List of films based on the Bible
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This is a list of movies (including television movies) based on the Bible
Bible
The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...

 (Old Testament
Old Testament
The Old Testament, of which Christians hold different views, is a Christian term for the religious writings of ancient Israel held sacred and inspired by Christians which overlaps with the 24-book canon of the Masoretic Text of Judaism...

 and New Testament
New Testament
The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....

), depicting characters or figures from the Bible, or broadly derived from the revelations or interpretations therein.

Old Testament

  • The Bible: In the Beginning
    The Bible: In The Beginning
    The Bible: In the Beginning is a 1966 Biblical epic film recounting the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis. It was a joint American/Italian production conceived by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by John Huston. The music score is by Toshirô Mayuzumi. The production was photographed by...

     (1966)
  • In the Beginning
    In the Beginning (2000 film)
    In the Beginning is a 2-part miniseries directed by Kevin Connor. It stars Martin Landau and Jacqueline Bisset and it premiered on NBC on 12 November 2000.-Plot:...

     (2000 miniseries)
  • Greatest Heroes of the Bible (1978) (mini)

Genesis

  • Genesis: The Creation And The Flood (1994, TNT Bible Series)
  • The New Media Bible: Book of Genesis (1979) (USA)
  • Adam and Eve - Genesis 2-5
  • Adam and Eve (1912)
  • Adán, Eva y el diablo (1945) (Mexico)
  • Adam wa Hawa (1951) (Egypt)
  • Adam og Eva (1953) (Denmark)
  • Adán y Eva (1956) (Mexico)
  • El pecado de Adán y Eva
    El pecado de Adán y Eva
    El pecado de Adán y Eva is a Mexican Biblical epic film from 1969.-Production background:The film, directed by Miguel Zacarías, retells the Biblical story of Adam and Eve. Matinee idol Jorge Rivero played Adam, while newcomer Candice 'Candy' Wilson played Eve. There are no other actors in the film...

     (1969) (Mexico)
  • Adamo ed Eva, la prima storia d'amore (1983) (Italy)
  • Adipapam
    Adipapam
    Adipapam aka Aadhya Paapom is a 1988 Malayalam softcore biblical film directed by P. Chandrakumar and featuring Abhilasha in the lead role. The film is actually made as a family drama based on the biblical story of Adam and Eve. The lead characters appear completely nude in the film...

     (1988) (India)
  • The Flood - Genesis 6-9
  • Noah's Ark (1929)
  • Noah's Ark
    Noah's Ark (1999 film)
    Noah's Ark is a 1999 TV Film directed by John Irvin and starring Jon Voight and Mary Steenburgen. The film, as many other related film and television projects, re-tells the Biblical story of Noah's Ark from the Book of Genesis...

     (1999)
  • Abraham - Genesis 11:26-25:10
  • Abraham
    Abraham (film)
    Abraham is a 1994 television movie based on the life of the Biblical patriarch Abraham.-Plot:Abram lives in Haran, a rich city. His wife Sarah is childless, and their only heir is Eliezer of Damascus. One day he hears the voice of God, who says that he must leave Haran and travel to an unknown...

    , 1994 (TNT Bible Series)
  • Young Abraham
    Young Abraham
    Young Abraham is a CGI animated film portraying the early years of biblical Abraham.- Plot :The film opens with a portentous observation by King Nimrod's chief stargazer. He witnesses one star consuming four surrounding stars, after which an ethereal light emanating from the remaining star bathes...

    , 2011 (Bible Kids Club)
  • Sodom and Gomorrah - Genesis 19
  • Lot in Sodom
    Lot in Sodom
    Lot in Sodom is a short silent experimental film, based on the Biblical tale of the city of Sodom and Gomorrah. It was directed by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber....

     (1933)
  • Sodom and Gomorrah (1963)
  • Jacob - Genesis 25:26-49:33
  • Jacob (1994) (TNT Bible Series)
  • The Story of Jacob and Joseph (1974) (TV-movie)
  • Joseph - Genesis 37-50
  • Joseph in the Land of Egypt (1914)
  • Joseph
    Joseph (film)
    The Bible: Joseph is a German/Italian/American television movie from 1995, which tells the story of Joseph from the Old Testament.- Plot :Joseph, a Canaanite Hebrew, is an Egyptian slave to Potiphar, chief of Pharoah's palace guard. When Joseph is placed under the charge of Ednan, Potiphar's...

     (1995) (TNT Bible Series)
  • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
    Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
    Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly...

     (1999)
  • Joseph: King of Dreams
    Joseph: King of Dreams
    Joseph: King of Dreams is a 2000 American animated musical film and the first direct-to-video release from DreamWorks Animation. The film is an adaptation of the story of Joseph from the Book of Genesis in the Bible and also serves as a prequel to the 1998 film The Prince of Egypt.- Plot :Joseph is...

     (2000) - Genesis 37-50

Life of Joseph Film

Moses and the 40 years in the desert - Book of Exodus 

  • Moses the Lawgiver
    Moses the Lawgiver
    Moses the Lawgiver was a 1974, 6-part TV mini-series directed by Gianfranco De Bosio and James H. Hill, starring Burt Lancaster, Anthony Quayle, Ingrid Thulin and Irene Papas, with screenplay by Vittorio Bonicelli and Anthony Burgess, and music by Ennio Morricone.An ITC/RAI co-production, shooting...

     (1974 TV miniseries)
  • Moses (1996, TNT Bible Series)
  • The Prince of Egypt
    The Prince of Egypt
    The Prince of Egypt is a 1998 American animated musical drama film and the first traditionally animated film produced and released by DreamWorks Animation. The film is an adaptation of the Book of Exodus and follows the life of Moses from being a prince of Egypt to his ultimate destiny to lead the...

  • The Ten Commandments: The Musical
    The Ten Commandments: The Musical
    The Ten Commandments: The Musical is a musical with music by Patrick Leonard and lyrics by Maribeth Derry. The book is adapted from the French musical Les dix commandements created by Élie Chouraqui from an idea by Albert Cohen....

  • The Ten Commandments
    The Ten Commandments (1923 film)
    The Ten Commandments is a 1923 American epic silent film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Theodore Roberts as Moses, Charles de Rochefort as Pharaoh Ramesses, Estelle Taylor as Miriam the sister of Moses, and James Neill as Aaron, the brother of Moses...

    , 1923
  • The Ten Commandments
    The Ten Commandments (1956 film)
    The Ten Commandments is a 1956 American epic film that dramatized the biblical story of the Exodus, in which the Hebrew-born Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince, becomes the deliverer of the Hebrew slaves. The film, released by Paramount Pictures in VistaVision on October 5, 1956, was directed by...

    , 1956
  • The Ten Commandments, 2006 TV series
  • The Ten Commandments
    The Ten Commandments (2007 film)
    The Ten Commandments is a 2007 American computer animated film directed by John Stronach and Bill Boyce. The film was released to theaters on October 19, 2007 and on DVD on February 5, 2008.-Cast:*Ben Kingsley as Narrator*Elliott Gould as God...

    , 2007

History of the Israelites

  • Blast and Whisper, (2011) Celebrity Video Distribution (USA)
  • Jeremiah (1998, TNT Bible Series)
  • Daniel and the Lions (Liken Bible Series), 2006
  • The Story of Ruth
    The Story of Ruth
    The Story of Ruth is a 1960 American biblical drama film directed by Henry Koster, based on the Biblical account of Ruth. The title role is portrayed by Jewish actress Elana Eden, with Stuart Whitman as Boaz, Peggy Wood as Naomi, and Tom Tryon as Mahlon....

     (1960)
  • Ezekiel 38-39 - Apocalypse (film), 1998 ; Apocalypse II: Revelation
    Apocalypse II: Revelation
    Apocalypse II: Revelation is a 1999 Christian/thriller and sequel to Apocalypse by Cloud Ten Pictures.Three months have passed since the events of the previous film. Franco Macalousso has convinced many of those left behind that he is the true Messiah. But is he?Counter-terrorism expert Thorold...

    , 1999 ; Apocalypse III: Tribulation
    Apocalypse III: Tribulation
    Apocalypse III: Tribulation is a 2000 thriller film by Cloud Ten Pictures, starring Gary Busey, Howie Mandel, Nick Mancuso, and Margot Kidder...

    , 1999 ; Apocalypse IV: Judgment
    Apocalypse IV: Judgment
    Apocalypse IV: Judgment is a 2000 Christian/Thriller film released by Cloud Ten Pictures.It is the imminent future. The world follows one government and one man. It is a world of peace, yet some doubt the authorities and seek to dethrone them....

    , 2001

King David

  • David and Goliath (Liken Bible Series), 2005
  • The Chosen Prince, 1917 (aka The Friendship of David and Jonathan)
  • David and Bathsheba
    David and Bathsheba
    David and Bathsheba is a 1951 historical Technicolor epic film about King David made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Henry King, produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, from a screenplay by Philip Dunne. The music score was by Alfred Newman and the cinematography by Leon Shamroy...

    , 1951 - II Samuel 11
  • A Story of David
    A Story of David
    A Story of David is a 1961 British-Israeli drama film directed by Bob McNaught and starring Jeff Chandler, Basil Sydney and Peter Arne. It depicts the life of the Biblical King David.-Cast:* Jeff Chandler - David* Basil Sydney - King Saul...

     1960
  • David and Goliath 1960
  • Saul and David 1964
  • The Story of David, (1975) TV Miniseries USA
  • King David
    King David (film)
    King David is a 1985 film about the second king of Israel, David. It was filmed in 1984 in Matera and Craco, Italy. It was directed by Bruce Beresford and starred Richard Gere in the title role.-Cast:*Richard Gere as "David"*Edward Woodward as "Saul"...

    , 1985 - I & II Samuel
  • David (1997, TNT Bible Series)

Kings (2009 NBC T.V. Series)

King Solomon - 2 Samuel 5:14-1 Kings 11:41

  • Solomon (1997, TNT Bible Series)
  • The Queen of Sheba (1921) (USA)
  • Haring Solomon at Reyna Sheba (1952) (Philippines)
  • La Regina di Saba
    La Regina di Saba
    La Regina di Saba is a 1952 Italian film. King Solomon sends his son, Prince Rehoboam on a spy mission to Sheba where he falls in love with the beautiful Queen...

     (1952) (Italy)
  • Solomon and Sheba
    Solomon and Sheba
    Solomon and Sheba is a 1959 Biblical epic film made by Edward Small Productions and distributed by United Artists. The film stars Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida, George Sanders and Marisa Pavan, with David Farrar, Harry Andrews, Jack Gwillim, Laurence Naismith, William Devlin, Jean Anderson and...

     (1959)
  • Solomon & Sheba (1995) (TV) (USA)
  • The Kingdom of Solomon
    The Kingdom of Solomon (film)
    The Kingdom of Solomon is an Iranian religious/historical film trilogy, produced by Mojtaba Faravardeh and directed by Shahriar Bahrani who has made Saint Mary before....

    , 2009

Samson and Delilah - Judges 13-16

  • Samson
    Samson (1961 film)
    Samson is a 1961 film made by Academy Award-winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda that uses art house aesthetics to tell a story about the Holocaust. Wajda's World War II film alludes to the Old Testament story of Samson, who had supernatural physical strength...

    , 1961
  • Samson and Delilah
    Samson and Delilah (1996 film)
    Samson and Delilah is a German/Italian/American telefilm that premiered on TNT on December 8, 1996. It was directed by Nicolas Roeg. This biblical movie was shot in Morocco.- Storyline :...

    , 1996
  • Samson and Delilah
    Samson and Delilah (1984 film)
    Samson and Delilah is a 1984 television movie adaptation of the biblical story of Samson and Delilah, starring Max von Sydow, Belinda Bauer, Antony Hamilton, Daniel Stern and Victor Mature, who played Samson in the 1949 film, having a small cameo as the father of Antony Hamilton's Samson...

    , 1984 (TNT Bible Series)
  • Samson and Delilah
    Samson and Delilah (1949 film)
    Samson and Delilah is a 1949 film made by Paramount Pictures , produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr as the title characters...

    , 1949
  • Samson and Delilah
    Samson and Delilah (1922 film)
    Samson und Delila is an Austrian silent film, premiered in Vienna on 25 December 1922. It was released in the United Kingdom in October 1923 as Samson and Delilah...

    , 1922

Esther
Esther
Esther , born Hadassah, is the eponymous heroine of the Biblical Book of Esther.According to the Bible, she was a Jewish queen of the Persian king Ahasuerus...

  • Esther
    Esther
    Esther , born Hadassah, is the eponymous heroine of the Biblical Book of Esther.According to the Bible, she was a Jewish queen of the Persian king Ahasuerus...

     (1996, TNT Bible Series)
  • One Night with the King
    One Night with the King
    One Night with the King is a historical epic film that was released in 2006 in the United States. Based on the novel Hadassah: One Night with the King by Tommy Tenney and Mark Andrew Olsen, One Night with the King is a dramatization of the Old Testament Bible story of Esther, who risked her life by...

     (2006)
  • Esther and the King (Liken Bible Series) (2006)
  • Esther and the King
    Esther and the King
    Esther and the King is a 1960 U.S.A. / Italian film direction, written, and produced by Raoul Walsh. It is a religious epic. It was produced at 20th Century Fox/ Raoul Walsh Productions, and was released by 20th Century Fox. Joan Collins stars as Esther in this melodramatic, routine Biblical story...

     (1960)

Life of Christ

  • Passion Play
    Passion play
    A Passion play is a dramatic presentation depicting the Passion of Jesus Christ: his trial, suffering and death. It is a traditional part of Lent in several Christian denominations, particularly in Catholic tradition....

     (1903) (USA) (series of 31 shorts, totaling 61 minutes)
  • Vie et Passion du Christ
    Vie et Passion du Christ
    Vie et Passion du Christ is a 44-minute French silent film that was produced and released in 1903. As such, it is one of the earliest feature-length narrative films....

     (1905) (France)
  • From the Manger to the Cross
    From the Manger to the Cross
    From the Manger to the Cross or Jesus of Nazareth is a 1912 American motion picture filmed on location in Palestine which tells the story of Jesus' life. Directed by Sidney Olcott who also appeared in the film, actress and screenwriter Gene Gauntier wrote the script and portrayed the Virgin Mary...

     (1912) (USA)
  • Christus (1916) [Italy]
  • Intolerance
    Intolerance (film)
    Intolerance is a 1916 American silent film directed by D. W. Griffith and is considered one of the great masterpieces of the Silent Era. The three-and-a-half hour epic intercuts four parallel storylines each separated by several centuries: A contemporary melodrama of crime and redemption; a...

     (1916) (USA)
  • I.N.R.I. (film) (1923) (Germany)
  • The King of Kings (1927) (USA)
  • Golgotha (1935) (France)
  • King of Kings (1961) (USA)
  • Il vangelo secondo Matteo
    The Gospel According to St. Matthew (film)
    The Gospel According to St. Matthew is a 1964 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. It is a retelling of the story of Jesus Christ, from the Nativity through the Resurrection....

     (The Gospel According to St. Matthew) (1964) (Italy)
  • The Greatest Story Ever Told
    The Greatest Story Ever Told
    The Greatest Story Ever Told is a 1965 American epic film produced and directed by George Stevens and distributed by United Artists. It is a retelling of the story of Jesus Christ, from the Nativity through the Resurrection. This film is notable for its large ensemble cast and for being the last...

     (1965) (USA)
  • Wednesday Play: Son of Man (1969) (UK)
  • Godspell
    Godspell
    Godspell is a musical by Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak. It opened off Broadway on May 17, 1971, and has played in various touring companies and revivals many times since, including a 2011 revival now playing on Broadway...

     (1973) (USA)
  • Gospel Road: A Story of Jesus (1973) (USA)
  • Jesus Christ Superstar
    Jesus Christ Superstar
    Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Tim Rice. The musical started off as a rock opera concept recording before its first staging on Broadway in 1971...

     (1973) (USA)
  • The Thorn
    The Thorn
    The Thorn is a comic, religious satire movie released on 1974 May 24 as The Divine Mr. J. It was first shown as The Greatest Story Overtold at the Detroit Institute of Art in 1971. It was released on video in the early 1980s as The Thorn. It was written, directed and produced by Peter Alexander...

     (1974) (USA)
  • The Messiah (1975) (Italy)
  • The Passover Plot
    The Passover Plot
    The Passover Plot is the name of a controversial, best-selling 1965 book, by British Biblical scholar Hugh J. Schonfield who has also published a translation of the New Testament informed with a Jewish perspective....

     (1976) (USA)
  • Jesus of Nazareth
    Jesus of Nazareth (film)
    Jesus of Nazareth is a 1977 Anglo-Italian television mini-series dramatising the birth, life, ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus based on the accounts in the four New Testament Gospels....

     (1977 miniseries) (Italy) (UK)
  • The Nativity (1978, TV)
  • The New Media Bible: The Gospel According to St. Luke (1979) (USA)
  • Jesus
    Jesus (1979 film)
    Jesus , is a 1979 motion picture which depicts the life of Jesus Christ according primarily to the Gospel of Luke in the Bible...

     (1979) (USA)
  • Jesus - The Film (1986) (Germany)
  • The Last Temptation of Christ (film)
    The Last Temptation of Christ (film)
    The Last Temptation of Christ is a 1988 drama film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is a film adaptation of the controversial 1953 novel of the same name by Nikos Kazantzakis. It stars Willem Dafoe as Jesus Christ, Harvey Keitel as Judas Iscariot, Barbara Hershey as Mary Magdalene, David Bowie as...

     (1988) (USA)
  • The Judas Project (1990) (USA)
  • The Visual Bible: Matthew (1997) (South Africa)
  • Jesus
    Jesus (1999 film)
    Jesus is a Biblical telefilm that retells the story of Jesus. It was shot in Morocco and Malta. It stars Jeremy Sisto as Jesus, Jacqueline Bisset as Mary of Nazareth, Debra Messing as Mary Magdalene and Gary Oldman as Pontius Pilate.-Overview:...

     (1999, TV) (USA)
  • Mary, Mother of Jesus
    Mary, Mother of Jesus (film)
    Mary, Mother of Jesus is a made-for-television Biblical film that retells the story of Jesus through the eyes of Mary, his mother. It stars Swedish Pernilla August and Melinda Kinnaman as Mary, David Threlfall as Joseph and Christian Bale as Jesus. The film was produced by Eunice Kennedy Shriver...

     (1999, TV) (USA)
  • Jesus Christ Superstar
    Jesus Christ Superstar
    Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Tim Rice. The musical started off as a rock opera concept recording before its first staging on Broadway in 1971...

     (2000) (UK)
  • The Miracle Maker (2000) (UK)
  • Gospel of John
    The Gospel of John (film)
    The Gospel of John is a 2003 film that is the story of Jesus' life as recounted by the Gospel of John. It is a motion picture that has been adapted for the screen on a word-for-word basis from the American Bible Society's Good News Bible...

     (2003) (Canada/UK)
  • The Passion of the Christ
    The Passion of the Christ
    The Passion of the Christ is a 2004 American drama film directed by Mel Gibson and starring Jim Caviezel as Jesus. It depicts the Passion of Jesus largely according to the New Testament Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John...

     (2004) (USA)
  • The Son of Man
    Son of Man (film)
    Son of Man is a 2005 movie directed by South African director Mark Dornford-May. It was the first South African movie to make its debut at Sundance Film Festival.-Plot:...

     (2005) (South Africa)
  • The First Christmas (Liken Bible Series (2006) (USA)
  • The Gospel of Mark (2006)
  • The Nativity Story
    The Nativity Story
    The Nativity Story is a 2006 drama film based on the nativity of Jesus starring Keisha Castle-Hughes and Shohreh Aghdashloo. Filming began on May 1, 2006 in Matera, Italy and in Morocco. New Line Cinema released it on December 1, 2006 in the United States and one week later on December 8 in the...

     (2006) (USA)
  • The Final Inquiry / L'inchiesta (2006) (Italy)
  • Color of the Cross
    Color of the Cross
    Color of the Cross is a 2006 religious film written by, directed by, and starring Jean-Claude La Marre.The film is one of the few depictions of Christ as a black man, and portrays Jesus' persecution as the result of racism.-Plot:...

     (2006) (USA)

Salome

  • Salome (1908) (USA)
  • Salome (1910) (Italy)
  • Salome
    Salomé (1918 film)
    Salomé is a silent film produced by William Fox and starring actress Theda Bara. The film is now considered to be lost.Henri Langlois, a French film preservationist, said he had the opportunity to buy this film but dismissed it as Fox, Theda Bara, and American spectacle...

     (1918) (USA)
  • Salome
    Salomé (1923 film)
    Salomé , a silent film directed by Charles Bryant and starring Alla Nazimova, is a film adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play of the same name...

     (1923) (USA)
  • Salome
    Salome (1953 film)
    Salome is a Biblical epic film made in Technicolor by Columbia Pictures. It was directed by William Dieterle and produced by Buddy Adler from a screenplay by Harry Kleiner and Jesse Lasky Jr. The music score was by George Duning, the dance music by Daniele Amfitheatrof and the cinematography by...

     (1953) (USA)
  • Salome (1972) (Italy)
  • Salome (1978) (Spain)
  • Salome's Last Dance
    Salome's Last Dance
    Salome's Last Dance is a 1988 film by British film director, Ken Russell. Although most of the action is a verbatim performance of Oscar Wilde's 1893 play Salome, which is itself based on a story from the New Testament, there is also a framing narrative written by Russell himself...

     (1988) (UK)
  • Salome
    Salomé (2002 film)
    Salomé is a 2002 Spanish film directed by Carlos Saura. The film is told from the perspective of a flamenco dance company that will mount a show devoted to the mythical and biblical figure of Salomé, as a story of love and vengeance...

     (2002) (Spain)
  • Salome (2007) (USA)

Judas Iscariot

  • Blade af Satans bog (1920) (Denmark)
  • Neither Are We Enemies
    Neither Are We Enemies
    Neither Are We Enemies is a made-for-television drama that is set in Judea at the time of Christ. It was broadcast on NBC as a Hallmark Hall of Fame Easter special on March 13, 1970.-Plot:...

     (1970-TV) (USA)
  • Judas
    Judas (film)
    Judas is a 2004 film depicting the intertwined lives of Judas Iscariot and Jesus. The story depicts Judas as having sympathetic motives, desiring to free the Jewish people from Roman rule.-Plot:...

     (2004) (USA)
  • El beso de Judas (1954) (Spain)

Barabbas

  • Barabbas
    Barabbas (1953 film)
    Barabbas is a 1953 Swedish drama film directed by Alf Sjöberg. It is based on the novel Barabbas by Pär Lagerkvist. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival....

     (1953) (Swedish)
  • Barabbas (1961)
  • Give Us Barabbas
    Give Us Barabbas
    Give Us Barabbas is the fifth studio album of the American rock band Masters of Reality, released in 2004.- Track listing :*All songs by Chris Goss, unless otherwise stated.#"The Ballad of Jody Frosty" - 7:30#"Voice and the Vision" - 3:38...

     (1961-TV) (USA)
  • Barabbas (1964) (Belgium)

Life of the Apostles

  • The Big Fisherman
    The Big Fisherman
    The Big Fisherman is a 1959 American film directed by Frank Borzage about the later life of Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus.The film is adapted from a novel written by Lloyd C. Douglas...

     (1959) (USA)
  • Acts of the Apostles
    Acts of the Apostles
    The Acts of the Apostles , usually referred to simply as Acts, is the fifth book of the New Testament; Acts outlines the history of the Apostolic Age...

     / Atti degli apostoli (1969) (Italy)
  • I, Paul (1980) (USA)
  • Peter and Paul
    Peter and Paul
    Peter and Paul is a 1981 film starring Anthony Hopkins as Paul of Tarsus and Robert Foxworth as Peter the Fisherman, David Gwillim as Mark and Jon Finch as Luke. It was directed by Robert Day. The film mostly shows the works of Paul, beginning with his being struck down and converted by the Lord...

     (1981-TV) (UK)
  • A.D.
    A.D. (film)
    A.D. is a British/Italian miniseries from 1985 in 6 parts which tells the Acts of the Apostles. Considered as the third and final installment in a TV miniseries trilogy which began with Moses the Lawgiver and Franco Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth , it was adapted from Anthony Burgess's novel The...

     (1985 miniseries)
  • The Emissary (1997) (USA)
  • The Visual Bible:Acts (1997) (USA)
  • Stephen's Test of Faith (1998) (USA)
  • Paul the Apostle (2000) (The Bible Collection)
  • St. Paul (2000-TV) (Italy, Czech Republic, Germany)
  • St. Peter (2005-TV) (Italy)

Ben-Hur

  • Ben Hur
    Ben Hur (1907 film)
    Ben Hur is a 15 minute long 1907 silent film, the first film version of Lew Wallace's novel Ben-Hur, one of the best-selling books at that time....

     (1907 short) (USA)
  • Ben-Hur
    Ben-Hur (1925 film)
    Ben-Hur is a 1925 silent film directed by Fred Niblo. It was a blockbuster hit for newly merged Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This was the second film based on the novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace...

     (1925) (USA)
  • Ben-Hur
    Ben-Hur (1959 film)
    Ben-Hur is a 1959 American epic film directed by William Wyler and starring Charlton Heston in the title role, the third film adaptation of Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. The screenplay was written by Karl Tunberg, Gore Vidal, and Christopher Fry. The score was composed by...

     (1959) (USA)
  • Ben Hur
    Ben Hur (2003 film)
    Ben Hur is a 2003 animated film based on the novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, by Lew Wallace. It is the fourth film adaptation of the novel....

     (2003) (USA)

Early Christians

  • Quo Vadis? (1901) (France)
  • Quo Vadis? (1910) (France)
  • Quo Vadis? (1912) (Italy)
  • The Sign of the Cross (1914) (USA)
  • Quo Vadis? (1924) (Germany)
  • The Sign of the Cross
    The Sign of the Cross (film)
    The Sign of the Cross is a pre-Code epic film released by Paramount Pictures, produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille from a screenplay by Waldemar Young and Sidney Buchman, and based on the original 1895 play by Wilson Barrett....

     (1932) (USA)
  • Quo Vadis?
    Quo Vadis (1951 film)
    Quo Vadis is a 1951 epic film made by MGM. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sam Zimbalist, from a screenplay by John Lee Mahin, S. N. Behrman and Sonya Levien, adapted from Henryk Sienkiewicz's classic 1896 novel Quo Vadis. The music score was by Miklós Rózsa and the cinematography...

     (1951)
  • The Robe
    The Robe (film)
    The Robe is a 1953 American Biblical epic film that tells the story of a Roman military tribune who commands the unit that crucifies Jesus. The film was made by 20th Century Fox and is notable for being the first film released in the widescreen process CinemaScope.It was directed by Henry Koster...

     (1953)
  • Demetrius and the Gladiators
    Demetrius and the Gladiators
    Demetrius and the Gladiators is a 1954 sword and sandal drama film and a sequel to The Robe. It was made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Delmer Daves and produced by Frank Ross. The screenplay was by Philip Dunne based on characters created by Lloyd C...

     (1954; a sequel to The Robe)
  • The Silver Chalice
    The Silver Chalice (film)
    The Silver Chalice is a 1954 historical epic film from Warner Bros., based on Thomas B. Costain's 1952 novel of the same name.-Plot:A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels to Jerusalem and...

     (1954)
  • Quo Vadis? (1985 TV mini-series) (Italy)
  • Quo Vadis?
    Quo Vadis (2001 film)
    Quo Vadis is a 2001 Polish film directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz based on the book of the same title by Henryk Sienkiewicz. It was Poland's submission to the 74th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not nominated....

     (2001) (Poland)

Revelation / Apocalypse

  • The Seventh Sign
    The Seventh Sign
    The Seventh Sign is a 1988 apocalyptic drama film written by Clifford and Ellen Green and directed by Carl Schultz.-Plot:Signs of the apocalypse are appearing, along with a mysterious wanderer. Father Lucci is the Vatican official investigating them...

     (1988)
  • A Distant Thunder
    A Distant Thunder (1978 film)
    A Distant Thunder is a 1978 evangelical, fundamentalist Christian film by Russell S. Doughten and directed by Donald W. Thompson. The film is a sequel to the 1972 film A Thief in the Night, which portrayed the event in Christian eschatology sometimes called the Rapture...

     (1978)
  • Early Warning (1981)
  • Apocalypse (1998) (V)
  • Apocalypse (2004)
  • Gone (2002)
  • Image of the Beast
    Image of the Beast (film)
    Image of the Beast is a 1981 film by Russell S. Doughten and directed by Donald M. Thompson. It is part of a series of four films popular in evangelical Christian groups, dealing with the subject of bible prophecy. The film is an account of the rise of the antichrist, who establishes a world...

     (1980)
  • The Late Great Planet Earth
    The Late, Great Planet Earth
    The Late, Great Planet Earth is the title of a best-selling 1970 book co-authored by Hal Lindsey and Carole C. Carlson, and first published by Zondervan. The book was adapted in 1979 into a movie narrated by Orson Welles and released by Pacific International Enterprises. It was originally...

     (1979)
  • Left Behind: The Movie
    Left Behind: The Movie
    Left Behind is a Christian based film released in 2000 and starring Kirk Cameron, Brad Johnson, Gordon Currie and Clarence Gilyard. It was directed by Vic Sarin. Left Behind was proclaimed by its creators as the biggest and most ambitious Christian film ever made...

     (2000) (V)
  • Left Behind II: Tribulation Force
    Left Behind II: Tribulation Force
    Left Behind II: Tribulation Force is a Christian Bible-based apocalyptic/thriller film, and the second in a series of films based on the Left Behind book series written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. It was produced and distributed by Cloud Ten Pictures and Namesake Entertainment. The film was...

     (2002) (V)
  • Left Behind: World at War
    Left Behind: World at War
    Left Behind: World at War is a Christian Bible-based apocalyptic/thriller film and the third in the series of films based on the Left Behind book series. It was produced by Cloud Ten Pictures. The film premiered in churches on October 21, 2005 before its release on DVD and VHS on October 25, 2005...

     (2005)
  • Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
    Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
    Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 is the prequel/sequel to the 1999 film The Omega Code. The film is more of an alternate film to the first film. Michael York detailed the entire film in a journal which he then published in book form called Dispatches From Armageddon.-Plot:Gavin Fink plays this younger...

     (2001)
  • The Moment After
    The Moment After
    The Moment After is a Christian film released through the Christiano Film Group in 1999. The film, produced for less than $250,000, stars David A.R. White and Kevin Downes as FBI agents caught up in the world of the Rapture. The film was written and directed by Wes Llewelyn...

     (1999)
  • The Moment After 2 (2006)
  • The Omega Code
    The Omega Code
    The Omega Code is a 1999 thriller film directed by Robert Marcarelli, starring Casper Van Dien as the protagonist, Dr. Gillen Lane, and Michael York as the antagonist. Its main plot presents an Evangelical Christian view about the millennium, and a plot by the Antichrist to take over the world...

     (1999)
  • The Poor Ones in the Paradise (2005)
  • The Prodigal Planet
    The Prodigal Planet
    The Prodigal Planet is a 1983 film by Russell S. Doughten and directed by Donald W. Thompson. It is the fourth in a series of at least five films based on an evangelical interpretation of Bible prophecy and the rise of the Antichrist...

     (1983)
  • Revelation (1999)
  • Six: The Mark Unleashed
    Six: The Mark Unleashed
    Six: The Mark Unleashed is a 2004 Christian action-drama film starring Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Downes, David A.R. White, Eric Roberts, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan...

     (2004)
  • A Thief in the Night (1972)
  • Tribulation (2000)
  • Years of the Beast (1981)

See also

  • The Bible in film
    The Bible in film
    -History:It has long been more popular to make films about the Old Testament than the New Testament. Many of the tales in the Old Testament are well suited for epic films. They contain sweeping, but relatively straightforward, narratives of good versus evil. They also feature crowd-pleasing...

  • Dramatic portrayals of Jesus Christ
  • Lists of movie source material
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