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Filmography of Cleopatra VII

Political

1 title in the archive · first depicted 48 BCE

Lived69 BCE – 30 BCE

The last active ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt, whose alliances with Caesar and Mark Antony tied her kingdom to Rome’s civil wars.

Shelfmark Vita XXII

1
title
1 film
3.6/5
average rating
across 1 rated title
4h 11m
on screen
across 1 title

3 years of a 39 year life depicted onscreen

Distinct years the archive depicts, against Cleopatra VII’s lifetime (69 BCE – 30 BCE) — 7.7% of it.

Depicted in

48 BCE44 BCE31 BCE

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Battle of Actiumpull it on the timeline

Event · Part of Fall of the Roman Republic

The pivotal naval engagement between the forces of Octavian and the combined navy of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII off the coast of Actium in Greece. After suffering badly at the hands of a surrounding Roman force, Antony's forces were routed, fleeing to Egypt where they were ultimately defeated at Alexandria, spurring Antony and Cleopatra to take their own lives and paving the way for Octavian's ascendance as Augustus, first Emperor of the Roman Empire.

filed under 31 BCE

Runs throughCrisis of the Roman Republic3Hellenistic Period2Pax Romana

The Box Office Ledger

What the films portraying Cleopatra VII cost to make and took at the worldwide box office, as TMDB records them.

$36.1 million
in budgets
over 1 film with both sums
$57.8 million
at the box office
over 1 film with both sums
1.6×
return on budget
box office ÷ budget

US dollars as TMDB records them, not adjusted for inflation. 1 film of the 1 portraying them carries either sum.