Best God & Mythological movies of 1980s

Actors : Barbara Hershey, Harvey Keitel, Paul Greco, Willem Dafoe,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

The life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross.

Actors : James Sloyan, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck, Olivia Newton-John,
Directors : Robert Greenwald,

The story of a girl who makes dreams come true.

Actors : Maggie Smith, Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom, Harry Hamlin,
Directors : Desmond Davis,

Perseus must battle both Medusa and the Kraken to save the Princess Andromeda.

Actors : David Cronenberg, Charles Haid, Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby,
Directors : Clive Barker,

A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of monsters are hiding from humanity.

Actors : Mickey Rooney, Tim Robbins, Eartha Kitt, John Cleese,
Directors : Terry Jones,

Erik the Viking and his men travel across the sea to find Valhalla to ask the gods to end the Age of Ragnarok.

Actors : Michael Biehn, Peter Friedman, Demi Moore, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Carl Schultz,

In Haiti, the sea and the life-form die; in the Middle East, a town is frozen. These are signs of the Apocalypse and the Vatican is investigating, but Father Lucci advises that these omens ...

Actors : Brad Harris, Lou Ferrigno, Rossana Podestà, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Luigi Cozzi,

The story of the Greek mythological figure, updated in this 80's version.

Actors : Milly Carlucci, Lou Ferrigno, Sonia Viviani, William Berger,
Directors : Luigi Cozzi,

Hercules searches for the Seven Thunderbolts of Zeus, which have been stolen by renegade gods.

Actors : Barry Sattels, George Peck, Brenda Siemer Scheider, John Salvo,
Directors : Frank Agrama,

A group of fashion models disturb the tomb of a mummy and revive an ancient curse. Along with the mummy rising, slaves who were buried in the desert thousands of years before, also rise, with a craving for human flesh.

Actors : Sonia Infante, Donald Pleasence, Bradford Dillman, Stuart Whitman,
Directors : René Cardona Jr.,

A ragtag group of adventurers, including a former Nazi, is led by a half-maddened grizzled treasure hunter who wants a second chance to find the mythical treasure of the Amazon, after his first mission went terrible wrong.

Actors : Tarcísio Meira, Maurício do Valle, Jece Valadão, Antonio Pitanga,
Directors : Glauber Rocha,

The day that Pier Paolo Pasolini was killed, Glauber Rocha decided to make this film about the life of Christ in the Third World. Starting from a dialectical synthesis between capitalism ...

Actors : Delia Boccardo, Horst Buchholz, Catherine Jourdan, Valérie Kaprisky,
Directors : Robert Fuest,

Harry is a young millionaire on holiday; he takes his yacht to a Greek island, and stays in the mansion of his friend, Count Orloff. The Count organizes a feast there, for three days and ...

Actors : Kristian Tonby, Terje Strømdahl, Rulle Smit, Per Jansen,

Jarle son Sigurd growing up in Viking Norway, a time when conflicts are resolved with weapons. He is named after a great legend and local hero, Sigurd Fåvnesbane that in his time had killed...

Actors : Kurt Raab, Werner Schroeter, Annamirl Bierbichler, Herbert Achternbusch,
Directors : Herbert Achternbusch,

The life-size figure of Christ at 42 travels with the cross on a mission through Bavaria.

Actors : Raul Julia, Julie Carmen, Armand Assante, Rona De Ricci,
Directors : Cliff Osmond,

Tension between a jealous husband, his wife who's attracted to his friend and the friend is rising as their small, deeply catholic, Mexican village is deciding who will be Christ during the possibly dangerous reenactment of the Crucifixion.

Actors : Marius Weyers, John Hurt, Eric Nobbs, Sean Bean,
Directors : David Wicht,

A South African video journalist is sent to neighboring Namibia to do a story on a man who has been going around and killing black laborers. The killer, Nhadiep, has an almost mythical ...

Actors : Francisco Rabal, Antonella Murgia, Dennis Hopper, Michael Moriarty,
Directors : Bigas Luna,

A man discovers that his girlfriend is a "stigmata" (someone whose hands and feet mysteriously bleed in the same places where Jesus Christ was crucified) and tries to keep her out of the ...

Actors : Bruno Minniti, Luigi Mezzanotte, Maria Romano, Malisa Longo,
Directors : Tonino Ricci,

In the vein of CONAN THE BARBARIAN and Lucio Fulci's CONQUEST comes a tale of mythology and magic, of how THOR, a legendary god, triumphs over overwhelming odds to great victory and the ...

Actors : Blanca Guerra, Ana Poltronieri, Isabel Hidalgo, Óscar Castillo,
Directors : Antonio Yglesias,

La segua, a mythical woman with the face of a horse, appears to the travelers in colonial Costa Rica. A young and beautiful woman is tortured by the apparitions, as the man she loves gets ...