Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 13: Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus) / 2012

A short film to accompany the reissue of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus (originally released in 2004). The result is a determinedly human portrait of the unique body of work produced by the band over the last 25 years, told through those who have lived and loved the music, including close collaborators.

Orpheus in the Underworld / 1974

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 gods and Offenbach himself pressure him to retrieve her from Hades.

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage / 1994

A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and in St. Louis to success and acclaim, followed by the final difficult years. Includes some of the most celebrated scenes from film adaptations of Williams' work, among them extracts of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951),Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Night of the Iguana, The (1964), and Suddenly, Last Summer (1993) (TV). Contains footage of Williams being interviewed, including conversations with David Frost, 'Edward R. Murrow (I)', and Melvyn Bragg, as well as reminiscences from people who knew and worked with him, among them Edward Albee, Gore Vidal, and his lifelong friend, Lady Maria St. Just. Features readings from Elia Kazan's Notebook by Kim Hunter.

Orpheus' Song / 2019

Due ragazzi berlinesi si perdono durante un’escursione in un’isola greca. Incontrano una creatura misteriosa che dice di chiamarsi Ercole e fanno uno strano sogno. Il giorno successivo niente è più come prima. Il film è un road movie, una “Odissea”, che apre un nuovo mondo interno ed esterno ai due protagonisti e affronta il potere delle immagini collettive e dei miti. Attraverso l’iconografia dell’antichità scopriamo che ci sono state epoche con credenze e valori molto diversi dalla nostra e con una differente visione della sensualità e della sessualità. Questo film è una guida, un segno, uno sguardo in quella direzione, niente di più. “Orpheus`Song” è anche una favola erotica, è un inno all’amore per la vita. Il film non è solo un viaggio in un altro posto, è anche un viaggio in un’altra epoca dalla quale possono giungerci messaggi “rinfrescanti”.

Orpheus Descending / 1990

Val Xavier is a drifter in 1940's Mississippi who brings new life to an Italian immigrant woman trapped in a loveless marriage.

The Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice / 2016

According to the ancient tale, talented musician Orpheus descends to the underworld to retrieve his beloved wife Eurydice, who steps on a poisonous snake and dies after being chased by Aristaeus. Moved by Orpheus’ music, Hades, ruler of the afterlife, allows him to take Eurydice back under one condition. Eurydice is to follow Orpheus while walking out to the light, but he can’t look back otherwise she will return to the land of the dead forever.

Jimmy Orpheus / 1966

Jimmy Orpheus is about a young day labourer at the docks. After a crawl through the late-night bars in the St. Pauli red-light district, he meets a prostitute, for whom he risks life and limb while walking around night-time Hamburg … A love story that is as poetic as it is realistic, with Roland Klick trying out various extravagant editing and camera techniques, such as jump cuts and time-lapse shots, as well as his idea of action movies.

Orpheus steigt herab / 1965

Orpheus Underground / 1975

Orpheus (the artist) searches for Eurydice (immortality) in New York (his own underworld). Densely textured, pervaded by feeling of baroque imagery.

Orpheus Descending / 2005

The film tells of the life and work of Sergey Paradzhanov. On December 15, 1973, the Master was to leave for Yerevan to start work on a film based on Andersen’s fairy tales. It is not known why he had changed his decision, and left on that very day for Kiev where, two days later, on December 17, he was arrested. The film recounts the years the director spent in prison. The author tries to penetrate the mysteries of the Master’s spiritual world, naming the sources, from which he drew the strength to endure the adversities of not only camp life, but of the life in general that had endowed him with huge talent and made him pay for it in full measure.

(Orpheus) The Poetics of Finitude / 2014

(Orpheus) The Poetics of Finitude deconstructs the myth of Orpheus using live action, animation, and text to create a visual poem.

Orpheus in der Oberwelt / 1970

Short film by Manfred Jelinski

Glasgow Orpheus Choir / 1951

Short about the titular choir, made after the announcement of the retirement of the choir's conductor, Sir Hugh Roberton

After Nonoy Estarte, a certain Orpheus, and those flowers in Dahilayan that accompanied this other sense they told me about / 2017

Inspired by an artist's drawings in the South, I saw paintings that depicted the indigenous people's view of the origins of the world. The film is the tale of our nation and basic things: water, plants, body, and their own interaction through time.

Orpheus Tonight / 2010

Together with Hansjörg Palm, Ruedi Bind recorded a bizarre video poem that resembles a psychedelic journey into the patriotic thoughts of the main character. The "white cross on a red background" appears again and again, so alienated it has something threatening. Bind has made a series of facade films on his own initiative that captivate with their quiet poetry.