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1. Spartacus (2010–2013)
TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
The life of Spartacus, the gladiator who lead a rebellion against the Romans. From his time as an ally of the Romans, to his betrayal and becoming a gladiator, to the rebellion he leads and its ultimate outcome.
Stars: Andy Whitfield, Lucy Lawless, Manu Bennett, Daniel Feuerriegel
Votes: 257,346
2. Rome (2005–2007)
TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.
Stars: Kevin McKidd, Ray Stevenson, Polly Walker, Kerry Condon
Votes: 185,678
3. The Hot Chick (2002)
PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Fantasy
An attractive and popular teenager, who is mean-spirited toward others, finds herself in the body of an older man, and must find a way to get back to her original body.
Director: Tom Brady | Stars: Rob Schneider, Rachel McAdams, Anna Faris, Matthew Lawrence
Votes: 102,741 | Gross: $35.08M
4. Spartacus (1960)
PG-13 | 197 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.
Directors: Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Mann | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton
Votes: 143,396 | Gross: $30.00M
5. Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (2011)
TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
In the time before the arrival of Spartacus, the House of Batiatus faces many challenges from competitors, and within its own household.
Stars: John Hannah, Manu Bennett, Peter Mensah, Dustin Clare
Votes: 145,602
6. Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002)
PG | 107 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Asterix and Obelix go to Egypt to help architect Edifis who is building a palace for Cleopatra.
Director: Alain Chabat | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Christian Clavier, Jamel Debbouze, Monica Bellucci
Votes: 57,923 | Gross: $3.12M
7. I, Claudius (1976)
Not Rated | 50 min | Biography, Drama, History
The personal and governmental affairs of the Julio-Claudian dynasty at the beginning of the Roman Empire, as recalled by one of its rulers.
Stars: Derek Jacobi, John Hurt, Siân Phillips, Brian Blessed
Votes: 19,404
8. Asterix at the Olympic Games (2008)
Not Rated | 116 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Asterix and Obelix compete at the Olympics in order to help their friend Lovesix marry Princess Irina. Brutus also tries to win the game with his own team and get rid of his father Julius Caesar.
Directors: Frédéric Forestier, Thomas Langmann | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Clovis Cornillac, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alain Delon
Votes: 32,581 | Gross: $1.00M
9. Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar (1999)
Not Rated | 109 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Inhabitants of the last unconquered village in Gaul (ancient France) use a magical potion to hold their independence from Roman invaders.
Directors: Claude Zidi, Olaf Wijnants | Stars: Christian Clavier, Gérard Depardieu, Roberto Benigni, Michel Galabru
Votes: 45,400 | Gross: $1.64M
10. Julius Caesar (1953)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, History
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Louis Calhern, Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud
Votes: 12,913
11. King of Kings (1961)
PG-13 | 168 min | Biography, Drama
The temporary physical life of the Biblical Savior, Jesus Christ.
Director: Nicholas Ray | Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, Siobhan McKenna, Hurd Hatfield, Ron Randell
Votes: 9,042 | Gross: $14.48M
12. Dragon Blade (2015)
R | 127 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
When corrupt Roman leader Tiberius arrives with a giant army to claim the Silk Road, Huo An teams up his army with an elite Legion of defected Roman soldiers led by General Lucius to protect his country and his new friends.
Director: Daniel Lee | Stars: Jackie Chan, John Cusack, Adrien Brody, Choi Siwon
Votes: 21,287 | Gross: $0.07M
13. Astérix and Obélix: God Save Britannia (2012)
110 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Asterix crosses the channel to help second-cousin Anticlimax face down Julius Caesar and invading Romans.
Director: Laurent Tirard | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Dany Boon, Edouard Baer, Guillaume Gallienne
Votes: 16,699
14. Caesar (2002)
PG-13 | 89 min | Biography, Drama, History
Twenty-year-old Julius Caeser 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.
Stars: Jeremy Sisto, Richard Harris, Christopher Walken, Valeria Golino
Votes: 3,181
15. Cleopatra (1934)
Passed | 100 min | Biography, Drama, History
The man-hungry Queen of Egypt leads Julius Caesar and Marc Antony astray, amid scenes of DeMillean splendor.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon, Joseph Schildkraut
Votes: 4,622
16. Cleopatra (1999)
Not Rated | 177 min | Biography, Drama, History
Princess Cleopatra becomes Egypt's Queen and has an out-of-wedlock son with the son-less Roman ruler Julius Caesar. Through two romances, she strives to protect Egypt from the Romans, and make her son the heir to Caesar's Roman Empire.
Stars: Billy Zane, Timothy Dalton, Rupert Graves, Leonor Varela
Votes: 4,337
17. Assassin's Creed: Origins (2017 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A prequel to the Assassin's Creed Franchise set in Egypt from 48 BC where Bayek, a Medjay, begins the foundation of the Assassin's Brotherhood.
Directors: Ashraf Ismail, Laurent Bernier, Jean Guesdon | Stars: Abubakar Salim, Alix Wilton Regan, Zora Bishop, Michael Nardone
Votes: 10,292
18. Spartacus (2004)
Unrated | 87 min | Action, Drama, History
After he is bought by the owner of a Roman gladiator school and trained as a gladiator, a slave leads a rebellion of slaves and gladiators into revolt against Rome.
Stars: Goran Visnjic, Alan Bates, Angus Macfadyen, Rhona Mitra
Votes: 5,808
19. The Nativity Story (2006)
PG | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A drama that focuses on the period in Mary and Joseph's life where they journeyed to Bethlehem for the birth of Jesus.
Director: Catherine Hardwicke | Stars: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Oscar Isaac, Hiam Abbass
Votes: 12,366 | Gross: $37.63M
20. Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
Approved | 123 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
At the height of the Roman Civil War, a young Cleopatra (Vivien Leigh) meets a middle-aged Julius Caesar (Claude Rains), who teaches her how to rule Egypt.
Director: Gabriel Pascal | Stars: Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger, Flora Robson
Votes: 3,145
21. The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (1976)
82 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Asterix and Obelix are tasked by Julius Caesar with accomplishing twelve impossible labors to determine the fate of their indomitable Gaulish village.
Directors: René Goscinny, Henri Gruel, Albert Uderzo, Pierre Watrin, Matt McCarthy | Stars: Roger Carel, Jacques Morel, Pierre Tornade, Henri Labussière
Votes: 19,124
22. Empire (2005)
TV-14 | 360 min | Action, Drama, History
Epic four-hour series about the rise of Octavius who succeeds Julius Caesar and tangles with Marc Anthony for control of the Roman empire and finally went on to become the emperor Augustus.
Stars: Santiago Cabrera, Vincent Regan, Emily Blunt, James Frain
Votes: 1,764
23. The Exotic House of Wax (1997)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery
The action heats up when history's most memorable icons come to life for an amorous meltdown in this interactive "please touch" museum.
Director: Cybil Richards | Stars: Blake Pickett, Jacqueline Lovell, Everett Rodd, Eric Acsell
Votes: 621
24. Julius Caesar (1970)
G | 117 min | Drama, History, War
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar, but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
Director: Stuart Burge | Stars: Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, John Gielgud, Richard Johnson
Votes: 2,009
25. Cleopatra (1970)
X | 112 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
To decipher a scheme plotted by enemy aliens, three agents from the future travel to Cleopatra's time, where they witness her romances with Caesar and Mark Antony.
Directors: Osamu Tezuka, Eiichi Yamamoto | Stars: Chinatsu Nakayama, Kotoe Hatsui, Tsubame Yanagiya, Nobuo Tsukamoto
Votes: 854
26. Cleopatra (1917)
125 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Cleopatra, the fabulous queen of Egypt, and the epic romances between her and the greatest men of Rome, Julius Caesar and Antony.
Director: J. Gordon Edwards | Stars: Theda Bara, Fritz Leiber, Thurston Hall, Alan Roscoe
Votes: 396
27. Asterix and Cleopatra (1968)
TV-Y7-FV | 72 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Ordered by Cleopatra to build a palace in Alexandria within three months as part of a bet with Julius Caesar, architect Edifis enlists the help of Asterix, Obelix and Getafix.
Directors: René Goscinny, Albert Uderzo | Stars: Roger Carel, Jacques Morel, Micheline Dax, Jacques Balutin
Votes: 14,457
28. Asterix the Gaul (1967)
68 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Asterix, the most cunning warrior of a Gaulish village resisting Roman occupation, must save their magic potion-brewing druid Getafix when he is kidnapped by a Phonus Balonus.
Director: Ray Goossens | Stars: Roger Carel, Jacques Morel, Pierre Tornade, Jacques Jouanneau
Votes: 11,905
29. Gladiatress (2004)
89 min | Adventure, Comedy
This sword and sandals movie is an off-the-wall comedy adventure about three unlikely heroines, who set out to save Celtic Britain, by thwarting the Roman invasion in their own unique and outrageous style.
Director: Brian Grant | Stars: David Hayman, Ronan Vibert, Philippe De Grossouvre, Doon Mackichan
Votes: 1,481
30. Augustus: The First Emperor (2003 TV Movie)
R | 178 min | Drama, History, Romance
Caesar Augustus tells of how he became the emperor to his reluctant daughter, Julia following the death of her husband Agrippa.
Director: Roger Young | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Charlotte Rampling, Vittoria Belvedere, Benjamin Sadler
Votes: 1,456
31. Asterix in America (1994)
Not Rated | 85 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Sent out to prevent Getafix from being thrown off the edge of the Earth by Lucullus, Asterix and Obelix find themselves in America, encounter a Native tribe and greedy Medicine Man cheater.
Director: Gerhard Hahn | Stars: Roger Carel, Pierre Tornade, Henri Labussière, François Chaix
Votes: 8,377 | Gross: $0.77M
32. Asterix Versus Caesar (1985)
Not Rated | 79 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Asterix and Obelix join the Roman Legions to rescue Obelix's crush Panacea and her fiance Tragicomix, who have been kidnapped to appease Julius Caesar.
Directors: Gaëtan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi | Stars: Roger Carel, Pierre Tornade, Pierre Mondy, Serge Sauvion
Votes: 10,524
33. Druids (2001)
R | 120 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
An entire nation's destiny lies in the hands of one man.
Director: Jacques Dorfmann | Stars: Christopher Lambert, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Max von Sydow, Inés Sastre
Votes: 5,431
34. Asterix and the Big Fight (1989)
81 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
When Getafix becomes an amnesiac lunatic after being struck by Obelix's menhir, Asterix tries to cure him, all while his fellow villagers are being conned by a phony soothsayer Prolix.
Directors: Philippe Grimond, George Roubicek, David N. Weiss | Stars: Roger Carel, Pierre Tornade, Henri Labussière, Julien Guiomar
Votes: 8,816
35. Asterix in Britain (1986)
Not Rated | 79 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Asterix, his first-cousin-once-removed Anticlimax and Obelix travel to Britain with a barrel of Getafix's magic potion that will allow Anticlimax's village to repel the invading Romans.
Director: Pino Van Lamsweerde | Stars: Roger Carel, Pierre Tornade, Graham Bushnell, Pierre Mondy
Votes: 12,525
36. The Notorious Cleopatra (1970)
88 min | Comedy, Drama
The story of egyptian princess Cleopatra's amorous adventures.
Director: Peter Perry Jr. | Stars: Loray White, Johnny Rocco, Jay Edwards, Dixie Donovan
Votes: 241
37. Serpent of the Nile (1953)
Approved | 81 min | Adventure, Biography, History
In 44 BC, after the assassination of the leader of Rome Julius Caesar, Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and one of the highest ranking Roman generals and Caesar's possible successor Mark Anthony begin a tragic love affair.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Rhonda Fleming, William Lundigan, Raymond Burr, Jean Byron
Votes: 344
38. Spartaco (1953)
Approved | 75 min | Adventure, History
74 B.C. Somewhere in the Roman Empire, Spartacus, a young officer, is condemned to be a slave because he hit a superior. Brought back to Roma in a gladiators' school, he escapes and stirs ... See full summary »
Director: Riccardo Freda | Stars: Massimo Girotti, Ludmilla Tchérina, Yves Vincent, Gianna Maria Canale
Votes: 165
39. Mary of Nazareth (2012 TV Movie)
100 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Mary, mother of Jesus.
Director: Giacomo Campiotti | Stars: Alissa Jung, Paz Vega, Andreas Pietschmann, Antonia Liskova
Votes: 346
40. The Little Drummer Boy (1968 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 25 min | Animation, Drama, Family
An orphan drummer boy who hates humanity finds his life changed forever when he meets three wise men en route to Bethlehem.
Directors: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr., Takeo Nakamura | Stars: José Ferrer, Paul Frees, June Foray, Ted Eccles
Votes: 6,403
41. Asterix and the Vikings (2006)
Not Rated | 78 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
While tutoring Vitalstatistix's rebellious nephew Justforkix, Asterix and Obelix must rescue him from Vikings who wish to learn the meaning of fear to become invincible.
Directors: Stefan Fjeldmark, Jesper Møller, Joanna Wizmur, Jack Fletcher | Stars: Roger Carel, Lorànt Deutsch, Sara Forestier, Jacques Frantz
Votes: 12,743
42. The Slave (1962)
100 min | Adventure, Drama, History
During the power struggle between Caesar and Crassus, a Roman centurion, who is the lost son of Spartacus, is dispatched to Crassus' camp to observe his movements and keep Caesar informed.
Director: Sergio Corbucci | Stars: Steve Reeves, Jacques Sernas, Gianna Maria Canale, Claudio Gora
Votes: 580
43. Dead But Dreaming (2013)
94 min | Horror
A sacrifice is about to take place when Nahara appears out of nowhere. She replaces the ordained victim. A stake is plunged into her chest but she doesn't die.
Director: Jac Avila | Stars: Veronica Paintoux, Amy Hesketh, Mila Joya, Jac Avila
Votes: 63
44. The Littlest Angel (1969 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 77 min | Family, Fantasy
A little shepherd boy newly arrived in Heaven tries to adjust to life in the Hereafter.
Director: Joe Layton | Stars: Johnny Whitaker, Fred Gwynne, Cab Calloway, E.G. Marshall
Votes: 381
45. I, Claudius (1937)
Drama
The life and times of the Roman Emperor Claudius (10 B.C. to 54 A.D.).
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Charles Laughton, Merle Oberon, Emlyn Williams, Flora Robson
46. Deux heures moins le quart avant Jésus-Christ (1982)
100 min | Comedy
Rahatlocum is a North African Roman colony where Julius Caesar came to spend an expensive holiday. The revolt rumbles among the small people who find a leader in the person of Ben-Hur Marcel.
Director: Jean Yanne | Stars: Coluche, Michel Serrault, Jean Yanne, Françoise Fabian
Votes: 1,769
47. Beyond the Great Wall (1964)
91 min | Drama, Musical
Director: Han Hsiang Li | Stars: Dai Lin, Lei Zhao, Po Hung, Kuang-Chao Chiang
Votes: 45
48. Herod the Great (1959)
93 min | Biography, Drama, History
Herod, King of Judea, is made a prisoner by the Romans. Convinced the King is dead, his faithful lieutenant, Aaron, is nevertheless unable to keep his promise to kill the Queen if something untoward happened to the King. He leads the young woman out into the desert. Herod's pleas to Augustus are successful and he returns to his palace. His son, Antipater, informs Herod that Aaron has betrayed him.
Director: Viktor Tourjansky | Stars: Edmund Purdom, Sylvia Lopez, Massimo Girotti, Sandra Milo
Votes: 247
49. The Nativity (2010)
120 min | Drama
Explores the troubled times of turn of the millennium Judea, bringing legend to vibrant life, but rooting the action in a world we can all recognise & understand.
Stars: Andrew Buchan, Peter Capaldi, Al Weaver, Jack Shepherd
Votes: 369
50. Caesar the Conqueror (1962)
Not Rated | 103 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Julius Caesar leads the Roman army to battle against rebels in Gaul.
Director: Tanio Boccia | Stars: Cameron Mitchell, Rik Battaglia, Dominique Wilms, Ivica Pajer
Votes: 278