Movies: Orpheus

On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman....

Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu's vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between moments of fantasy and stark reality. This impressionistic retelling of ...

Two best friends set out to rescue their pal after he's accidentally dragged to hell....

A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld....

Director helmut Dietls and Patric Susskinds illustrate a legendary story of two lovers who cant keep themselves away from death....

A humble Romanian actor in his 40's, hardly surviving between a complicated part in a musical, a depressed wife, and the obsession of an imminent, devastating earthquake, becomes the victim of his manipulative father....

Oru Indian Pranayakatha is about the life of a young political leader and his association with a woman who comes unexpectedly into his life....

This musical comedy based on an opera by Jacques Offenbach incorporates a twist on the classic Greek myth: Orpheus, a music teacher at a girls’ school in the ancient Greek city of Thebes, actually does not miss his wife Eurydice that much – until the...

A modernized telling of the Greek Mythology romantic tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice....

In a montage alternating with moments of Nigel Rogers' interpretation of the most beautiful passages from "Orpheus," the opera by Striggio and Monteverdi, La Nuit Claire is an evocation of the celebrated myth, within which images of the love between ...

Eileen and Martin are a young couple living in their apartment home. Martin is terminallly ill in an induced coma. With the aid of AI technology, his consciousness is being kept alive in a simulated reality of their apartment home, where Eileen visit...