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Plot Summary:
Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt's clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: epic
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An Epitaph for Barbara Radziwill (1983)
Plot Summary:
Drama about historical figure Barbara Radziwiłł, her romance with King Sigismund II August, her death and her posthumous return to Vilnius.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Death of a President (1977)
Plot Summary:
After Poland won freedom from of its long overlordship by Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, it took a further four years for its National Assembly to elect Gabriel Narutowicz as its first president. Narutowicz was a professor who until his election had been living in Switzerland. Those were chaotic times, and shortly after his election, he was assassinated by right-wing fanatics. This epic Polish film chronicles the circumstances of Narutowicz's election and assassination.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags:
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The Trojan Women (1971)
Plot Summary:
The women of Troy face enslavement after the fall of their city.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece, UK, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: epic, independent film, serious, realistic, talky
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Slave Queen of Babylon (1963)
Plot Summary:
General Onnos returns from a successful military campaign to the Assyrian capital of Nineveh. He presents King Minurte with a number of newly-captured slaves including Kir, defeated king of the Dardanians. Kir attracts the attention of Semiramis, a beautiful young woman who's a member of Minurte's court and who has imperial ambitions. She persuades Minurte to give her a province and then uses slave labor, including Kir, to build herself a city which becomes Babylon. All this time she schemes to overthrow Minurte using shifting alliances with both Kir and General Onnos.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: campy
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Son of Cleopatra (1964)
Plot Summary:
In Roman-dominated Egypt, the corrupt administration of a governor named Petronius has sparked a revolt headed by El Kabir, a young man who learns that he's actually the son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. When Petronius' daughter, Livia, newly-arrived from Rome, falls into his hands, El Kabir uses this opportunity to win her over to his side before releasing her to her father.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, Egypt
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags:
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The Slave (1962)
Plot Summary:
The decurion Randus holds himself so well in the command of his troops, that Caesar promotes him to centurion. He is subsequently sent to Egypt, to keep Cesar informed on the actions and intentions of co-triumvir Marcus Licinius Crassus - a man too rich, and ambitious, for Caesar's comfort. A fateful sea trip from Egypt to Rome forces Randus in captivity by mercenary troops, and leads a revolt by which he gets freedom for himself, and all the other slaves. Through an amulet he received from his late mother, a man who had fought by Spartacus' side, identifies the young man as Spartacus' and Varinia's son. At first reluctant to accept this story about his origins, Randus will be forced by the circumstances to repeat the feat of his father, twenty years later.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, historical drama, period drama, campy
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Sodom and Gomorrah (1962)
Plot Summary:
Sex, torture and betrayal in Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot, leader of the Hebrews, believes his people can co-exist with the Sodomites, a disastrous decision.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: epic, biblical, exciting, atmospheric, serious, realistic, stylized, historical drama, political drama
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Quo Vadis (2001)
Plot Summary:
Ancient 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.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, epic, tragic
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The Magnificent Gladiator (1964)
Plot Summary:
Roman soldiers capture Attalus (a.k.a. Hercules) in a battle at the fringes of the Roman Empire. They take him back to Rome where his prowess as a gladiator earns the respect of the Emperor Galienus. An ambitious nobleman named Zullo, however, wants to marry Velida, daughter of Galienus, and to then take over the throne. (By now Velida and Attalus have fallen in love.) Zullo arranges for Galienus to be kidnapped and replaced with a look-alike. He sets up a marriage to Velida and also engineers the arrest of Attalus, but Attalus escapes.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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A Queen for Caesar (1962)
Plot Summary:
Story of the power struggle between Egyptian queen Cleopatra and her brother Ptolemy, and how a common soldier risks his life to serve her.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Adventure, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Genesis: The Creation and the Flood (1994)
Plot Summary:
An all-enveloping darkness. Suddenly, a child's voice, frightened, questioning, pierces the darkness... The first flickering rays of light begin to sculpt mysterious shapes out of the darkness ... Among them, a very old man. He reassures the child, exhorting him to see the wonders of the earth. And it is with this child's eyes that we will witness the creation of the world.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: biblical, christian film
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A Story of David: The Hunted (1960)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Bob McNaught. King Saul of Israel is jealous of the fame and adoration of David, who long ago slew Goliath and brought victory to Saul's armies. Now Saul, egged on by his Edomite counselor Doeg, attempts to have David killed. Saul's son, and David's best friend, Jonathan, conspires to help David, who is reluctant to fight back against his own people the Israelites.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Israel
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film, bleak, epic, serious, captivating, realistic, biblical
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Joseph (1995)
Plot Summary:
The Biblical story of Joseph, who was sold to slavery by his brothers who were jealous of his prophetic abilities to analyze dreams and of his being their fathers' favorite.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, Germany, USA
Duration: 185 min
Plot tags: biblical, christian film, sexy, spiritual, epic, serious, realistic
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The Trojan Horse (1961)
Plot Summary:
Guerra di Troia (AKA: Trojan Horse) is a 1961 historical drama film set in the tenth and final year of the Trojan War. The film focuses primarily on the exploits of the Trojan hero Aeneas during this time. The film was directed by Giorgio Ferroni and starred Steve Reeves as Aeneas and John Drew Barrymore as Odysseus. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France, Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, campy
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The Avenger (1962)
Plot Summary:
Aeneas leads escapees from the Trojan war to new land in Italy, and must deal with new threats to his people.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, campy, cult film
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The Colossus of Rhodes (1961)
Plot Summary:
While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: technicolor, epic, exciting, serious, captivating, stylized, homoerotic, weird, disaster movie
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The Visual Bible: Matthew (1993)
Plot Summary:
The only dramatization using the actual scriptures...word for word from the New International Version (NIV). The Matthew video series broke new ground by offering the first-ever dramatic portrayal of events in the Bible, presented word for word from the best-selling New International Version® (NIV) translation. Now you can experience this thrilling epic in DVD format, which blends the superior digital surround sound of CDs with crisp, high-resolution digital images.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: South Africa
Duration: 258 min
Plot tags: biblical, sad, christian film
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The Centurion (1961)
Plot Summary:
Protests break out in Corinth against Roman domination, injuring Caius Vinicius, a Roman centurion. He's rescued by Hebe -- daughter of the anti-Roman governor, Critolaus -- who's being unsuccessfully wooed by the governor's second-in-command, the villainous Diaeus. Smitten, Hebe sends the handsome Roman to recuperate at the home of Callicrates, a political moderate. Artemide, wife of Callicrates, also falls for Caius Vinicus but when he spurns her, she has him arrested and imprisoned. Hebe then agrees to marry Diaeus if he will spare the Roman's life but Caius Vinicius is soon freed by Callicrates and his allies, just as a Roman army arrives to battle Corinthian forces.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags:
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The Last Roman (1968)
Plot Summary:
A Roman noble, Cethegus, tries to start a war, setting the Ostrogoths and their Queen, Amalasuntha, against the Byzantine Emperor Justinian; Cethegus wants to swoop in after they have destroyed each other and create a new Roman Empire from their combined kingdoms; however, he does not factor into his plans the vagaries of love and the personal integrity of the people in both kingdoms.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, West Germany, Romania
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sexy, epic
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Brennus, Enemy of Rome (1963)
Plot Summary:
AKA: Brennus, Enemy of Rome, AKA: Battle of the Valiant A 1963 film about the sack of Rome in 387 BC.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Column (1968)
Plot Summary:
The Roman Emperor Trajan has just murdered all the local men of Dacia and holds a military stronghold in what will later become Rumania. He places a Roman centurion in his place to occupy his latest conquest. After lopping off the head of the Dacian warlord, the soldier uses his blood-stained hands to dine on cheese and bread, unable to suppress his laughter. The centurion has a change of heart when he is put in charge of the region, freely dispensing justice and forgiveness to the conquered inhabitants. When the peace is threatened by marauding barbarians in masks of fur, the locals help the Romans fend off the invasion.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Romania, West Germany
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags:
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Duel of the Titans (1961)
Plot Summary:
Steve Reeves and George Scott are raised by wolves, but grow up to become the founders of Rome.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 928
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: perverse, exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, psychotronic, campy
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Decline of an Empire (2014)
Plot Summary:
The life of Katherine of Alexandria. Constantine joins the Roman army to find his missing childhood friend. Once alerted to his friend's whereabouts, he prepares for an all out war between the East and the West. Contains the last film role of Peter O'Toole, who died before the film was released.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, weird
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Jeremiah (1998)
Plot Summary:
The young Jeremiah grows up in a priest's family in the village of Anathoth, near Jerusalem. God appears to Jeremiah in different human guises on several occasions, and makes it clear to him that he has been selected to announce God's message to the people of Jerusalem.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: biblical, christian film, sincere, epic, serious, captivating, realistic
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The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
Plot Summary:
All-star epic retelling of Christ's life.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 260 min
Plot tags: biblical, epic, christian film, atmospheric, serious, captivating, breathtaking, period piece, stylized, fairy tale
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Constantine and the Cross (1961)
Plot Summary:
Constantin is fighting against Barbarians with his father when he is called to Rome. In his way to Rome, he falls in an ambush planned by Maxence, who wants to become emperor.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 550
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: epic, serious, realistic, saga, christian film, independent film
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King David (1985)
Plot Summary:
This is a movie about the life of Israel's king David.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: epic, biblical, sentimental, realistic, serious, christian film, anamorphic, mythical, sincere
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Antony and Cleopatra (1972)
Plot Summary:
Adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, a historical drama that attempts to bring an epic visual style to the Bard's original stage play. The story concerns Marc Antony's attempts to rule Rome while maintaining a relationship with the queen of Egypt (Hildegarde Neil), which began while Antony was still married. Now he is being forced to marry the sister of his Roman co-leader, and soon the conflict leads to war.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: UK, Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: epic, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, gloomy, independent film
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Hero of Rome (1964)
Plot Summary:
In ancient Rome, the people finally oust their despised king, Tarquinius, and declare the city a republic. Tarquinius makes an alliance with the Etruscan king, Porsenna, to take back power in Rome, but a Roman general, the heroic Mucius, sets out to stop him.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, bleak, epic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, stylized, campy
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The 300 Spartans (1962)
Plot Summary:
Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army now thought to have numbered 250,000.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: period piece, epic, serious, biblical, fast paced, technicolor, historical drama, exciting, rough, light