This article lists films set in the city of Rome during the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic, or the Roman Empire. The films only partly set in Rome are so noted.
Films set during the founding of Rome include:
| Title | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Duel of the Titans | 1961 | based on the legend of Romulus and Remus with Steve Reeves as Romulus and Gordon Scott as Remus |
| The Avenger | 1962 | based on Virgil's Aeneid with Steve Reeves as Aeneas: a story of the hero leading escaped survivors of the Trojan War to new land in Italy. |
| The First King | 2019 | in archaic Latin; directed by Matteo Rovere |
| Title | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Romulus and the Sabines | 1961 | |
| The Rape of the Sabine Women | 1962 | about the Rape of the Sabine Women (dir. by Richard Pottier) |
| Title | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Duel of Champions | 1961 | with Alan Ladd as Horatius and Robert Keith as Tullus Hostilius |
| Title | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Le vergini di Roma | 1961 | French-Italian film (directed by Carlo Luigi Bragaglia and Vittorio Cottafavi), including characters of Etruscan king Porsenna and Mucius Scaevola |
| Hero of Rome | 1964 | with Gordon Scott as Gaius Mucius Scaevola (directed by Giorgio Ferroni) |
| Coriolanus: Hero without a Country | 1964 | with Gordon Scott as Gaius Marcius Coriolanus (dir. by Giorgio Ferroni) |
| Brennus, Enemy of Rome | 1963 | about the Battle of the Allia and sack of Rome in 387 BC, with Gordon Scott as Brennus |
| Title | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Cabiria | 1914 | a monumental Italian production (dir. by Giovanni Pastrone, after the screenplay by Gabriele d'Annunzio), touching on Hannibal's campaign in Italy, the siege of Syracuse and Battle of Zama, featuring such characters as Masinissa; also the first Maciste film |
| Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal | 1937 | about the career of Scipio Africanus up to his defeat of Hannibal at the Battle of Zama |
| Jupiter's Darling | 1955 | with Howard Keel as Hannibal and George Sanders as Fabius Maximus |
| Hannibal | 1959 | Italian post-war production about Hannibal's campaign in Italy including the Battle of Cannae. Stars Victor Mature. |
| L'Assedio di Siracusa | 1960 | on the siege of Syracuse, with Rossano Brazzi as Archimides |
| Hannibal | 2006 | TV docudrama directed by Edward Bazalgette, with Alexander Siddig as Hannibal |
| Title | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Cartagine in fiamme | 1960 | after the novel by Emilio Salgari, dir. by Carmine Gallone |
| Title | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Scipio the African | 1971 | about the later life of Scipio; directed by Luigi Magni, with Marcello Mastroianni as Scipio the African, Silvana Mangano as Aemilia Tertia and Vittorio Gassman as Cato the Elder |
| The Centurion | 1961 | about the Battle of Corinth (146 BC), with John Drew Barrymore as Diaeus |
| Revolution (Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire – Episode Four) | 2006 | docudrama about of the reforms of Tiberius Gracchus |
| Title | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Spartak | 1926 | an early Soviet production (dir. by Ertugrul Muhsin-Bey), based on the novel by Raffaello Giovagnoli [now lost] |
| Spartaco | 1953 | dir. by Riccardo Freda |
| Spartacus | 1960 | with Kirk Douglas as Spartacus and Laurence Olivier as Marcus Licinius Crassus (dir. by Stanley Kubrick) |
| Il figlio di Spartacus | 1962 | unofficial Italian sequel to Spartacus directed by Sergio Corbucci |
| Spartacus | 2004 | with Goran Visnjic as Spartacus (dir. by Robert Dornheim) |
| Spartacus: Blood and Sand | 2010 | with Andy Whitfield as Spartacus, Manu Bennett as Crixus, Peter Mensah as Oenomaus, John Hannah as Lentulus Batiatus, and Craig Parker as Gaius Claudius Glaber |
| Spartacus: Gods of the Arena | 2011 | prequel to Spartacus: Blood and Sand. The plot of Gods of the Arena follows Lentulus Batiatus's (John Hannah) life as a lanista, and Gannicus's (Dustin Clare) time as a gladiator |
| Spartacus: Vengeance | 2012 | sequel to Spartacus: Blood and Sand, with Liam McIntyre replacing Andy Whitfield as Spartacus, after Whitfield's unexpected death in 2011 |
| Spartacus: War of the Damned | 2013 | the third (final) season of the series |
| Eyes of a Roman | 2021 | Dir. By CJ Goodwyn |
| Title | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Gaius Julius Caesar | 1914 | a silent film, directed by Enrico Guazzoni |
| Caesar Against the Pirates | 1962 | a tale of Caesar being caught by pirates and asking for help to get back to Rome |
| Caesar the Conqueror | 1962 | an Italian film about the career of Julius Caesar and his Gallic Wars (directed by Tanio Boccia) |
| The Giants of Rome | 1964 | Italian-French adventure film set in the Roman warfare against Vercingetorix (directed by Antonio Margheriti), with Richard Harrison as Claudius Marcellus |
| Julius Caesar | 1950 | (directed by David Bradley). This is a film adaptation of Shakespeare's play |
| Julius Caesar | 1953 | deals with the assassination of Julius Caesar and the Liberators' civil war, with Marlon Brando as Mark Antony and John Gielgud as Gaius Cassius Longinus (directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz). This is a film adaptation of Shakespeare's play |
| Julius Caesar | 1970 | deals with the assassination of Julius Caesar and the Liberators' civil war |
| Druids | 2001 | the life and career of Vercingetorix (starring Christopher Lambert), a Gallic adversary of Rome in the film of Jacques Dorfmann |
| Julius Caesar | 2002 | |
| Empire | 2005 | |
| Rome | 2005 | deals with the assassination of Julius Caesar and the Liberators' civil war |
| Caesar (Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire – Episode One) | 2006 | docudrama about the Gallic Wars and Caesar's Civil War |
| Title | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Cléopâtre | 1899 | French film made by Georges Méliès, the earliest known version considered to be lost, retrieved 2005 |
| Antony and Cleopatra | 1908 | a film starring Maurice Costello and Florence Lawrence |
| Cléopâtre | 1910 | French film by Henri Andréani and Ferdinand Zecca |
| Cléopâtre | 1912 | new silent version after the play of Victorien Sardou (dir. by Charles L. Gaskill) |
| Marcantonio e Cleopatra | 1913 | Italian production from the era of the silent film, directed by Enrico Guazzoni |
| Cleopatra | 1917 | American film with Theda Bara as Cleopatra (dir. by J. Gordon Edwards) |
| Cleopatra | 1928 | the second American version (dir. by Roy William Neill) |
| Cleopatra | 1934 | with Claudette Colbert as Cleopatra (dir. by Cecil B. DeMille) |
| Caesar and Cleopatra | 1945 | with Vivien Leigh as Cleopatra and Claude Rains as Julius Caesar (dir. by Gabriel Pascal), after the play by G. B. Shaw |
| Le legioni di Cleopatra | 1959 | Italian film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi |
| Serpent of the Nile | 1953 | directed by William Castle with Rhonda Fleming as Cleopatra |
| A Queen for Caesar | 1962 | Italian film, starring Pascale Petit (dir. by Piero Pierotti and Victor Tourjansky) |
| Cleopatra | 1963 | including the Battle of Actium and the Final War of the Roman Republic, with Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra, Richard Burton as Mark Antony and Rex Harrison as Julius Caesar (dir. by Joseph L. Mankiewicz) |
| Carry On Cleo | 1964 | a parody of J. Mankiewicz's Cleopatra with Sid James as Mark Antony (dir. by Gerald Thomas), set in the reign of Julius Caesar |
| Antony and Cleopatra | 1972 | a film starring Charlton Heston and Hildegarde Neil |
| Antony and Cleopatra | 1974 | a television version of a Royal Shakespeare Company production starring Richard Johnson and Janet Suzman |
| Antony and Cleopatra | 1981 | a television version produced as part of the BBC Television Shakespeare starring Colin Blakely and Jane Lapotaire |
| Cleopatra | 1999 | with Leonor Varela as Cleopatra and Timothy Dalton as Julius Caesar (dir. by Franc Roddam), based on the book by Margaret George |
| Asterix and Cleopatra | 1968 | Belgian-French animated film (dir. by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo), as well as Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002) a French/Italian film based on the same source, Goscinny and Uderzo's 1963 comic-book Asterix and Cleopatra . |
| The Cleopatras | 1983 | BBC TV 8-episode series on the latter part of the reign of the Ptolemaic dynasty (dir. by John Frankau) |
| Cleopatra | 2007 | Brazilian film with Alessandra Negrini as Cleopatra and Miguel Falabella as Julius Caesar (directed by Júlio Bressane) |
| Title | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Imperium: Augustus | 2003 | |
| Empire | 2005 | TV series |
| Rome | 2005–2007 | 22-episode TV series, a joint British-American-Italian production on Rome's transition from Republic to Empire (dir. by Michael Apted) |
| Domina | 2021– | TV series that charts the life and rise of Livia Drusilla, the powerful wife of the Roman emperor Augustus Caesar. |
| Title | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| La vie et la passion de Jésus-Christ | 1903 | French Pathé production (dir. by Ferdinand Zecca) [second version (1907) as Vie et passion de notre seigneur Jésus-Christ] |
| Ben-Hur | 1907 | the first known version (15-minute long) adapted from the famous Lew Wallace novel, dir. by Sidney Olcott |
| From the Manger to the Cross | 1912 | American film shot on location in the Middle East, dir. by Sidney Olcott |
| La vie et la passion de Jésus-Christ | 1914 | French Pathé remake (dir. by Maurice Maître) |
| Intolerance | 1916 | silent film told in several time-periods with a segment set in 27 AD leading to the Crucifixion |
| Three Ages | 1923 | a parody of Intolerance starring Buster Keaton also with its own Roman section |
| Ben-Hur | 1925 | silent film dir. by Fred Niblo, starring Ramon Novarro (the picture noteworthy for its color segments and for the female nudity in the parade sequence) |
| King of Kings | 1927 | |
| Golgotha | 1935 | |
| Ben-Hur | 1959 | a monumental Hollywood production directed by William Wyler, starring Charlton Heston; partly set in Rome |
| King of Kings | 1961 | |
| Pontius Pilate | 1962 | with Jean Marais as Pontius Pilate |
| The Life of Brian | 1979 | dir. by Terry Jones. It’s quite possibly one of the most infamous films ever made solely for the controversy surrounding the film being considered Blasphemous, though the Pythons themselves have asserted it’s not blasphemous. |
| The Last Temptation of Christ | 1988 | dir. by Martin Scorsese, with Willem Dafoe as Jesus Christ |
| The Gospel of John | 2003 | A 3-hr account narrated by Christopher Plummer word-for-word from The Good News Bible. |
| Ben-Hur | 2003 | animated version (the fourth in all) of the novel by Lew Wallace |
| The Passion of the Christ | 2004 | dir. by Mel Gibson, with Jim Caviezel as Jesus Christ; recorded in original languages (Aramaic, Hebrew, Latin) |
| Ben Hur | 2010 | miniseries by Steve Shill |
| Ben-Hur | 2016 | new American version in 3-D directed by Timur Bekmambetov with Jack Huston as Ben-Hur |
| Risen | 2016 | a biblical drama dir. by Kevin Reynolds with Cliff Curtis featuring Yeshua (Jesus Christ) |
| The Chosen | 2017 | a series about the life of Jesus through the eyes of his followers |
| Title | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Agrippina | 1910 | directed by Enrico Guazzoni |
| Messalina | 1924 | directed by Enrico Guazzoni |
| I, Claudius | 1937, never completed | with Charles Laughton as Claudius. This is an adaptation of Robert Graves's novels "I, Claudius" and "Claudius the God". |
| The Affairs of Messalina | 1951 | with María Félix as Messalina |
| Barabbas | 1953 | Swedish version (dir. by Alf Sjöberg), the first based on the novel by Pär Lagerkvist |
| The Robe | 1953 | based on the novel by Lloyd C. Douglas, with Richard Burton as Marcellus and Jean Simmons as Diana (dir. by Henry Koster) |
| Demetrius and the Gladiators | 1954 | sequel to The Robe (dir. Delmer Daves) |
| Messalina, venere imperatrice | 1960 | dir. by Vittorio Cottafavi, with Belinda Lee as Messalina |
| Barabbas | 1961 | American version, dir. by Richard Fleischer, starring Anthony Quinn |
| Massacre in the Black Forest | 1967 | about the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (dir. by Ferdinando Baldi) |
| The Caesars (TV series) | 1968 | 6 episodes: Augustus; Germanicus; Tiberius; Sejanus; Caligula; Claudius |
| I, Claudius | 1976 | BBC TV series with Derek Jacobi as Claudius (an adaptation of Robert Graves's novels "I, Claudius" and "Claudius the God"). |
| Caligula | 1979 | with Malcolm McDowell as Caligula (dir. by Tinto Brass) |
| Los cántabros | 1980 | about the Cantabrian wars with Paul Naschy (also director) as Marcus Agrippa |
| The Inquiry | 2006 | with Max von Sydow as Tiberius |
| Barabbas | 2012 | the latest version based on the Lagerkvist's book, dir. by Roger Young, starring Billy Zane |
| Britannia | 2018–2022 | British TV series of a fictional account of the Roman conquest of Britain. |
| Title | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Quo Vadis | 1901 | the earliest adaptation made by Lucien Nonguet and Ferdinand Zecca |
| Quo Vadis | 1913 | the second silent version directed by Enrico Guazzoni |
| Quo Vadis | 1924 | Italian production directed by Georg Jacoby and Gabriellino D'Annunzio, with Emil Jannings as Nero |
| The Sign of the Cross | 1932 | with Charles Laughton as Nero |
| Fiddlers Three | 1944 | British production, starring Tommy Trinder, Sonnie Hale and Francis L. Sullivan as the Emperor Nero. |
| Quo Vadis | 1951 | American production with Peter Ustinov as Nero (dir. by Mervyn LeRoy) |
| The Silver Chalice | 1954 | starring Paul Newman (dir. by Victor Saville) |
| The Romans | 1965 | classic Doctor Who season 2 ep. 4 |
| Fellini Satyricon | 1969 | fantasy drama loosely based on Petronius's work (dir. by Federico Fellini) |
| Satyricon | 1969 | fantasy drama based on Petronius's work (dir. by Gian Luigi Polidoro) |
| Quo Vadis | 1985 | TV miniseries directed by Franco Rossi |
| Quo Vadis | 2001 | Polish superproduction directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz |
| Quo Vadis | 2002 | TV six-part series following the main Polish production |
| Nero | 2004 | AKA "Imperium: Nero", part of the Imperium series. Directed by Paul Marcus |
| Nero (Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire – Episode Two) | 2006 | docudrama about reign of Nero |
| Title | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| The Viking Queen | 1967 | film loosely based on the revolt of Boudica |
| Warrior Queen | 1978 | TV series about the revolt of Boudica |
| Boudica | 2003 | film about the revolt of Boudica |
| Boudica | 2023 | film about the revolt of Boudica |
| Title | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| The Last Days of Pompeii | 1913 | a silent film directed by Mario Caserini and Elioterio Rudolfi |
| The Last Days of Pompeii | 1935 | |
| The Last Days of Pompeii | 1950 | French film (dir. by Paolo Moffa) |
| The Last Days of Pompeii | 1959 | dir. by Mario Bonnard & Sergio Leone |
| Up Pompeii! | 1969–1970 | BBC TV Series |
| Up Pompeii | 1971 | set in 79 AD, yet anachronistically shows Nero still reigning 10 years after his death (1971) |
| The Last Days of Pompeii | 1984 | ABC-TV miniseries |
| Pompeii: The Last Day | 2003 | |
| Imperium: Pompeii | 2007 | part of the Imperium series. |
| The Fires of Pompeii | 2008 | new Doctor Who series 4 ep. 2 |
| Pompeii | 2014 | a romantic disaster film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson |
| Title | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Masada | 1981 | TV miniseries about the siege of Masada in the First Jewish-Roman War, dir. by Boris Sagal |
| Age of Treason | 1993 | A fictitious story about Marcus Didius Falco (played by Bryan Brown), an "informer" (a proto-private investigator) who navigates the tough back alleys of Rome with the help of gigantic ex-gladiator Justus (played by Matthias Hues), to find the killer of a man whose family was close to the newly enthroned Emperor Vespasian. |
| The Apocalypse | 2000 | telefilm about Jesus Christ's last surviving disciple and his writings and visions (dir. by Raffaele Mertes), starring Richard Harris as St John of Patras and Bruce Payne as Domitian |
| Rebellion (Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire – Episode Three) | 2006 | docudrama about First Jewish–Roman War |
| Roman Mysteries | 2007–2008 | ten-part TV series for youngsters, directed by Paul Marcus |
| Title | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| The Dacians | 1967 | Romanian film about Domitian's Dacian War, with Pierre Brice (dir. by Sergiu Nicolaescu) |
| The Column | 1968 | Romanian film about Trajan's Dacian Wars (dir. by Mircea Dragan) |
| Title | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| The Eagle of the Ninth | 1977 | a six-part BBC mini-series, based on the novel by Rosemary Sutcliff, starring Anthony Higgins |
| Centurion | 2010 | an action film based on the massacre of the Ninth Legion, directed by Neil Marshall |
| The Eagle | 2011 | adaption of the novel The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff, directed by Kevin Macdonald |
| Title | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Androcles and the Lion | 1952 | set in 161 AD, after the play by George Bernard Shaw |
| Title | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| The Fall of the Roman Empire | 1964 | latter half set in Rome, with Christopher Plummer as Commodus (dir. by Anthony Mann) |
| The Two Gladiators | 1964 | Italian prequel of the next one, dir. by Mario Caiano |
| Gladiator | 2000 | latter half set in Rome, partly a remake of The Fall of the Roman Empire (dir. by Ridley Scott) |
| Title | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Sign of the Gladiator | 1959 | [known also as Sheba and the Gladiator] – about the Palmyrene Empire of queen Zenobia (starring Anita Ekberg) and its re-annexation back to Rome (dir. by Guido Brignone and Michelangelo Antonioni) |
| The Magnificent Gladiator | 1964 | Italian film being a tale of a gladiator from the times of emperor Gallienus (dir. by Alfonso Brescia) |
| Title | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Sebastiane | 1976 | Homoerotical version of the legend of St Sebastian; remarkable also as the first film entirely recorded in Latin. Directed by Derek Jarman. |
| Title | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| The Fighting Gladiators | 1949 | aka Fabiola Italian film with Michèle Morgan |
| Constantine and the Cross | 1962 | up to the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in AD 312, with Cornel Wilde as Constantine the Great |
| The Fall of Rome | 1963 | an Italian peplum-film, the story based on persecution of Christians after the death of Emperor Constantine (dir. by Antonio Margheriti) |
| Constantine (Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire – Episode Five) | 2006 | docudrama about the rise of Constantine |
| Title | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Attila | 1954 | with Anthony Quinn as Attila the Hun and Sophia Loren as Justa Grata Honoria |
| Sign of the Pagan | 1954 | with Jack Palance as Attila the Hun |
| Attila | 2001 | a joint American-Lithuanian production with Gerard Butler as Attila the Hun (dir. by Dick Lowry) |
| Title | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Revenge of the Barbarians | 1960 | about the sack of Rome by the Visigoths in 410 AD (dir. by Giuseppe Vari) |
| Kampf um Rom I | 1968 | on the struggle in Italy ruled by the Ostrogoths, after the novel by Felix Dahn (dir. by Robert Siodmak) |
| Kampf um Rom II : Der Verrat | 1969 | continuation of the (above listed) German production |
| Thais | 1984 | Polish film (dir. by Ryszard Ber), after a story by Anatole France on an episode from the life of the 4th-century Alexandria |
| Titus Andronicus | 1985 | fictional story of a general in the Roman army, based on the tragedy by William Shakespeare; BBC TV version dir. by Jane Howell |
| Titus | 1999 | adaptation by Julie Taymor with Anthony Hopkins as Titus Andronicus |
| King Arthur | 2004 | |
| The Voyage Home | 2004 | based on the poem De reditu suo by Rutilius Claudius Namatianus |
| The Fall of Rome (Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire – Episode Six) | 2006 | docudrama about the sack of Rome by Alaric's Visigoths |
| The Last Legion | 2007 | loosely inspired by the 5th-century collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the legendary-fantastic elements from the history of Britain (dir. by Doug Lefler), with Colin Firth and Ben Kingsley |
| Agora | 2009 | Spanish film (dir. by Alejandro Amenábar) with Rachel Weisz starring as Hypatia, a female philosopher and savant from Alexandria |
| Restless Heart: The Confessions of Saint Augustine | 2010 | a biographical film about Augustine of Hippo, dir. by Christian Duguay |
| Decline of an Empire | 2014 | about "the Christian saint who defied the Empire" (dir. by Michael Redwood), with Peter O'Toole as Cornelius Gallus (his last film role) |
| Title | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Roman Scandals | 1933 | Eddie Cantor's dream sequence. |
| A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | 1966 | Film version of the Musical Play – inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus (251-183 B.C.), specifically Pseudolus, Miles Gloriosus and Mostellaria |
| The Arena | 1974 | [also known as Naked Warriors] – a story of two female gladiators from the arena of Brundisium, dir. by Steve Carver |
| History of the World, Part I | 1981 | the section "The Roman Empire" of this broad satire is set in Rome |
| Amazons and Gladiators | 2001 | Australian action/adventure film of Roman times (dir. by Zachary Weintraub) |
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