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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Year

! Title

! Director

! Notes

1899

|Cléopâtre

|Georges Méliès

|The earliest known version considered to be lost, retrieved 2005.

1900s

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Year

! Title

! Director

! Notes

1908

|Antony and Cleopatra

|J. Stuart Blackton

|It was the first film to dramatize the ill-fated romance between Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII of Egypt.

1910s

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Year

! Title

! Director

! Notes

1910

|Cléopâtre

|Henri Andréani and Ferdinand Zecca

|French film

1912

|Cleopatra

|Charles L. Gaskill

|New silent version after the play of Victorien Sardou.

1913

|Antony and Cleopatra

|Enrico Guazzoni

|Italian production.

1917

|Cleopatra

|J. Gordon Edwards

|American film with Theda Bara as Cleopatra

1920s

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Year

! Title

! Director

! Notes

1922

|The Loves of Pharaoh

|Ernst Lubitsch

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1923

|The Ten Commandments

|Cecil B. DeMille

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1924

|The Moon of Israel

|Michael Curtiz

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1928

|Cleopatra

|Roy William Neill

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1930s

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Year

! Title

! Director

! Notes

1932

|The Mummy

|Karl Freund

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1934

|Cleopatra

|Cecil B. DeMille

|With Claudette Colbert as Cleopatra.

1938

|Professor Beware

|Elliott Nugent

|Harold Lloyd is the protagonist

1940s

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Year

! Title

! Director

! Notes

1940

|The Mummy's Hand

|Christy Cabanne

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1944

|The Mummy's Curse

|Leslie Goodwins

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1945

|Sudan

|John Rawlins

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1945

|Caesar and Cleopatra

|Gabriel Pascal

|With Vivien Leigh as Cleopatra and Claude Rains as Julius Caesar, after the play by G. B. Shaw.

1948

|Mummy's Dummies

|Edward Bernds

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1950s

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Year

! Title

! Director

! Notes

1953

| Aida

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1953

| Serpent of the Nile

| William Castle

| With Rhonda Fleming as Cleopatra.

1954

| Two Nights with Cleopatra

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1954

| The Egyptian

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1955

| Land of the Pharaohs

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1956

| The Ten Commandments

| Cecil B. DeMille

| Remake or expanded version of DeMille’s own 1923 film

1957

| The Story of Mankind

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1959

| Legions of the Nile

| Vittorio Cottafavi

| Italian film

1960s

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Year

! Title

! Director

! Notes

1960

| Cleopatra's Daughter

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| Il sepolcro dei re

1960

| Giuseppe venduto dai fratelli

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1960

| Son of Samson

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1960

| The Pharaohs' Woman

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1961

| Nefertiti, regina del Nilo

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1962

| Toto vs. Maciste

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1962

| A Queen for Caesar

| Piero Pierotti and Victor Tourjansky

| Italian film, starring Pascale Petit

1963

| Cleopatra

| Joseph L. Mankiewicz

| With Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra, Richard Burton as Mark Antony and Rex Harrison as Julius Caesar.

1963

| Toto and Cleopatra

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1964

| Carry On Cleo

| Gerald Thomas

| a parody of J. Mankiewicz's Cleopatra with Sid James as Mark Antony, set in the reign of Julius Caesar

1964

| The Lion of Thebes

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1965

| Willy McBean and His Magic Machine

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1966

| Pharaoh

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1968

| Astérix et Cléopâtre

| René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo

| Belgian-French animated film

1970s

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Year

! Title

! Director

! Notes

1970

| Cleopatra

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1972

| Antony and Cleopatra

| Charlton Heston

| A film starring Charlton Heston and Hildegarde Neil.

1974

| Antony and Cleopatra

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| A television version of a Royal Shakespeare Company production starring Richard Johnson and Janet Suzman.

1974

| Moses the Lawgiver

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1978

| Death on the Nile

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1980s

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Year

! Title

! Director

! Notes

1980

| The Awakening

| Mike Newell

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1980

| The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

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1981

| Sphinx

| Franklin J. Schaffner

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1981

| Antony and Cleopatra

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| A television version produced as part of the BBC Television Shakespeare starring Colin Blakely and Jane Lapotaire.

1983

| The Cleopatras

| John Frankau

| BBC TV 8-episode series on the latter part of the reign of the Ptolemaic dynasty.

1985

| Asterix Versus Caesar

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1987

| Aida

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1990s

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Year

! Title

! Director

! Notes

1994

|The Emigrant

|Youssef Chahine

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1995

| Joseph

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1995

| Moses (film)

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1995

| Slave of Dreams

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1998

| The Prince of Egypt

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|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

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1999

| Cleopatra

| Franc Roddam

| miniseries with Leonor Varela as Cleopatra and Timothy Dalton as Julius Caesar, based on the book by Margaret George

1999

| The Mummy

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2000s

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Year

! Title

! Director

! Notes

2000

| In the Beginning

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| miniseries

2000

| Joseph: King of Dreams

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2000

| Princes and Princesses

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2000

| Reign: The Conqueror

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2001

| The Mummy Returns

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2002

| Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre

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| a French/Italian film based on Goscinny and Uderzo's 1963 comic-book Asterix and Cleopatra.

2002

| Building the Great Pyramid

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| documentary

2002

| The Scorpion King

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2005

| Legion of the Dead

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2006

| The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

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2006

| The Ten Commandments

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| miniseries

2007

| Cleopatra

| Júlio Bressane

| Brazilian film with Alessandra Negrini as Cleopatra and Miguel Falabella as Julius Caesar.

2007

| La Reine Soleil

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2007

| Sands of Oblivion

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2007

| The Ten Commandments

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2008

| The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior

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2009

| Agora

| Alejandro Amenábar

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2010s

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Year

! Title

! Director

! Notes

2010

| The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec

| Luc Besson

| Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec

2011

| The Tragedy of Man (film)

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2012

| The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption

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2013

| The Bible

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2014

| Decline of an Empire

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2014

| Exodus: Gods and Kings

| Ridley Scott

| 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

| Mr. Peabody & Sherman

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2015

| A.D. The Bible Continues

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2015

| Antony and Cleopatra

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2015

| The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power

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2016

| Gods of Egypt

| Alex Proyas

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2016

| The Young Messiah

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2016

| X-Men: Apocalypse

| Bryan Singer

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2017

| The Mummy

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See also