, but only stares at him. Achilles opens his eyes] Do it. Nothing is easier.::Briseis: Aren't you afraid?::Achilles: Everyone dies, whether today or fifty years from now.::Briseis: If I don't, you'll kill more men.::Achilles: Many.

Odysseus: [Achilles throws his spear into a nearby tree] Your reputation for hospitality is fast becoming legend.

Agamemnon: [approaches king] Good day for the crows.::Triopas: Remove your army from my land.::Agamemnon: Why, I like your land, I think we'll stay. I like your soldiers too.::Triopas: They won't fight for you.::Agamemnon: That's what the Messenians said, and the Acardians, and the Opeians, now they all fight for me.::Triopas: You can't have the whole world, Agamemnon. It's too big, even for you.::Agamemnon: I don't want to watch another massacre. Let's settle this war in the old manner. Your best fighter against my best.::Triopas: And if my man wins?::Agamemnon: We'll leave Thessaly for good.::Triopas: Boagrius!::[cheers from Thessalian army. Boagrius comes out from the centre of the army]::Agamemnon: Achilles!::[silence]::Triopas: Boagrius has this effect on many heroes.::Agamemnon: Be careful who you insult, old king.::Greek Soldier: My king, Achilles is not with the army.::Agamemnon: Where is he?::Greek Soldier: I sent a boy to look for him.

Achilles: If I hurt you, it's not what I wanted

Ein Hauch von Zeit (2003)

Actors: Claus Theo Gärtner (actor), Tom Kolinski (producer), Tom Kolinski (director), Tom Kolinski (writer), Celina Murk (actress), Florian Hodel (actor), Michel Montandon (actor), Miro Veprek (actor), Omar Akbarzada (actor),

Plot: It's the year 2035. The movie starts in some underground store in zurich. A young guy gets interested about a book called "a trace of time". He starts to read and the story puts him back in the past, on the last day of the millenium. Three old friends meet ub by chance at that very night . A stranger joins them and the evening goes on...

Genres: Mystery, Short,

Tantalus: Behind the Mask (2001)

Actors: David Ryall (actor), David Ryall (actor), David Ryall (actor), David Ryall (actor), David Ryall (actor), David Ryall (actor), Jac Venza (producer), Alan Dobie (actor), Alan Dobie (actor), Ann Mitchell (actress), Ann Mitchell (actress), Ann Mitchell (actress), Greg Hicks (actor), Greg Hicks (actor), Greg Hicks (actor),

Plot: Tantalus: Behind the Mask follows the tumultuous creation of one of the most ambitious feats in the modern theatre -- the 12-hour recreation of the Epic Cycle, the sprawling Greek creation story which spawned all of Greek mythology. The production became a struggle between writer John Barton and director Sir Peter Hall, who had been fast friends since founding the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1961, but left the battlefields of Tantalus bitter enemies.

Keywords: based-on-play
Genres: ,

The Odyssey (1997)

Actors: Isabella Rossellini (actress), Greta Scacchi (actress), Irene Papas (actress), Geraldine Chaplin (actress), Yorgo Voyagis (actor), Bernadette Peters (actress), Jeroen Krabbé (actor), Eric Roberts (actor), Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Armand Assante (actor), Michael J. Pollard (actor), Roger Ashton-Griffiths (actor), Christopher Lee (actor), Francis Ford Coppola (producer), Vanessa Williams (actress),

Plot: This lavish small-screen adaptation of Homer's ancient epic--replete with exotic Maltese and Turkish locations, state-of-the-art special effects, and many bronzed muscles gleaming with sweat--chronicles the voyage home of a Trojan hero, Odysseus King of Ithaca, and includes many more scenes of his faithful, beautiful wife Penelope dodging leering suitors at home than Homer ever composed!

Keywords: ancient-greece, based-on-poem, battle, battlefield, blood, bronze-age, character-name-in-title, combat, cyclops, epic
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy,

Quotes:

Poseidon: My goal is not to kill you. You must understand.::Odysseus: What? What? [shouts] What do you want me to understand?::Poseidon: That without the gods, man is nothing.

Athena: The gods cannot do for man what man must do for himself.

Eurymachus: [Odysseus has started to kill the suitors who are locked in a room with him] Wait, wait! What is our crime? We treated your wife as a queen. We lived off you're land, that can be replaced. We did not kill anybody.::Odysseus: Your crime is that you tried to steal my world. The world I built with my hands, and my sweat...::Eurymachus: Now, anyone...::Odysseus: And my blood. The world that I shared with a woman who bore me my son, and no one will ever take that from me. Now you will die to a man in a river of blood.

Tiresias: It is the journey itself that makes up your life.

Achilles: I killed Hector! I will bury Troy!

Odysseus: Do you see, you gods of sea and sky? I conquered Troy. Me Odysseus, a mortal man of flesh and blood and bone and mind! I do not need you now, I can do anything.::Poseidon: Odysseus, why do you defy me?::Odysseus: Who are you?::Poseidon: It is I Poseidon, god of the wine dark sea. You have forfeited for forgetting how I helped you.::Odysseus: Help me? For ten years you played with us as toys. For ten years you let blood spill to your shores.::Poseidon: But it was my serpent who silenced Laocoon or your horse was doomed, yet you refuse to give thanks. You forget, a man is nothing without the gods. You will suffer for this offense. For your arrogance, you will drift on my sea for an eternity, never again will you reach the shores of Ithaca.::Odysseus: You cannot stop me!::Poseidon: You will suffer.

Cyclops: What is it?::Odysseus: It's wine, that's the drink of the gods. Here. Try.::Cyclops: I like it. Another. What is your name?::Odysseus: My name?::Polites: He is the lord of [is silenced before he can reveal Odysseus's identity]::Odysseus: My name is Nobody. No body.::Cyclops: Alright Nobody, in the morning you will tell me more secrets after I eat.

Aeolus: Ha ha ha! Are you surprised? Admit it! Ha ha! I can see you're surprised.::Odysseus: Who are you?::Aeolus: I am Aeolus, God of Wind. This is my island where soft breezes and raging tempests all begin.::Odysseus: Well, I'm honored, but why do you not allow me to drink?::Aeolus: Because I know you, Odysseus, Lord of Ithaca. Do not be afraid. Step through the water. I have something for you. Come along!::Odysseus: You know me?::Aeolus: Everyone knows of Odysseus, the great hero who built the Trojan Horse. But, few Greeks know that you're the only one who can't go home.::Odysseus: Poseidon thinks he can stop me.::Aeolus: Poseidon, Poseidon! Poseidon this, Poseidon that! Poseidon's a bully! He's my cousin, he's arrogant, he's selfish! He forgets that the sea is nothing without the wind, and who's the God of the Wind? Guess who's the God of the Wind... I am.

Odysseus: Is easy to be angry!

Odyssea (1986)

Actors: Jirí Bartoska (actor), Karl-Ernst Sasse (composer),

Genres: ,

Philoktet (1967)

Actors: Ludwig Cremer (writer), Sophocles (writer), Ludwig Cremer (director), Rolf Boysen (actor), Martin Benrath (actor), Heiner Müller (writer), Rolf Beuckert (actor),

Genres: ,

Penelope oder Die Lorbeermaske (1958)

Actors: Inge Meysel (actress), Heinz Reincke (actor), Michael Verhoeven (actor), Erni Mangold (actress), Harry Meyen (director), Harry Meyen (writer), Max Eckard (actor), Susanne von Almassy (actress), Heinz Coubier (writer),

Genres: History,