Peplum Movies

In 54 B.C. Julius Caesar seeks to solidify his position in Rome by putting down a rebellion in Gaul led by a tribal chieftain named Vercingetorix....

To avenge his father's death and free the people of Seriphos from the evil King Galinor of Argus, the noble Perseus must defeat a dragon -- and the...

Historical drama depicting the last of the Punic Wars between the Roman Republic and Carthage.

A beautiful girl and a young physician fall in love in the midst of a family, and power struggle between rival princes of Upper and Lower Egypt. When...

Don Fernando rallies peasants and townspeople to overthrow Moorish occupiers in medieval Spain.

Obro the muscleman goes to Atlantis and sinks a death-ray king who knows the secret of immortality.

Hercules comes from Greece to Ravenna, Italy, because a friend from childhood days has sent for him: Hercules should help the Roman Emperor who is in...

Hamilan, a cruel and ambitious general, murders his king and places himself on the throne with the former king's evil niece as his queen. He then...

Maciste travels to Hell to find a witch and make her undo a curse she put on the surface world.

The poetess Sappho led an uprising against the corrupt government of the island of Lesbos.

Reg Park returns to his antics of old as the man of iron in HERCULES THE AVENGER. The Son of Jove undertakes another journey into the nether realms...

The rightful heir to the throne of Babylon leads a slave revolt against an evil ruler.

Maciste travels to Egypt, where he leads a revolt against an evil queen. In Son of Samson, Maciste (Mark Forrest) -- scion of the famed muscleman --...

A Roman soldier falls in love with the daughter of a Greek city's anti-Roman leader.

A documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre.

The history of the peplum genre, known as sword-and-sandal cinema, set in Antiquity, from the silent film era to the present day.

In Roman-dominated Egypt, the corrupt administration of a governor named Petronius has sparked a revolt headed by El Kabir, a young man who learns...

Strongman Maciste must battle the one-eyed Cyclops monster that is ravaging the land of Sadok, while at the same time fending off the advances of the...

Hercules, after sailing global waters is eventually shipwrecked in South America. After losing his Greek shipmates, Hercules is enlisted to...