term "peplum" (a Latin word referring to the ancient Greek garment peplos) was introduced by French film critics in the 1960s. The terms "peplum" and "sword-and-sandal"...

Sword-and-sandal films, a derogatory reference to the genre of Greco-Roman Era costume/adventure films mostly produced in Italy, also known as "peplum". Péplum (novel)...

historical drama films Greek mythology in popular culture Peplum (film genre) Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film. B.C. Dalai Editore...

La guerra di Troia) is a 1961 Italian peplum film set in the tenth and final year of the Trojan War. The film focuses primarily on the exploits of the...

10 September 2020.[dead link‍] "Antike im Film | Epics | Monumentalfilme | Sandalone | Bibelfilme | peplum | Sandalenfilm | Sword and Sandal : Filme"...

Thebes (Italian: Il leone di Tebe, French: Hélène, reine de Troie) is a peplum film written and directed by Giorgio Ferroni. When the Greek army conquers...

fuoco) is a 1983 Italian film directed by Franco Prosperi, starring Sabrina Siani and Pietro Torrisi. The film is among the peplums of the 1980s to feature...

in a series of biblical adventure films (peplums) in the early 1960s. He possessed amazing strength, and the films were similar in theme to their Hercules...

Mythica: Stormbound (2024) Red Sonja (2024) List of high fantasy films and TV series Peplum (film genre) McCullough V, Joseph A. (20 March 2022). "The Demarcation...

January 1925. Retrieved 14 August 2021. The Peplum in the days of silent cinema, 1, ch. of "Cinema Peplum" Dominic Cammarota, "Future essays" n. 14, and...

The Fall of Rome (Italian: Il crollo di Roma) is a 1963 Italian peplum film written and directed by Anthony Dawson. Immediately following the death of...

Against the Son of Hercules (Italian: Ulisse contro Ercole) is a 1962 peplum film directed by Mario Caiano. Hercules captures Ulysses, during the latter's...

title: War Gods of Babylon) is a 1962 Italian peplum colour film set in ancient Mesopotamia. The film anachronistically portrays as contemporaries several...

mid-1960s. As the péplum genre faded, Scott starred in spaghetti Westerns and Eurospy films. His final film appearance was in The Tramplers (filmed in 1966; released...

films set in ancient Rome List of films set in ancient Egypt List of films based on classical mythology List of films based on Greek drama List of fiction...

create an "organic, gourd or pumpkin kind of effect", which includes the peplum at the waist, the flared, skirt-like fabric blossoming from below his doublet...

Messalina (Italian: Messalina Venere imperatrice) is a 1960 Italian peplum film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi. After the death of the Emperor Caligula...

(Ben Hur, The Magnificent Gladiator, Quo Vadis). The only other films made during the peplum era to use a Hellenistic setting are Hannibal (1959), Revak the...

In the film industry, unsimulated sex is the presentation of sex scenes in which actors genuinely perform the depicted sex acts, rather than simulating...

peplum film directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Steve Reeves and Gianna Maria Canale. It is an unofficial sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 1960 film Spartacus...

Race (2002 film) 2002: Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra 2001: Le Petit Poucet 1998: Trafic d'influence 1998: Serial Lover 2019: Peplum (mini-série)...

historical drama. Samurai films like Zatoichi and Lone Wolf and Cub series also fall under historical drama umbrella. Peplum films also known as sword-and-sandal...

historical inaccuracies and even called "pure peplum propaganda." List of historical films List of films set in ancient Rome "Conqueror of Corinth (1961)"...

Maciste contro il vampiro) is a 1961 Italian peplum film directed by Sergio Corbucci and Giacomo Gentilomo. The film features the famed superhero Maciste as...

di teste, lit. 'Maciste against the head-hunters'), is a 1963 Italian peplum film written and directed by Guido Malatesta, and starring Kirk Morris. The...

international co-production peplum film shot in Yugoslavia. It was written and directed by Gianfranco Parolini in his first film with Brad Harris who plays...

hundred films. From 1963 until 1976, Civirani produced and directed 20 films in such diverse genres as erotic mondo film, peplum, eurospy film, Spaghetti...

Cleopatra by Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1963) Sword-and-sandal, also known as peplum (pepla plural), is a subgenre of largely Italian-made historical, mythological...

an Italian film director, producer, cinematographer, and screenwriter who worked in many genres (westerns, decamerotici, peplum, war films, swashbuckler...

Barbarians') is a 1959 Italian peplum film loosely based on events of the Lombard invasion of Italy in AD 568. As with many Italian peplums of the time, the English...