poster movie

Medea

It's a movie about a woman who beheads her brother, stabs her children, and sends her lover's wife up in flames. For Maria Callas, it's a natural.

6.6 average rating
6.6
Italian / 118 MIN. / 1969

The Genres

The Synopsis

Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.

The Cast

Maria CallasMassimo GirottiLaurent TerzieffGiuseppe GentileMargareth ClémentiPaul JabaraGerard WeissSergio TramontiLuigi BarbiniGian Paolo DurgarLuigi MasironiMichelangelo MasironiGianni BrandiziFranco JacobbiAnnamaria ChioPiera Degli EspostiMirella PamphiliGraziella ChiarcossiRossana CanghiariMaria Cumani QuasimodoVladimer JulukhadzeMaria SmithGiorgio Trombetti

Recommended

Movies

poster movie

Hamlet

6.606 average rating
poster movie

Hamlet

7.3 average rating
poster movie

A Midsummer Night's Dream

6.3 average rating
poster movie

Satyricon

6.7 average rating
poster movie

Winter's Tale

6.263 average rating
poster movie

Romeo and Juliet

7.4 average rating
poster movie

Peter Ibbetson

7.008 average rating
poster movie

Jane Eyre

7.1 average rating
poster movie

Hobson's Choice

7.359 average rating
poster movie

Mr Malcolm's List

5.8 average rating
poster movie

Meet Joe Black

7.355 average rating
poster movie

Author! Author!

5.9 average rating
poster movie

Demetrius and the Gladiators

6.535 average rating
poster movie

Northanger Abbey

6.8 average rating
poster movie

Agora

6.995 average rating
poster movie

The Princess Bride

7.696 average rating
poster movie

Romeo + Juliet

6.8 average rating
poster movie

Wicked

6.91 average rating
poster movie

Leave Her to Heaven

7.436 average rating
poster movie

Titanic

6.6 average rating