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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
1923 The Ten Commandments Cecil B. DeMille
1924 The Moon of Israel Michael Curtiz
1928 Cleopatra Roy William Neill

1930s

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Year Title Director Notes
1932 The Mummy Karl Freund
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
1944 The Mummy's Curse Leslie Goodwins
1945 Sudan John Rawlins
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

1950s

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Year Title Director Notes
1953 Aida
1953 Serpent of the Nile William Castle With Rhonda Fleming as Cleopatra.
1954 Two Nights with Cleopatra
1954 The Egyptian
1955 Land of the Pharaohs
1956 The Ten Commandments
1957 The Story of Mankind
1959 Legions of the Nile Vittorio Cottafavi Italian film

1960s

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Year Title Director Notes
1960 Cleopatra's Daughter Il sepolcro dei re
1960 Giuseppe venduto dai fratelli
1960 Son of Samson
1960 The Pharaohs' Woman
1961 Nefertiti, regina del Nilo
1962 Toto vs. Maciste
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
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
1965 Willy McBean and His Magic Machine
1966 Pharaoh
1968 Astérix et Cléopâtre René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo Belgian-French animated film

1970s

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Year Title Director Notes
1970 Cleopatra
1972 Antony and Cleopatra A film starring Charlton Heston and Hildegarde Neil.
1974 Antony and Cleopatra A television version of a Royal Shakespeare Company production starring Richard Johnson and Janet Suzman.
1974 Moses the Lawgiver
1978 Death on the Nile

1980s

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Year Title Director Notes
1980 The Awakening
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 The Cleopatras John Frankau BBC TV 8-episode series on the latter part of the reign of the Ptolemaic dynasty.
1985 Asterix Versus Caesar
1987 Aida

1990s

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Year Title Director Notes
1994 The Emigrant Youssef Chahine
1995 Joseph
1995 Moses (film)
1995 Slave of Dreams
1998 The Prince of Egypt 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 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

2000s

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Year Title Director Notes
2000 In the Beginning miniseries
2000 Joseph: King of Dreams
2000 Princes and Princesses
2000 Reign: The Conqueror
2001 The Mummy Returns
2002 Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre a French/Italian film based on Goscinny and Uderzo's 1963 comic-book Asterix and Cleopatra.
2002 Building the Great Pyramid documentary
2002 The Scorpion King
2005 Legion of the Dead
2006 The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
2006 The Ten Commandments miniseries
2007 Cleopatra Júlio Bressane Brazilian film with Alessandra Negrini as Cleopatra and Miguel Falabella as Julius Caesar.
2007 La Reine Soleil
2007 Sands of Oblivion
2007 The Ten Commandments
2008 The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior
2009 Agora

2010s

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Year Title Director Notes
2010 The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec
2011 The Tragedy of Man (film)
2012 The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption
2013 The Bible
2014 Decline of an Empire
2014 Exodus: Gods and Kings 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
2015 A.D. The Bible Continues
2015 Antony and Cleopatra
2015 The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
2016 Gods of Egypt
2016 The Young Messiah
2016 X-Men: Apocalypse
2017 The Mummy
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See also

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