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 | Italian production. | ||
| 1917 | Cleopatra | J. Gordon Edwards | American film with Theda Bara as Cleopatra |
| Year | Title | Director | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922 | The Loves of Pharaoh | Ernst Lubitsch | ||
| 1923 | The Ten Commandments | Cecil B. DeMille | ||
| 1924 | The Moon of Israel | |||
| 1928 | Cleopatra |
| 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 | ||
| 1957 | The Story of Mankind | ||
| 1959 | Legions of the Nile | Vittorio Cottafavi | Italian film |
| 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 | 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | |||
| 2000 | Princes and Princesses | ||
| 2000 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 2009 | Agora | ||
| 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 | |||
| 2013 | The Bible | ||
| 2014 | Decline of an Empire | ||
| 2014 | 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 | |||
| 2016 | Gods of Egypt | ||
| 2016 | The Young Messiah | ||
| 2016 | |||
| 2017 | The Mummy | ||