63 Films & TV Shows Set In Italy During The 1st Century
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Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyHail Yeah! — Roman teenager, Atti is forced to join the Roman army when one of his clever schemes falls foul of Emperor Nero. He is sent to "miserable, cold, wet Britain" where "the natives are revolting - quite literally". Things go from bad to worse when Atti is captured by Orla, a feisty teenage Celt desperate to prove herself as a warrior.
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Mary Magdalene
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyHer story will be told — In the first century, free-spirited Mary Magdalene flees the marriage her family has arranged for her, finding refuge and a sense of purpose in a radical new movement led by the charismatic, rabble-rousing preacher named Jesus.
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Pompeii
England 🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyNo warning. No escape. — In 79 A.D., Milo, a slave turned gladiator, finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of blazing lava, Milo must fight his way out of the arena in order to save his beloved as the once magnificent Pompeii crumbles around him.
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Gladiators of Rome
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyNot Born to Be Gladiators — A new hero is born in this hilarious, animated adventure of epic proportions! Timo, a student at the Gladiators? Academy in Rome, has no desire to become a legendary gladiator like his stepfather. That is, until the mesmerizing Lucilla walks into his life. With the help of an unlikely band of sidekicks, Timo is determined to be the gladiator of her dreams and embarks on an action-packed journey to become the Colosseum?s first victor!
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Cyclops
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyThe rise of cyclops... is the fall of Rome! — The corrupt Emperor Tiberius forces his bravest general, Marcus, to subdue the monstrous Cyclops that has been decimating the countryside...
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The Final Inquiry
🇮🇱 Israel 🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyOne truth could destroy an Empire. — It is the year 33 of the Vulgar Era. The Emperor Tiberius is troubled by strange phenomena, an earthquake and the sky turning black as an eclipse. His astrologers give him fair warning: their omens indicate that the world is in the throes of a great upheaval and that old gods have been annihilated. A new kingdom is about to rise in the East. The Emperor calls Tito Valerio Tauro, the most prominent
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Nero
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyAs a young boy, future emperor Nero witnesses the mad Emperor Caligula kill his father and exile his mother. While in exile in the pontine islands, Agrippina, his mother, sees a vision telling her that her son can become emperor, but she will have to die first. She accepts the proposal. Back in Rome, Nero, now being raised by emperor Claudius after Caligula's death, Agrippina returns. She poisons Claudius' food and Nero becomes emperor. At first, Nero cuts taxes and introduces successful programs and invades Brittania. Soon he meets a beautiful slave named Claudia Acte, and marries her, throwing off his engagement with Claudius' daughter, Claudia Octavia, telling her she can marry someone she will be happy with. Heartbroken, she arrives at an island and kills herself. Nero enjoys being married to Claudia Acte, but soon he gradually goes mad with power and sets fire to Rome.
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Augustus: The First Emperor
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st Century The 1st Century BCHistory will bear the mark of his rule. — Caesar Augustus tells of how he became the emperor to his reluctant daughter, Julia following the death of her husband Agrippa.
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Pompeii: The Last Day
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyIn 79 AD, one of the infamous natural disasters in human history occurred when Mount Vesuvius erupted. With speculative dramatizations of various inhabitants' final hours along with detailed documentation of the known facts concerning the eruption, the horrific day is vividly brought to life.
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Quo Vadis
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyAncient Rome, during the time of Emperor Nero. Vinicius, a young patrician, falls in love with the beautiful Lygia, the daughter of a Barbarian commander who was killed in battle, and wants her for his concubine. For Lygia, a Christian, being a pagan's concubine is a severe sin and disgrace. However, when Vinicius is wounded, Lygia cares for him, and starts to reciprocate his feelings. Vinicius, in return, becomes interested in Christian learning and asks Apostle Peter to teach him. In the meantime, Emperor Nero accuses Christians of having started a great fire in Rome. He encourages the imprisonment, torture and murder of his Christian subjects.
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Norman's Awesome Experience
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyNorman thought the 20th Century was bad. But now, he's got a date with the Roman Empire. — Through the experiment of a crazy scientist, his colleague Norman, model Erica and her photographer are sent back in time to the Romans. They arrive in a small village, controlled by the Roman Septimus Fabius and a fat village mayor. They teach the people the Rock'n Roll... and revolution. Of course the Romans don't appreciate their efforts - will Norman's Know How save them? Written by Tom Zoerner
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The Inquiry
🇮🇱 Israel 🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyA Roman agent is sent to Palestine to investigate rumors of the resurrection of an executed criminal.
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Caligula: The Untold Story
🇮🇹 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
🇫🇷 France 🇮🇹 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! — An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.
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Life of Brian
🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇸 Palestine 🇮🇹 Italy The 1st Century The 1st Century BCHe wasn't the messiah. He was a very naughty boy. — 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
🇮🇹 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? — 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
🇮🇹 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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Karunamayudu
🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇸 Palestine 🇮🇹 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
🇮🇹 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 Ticiâ and Kaya become personal servants of the Empress Poppea...
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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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