Oedipus Rex

Oedipus Rex (1957)

January 6th, 19571h 27min

Drama
63%

Overview

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.


Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!

Trailer

Similar Movies

King Lear: Live at Shakespeare's Globe

King Lear: Live at Shakespeare's Globe


Released on: 2017-09-21
Drama

King Lear has three daughters, but no sons. Boldly he makes a decision to divide his kingdom among h...

Sita Sings the Blues

Sita Sings the Blues


Released on: 2008-02-11
Animation, Drama, Music, Romance, Fantasy

Utilizing the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, the epic Indian tale of exiled prince Ramayana a...

Dom Juan

Dom Juan


Released on: 2005-02-14
Comedy, Drama

Escorted by his valet Sganarelle, Dom Juan, a libertine gentleman, brave and hypocritical, seduces w...

Lutung Kasarung

Lutung Kasarung


Released on: 1983-02-08
Drama, Fantasy

This legend from West Java is told thus: In heaven, among the gods, Minda's teacher, who later becam...

The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil


Released on: 1974-06-06
Drama, Music, Comedy, History, TV Movie

In their songs, comedy and exuberant music, a travelling theatre company give a fiercely polemic acc...

The Bright Night

The Bright Night


Released on: 1978-10-29
Fantasy, Drama

In a montage alternating with moments of Nigel Rogers' interpretation of the most beautiful passages...

The Flying Classroom

The Flying Classroom


Released on: 2003-01-16
Comedy, Drama, Family

A boy who was once a perpetual outcast finds friends in a new boarding school. United with his new p...

The Taste of Others

The Taste of Others


Released on: 2000-03-01
Drama, Comedy, Romance

Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella reluctantly attends Racine's trag...

Henry V

Henry V


Released on: 1989-10-05
War, Drama, History

In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the co...

Faust

Faust


Released on: 1926-10-13
Fantasy, Drama, Horror

God and Satan wager on the soul of a learned and prayerful alchemist as part of their eternal war ov...

Besos perdidos

Besos perdidos


Released on: 1945-08-30
Drama

A man thinks he is not the father of his presumed daughter.

Actresses

Actresses


Released on: 2007-12-26
Comedy, Drama

Marcelline is an actress. Forty, single and childless, she begins rehearsals for Turgenev’s A Month ...

Ulysse est revenu

Ulysse est revenu


Released on: 1978-07-03
Drama

Prometheus Bound

Prometheus Bound


Released on: 2021-03-24
Drama

The Titan Prometheus is punished by Zeus for attempting to steal fire for humankind.

All Small Bodies

All Small Bodies


Released on: 2017-07-01
Drama, Fantasy

'All Small Bodies' is a feminist, sci-fi take on the Grimm tale of Hansel and Gretel. It occurs in t...

Beowulf & Grendel

Beowulf & Grendel


Released on: 2005-09-14
Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

The blood-soaked tale of a Norse warrior's battle against the great and murderous troll, Grendel. He...

Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy

Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy


Released on: 1966-12-13
Drama, Adventure, Fantasy

Siegfried of Xanten snatches the Nibelung treasure from the king of the underworld and slays the dra...

Arsena

Arsena


Released on: 1937-05-19
Action, Drama, Fantasy

XIX century peasants' revolt and the life story of bandit Arsena Odzelashvili.

Jakub Oberva

Jakub Oberva


Released on: 1956-10-18
Drama, History

Její pastorkyňa

Její pastorkyňa


Released on: 1956-11-04
Drama