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Caligula

Movie
1979
2h 36m
NC-17
Italian
Drama, History
User Score: 
5.2
Critic Score: 
28
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After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity.
Caligula Poster

Caligula

NC-17
Movie
1979
2h 36m
Italian
Drama, History
After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity.
Rating
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5.2
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Caligula (1979) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
28

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Directed By: Tinto Brass
Written By: Gore Vidal (Original Story), Masolino D'Amico (Screenplay)

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Bulma PunkRocker says...
10 years ago
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This could have been a great movie, it has some wonderful cast, but I couldn't go through all the film, so much bloody pornography! And not erotic scenes, or nudes, REAL PORN! I should have informed myself better... what a waste...
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jekyl6669 says...
8 years ago
Hedonistic debauchery, that I guess is fitting when portraying a period like this. The problem is not that it features such graphic sex, rather it focuses on it way too much, and completely randomly, where it isn't necessary. Just when the story starts to get interesting, we slip back into another needless orgy. And the film is lesser for it.
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mg_grey says...
9 years ago
this is a botched historical fiction film that even tho they deny it's porn.. IT IS PORN. Plus include the cast who can't seem to act, it's such a waste of time. p.s. malcolm's so gay here.. :s
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Bob.Frapples says...
9 years ago
Once again my lack of research prior to queuing led to quite the surprise when I threw this one in. I had no idea that it was a Penthouse production. There is no other way to say it--this was porn...with an ounce of history edited in. The balance of sex/story was skewed much too far in the porn direction to call this a good movie yet it was entertaining. As previously mentioned the HBO series Rome has much better balance with the emphasis on story and some debauchery intelligently interlaced in the plot.
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Featured User Reviews

adorablepanic
5 years ago
A distinguished international cast; a screenplay by Gore Vidal; respected, award-winning talent behind the scenes; and millions of dollars at its disposal. What could possibly go wrong? Where would you like to start? CALIGULA (1979) had so much potential. I'd like to think that there's another unive More
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Arrrrrrrach
6 years ago
Walk through a Bosch painting and marvel at the excesses and debauchery. Critics don't take this seriously because a porn producer snipped it up and inserted his own scenes. It is what it is. A near masterpiece.
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CinemaSerf
2 months ago
Now I'll be honest, I think John Hurt ("I Claudius" - BBC - 1976) made a better Caligula, but Malcolm McDowell is still pretty convincing as the despotic sexual deviant who held the ultimate power in the Roman Empire for four years. It ought not to have been a surprise that he turned out the way he More
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