List of films set in ancient Egypt
Films set in ancient Egypt
Cleopatra
- Cléopâtre (1899) – French film made by Georges Méliès, the earliest known version considered to be lost, retrieved 2005
- Antony and Cleopatra (1908) – a film starring Maurice Costello and Florence Lawrence
- Cléopâtre (1910) – French film by Henri Andréani and Ferdinand Zecca
- Cléopâtre (1912) – new silent version after the play of Victorien Sardou (dir. by Charles L. Gaskill)
- Marcantonio e Cleopatra (1913) – Italian production from the era of the silent film, directed by Enrico Guazzoni
- Cleopatra (1917) – American film with Theda Bara as Cleopatra (dir. by J. Gordon Edwards)
- Cleopatra (1928) – the second American version (dir. by Roy William Neill)
- Cleopatra (1934) – with Claudette Colbert as Cleopatra (dir. by Cecil B. DeMille)
- Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) – with Vivien Leigh as Cleopatra and Claude Rains as Julius Caesar (dir. by Gabriel Pascal), after the play by G. B. Shaw
- Le legioni di Cleopatra (1959) – Italian film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi
- Serpent of the Nile (1953) – directed by William Castle with Rhonda Fleming as Cleopatra
- A Queen for Caesar (1962) – Italian film, starring Pascale Petit (dir. by Piero Pierotti and Victor Tourjansky)
- Cleopatra (1963) – including the Battle of Actium and the Final War of the Roman Republic, with Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra, Richard Burton as Mark Antony and Rex Harrison as Julius Caesar (dir. by Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
- Carry On Cleo (1964) – a parody of J. Mankiewicz's Cleopatra with Sid James as Mark Antony (dir. by Gerald Thomas), set in the reign of Julius Caesar
- Antony and Cleopatra (1972) – a film starring Charlton Heston and Hildegarde Neil
- Antony and Cleopatra (1974) – a television version of a Royal Shakespeare Company production starring Richard Johnson and Janet Suzman
- Antony and Cleopatra (1981) – a television version produced as part of the BBC Television Shakespeare starring Colin Blakely and Jane Lapotaire
- Cleopatra (1999) – with Leonor Varela as Cleopatra and Timothy Dalton as Julius Caesar (dir. by Franc Roddam), based on the book by Margaret George
- Asterix and Cleopatra (1968) – Belgian-French animated film (dir. by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo), as well as Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002) a French/Italian film based on the same source, Goscinny and Uderzo's 1963 comic-book Asterix and Cleopatra.
- The Cleopatras (1983) – BBC TV 8-episode series on the latter part of the reign of the Ptolemaic dynasty (dir. by John Frankau)
- Cleopatra (2007) – Brazilian film with Alessandra Negrini as Cleopatra and Miguel Falabella as Julius Caesar (directed by Júlio Bressane)
1900s
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1908 | Antony and Cleopatra | J. Stuart Blackton | It was the first film to dramatize the ill-fated romance between Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII of Egypt. |
1910s
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1912 | Cleopatra | Charles L. Gaskill | |
| 1913 | Antony and Cleopatra | Enrico Guazzoni | |
| 1917 | Cleopatra | J. Gordon Edwards |
1920s
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1922 | The Loves of Pharaoh | Ernst Lubitsch | |
| 1923 | The Ten Commandments | Cecil B. DeMille | |
| 1924 | The Moon of Israel | Michael Curtiz |
1930s
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | The Mummy | Karl Freund | |
| 1934 | Cleopatra | Cecil B. DeMille | |
| 1938 | Professor Beware | Elliott Nugent | Harold Lloyd is the protagonist |
1940s
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | The Mummy's Hand | Christy Cabanne | |
| 1944 | The Mummy's Curse | Leslie Goodwins | |
| 1945 | Sudan | John Rawlins | |
| 1945 | Caesar and Cleopatra | Gabriel Pascal | |
| 1948 | Mummy's Dummies | Edward Bernds | |
1950s
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | Aida | ||
| 1953 | Serpent of the Nile | ||
| 1954 | Two Nights with Cleopatra | ||
| 1954 | The Egyptian | ||
| 1955 | Land of the Pharaohs | ||
| 1956 | The Ten Commandments | ||
| 1957 | The Story of Mankind | ||
| 1959 | Legions of the Nile | ||
1960s
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Cleopatra's Daughter | Il sepolcro dei re | |
| 1960 | Exodus | ||
| 1960 | Giuseppe venduto dai fratelli | ||
| 1960 | Son of Samson | ||
| 1960 | The Pharaohs' Woman | ||
| 1961 | Nefertiti, regina del Nilo | ||
| 1962 | Toto vs. Maciste | ||
| 1963 | Cleopatra | ||
| 1963 | Toto and Cleopatra | ||
| 1964 | Carry On Cleo | ||
| 1964 | The Lion of Thebes | ||
| 1965 | Willy McBean and his Magic Machine | ||
| 1966 | Pharaoh | ||
| 1968 | Astérix et Cléopâtre | ||
1970s
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Cleopatra | ||
| 1972 | Antony and Cleopatra | ||
| 1974 | Antony and Cleopatra | TV drama | |
| 1974 | Moses the Lawgiver | ||
| 1978 | Death on the Nile | ||
1980s
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | The Awakening | ||
| 1980 | The Curse of King Tut's Tomb | ||
| 1981 | Sphinx | ||
| 1985 | Asterix Versus Caesar | ||
| 1987 | Aida | ||
1990s
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Joseph | ||
| 1995 | Moses (film) | ||
| 1995 | Slave of Dreams | ||
| 1998 | The Prince of Egypt | ||
| 1999 | Astérix et Obélix contre César | ||
| 1999 | Cleopatra | miniseries | |
| 1999 | The Mummy | ||
2000s
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | In the Beginning | miniseries | |
| 2000 | Joseph: King of Dreams | ||
| 2000 | Princes and Princesses | ||
| 2000 | Reign: The Conqueror | ||
| 2001 | The Mummy Returns | ||
| 2002 | Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre | ||
| 2002 | Building the Great Pyramid | documentary | |
| 2002 | The Scorpion King | ||
| 2005 | Legion of the Dead | ||
| 2006 | The Curse of King Tut's Tomb | ||
| 2006 | The Ten Commandments | miniseries | |
| 2007 | La Reine Soleil | ||
| 2007 | Sands of Oblivion | ||
| 2007 | The Ten Commandments | ||
| 2008 | The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior | ||
| 2009 | Agora | ||
2010s
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec | Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec | |
| 2011 | The Tragedy of Man (film) | ||
| 2012 | The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption | ||
| 2013 | The Bible | ||
| 2014 | Decline of an Empire | ||
| 2014 | Exodus: Gods and Kings | ||
| 2014 | Mr. Peabody & Sherman | ||
| 2015 | A.D. The Bible Continues | ||
| 2015 | Antony and Cleopatra | ||
| 2015 | The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power | ||
| 2016 | Gods of Egypt | ||
| 2016 | The Young Messiah | ||
| 2016 | X-Men: Apocalypse | ||
| 2017 | The Mummy | ||
External links
See also
- List of films set in ancient Rome
- List of historical drama films
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