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Colossus and the Amazon Queen
Colossus and the Amazon Queen (1960)
, 1h24
Directed by Vittorio Sala
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Peplum
Themes Films based on mythology, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Dans la Grèce mythologique, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Rod Taylor, Dorian Gray, Daniela Rocca, Alberto Farnese, Gianna Maria Canale, Folco Lulli

After the Trojan War, Glauco is the strongest man amongst the Greeks. His friend Pirro meets two men who offer him a large sum of money to persuade Glauco to sail towards unexplored shores. Pirro accepts the proposal and convinces Glauco with a trick: he hits him on his head. The ship lands at a strange place where Pirro and the other men aboard are drugged and find themselves in the hands of the Amazons. Only Glauco escapes, saved from the Egyptian inventor Sofo and he falls in love with Antiope. Between loves and duels, conspiracies and ruses, maurauding pirates will bring together Amazons and Greeks.
Thor and the Amazon Women
Thor and the Amazon Women (1963)
, 1h35
Directed by Antonio Leonviola, Tonino Ricci
Origin Italie
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Peplum
Themes Films based on mythology, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Films based on Norse mythology, Dans la Grèce mythologique, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Joe Robinson, Harry Baird, Maria Fiore

Thor and the Amazon Women (original title: Le Gladiatrici) is a sword and sandal picture that features a civilization of women warriors ruled by the evil Black Queen who has subjugated the men in her land. Thor and his friend Ubaratutu live in a distant village with a young blonde woman named Tamar and her young brother Homolke. Tamar’s father was the king of a seaside village who had been killed several years earlier when the Black Queen’s Amazon warriors raided the village.
Spike
Spike (2008)
, 1h20
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Themes Films based on mythology, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Children's films, LGBT-related films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, LGBT-related film
Actors Anna-Marie Wayne

Through a series of dreamlike images, a girl (Sarah Livingston Evans) and her three friends find themselves stranded in a dark and surrealistic forest by someone — or something (Edward Gusts) — who has obsessively loved, watched, and waited for the girl ever since childhood.
Hercules in New York
Hercules in New York (1970)
, 1h31
Directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films based on mythology, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold Stang, James Karen, Ernest Graves, Merwin Goldsmith, Rudy Bond

Hercules, at Olympus, berates his father Zeus for not allowing him to leave the gods' abode to adventure on earth. Eventually Zeus sends Hercules, on a beam, to the land of men.
The Loves of Hercules
The Loves of Hercules (1960)
, 1h37
Directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
Origin Italie
Genres Fantasy, Adventure, Peplum
Themes Films based on mythology, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Dans la Grèce mythologique, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Jayne Mansfield, Mickey Hargitay, René Dary, Massimo Serato, Moira Orfei, Andrea Aureli

While Hercules (Mickey Hargitay) is away, his village is plundered and his wife is killed by the army of Ecalia as the first part of a scheme by the treacherous Licos (Massimo Serato) to gain the throne of Ecalia for himself. Licos plans that Hercules will come to Ecalia for vengeance and murders the King himself to save Ecalia from his revenge. Hercules learns of the murder of his wife and seeks vengeance, but is thwarted when the King's daughter and heir to the throne Queen Deianira offers herself rather than her realm of Ecalia as the guilty party. In accordance with the law Deianira must face the wrath of Hercules; she is bound to a wall as Hercules throws axes at her that miss Deianira proving her innocence in the eyes of the gods.
Hydra
Hydra (2009)
, 1h31
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Horror
Themes Films based on mythology, Giant monster films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Disaster films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors George Stults, Dawn Olivieri, Polly Shannon, Alex McArthur, Texas Battle, James Wlcek

Young archaeologist Dr. Valerie Cammon (Polly Shannon) and her colleague Dr. Kim (Philip Moon) go by ship to a volcanic island in the Mediterranean sea. While she seeks relics in a cave, a seaquake sinks their ship without survivors. At about the same time all archaeologists except for Dr. Cammon get eaten by the re-awakened ancient Lernaean Hydra.
Cyclops
Cyclops (2008)
, 1h30
Directed by Declan O'Brien
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action
Themes Films based on mythology, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Eric Roberts, Raycho Stevanov Vasiliev

The film is set in long-ago Rome during the reign of Emperor Tiberius Caesar. In the countryside, a group of travelers come across some sheep and kill some for food. They are interrupted by their owner, a ferocious cyclops, the last of his kind, which kills them all but one who escapes back to Rome. There he sends word to the Emperor that a cyclops has been sighted. He sends his best commander Marcus Romulus (played by Kevin Stapleton) to capture the mankiller. Though it costs him some of his men, Marcus succeeds and takes the cyclops back to Rome. Emperor Tiberius needs a new beast for his circus. When he sees how much attention the cyclops attracts, the emperor decides to use him instead of expensive lions.
Hercules Against the Moon Men
Hercules Against the Moon Men (1964)
, 1h30
Directed by Giacomo Gentilomo
Origin Italie
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Peplum
Themes Space adventure films, Films about music and musicians, Films based on mythology, Sur la Lune, Musical films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Alan Steel, Jany Clair, Attilio Dottesio, Salvatore Borgese

In ancient Greece, a race of evil aliens from the Moon land on Earth. For years they have terrorized the nearby city of Samar, demanding children for sacrifice in hopes their spilled blood can revive their dead queen. Now, the queen of Samar has made a pact with the Moon men to conquer the world and become the most powerful woman alive. The downtrodden residents of Samar cheer the arrival of the mighty Hercules, who on their behalf faces deadly obstacles, battles the Moon monsters and eventually confronts the leader of the Moon men, Redolphis, a metal-headed giant.