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15 films tagged ancient world
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Little-known
2025 · Action
In seventh-century Arabia, a princess refuses to become the emperor's concubine and joins a famous bandit to stand against him. Big desert country, feuding tribes, and it builds towards a battle.
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2006 · Action
A young man from a forest village is taken captive in a raid and marched to a Mayan city, and then he runs. Most of the film is a chase through the jungle, very violent, in Mayan with subtitles.
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Little-known
2025 · Science fiction
A wrongly jailed inventor forces the time machine back on and takes mercenaries with modern guns two thousand years into the past, meaning to crown himself China's first emperor. Loud, busy action.
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Little-known
2025 · Fantasy
The second film of a Chinese fantasy trilogy: the city of Xiqi braces for a siege by the emperor's army, with immortals and demons taking sides. Big armies, big creatures, and a lot of mythology to keep up with.
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2026 · Fantasy
Twenty years after the Trojan War, Ithaca is still without its king, his wife besieged by suitors and his son gone to find out whether he is alive. It is a big film that cuts between journeys, with gods and mythical creatures in the way.
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Little-known
2026 · Drama
Krishna's life told through the women who love him: Radha in Vrindavan, then Rukmini and Satyabhama once he is king of Dvaraka. A devotional film, framed as a priest answering a doubter.
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2000 · Action
A Roman general betrayed by the new emperor is sold into slavery and fights his way back up through the arenas towards Rome. Big battles, big crowds, and a story that runs in a straight line.
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2024 · Action
Years after the first film, a captured man from a North African city is brought to Rome to fight in the Colosseum for an owner with plans of his own. Big crowds, big fights, and scheming in between.
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2002 · Action
A nameless swordsman is brought before the king of Qin to explain how he killed the three assassins who had been hunting him, and tells it more than once. Each version gets its own color, and the fights are closer to dance than to brawling.
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2013 · Animation
A bamboo cutter finds a tiny girl inside a stalk, and she grows fast into a young woman his new fortune turns into a lady of the capital. Drawn like a brush painting, and gentle for most of its length.
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Little-known
2023 · Drama
An English archaeologist just out of an Italian prison rejoins the gang of tomb robbers he used to dowse for, still looking for a woman who is gone. Loose, sunlit and a bit dreamlike.
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2024 · Science fiction
An architect who can stop time wants to rebuild New York as a utopia, and the mayor wants nothing of the sort. Enormous, strange and hard to summarise.
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1981 · Adventure
An archaeologist is sent to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis do, in 1936. One set piece after another with barely a pause.
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2006 · Action
Three hundred Spartan soldiers march out to hold a narrow coastal pass against a Persian army many times their size. It is one fight after another, shot in slow motion, with a narrator carrying you between them.
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1999 · Adventure
A librarian, her brother and a legionnaire dig up a city in Egypt in 1926 and wake something that was buried on purpose. Fast, funny and unbothered by history.
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