# List of films set in ancient Egypt

This article lists films set in ancient Egypt. This also includes mythological films and films only partially set in ancient Egypt.

## 1890s

| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 1899 | Cléopâtre | Georges Méliès | The earliest known version considered to be lost, retrieved 2005. |

## 1900s

| 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

| 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

| Year | Title | Director |
| 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

| 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

| 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

| 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 | Cecil B. DeMille | Remake or expanded version of DeMille’s own 1923 film |
| 1957 | The Story of Mankind | | |
| 1959 | Legions of the Nile | Vittorio Cottafavi | Italian film |

## 1960s

| 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

| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 1970 | Cleopatra | | |
| 1972 | Antony and Cleopatra | Charlton Heston | 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

| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 1980 | The Awakening | Mike Newell | |
| 1980 | The Curse of King Tut's Tomb | | |
| 1981 | Sphinx | Franklin J. Schaffner | |
| 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

| 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

| 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 | Alejandro Amenábar | |

## 2010s

| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 2010 | The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec | Luc Besson | 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 | Ridley Scott | 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 | Alex Proyas | |
| 2016 | The Young Messiah | | |
| 2016 | X-Men: Apocalypse | Bryan Singer | |
| 2017 | The Mummy | | |