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.

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

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

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

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

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

1890s

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

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

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1980	The Awakening	Mike Newell
1980	The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
1981	Dawn of the Mummy (1981 film)
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

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

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

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