Cleopatra

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Cleopatra

1963 · Movie · 241 min

Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer56%as of 2024-08-14
  • Rotten Tomatoes average5.9/10as of 2021-10-10
  • Metacritic60/100as of 2025-07-14

What it is

Cleopatra is a 1963 American epic historical drama film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ranald MacDougall and Sidney Buchman, adapted from the 1957 book The Life and Times of Cleopatra by Carlo Maria Franzero, and from histories by Plutarch, Suetonius, and Appian.

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Genres
Drama / War / Romance / Adventure / History
Original language
English

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