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Pharaoh (1966)
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Pharaoh (1966)
Original name: Faraon
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt's clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers.
Style: epic
Plot: pyramid, ancient, ancient history, antiquity, ancient world, time machine, mythology, myth, bible, renaissance, peplum, biopic, religion, pharaoh, insurrection, ancient egypt, female nudity, battles, priest, power, father son relationship, eclipse, death of father, parable, temple ...
Time: ancient times, year 1966
Place: eastern europe, poland, egypt

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, epic, realistic and captivating films with plots about ancient, ancient world, ancient history, antiquity, peplum, sword and sandal and bible mostly in Drama, History and Adventure genres. Some movies like Pharaoh: The Trojan Women (1971), The Last Roman (1968), Quo Vadis (2001), The Centurion (1961), Brennus, Enemy of Rome (1963). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Trojan Women (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The women of Troy face enslavement after the fall of their city.
Style: epic, independent film, talky, serious, realistic
Plot: greek mythology, mythology, ancient, myth, antiquity, legends and myths, ancient world, woman, women, greek, female nudity, enslavement ...
Time: ancient times, year 1971
Place: ancient greece, greece
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100%
 6.0
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The Last Roman (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, West Germany, Romania
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: sexy, epic
Plot: ancient rome, ancient, peplum, barbarian, ancient history, time machine, ancient world, female nudity, roman empire, sword and sandal
Time: middle ages, 6th century, ancient times
Place: rome italy, istanbul turkey, constantinople
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 5.7
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Quo Vadis (2001)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: sincere, captivating, serious, epic, tragic
Plot: fall in love, rise to the top, tragic love, heroic mission, society, rivalry, ancient, medieval, peplum, christian, tragic romance, renaissance ...
Time: 1st century, ancient times, year 2001
Place: eastern europe, italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 4.6
 150
The Centurion (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 77 min.
Story: 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 ...
Plot: peplum, ancient rome, ancient world, ancient, ancient history, antiquity, roman empire, roman soldier, bible, mythology, roman, myth ...
Place: ancient greece, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Brennus, Enemy of Rome (1963)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: AKA: Brennus, Enemy of Rome, AKA: Battle of the Valiant A 1963 film about the sack of Rome in 387 BC
Plot: ancient rome, peplum, ancient, roman, roman soldier, antiquity, ancient history, ancient world, torture, massacre, forced marriage, cell ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Antony and Cleopatra (1972)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 138 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: epic, captivating, emotional, gloomy, serious ...
Plot: ancient rome, shakespeare, cleopatra, ancient history, ancient, peplum, couples, royal family, medieval, mythology, bible, ancient egypt ...
Time: 1st century, ancient times, year 1972
Place: italy, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The 300 Spartans (1962)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: 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.
Style: period piece, epic, serious, technicolor, fast paced ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mythology, battles, heroic mission, heroes, ancient, ancient history, sword fight, antiquity, greek mythology, peplum, myth, sorcery ...
Time: ancient times, 5th century
Place: ancient greece, hellas, rome italy, europe, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Duel of the Titans (1961)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Steve Reeves and George Scott are raised by wolves, but grow up to become the founders of Rome.
Style: perverse, serious, realistic, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: peplum, ancient rome, ancient history, ancient, myth, mythology, antiquity, ancient world, bible, time machine, sibling relationship, disaster ...
Time: year 1961
Place: rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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The Column (1968)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Romania, West Germany
Duration: 133 min.
Story: 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 ...
Plot: ancient world, ancient rome, ancient, barbarian, antiquity, roman, roman empire, ancient history, time machine, peplum, knight, town ...
Place: rome italy, romania
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Slave Queen of Babylon (1963)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: 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 ...
Plot: peplum, ancient world, historical event, ancient, ancient history, antiquity, bare chested male, queen, torture, murder, camp, poisoned drink ...
Place: rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 3K
King David (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: This is a movie about the life of Israel's king David.
Style: epic, biblical, sentimental, realistic, serious ...
Plot: ancient history, bible, royal family, old testament, state affairs, battlefield, rivalry, war, religions or cults, tragic hero, heroes, dishonesty ...
Time: biblical epic, year 1985, ancient times
Place: israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
A Queen for Caesar (1962)
Genre: Adventure, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Story of the power struggle between Egyptian queen Cleopatra and her brother Ptolemy, and how a common soldier risks his life to serve her.
Plot: peplum, ancient rome, roman empire, ancient, cleopatra, ancient egypt, ancient world, antiquity, sword fight, soldier, conspiracy, queen ...
Time: 1st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Trojan Horse (1961)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France, Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: psychotronic
Plot: peplum, greek mythology, mythology, ancient world, myth, ancient, trojan horse, greek, antiquity, sword and sorcery, sorcery, troy ...
Time: year 1961
Place: ancient greece, greece, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Decline of an Empire (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: realistic, serious, disturbing, suspenseful, weird
Plot: rescue, heroes, society, religions or cults, ancient history, antiquity, bible, betrayal, saint, greed, thief, ancient rome ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alexandria egypt, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Sodom and Gomorrah (1962)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 154 min.
Story: 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.
Style: epic, biblical, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: old testament, bible, peplum, ancient, slave, myth, semi nudity, religious, biblical stories, basement, mythology, muslim ...
Time: biblical epic, ancient times
Place: holy land, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Joseph (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, Germany, USA
Duration: 185 min.
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Story: 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.
Style: biblical, sexy, christian film, spiritual, realistic ...
Plot: bible, christian, pharaoh, ancient, ancient history, religious, church, ancient world, old testament, betrayal, faith, religion ...
Time: ancient times, 90s
Place: middle east, africa, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Constantine and the Cross (1961)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: 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.
Style: epic, serious, realistic, saga, christian film ...
Plot: ancient history, peplum, ancient, roman, emperor, faith, medieval, bible, ancient world, religious, conservative, mythology ...
Time: year 1961
Place: europe, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genesis: The Creation and the Flood (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: biblical, christian film
Plot: bible, old testament, religious, ancient, biblical stories, christian, belief in god, faith, ancient world, jesus, ancient history, antiquity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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An Epitaph for Barbara Radziwill (1983)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Drama about historical figure Barbara Radziwiłł, her romance with King Sigismund II August, her death and her posthumous return to Vilnius.
Plot: renaissance, biopic, flashback, funeral, coronation, politics, death, love, king, marriage, queen, arranged marriage ...
Time: 16th century
Place: eastern europe, lithuania
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Colossus of Rhodes (1961)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 127 min.
Story: 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.
Style: technicolor, epic, exciting, captivating, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: peplum, greek mythology, ancient, sorcery, ancient rome, ancient world, antiquity, gladiator, inventor, sword, chivalry, ancient history ...
Time: year 1961
Place: ancient greece, greece, hellas, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Magnificent Gladiator (1964)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: 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 ...
Plot: peplum, gladiator, ancient rome, ancient, ancient history, roman, spy, myth, ancient world, roman soldier, antiquity, mythology ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
A Story of David: The Hunted (1960)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Israel
Duration: 104 min.
Story: 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. ...
Style: independent film, bleak, epic, captivating, serious ...
Plot: bible, ancient history, old testament, myth, antiquity, conservative, mythology, peplum, society, state affairs, dishonesty, corrupted ruler ...
Place: holy land
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Son of Cleopatra (1964)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, Egypt
Duration: 128 min.
Story: 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, ...
Plot: ancient egypt, ancient, ancient world, camel, ancient rome, chase, torture, reluctant hero, combat, showdown, beefcake, brawl ...
Place: rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Jeremiah (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: biblical, serious, realistic, captivating, epic ...
Plot: bible, antiquity, prophet, ancient history, faith, christian, ancient, old testament, 7th century bc, church, ancient world, religious ...
Time: 6th century
Place: middle east, jerusalem, egypt, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Hero of Rome (1964)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: serious, exciting, captivating, stylized, epic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ancient rome, peplum, ancient history, ancient, roman empire, myth, mythology, warrior, roman soldier, legion, ancient world, bible ...
Time: 6th century
Place: rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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The Avenger (1962)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Aeneas leads escapees from the Trojan war to new land in Italy, and must deal with new threats to his people.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: peplum, ancient world, mythology, myth, warrior, ancient, troy, gladiator, greek mythology, ancient rome, antiquity, ancient history ...
Place: ancient greece, hellas, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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The Slave (1962)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: psychotronic, historical drama, period drama
Plot: peplum, ancient rome, ancient, ancient world, sword, sword duel, cavalry, parrot, caravan, slavery, sword fight, slave ...
Time: ancient times, 1st century, 1st century b.c.
Place: alexandria egypt, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Death of a President (1977)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 144 min.
Story: 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 ...
Plot: renaissance, great war, world war two, interwar period, police, painter, prime minister, election, socialism, president, parliament, gallery ...
Place: poland, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Assassins (2012)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: China
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the year 198 BC, Cao Cao (Chow Yun Fat), Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty, ventured to the east and defeated China's greatest warrior Lu Bu, terrifying every ambitious warlord across the country. Several years later, after taking the Han ...
Style: serious, exciting, epic, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: ancient history, political conspiracy, head of state, state affairs, assassination, medieval, battles, hidden identity, martial arts, wuxia, ancient, asian history ...
Time: ancient times
Place: east asia, seattle, china, ancient china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, Germany, Poland
Duration: 200 min.
Story: Augustine is a two-part, Italian-made mini-series about the influential theologian and church father Augustine of Hippo. The piece tells the story of his life from a teenager to his death at the age of 69.Much of the content for the scenes of him as ...
Style: sincere, captivating, psychological, biblical, christian film
Plot: catholic, faith, saint, christianity, religion, ancient, christian, bible, lifestyle, religious fundamentalism, religious, religious faith ...
Time: ancient times, 5th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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