Films set in 1st-century Roman Empire

1979 film directed by Terry Jones

The Passion of the Christ is a 2004 American epic biblical drama film co-produced and directed by Mel Gibson from a screenplay he wrote with Benedict Fitzgerald. It is the first installment of The Passion of the Christ film series. The film stars Jim Caviezel as Jesus, Maia Morgenstern as his mother Mary, and Monica Bellucci as Mary Magdalene. It depicts the arrest, trial and crucifixion of Jesus, largely according to the canonical gospels as well as additional accounts such as the purported mystical visions by Anne Catherine Emmerich and the Friday of Sorrows.

1916 epic silent film directed by D. W. Griffith

1951 film directed by Mervyn LeRoy

1979 film by Tinto Brass

1969 film by Federico Fellini

1965 film

1953 film by Henry Koster

1961 film of the life of Jesus Christ

2018 film directed by Garth Davis

1981 film by Mel Brooks

1954 film by Delmer Daves

1932 film by Cecil B. DeMille

1966 film by Richard Lester

1984 film directed by András Jeles

1922 American-Italian silent historical film directed by J. Gordon Edwards

2003 film directed by Bill Anderson

1967 film by Sergiu Nicolaescu

2003 film by Roger Young

1951 film by Carmine Gallone

1910 film by Enrico Guazzoni

1937 unfinished film directed by Josef von Sternberg

1960 film by Vittorio Cottafavi

2004 television film by Paul Marcus

2015 television film by Christopher Menaul

2023 film directed by Jesse V. Johnson

2005 TV film directed by Giulio Base

1982 Italian film directed by Joe D'Amato

1967 film by Ferdinando Baldi

1958 film by Edward L. Cahn

1969 film by Gian Luigi Polidoro

1963 film by Gianfranco Parolini

2004 television film