Story Line
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.
“Absolute power corrupts”
Top Cast
Malcolm McDowell
Caligula
Teresa Ann Savoy
Drusilla
Helen Mirren
Caesonia
Peter O'Toole
Tiberius
John Steiner
Longinus
Guido Mannari
Macro
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Rating
6.0/ 10
Release Date
1979-08-14
Runtime
2h 36m
Genres
DramaHistory
Part of the Series
Caligula Collection
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User Reviews (4)
talisencrw
8/10
•3/23/2016Land sakes!!!
They don't make films like this anymore...and that's a dirty rotten shame! =)
Arrrrrrrach
9/10
•2/21/2017Walk 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.
adorablepanic
4/10
•4/2/2020A 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 poten...
CinemaSerf
6/10
•8/10/2024Now 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 h...