List of films set in ancient Egypt
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This article lists films set in ancient Egypt. This also includes mythological films and films only partially set in ancient Egypt.
1890s
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1899
|The earliest known version considered to be lost, retrieved 2005. |
1900s
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1908
|It was the first film to dramatize the ill-fated romance between Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII of Egypt. |
1910s
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1910
|Cléopâtre |Henri Andréani and Ferdinand Zecca |French film |
1912
|Charles L. Gaskill |New silent version after the play of Victorien Sardou. |
1913
|Italian production. |
1917
|American film with Theda Bara as Cleopatra |
1920s
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1922
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1923
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1924
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1928
|Cleopatra | |
1930s
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1932
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1934
|With Claudette Colbert as Cleopatra. |
1938
|Harold Lloyd is the protagonist |
1940s
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1940
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1944
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1945
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1945
|With Vivien Leigh as Cleopatra and Claude Rains as Julius Caesar, after the play by G. B. Shaw. |
1948
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1950s
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1953
| Aida | | |
1953
| With Rhonda Fleming as Cleopatra. |
1954
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1954
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1955
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1956
| Remake or expanded version of DeMille’s own 1923 film |
1957
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1959
| Italian film |
1960s
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1960
| | Il sepolcro dei re |
1960
| Giuseppe venduto dai fratelli | | |
1960
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1960
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1961
| Nefertiti, regina del Nilo | | |
1962
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1962
| Piero Pierotti and Victor Tourjansky | Italian film, starring Pascale Petit |
1963
| With Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra, Richard Burton as Mark Antony and Rex Harrison as Julius Caesar. |
1963
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1964
| a parody of J. Mankiewicz's Cleopatra with Sid James as Mark Antony, set in the reign of Julius Caesar |
1964
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1965
| Willy McBean and His Magic Machine | | |
1966
| Pharaoh | | |
1968
| René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo | Belgian-French animated film |
1970s
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1970
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1972
| A film starring Charlton Heston and Hildegarde Neil. |
1974
| | A television version of a Royal Shakespeare Company production starring Richard Johnson and Janet Suzman. |
1974
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1978
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1980s
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1980
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1980
| The Curse of King Tut's Tomb | | |
1981
| Sphinx | |
1981
| Antony and Cleopatra | | A television version produced as part of the BBC Television Shakespeare starring Colin Blakely and Jane Lapotaire. |
1983
| John Frankau | BBC TV 8-episode series on the latter part of the reign of the Ptolemaic dynasty. |
1985
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1987
| Aida | | |
1990s
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1994
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1995
| Joseph | | |
1995
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1995
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1998
| |Set in Ancient Egypt, during the reign of Ramesses II, a member of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. The film is based on the founding narrative of the Exodus, as depicted in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. |
1999
| Astérix et Obélix contre César | | |
1999
| miniseries with Leonor Varela as Cleopatra and Timothy Dalton as Julius Caesar, based on the book by Margaret George |
1999
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2000s
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2000
| | miniseries |
2000
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2000
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2000
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2001
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2002
| Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre | | a French/Italian film based on Goscinny and Uderzo's 1963 comic-book Asterix and Cleopatra. |
2002
| | documentary |
2002
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2005
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2006
| The Curse of King Tut's Tomb | | |
2006
| | miniseries |
2007
| Brazilian film with Alessandra Negrini as Cleopatra and Miguel Falabella as Julius Caesar. |
2007
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2007
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2007
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2008
| The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior | | |
2009
| Agora | |
2010s
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2010
| The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec | Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec |
2011
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2012
| The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption | | |
2013
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2014
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2014
| Set in Ancient Egypt, during the reign of Ramesses II, a member of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. The film is based on the founding narrative of the Exodus, as depicted in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. |
2014
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2015
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2015
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2015
| The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power | | |
2016
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2016
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2016
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2017
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External links
- [https://www.imdb.com/list/ls059340676/ Films set in ancient Egypt (IMDb)]
See also
{{Portal|Ancient Egypt}}
- List of fiction set in ancient Rome
- List of fiction set in ancient Greece
- Lists of historical films
- List of films set in ancient Rome
- List of films set in ancient Greece
- List of films based on classical mythology
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