Peplum Movies

Giacomo Casanova returns to Venice, to help his brother, falsely accused of robbery.

Octavio secretly sent his consul Curridio to Alexandria in a final attempt to reach peace. In the city, he meets Berenice, a mysterious and beautiful...

The Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else.

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...

An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil premier, hungry for power and wealth, from succeeding the...

In this costume adventure, a dashing swordsman helps protect Philip III of Spain from the traitors trying to overthrow him.

Though Genghis Khan eventually sought peace with the West, his death in 1227 AD puts into power his three war-like sons: Sayan, Susdal, and Kin Khan....

In order to persuade the Emperor to spare his village, the mighty Ursus is forced to fight the greatest gladiator in Rome in the Roman Arena.

In British colonial India, Lt. Dick Ramsay is charged with secretly rescuing the kidnapped daughter of the British viceroy of India and her...

The god Zeus sends Venus, the goddess of love, to Earth to find her own true love.

Biblical figure Jacob is forced to flee for his life when an enraged Esau vows to kill him.

After wedding the beautiful Genoveffa, Count Sigfrido of Treviri employs his right-hand man to look after his bride while he's away fighting in the...

The silent cinema had already created colossal movies based on ancient civilizations, but it is in the 1950s when peplums reach their apogee in...

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

The story of Hadji Murad, a 19th-century Chechen chieftain who led his warriors in a fight against the invading forces of the Russian Czar.

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

Hercules battles an evil sorceress who turns men into werewolves. The mythic duo returns in Prisoner of Evil, where a sorceress seduces Herc and...

An orphan, raised by a foreign tribe, becomes a warrior queen and falls in love with the leader of her enemies.

Intrigue at the Roman Emperor's court prior to its destruction by Vesuvius.

Bodybuilder Ed Fury stars as the legendary Ursus in this above-average sword-and-sandal adventure from veteran director Carlo Campogalliani. The plot...