Caligula

Movie

1979

2h 36m

NC-17

Italian

Drama, History

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5.2

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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.

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Caligula

NC-17

Movie

1979

2h 36m

Italian

Drama, History

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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.

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Cast

Caligula

Drusilla

Caesonia

Tiberius

Longinus

Macro

Chaerea

Charicles

Claudius

Livia

Messalina

Agrippina

Ennia

Nerva

Gemellus

Mnester

Subura Singer

Giant

Proculus

Man at Banquet (uncredited)

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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jekyl6669 says...

7 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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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

4 weeks 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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