70 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1st Century
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Satiricosissimo
🇮🇹 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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Fellini Satyricon
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyRome. Before Christ. After Fellini. — A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first century Rome.
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Poppea's Hot Nights
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyPoppea's Hot Nights (Italian: Le calde notti di Poppea) is a 1969 Italian comedy film set in Ancient Rome. It was written and directed by Guido Malatesta and stars Olga Schoberová (credited as Olinka Berova) and Brad Harris in the main roles.
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See Ya Later Gladiator
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyA time machine sends Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales back to Rome in 65 A.D., where they are captured for lion fodder as entertainment for Emperor Nero...
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Dacii
🇷🇴 Romania 🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyThe great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to keep the integrity of his people. His own son, Cotyso, is given to the god Zamolxis to the dismay of the King and his daughter Meda. Septimius Severus a young roman devoted to his adopted country, must make the choose between his blood origins and the culture he was raised to
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The Viking Queen
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyMillions followed her in battle . . . but no man could conquer the Viking Queen — Set in ancient Britain, at a time when much of Europe was ruled with harsh tyranny by Rome, a tribe of Britons led by Selina, set out to defy the invaders and discard their yoke of bondage. The Roman commander, Justinian, is sent to quell the uprising, punishing the dissenters with brute force but when he becomes emotionally attached to Selina, he is torn between his duty to Rome and his love for the Viking Queen.
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Massacre in the Black Forest
🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyIn the first half of the first century A.D., the Teutonic tribes, led by Arminius The Terrible, rebel against the cruel and conquering Roman Empire. In raging torments and blood curdling battles, the barbarian tribes and Roman Legions fight a war of attrition, so brutal and terrible that Arminius becomes a legend throughout the empire. Only Augustus, Emperor of Rome is evil and treacherous enough to enslave the Teuton barbarian and halt his murderous uprisings.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturySomething for Everyone! — A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.
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Fire Over Rome
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyMarcus Valerius, a young consul, is assigned the mission to assist Menecrate, the leader of the Pretorian Guard, in the arrest and execution of as many Christians as possible. While raiding the Catacombs he has the surprise to find among the Christians the woman he loves, Giulia, who has been converted secretly to the banned religion. He helps her to escape and trouble soon follows. Stripped of his rank and arrested for defending the rebels he is condemned to fight as a gladiator...
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The Terror of Rome Against the Son of Hercules
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyIn this sword and sandal fantasy, Poseidon must battle a gladiator quartet in ancient Rome. If he wins, the son of Hercules will have his life and anything else he wants. Sure enough, he wins and asks that the life of a Christian girl be spared. But the girl refuses her liberty until all of her fellow believers are also released.
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Messalina Against the Son of Hercules
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyWhile fighting in Britain, Roman forces commanded by Caligula capture the noble warrior, Glaucus. Seeing in him gladiator material, Caligula takes Glaucus back to Rome along with other hostages including Glaucus's girlfriend, Ena. A man seeking to restore the Roman Republic then assassinates Caligula after which Claudius is proclaimed emperor. Messalina -- Claudius's beautiful but evil wife -- then maneuvers to replace Claudius with her lover, Silio. She forces Glaucus to help her in this quest by threatening to harm the enslaved Ena. Written by dinky-4 of Minneapolis
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Revolt of the Praetorians
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyRome chafes under the rule of the Emperor Domitian and his Egyptian mistress, Artamne. A mysterious champion arises to fight against the Emperor -- a masked man known as the Red Wolf. In fact, the Red Wolf is Valerius Rufus, one of the Emperor's trusted centurions who's aided by none other than the Emperor's court jester, the diminutive Elpidion. Rebels in league with Valerius kidnap Artamne, planning to exchange her for two of their imprisoned colleagues, but Artamne escapes and soon both Valerius, (now exposed as the Red Wolf), and his fiancee, Lucilla, are sentenced to be immersed in a cauldron of molten lead. Valerius's friends, however, rise up to rescue him and to liberate Rome.
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Gold for the Caesars
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyThe slave seized Rome's greatest treasure... and its wickedest woman! — A gladiator gets caught up in a slave revolt and the invasion of England.
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The Ten Gladiators
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyRoccia and a band of fellow gladiators join forces with a patrician named Glaucus Valerius to replace Nero, (and his evil henchman, Tigelinus), with a new emperor: Servius Galba. During the course of this bloody struggle, the gladiators lose their mentor and trainer - Resius - and then must rescue Lidia, Resius' beautiful niece, from death on the cross.
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79 A.D.
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyIntrigue at the Roman Emperor's court prior to its destruction by Vesuvius.
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Barabbas
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyThe man of violence in whose place Christ died — Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was spared crucifixion when Pilate manipulated the crowd into pardoning him, rather than Jesus. Struggling with his spirituality, Barabbas goes through many ordeals leading him to the gladiatorial arena, where he tries to win his freedom and confront his inner demons, ultimately becoming a follower of the man who was crucified in his place.
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Messalina
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyMessalina was the Roman noblewoman who inveigled ageing emperor Claudio into marriage. Once ensconced on the throne, Messalina launched a reign of terror that shook the empire to its very foundations. The subject of countless film treatments, Rome's most villified empress is herein played by British actress Belinda Lee.
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The Last Days of Pompeii
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyThe Fiery Summit of Spectacle! — Based on the Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel. Set in the shadows of Mt. Vesuvius just before its famous eruption, the film begins with Glaucus, a Roman legionnaire, returning to his home from far-off wars. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that his father has been murdered by a gang of black-hooded looting bandits. Glaucus vows revenge against the killers, but just how high up are those involved?
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Aphrodite, Goddess of Love
🇬🇷 Greece 🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyAnother moment in ancient Rome's history where things don't turn out how you'd expect. — The movie presents a moment in the ancient Rome history when Nero was the emperor and christians persecuted. Story revolves around Antigonus's plan, archon of Corinth, to build a magnificent temple dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite, for which the people are oppressed by new and very high taxes. The sculptor Demetrius, asked to make the face of the goddess Diana, falls in love with a slave, the Christian Lerna, and wants to marry her, but another jealous slave has other plans. In the meantime there are plots and intrigues for power and a plan to capture and execute all christians; but things turn out different than expected.
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The Story of Mankind
🇺🇸 United States of America 🇮🇹 Italy The 19th Century The 1st CenturyThe whole story of men and their women from Creation to now! — The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
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Nero's Mistress
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyNero is on holiday at the seaside. Poppea, Seneca and many other guests are with him. Nero is preparing a great show where he will be the star. When Agrippina, his mother, arrives with her German praetorians and decides Nero has to conquer Britain, she is asking for trouble. Many attempts of murder and poisoning will happen on the eve of his great show.
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