231 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During Ancient History
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Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ
๐ต๐ธ Palestine ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st Century BCIn antique Rome, a simple pepboy for chars becomes involved in a coup against Cesar. Rahatlocum is a North African Roman colony where Julius Caesar came to spend an expensive holiday. The revolt rumbles among the small people who find a leader in the person of Ben-Hur Marcel.
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Caligula: The Untold Story
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st CenturyThe deranged Roman emperor Gainus 'Caligula' (Little Boots) Caesar (12-41 A.D.) rules Rome with an iron fist and has anyone tortured and exectued for even the slightest insubordination. Mostly set during his last year of his reign, as Caligula loses support due to his brutal and crazed excess, a young Moor woman, named Miriam, becomes his lover while ploting to kill him to avenge the murder of a friend which Caligula was responsible for. But Miriam is torn between her personal vandeda against Caligula and her own personal feelings towards him despite his madness and debauched lifestyle of orgies and bloody torture murders.
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History of the World: Part I
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 18th Century The 15th Century The 1st CenturyTen million years in the making. The truth, the whole truth, and everything, but the truth! โ An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred โ not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.
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Clash of the Titans
๐ฌ๐ท Greece Ancient HistoryYou will feel the power. Live the adventure. Experience the fantastic. โ To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, Perseus must complete various tasks including taming Pegasus, capturing Medusa's head, and battling the Kraken monster.
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Time Bandits
England ๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1910s Ancient History The Middle AgesAll the dreams you've ever had and not just the good ones. โ Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras. Taking Kevin with them, they variously drop in on Napoleon, Robin Hood and King Agamemnon before the Supreme Being catches up with them.
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Burebista
๐ท๐ด Romania ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st Century BCThe life of Dacian war-leader Burebista who ruled between 80-44 B.C.and founded a strong Dacian Kingdom despite considerable pressure from the neighboring Celtic warlords and the Greek cities of the Black Sea coast.
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Life of Brian
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ต๐ธ Palestine ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st Century The 1st Century BCHe wasn't the messiah. He was a very naughty boy. โ Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs.
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Caligula
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st CenturyWhat would you have done if you had been given absolute power of life and death over everybody else in the whole world? โ The perversion behind imperial Rome, the epic story of Rome's mad Emporer. All the details of his cruel, bizarre reign are revealed right here: His unholy sexual passion for his sister, his marriage to Rome's most infamous prostitute, his fiendishly inventive means of disposing those who would oppose him, and more.
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The Good Thief
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st CenturyCaleb, "son of nobody" (Enrico Montesano) lives in Galilee in Jesus' day and struggles as a thief and con-man, pretending to be a magician. When he witnesses Jesus turning water into wine, he thinks he's found a competitor. So Caleb goes on, convinced that Jesus is a fake just as he is, always trying to figure out his tricks. In the meantime, he gets involved with a prostitute (played by Edwige Fenech), but also with the wife of a Roman patrician (played by the equally alluring Bernadette Lafont), he steals a few goats and cons a few people, he befriends a lovable dog and gets in trouble with some Roman soldiers.
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The Small One
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st Century BCOrdered by his father to sell his old, small donkey, Small One, a Hebrew boy in ancient Israel takes the donkey to the Jerusalem market. Finding no buyers there, the boy is about to give up when he meets a kind man named Joseph. Joseph buys Small One and uses him to take his pregnant wife Mary to Bethlehem.
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Metamorphoses
๐ฌ๐ท Greece Ancient HistorySeveral animated stories from "Metamorphoses," the Roman poet Ovid's narrative of legends, are presented.
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Karunamayudu
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ต๐ธ Palestine ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st CenturyA 160-minute version of the life of Jesus Christ filmed entirely with a cast and crew of Christian Indians in India.
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Iphigenia
๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐น๐ท Turkey Ancient HistoryThe Greek army is about to set sail to a great battle, but the winds refuse to blow. Their leader, King Agamemnon, seeks to provide better food, but accidentally slays a sacred deer. His punishment from the gods, the sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia.
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For the Love of Poppea
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st CenturyTwo scoundrels - Tizio and Caio - didn't want to get into the military service so they decide to escape dressed in women's clothes, but were caught by the guards. Without being able to confirm their right to freedom, the unlucky fugitives were sold into slavery. But everything what happens - happens for the better and slave girls Ticiรข and Kaya become personal servants of the Empress Poppea...
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The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
๐ฎ๐น Italy Ancient HistoryAsterix and Obelix depart on an adventure to complete twelve impossible tasks to prove to Caesar that they are as strong as the Gods. You'll roar with laughter as they outwit, outrun, and generally outrage the very people who are trying to prove them "only human".
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Sebastiane
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 3rd CenturyRome, AD 303. Emperor Diocletian demotes his favourite, Sebastian, from captain of the palace guard to the rank of common soldier and banishes him to a remote coastal outpost where his fellow soldiers, weakened by their desires, turn to homosexual activities to satisfy their needs. Sebastian becomes the target of lust for the officer Severus, but repeatedly rejects the man's advances. Castigated for his Christian faith, he is tortured, humiliated and ultimately killed.
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Thomasleeha
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ต๐ธ Palestine ๐ฎ๐น Italy Ancient History1975 Indian Film
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Jesus
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ต๐ธ Palestine ๐ฎ๐น Italy Ancient HistoryKing Herod has ruled Judea for over 37 years and believes himself to be supreme. When three wise men from the Far East come to visit him, he is initially pleased, but this pleasure turns to anger when he finds out that they have traveled all the way to witness the birth of the son of God. After they depart, he instructs his Prime Minister to kill all children under the age of 2 years. Herod's instructions are carried out, but they don't find the baby Jesus, born in a stable in Bethlehem. Jesus, son of Joseph and virgin Mary, has been destined to lead mankind to a better path but must face many challenges, temptations and betrayal from ones he trusted the most, humiliation, torture, crucifixion, and resurrection.
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Hector the Mighty
๐น๐ท Turkey Ancient HistoryFlim also known as: Ettore lo fusto. A creative take of the Greek myth of Helen of Troy. An Edmondo Amati film directed by Enzo G. Castellari.
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The Trojan Women
๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐น๐ท Turkey Ancient HistoryThe Strength of Mankind has Always Been it's Women โ Hecuba and the other women of Troy rise to find their city in ruins and their cause lost. The city has fallen into Greek hands and it is likely their lot to become slaves of Greek soldiers. A messenger approaches to inform them that the lots have been drawn and each woman will be taken to the man who drew for her. Of particular interest is Hecuba's daughter, Cassandra, who is chosen for the Greek kings bedchamber. She has received word of this news already and is in hiding because she has sworn an oath to the gods that she will live as a virgin. When she is found she has some particularly nasty things to say about treatment at Greek hands.
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Socrates
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 4th Century BCA false accusation leads the philosopher Socrates to trial and condemnation in 4th century BC Athens.
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Julius Caesar
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st Century BCAll-star cast glamorizes this lavish 1970 remake of the classic William Shakespeare play, which portrays the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, and the resulting war between the faction led by the assassins and the faction led by Mark Anthony.
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Satiricosissimo
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st CenturyCiccio loves very much the novel Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, although his friend Franco does not understand him.
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