Biography
Homer (Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος [hómɛːros], Hómēros) is the name ascribed by the Ancient Greeks to the semi-legendary author of the two epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, the central works of Greek literature When he lived is controversial. Herodotus estimates that Homer lived 400 years before Herodotus' own time, which would place him at around 850 BC; while other ancient sources claim that he lived much nearer to the supposed time of the Trojan War, in the early 12th Century BC. For modern ...
Complete Filmography

The Odyssey
2026
Original Story
An adaptation of Homer's epic poem of the same name, follow Odysseus in his perilous journey home after the Trojan War, showcasing his encounters with...

Calypso
2025
Story
A nurse keeps a patient in a coma, but one day his wife and son visit him.

The Milwaukyssey
2025
Original Story
On his five year anniversary with his girlfriend, a young anxious man, O’Gideon O'God O'Flanagan, wakes up on the lakefront disoriented and confused. ...

The Return
2024
Author
After twenty years away, Odysseus washes up on the shores of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognizable. The king has finally returned home, but much has chan...

Calypso
2019
Writer
When a modern Ulysses, struggling with PTSD, wakes up without memory in a post-apocalyptic desert, an alleged Calypso tries to help him uncover the tr...

Troy
2004
Author, Poem
In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leav...
The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland
2002
Story
Claudio Monteverdi's operatic adaptation of this story from Homer's The Odyssey receives a modern and distinctive staging in this 2002 production dire...

O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000
Original Story
In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.

The Sexual Adventures of Ulysses
1998
Original Story
This new story of Ulysses and the sex-filled affairs while he was away has everything to tantalize the senses. From hot sex with nymphs in the fields,...

Ulysses' Gaze
1995
Original Story
An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.

Achilles
1995
Book
With the loss of Patroclus (his undeclared male lover), Greek warrior Achilles returns to the Trojan War.

Nostos: The Return
1990
Poem, Original Story
At the end of the war, Odysseus, the wandering hero, with his companions begins his sail back home to the Mediterranean. The conclusion of his adventu...

The Odyssey
1987
Poem
After the Trojan War a legendary hero Odysseus makes his valiant voyage at sea, trying to reach the shores of his beloved home. While he and his crew ...

Uliisses
1982
Poem
Director Werner Nekes has created this experimental film in the mode of James Joyce's Ulysses to the extent that human interactions are represented by...

The Voyage of Odysseus
1982
Original Story
The voyage section of Homer's classic tale is retold by the voice of a muse, actor Julie Harris, who recalls the essence of the adventure. A remarkabl...

Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
1980
Original Story
Live performance, part of Monteverdi cycle staged by Oper Zürich with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Zürich Opera House Monteverdi Ensemble. Stag...

Traveling Companions
1978
Original Story
The Story of Oddyseus and the Sirens placed in the countryside of France. Oddyseus is a trucker and his Penelope runs a café.
Příběhy Odysseovy
1974
Writer

Helen of Troy
1956
Original Story
Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by t...

Ulysses
1954
Story
A movie adaptation of Homer's second epic, that talks about Ulysses' efforts to return to his home after the end of ten years of war.

Helen of Troy
1924
Story
Helena is a 1924 German silent drama film directed by Manfred Noa and starring Edy Darclea, Vladimir Gajdarov and Albert Steinrück. The film was based...

L'Odissea
1911
Story
Film adaptation of Homer's 'The Odyssey.'
The Return of Ulysses
1909
Original Story
When Troy has fallen and Ulysses sets sail for home, his ships are driven to different lands, where his adventures are numerous, keeping him away from...

Achilles Returns
N/A
Characters
After many years, with help of Thetis and negotiations between Zeus and Hades, an aged Achilles is released from the Underworld into a modern world.