159 Films & TV Shows Set In Italy During Ancient History
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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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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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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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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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Fellini Satyricon
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st CenturyRome. Before Christ. After Fellini. โ A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first century Rome.
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Poppea's Hot Nights
๐ฎ๐น 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 Schoberovรก (credited as Olinka Berova) and Brad Harris in the main roles.
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The Column
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 2nd CenturyThe end of Trajan's Dacian Wars (106 AD), when south western Dacia was transformed into a Roman province: Roman Dacia.
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Dacii
๐ท๐ด Romania ๐ฎ๐น 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
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st CenturyMillions followed her in battle . . . but no man could conquer the Viking Queen โ 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
๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐น 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
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st CenturySomething for Everyone! โ A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.
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In the Shadow of the Eagles
๐ฎ๐น Italy Ancient HistoryAfter the death of Octavian, the rebel populations of Illyria and Pannonia pose a grave threat to the Roman Empire. Tribune Marcus Ventidius is sent to subdue the uprising and, after a bitter battle, captures Pannonian chief Magdus together with a number of women hostages. These include Magdus's own daughter Helen, betrothed to cruel Illyrian warrior Batone who has killed many Romans. Julia, daughter of the Roman governor Messala, is in love with Tribune Marcus and, jealous of his sympathy for the barbarian girl, plots an escape by Helen and her father. Pursuing the fugitives, Marcus crosses a mountain pass where Batone has laid a trap.
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Two Vikings
๐ฎ๐น Italy The Middle Ages Ancient HistoryThe viking chief Hjorvard has two wild sons, Glum and Garm, both notorious berserkers.
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Willy McBean and His Magic Machine
England ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1870s Ancient HistoryFROM CAVEMEN TO CAMELOT...FROM CUSTER TO COLUMBUS...A Mad Romp Through Time! โ Little Willy McBean joins up with a Mexican monkey named Pablo to travel back in time and stop the evil Prof. von Rotten from changing history.
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Fire Over Rome
๐ฎ๐น 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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