9 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 1st Century BC
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Dragon Blade
🇨🇳 China The 1st Century BCWhen the Eagle meets the Dragon — Huo An, the commander of the Protection Squad of the Western Regions, was framed by evil forces and becomes enslaved. On the other hand, a Roman general escapes to China after rescuing the Prince. The heroic duo meet in the Western Desert and a thrilling story unfolds.
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Sandstorm
🇮🇳 India The 1st Century BCThe film, which won the 1988 National Film Award for Best First Film of a Director for its "excellent exploration of complex philosophical theme for the first time in Indian cinema," is set in the Buddhist town of Sariput in the desert of Central Asia in the 1st century B.C. The town is struck by a devastating sand storm that leaves behind only four survivors: two monks and two children taking refuge in the monastery. Twenty years later, the monks have become old, while the boy and the girl have grown and fallen in love. The jealous monk deceitfully persuades the boy into becoming a monk, yet the girl wins him back, as a result both are expelled from the monastery, and that is when the sandstorm strikes once again..
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Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ
🇵🇸 Palestine 🇮🇹 Italy The 1st Century BCIn antique Rome, a simple pepboy for chars becomes involved in a coup against Cesar. Rahatlocum is a North African Roman colony where Julius Caesar came to spend an expensive holiday. The revolt rumbles among the small people who find a leader in the person of Ben-Hur Marcel.
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Life of Brian
🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇸 Palestine 🇮🇹 Italy The 1st Century The 1st Century BCHe wasn't the messiah. He was a very naughty boy. — Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs.
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The Small One
🇮🇱 Israel 🇮🇹 Italy The 1st Century BCOrdered by his father to sell his old, small donkey, Small One, a Hebrew boy in ancient Israel takes the donkey to the Jerusalem market. Finding no buyers there, the boy is about to give up when he meets a kind man named Joseph. Joseph buys Small One and uses him to take his pregnant wife Mary to Bethlehem.
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Carry On Cleo
🇪🇬 Egypt 🇮🇹 Italy The 1st Century BCThe Funniest Film Since 54 B.C. — Two Brits—inventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighter—are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mistaken for a fighter, and gets drafted into the Royal Guard to protect Cleopatra.
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Cleopatra
🇪🇬 Egypt 🇮🇹 Italy The 1st Century BCThe motion picture the world has been waiting for! — Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Caesar’s successor has other plans.
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Serpent of the Nile
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1st Century BCHer Passion Ruled Rome! — Cleopatra (Rhonda Fleming) toys with Mark Antony (Raymond Burr), who wants to merge his Rome with her Egypt.
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Cleopatra
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1st Century BCThe love affair that shook the world! — The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.
