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Antony and Cleopatra (1972)
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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 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.
Style: epic, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, gloomy, independent film
Plot: ancient rome, shakespeare, cleopatra, ancient history, ancient, peplum, royal family, couples, medieval, ancient egypt, ancient world, mythology, antiquity, myth, bible, wartime, royalty, tragic love, betrayal, love and romance, love affair, rivalry, femme fatale, rise and fall, strong female presence ...
Time: ancient times, 1st century, year 1972
Place: italy, 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, state affairs, rivalry, battles, ancient history, sword fight and antiquity mostly in Drama, History and War genres. Some movies like Antony and Cleopatra: Augustus: The First Emperor (2003), Tut (2015), Solomon (1997), Cleopatra (1963), Julius Caesar (1970). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Augustus: The First Emperor (2003)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Austria
Duration: 200 min.
Story: Caesar Augustus tells of how he became the emperor to his reluctant daughter, Julia following the death of her husband Agrippa.
Style: epic, realistic, serious, stylized, exciting ...
Plot: ancient history, ancient rome, roman empire, roman emperor, emperor, politics, ancient, betrayal, assassination, leadership, ambition, tragic hero ...
Time: ancient times, 1st century b.c., 1st century
Place: alexandria egypt, rome italy, europe, greece, italy ...
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Tut (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
TV show
Story: Explores the drama of power, political back-stabbing, war and murder and chronicles King Tut's rise to glory, his efforts to rule a chaotic empire and the enigma surrounding his death.
Style: serious, captivating, stylized, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot: ancient egypt, ancient history, pharaoh, royal family, palace intrigue, ancient, political intrigue, rise to the top, rivalry, state affairs, head of state, dishonesty ...
Time: ancient times
Place: egypt
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Solomon (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Germany, Czech Republic, Spain, USA, Netherlands, UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: David, now an old man, is still king of Israel. Among his sons, the ambitious Adonijah and the clever Solomon. The two young men are fierce rivals, since both are prospective heirs to the throne and only one can be successful.
Style: biblical, epic, sincere, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: bible, ancient history, faith, royal family, old testament, christian, ancient, religious, antiquity, biblical stories, royalty, peplum ...
Place: holy land, middle east, israel
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100%
 7.0
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Cleopatra (1963)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 192 min.
Story: Historical epic. The triumphs and tragedy of the Egyptian queen, Cleopatra.The winner of four Oscars, this epic saga of love, greed and betrayal stars Elizabeth Taylor as the passionate and ambitious Egyptian queen who's determined to hold on ...
Style: epic, period piece, costume drama, breathtaking, visual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: ancient rome, antiquity, ancient egypt, peplum, roman empire, queen, ancient history, julius caesar, ancient, cleopatra, love, femme fatale ...
Time: ancient times, 1st century, year 1963, 1st century b.c.
Place: egypt, rome italy, africa, alexandria egypt, greece ...
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Julius Caesar (1970)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: All star cast heads up this 1970 remake of the William Shakespeare classic tale of the betrayal of the the Roman senate against their emperor, the plotting and scheming that led up to the assassination of the title charecter, and all of Romes' ...
Style: epic, cult classic, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot: ancient history, ancient rome, shakespeare, ancient, roman empire, antiquity, betrayal, assassination, medieval, ancient world, warrior, bible ...
Time: ancient times, 1st century, 1st century b.c.
Place: rome italy, italy, ancient greece, europe
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69%
 7.1
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Othello (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 195 min.
Story: Iago and a comrade-in-arms are outside the Venice home of Desdemona's father, who does not yet know that she has eloped with Othello. Iago confides to his friend -- who had hoped to marry Desdemona -- that he serves Othello to further his own ...
Style: depressing, serious, realistic, rough, emotional ...
Plot: shakespeare, shakespeare's othello, opera, jealousy, tragedy, betrayal, racism, unfulfillment, rivalry, downfall, love and romance, intrigue ...
Time: 16th century
Place: venice, italy, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.3
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Caligula (1979)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: erotic, sexual, disturbing, controversial, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: ancient rome, ancient world, sex, brutality, incest, sexploitation, explicit sex, roman empire, nudity, sexuality, sexual perversion, sex orgy ...
Time: 1st century, ancient times, year 1979
Place: rome italy, italy, greece
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100%
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Cleopatra (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 177 min.
TV show
Story: Cleopatra, the famed Egyptian Queen born in 69 B.C., is shown to have been brought by Roman ruler Julius Caesar at age 18. Caesar becomes sexually obsessed by the 18 year old queen, beds her, and eventually has a son by her. However, his Roman ...
Style: historical drama, fairy tale, costume drama, epic, stylized ...
Plot: ancient rome, royalty, roman empire, cleopatra, ancient egypt, ancient history, siege, ancient, medieval, ancient world, peplum, antiquity ...
Time: 1st century, 1st century b.c.
Place: egypt, rome italy, middle east, africa, europe ...
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The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min.
Story: Drawn from the same events that later inspired Gladiator, the film charts the power-hungry greed and father-son betrayal that led to Rome's collapse at the bloody hands of the Barbarians.
Style: epic, captivating, exciting, stylized, serious ...
Plot: roman empire, ancient history, ancient rome, barbarian, battles, tragic hero, sword fight, ancient world, peplum, ancient, betrayal, politics ...
Time: ancient times
Place: rome italy, ancient greece, greece, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Final Inquiry (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: christian film, captivating, serious, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: ancient history, roman empire, jesus, life is a bitch, betrayal, dishonesty, state affairs, supernatural, tragic hero, folk hero, unfulfillment, religions or cults ...
Time: 1st century, 1930s
Place: holy land, jerusalem
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Spartacus (2004)
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
TV show
Story: Sentenced to spend out the rest of his adult life laboring in the harsh deserts of Egypt, the Thracian slave Spartacus gets a new lease on life when he is purchased by the obese owner of a Roman gladiator school. Moved by the defiance of an ...
Style: epic, serious, atmospheric, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ancient rome, roman empire, ancient history, rebellion, tragic hero, slavery, human spirit, gladiator, righting the wronged, dishonesty, leadership, graphic violence ...
Time: 1st century, ancient times, 1st century b.c.
Place: rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Julius Caesar (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands, Italy, Germany, USA
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story: Twenty year-old Julius Caesar flees Rome for his life during the reign of Sulla but through skill and ambition rises four decades later to become Rome's supreme dictator.
Style: epic, serious, stylized, captivating, historical drama ...
Plot: roman empire, ancient history, julius caesar, ancient rome, politics, dictatorship, emperor, ancient, tragic hero, antiquity, medieval, war hero ...
Time: 1st century, 1st century b.c.
Place: egypt, rome italy, europe, africa, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 ...
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Boudica (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Romania
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The Celtic queen who shook the Roman Empire. Boudica is one of history’s first and fiercest women warriors. Sickened by ceaseless war, the king of the Iceni accepts a treaty with the Romans in exchange for his tribe’s continued independence. But ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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El Cid (1961)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 182 min.
Story: Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain.
Style: epic, breathtaking, stylized, historically accurate, phantasmagoric ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.5
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Henry V (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.
Style: epic, realistic, exciting, costume drama, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night
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Time: 15th century, middle ages, medieval times, year 1989, ancient times
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 260 min.
Story: All-star epic retelling of Christ's life.
Style: biblical, epic, serious, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience: preschool
Plot: jesus christ, jesus, faith, christianity, christian, ancient world, religion, bible, betrayal, desert, redemption, miraculous event ...
Time: ancient times, 1st century, biblical epic
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27%
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Macbeth (1971)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord siezes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches.
Style: disturbing, visual, bleak, atmospheric, spiritual ...
Plot: shakespeare, medieval, murder, guilt, witch, prophecy, macbeth, royalty, betrayal, witchcraft, knight, ambition ...
Time: 11th century, middle ages, medieval times, year 1971, 20th century
Place: scotland, eastern europe, england, europe
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27%
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Druids (2001)
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26%
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Julius Caesar (1979)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 161 min.
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Story: The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for Brutus and the republic.
Plot: shakespeare, roman, ancient rome, assassination, ancient world, ancient, peplum, antiquity, ancient history, funeral, civil war, tragedy ...
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25%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 137 min.
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Style: biblical, epic, intense, exciting, captivating ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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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
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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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 ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.6
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal villiage where an earlier attempt to build a defensive castle has failed. He begins to rebuild the duke's authority in the face of the barbarians at the border and is making progress until he ...
Style: technicolor, epic, realistic, serious, captivating ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Troy (2004)
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Country: USA, Malta, UK
Duration: 163 min.
Story: In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was ...
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50%
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Sword of War (2009)
Genre: Drama, History, War
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Duration: 139 min.
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Style: serious, captivating, realistic, epic
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Assassins (2012)
Genre: Drama, History
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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 ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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David (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, Germany, USA
Duration: 190 min.
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Story: The tribes of Israel need to defeat the superior might of the Philistines: "Now appoint a king to lead us, such as all the other nations have." (I Samuel, 8:5). And so the prophet Samuel gives the Hebrews their first king, Saul. Saul, ...
Style: biblical, serious, realistic, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: bible, prophet, faith, religion, antiquity, old testament, royal family, ancient world, religious, ancient, christian, king ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.6
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Macbeth (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Feature film adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish play about General Macbeth whose ambitious wife urges him to use wicked means in order to gain power of the throne over the sitting king, Duncan.
Style: bleak, stylized, visually stunning, dark fantasy, psychological ...
Plot: shakespeare, medieval, crown, witch, murder, throne, ambition, insanity, brutality, macbeth, prophecy, kingdom ...
Time: middle ages, 11th century, year 2015, medieval times
Place: scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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