List of films based on the Bible

This is a list of movies (including television movies) based on the Bible (Old Testament and New Testament), depicting characters or figures from the Bible, or broadly derived from the revelations or interpretations therein.

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Pentateuch

Genesis

General

The Green Pastures (1936)
The Bible: In the Beginning (1966)
The New Media Bible: Book of Genesis (1979)
La Biblia en pasta (1984) (Spain)
Genesis: The Creation and the Flood (1994, TNT Bible Series)
In the Beginning (2000 miniseries)
Is Genesis History? (2017)

Adam and Eve - Genesis 2-5

Adam and Eve (1912)
Adán, Eva y el diablo (1945) (Mexico)
Adam wa Hawa (1951) (Egypt)
Adam og Eva (1953) (Denmark)
Adán y Eva (1956) (Mexico)
El pecado de Adán y Eva (1969) (Mexico)
Mary's Incredible Dream (1976)
Adamo ed Eva, la prima storia d'amore (1983) (Italy)
Adipapam (1988) (India)
The Tragedy of Man (2011) (Hungary)

The Flood - Genesis 6-9

Noah's Ark (1928)
Noah's Ark (miniseries) (1999)
Noah (2014)
The Ark (aka Noah's Ark) (2015) (UK)
VeggieTales: Noah's Ark (2015)

Abraham - Genesis 11:26-25:10

Abraham (1994, TNT Bible Series)
Abe and the Amazing Promise (2009)
Young Abraham (2011)

Sodom and Gomorrah - Genesis 19

Lot in Sodom (1933)
Sodom and Gomorrah (1962)
Zohi Sdom (2010) (Israel)

Isaac - Genesis 24

Isaac and Rebecca (1953) (Israel)

Jacob - Genesis 25:26-49:33

The Story of Jacob and Joseph (1974)
Jacob (1994, TNT Bible Series)
La Genese (1999) (France)

Joseph - Genesis 37-50

Joseph in the Land of Egypt (1914)
Joseph and His Brethren (1962)
Joseph (1995) (TNT Bible Series)
Slave of Dreams (1995)
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1999)
Joseph: King of Dreams (2000)
The Ballad of Little Joe (2003)

Moses (Exodus-Deuteronomy)

The Ten Commandments (1923)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Moses the Lawgiver (1974)
Moses und Aron (1975) (Germany)
Moses (1995, TNT Bible Series)
The Prince of Egypt (1998)
Duke and the Great Pie War (2005)
The Ten Commandments: The Musical (2006)
The Ten Commandments (2007)
Moe and the Big Exit (2007)
Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)
Patterns of Evidence: Exodus (2014)
Os Dez Mandamentos (2016) (Brazil)
Seder-Masochism (2018)
Moses (The Sound and Sight Story) (2018)

Judges and Kings

General Judges

Gideon and Samson (1965) (Italy)
Josh and the Big Wall (1997)
Gideon: Tuba Warrior (2006)

Samson and Delilah - Judges 13-16

Samson and Delilah (1922)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Samson and Delilah (1984)
Samson and Delilah (1996, TNT Bible Series)
Samson (2018)

King David

David et Goliath (France) (1910)
The Chosen Prince (1917)
David and Bathsheba (1951)
David and Goliath (1960)
A Story of David (1961)
Saul and David (1964)
The Story of David (1976)
King David (1985)
Dave and the Giant Pickle (1996)
David (1997, TNT Bible Series)
King George and the Ducky (2000)
David and Goliath (2005, Liken Bible Series)
David and Goliath (2013)
David vs. Goliath (2016)
Of Kings and Prophets (2016, TV Miniseries)

King Solomon

The Queen of Sheba (1921)
Haring Solomon at Reyna Sheba (1952) (Philippines)
La Regina di Saba (1952) (Italy)
Solomon and Sheba (1959)
Solomon & Sheba (1995) (TV)
Solomon (1997, TNT Bible Series)
The Kingdom of Solomon (2010) (Iran)

Later Prophets

Sins of Jezebel (1953)
Jeremiah (1998, TNT Bible Series)
Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie (2002)
Blast and Whisper: Elijah's Story (2010)
Amazing Love: The Story of Hosea (2012)

Exile (Daniel)

Slaves of Babylon (1953)
VeggieTales: Daniel and the Lions' Den (1994)
Rack, Shack, and Benny (1995)
Daniel and the Lions (2006, Liken Bible Series)
The Book of Daniel (2013)

Great Women in the Old Testament

Jephtah's Daughter: A Biblical Tragedy (1909)
Judith of Bethulia (1914)
The Story of Ruth (1960)
Esther and the King (1960)
The Thirteenth Day: The Story of Esther (1979)
Esther (1999, TNT Bible Series)
Esther... The Girl Who Became Queen (2000)
Esther and the King (2006, Liken Bible Series)
One Night with the King (2006)
The Book of Ruth: Journey of Faith (2009)
The Book of Esther (2013)
The Red Tent (2014) (about Dinah)

New Testament

Life of Christ

English

Passion Play (1903)
The Birth, Life and Death of Christ (1906) (France)
From the Manger to the Cross (1912)
Intolerance (1916)
The King of Kings (1927)
The Great Commandment (1939)
Day of Triumph (1954)
King of Kings (1961)
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
Wednesday Play: Son of Man (1969) (UK)
Godspell (1973)
Gospel Road: A Story of Jesus (1973)
Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
The Passover Plot (1976)
Jesus of Nazareth (1977 miniseries) (Italy) (UK)
The Nativity (1978, TV)
Jesus (1979)
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) (UK)
The New Media Bible: The Gospel According to St. Luke (1979)
A Child Called Jesus (1987)
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
The Judas Project (1990)
The Revolutionary (1995)
The Revolutionary II (1996)
The Visual Bible: Matthew (1997) (South Africa)
Jesus (1999, TNT Bible Series)
The Gospel of John (2003) (Canada/UK)
The Passion of the Christ (2004)
Son of Man (2006) (South Africa)
Color of the Cross (2006)
The First Christmas (Liken Bible Series) (2006)
The Nativity Story (2006)
The Passion (2008 miniseries) (UK)
The Road to Emmaus (2009)
The Nativity (2010 miniseries) (UK)
Killing Jesus (2013)
Son of God (2014)
Last Days in the Desert (2015)
The Young Messiah (2016)
Risen (2016)

Spanish

Jesús de Nazareth (1942) (Mexico)
María Magdalena: Pecadora de Magdala (1945) (Mexico)
Reina de reinas: La Virgen María (1945) (Mexico)
El Mártir del Calvario (1952) (Mexico)
El Beso de Judas (1953) (Spain)
El Redentor (1957) (Spain)
El Proceso de Cristo (1965) (Mexico)
Jesús, el niño Dios (1969) (Mexico)
Jesús, María y José (1969) (Mexico)
Jesús, nuestro Señor (1970) (Mexico)
La Vida de Nuestro Señor Jesucristo (1986) (Mexico)
El discípulo (2010) (Spain)

Italian

Christus (1916) (Italy)
Il vangelo secondo Matteo (1964) (Italy)
The Messiah (1975) (Italy)
Un bambino di nome Gesù (1987) (Italy)
L'inchiesta (2006) (Italy)

German

I.N.R.I (1923) (Germany)
Jesus – der Film (1986) (Germany)

French

Vie et Passion du Christ (1905) (France)
Golgotha (1935) (France)

Filipino

Kristo (1996) (Philippines)

Sinhala

Jayathu Kristhu (TV 1999) (Sri Lanka)
Jesu Kristhu Yuga Peraliya (TV 2013) (Sri Lanka)
Kristhu Charithaya (2015) (Sri Lanka)

Aramaic/Latin

The Passion of the Christ (2004) (USA) (Aramaic and Latin audio)

Arabic

المخلص (The Savior) (2014) Palestinian-Bulgarian-Jordanian production with Arabic dialog

In Animated movies

The Miracle Maker (2000) (UK) (a Stopmotion film)
The Lion of Judah (2011) (Is from a Lamb´s point of view of the Passion of Jesus)
The Star (2017) (by Sony Pictures)
The Animated Bible Series" (Free and Open content work-in-progress project

for 50 episodes in 100 languages of the whole Bible, edited by Revelationmedia^[1].

In DVD

What´s in the Bible: Jesus is The Good News (2013)

Mary, Mother of Jesus

Saint Mary (2000) (Iran)
Mary, Mother of Jesus (1999, TV)
Marie de Nazareth (1995) (France)
Mary of Nazareth 2012 (Italy)
Full of Grace (2015)

Herod the Great

Erode il Grande (1959) (Italy)

Mary Magdalene

The Friends of Jesus - Mary Magdalene^[2] (2000)
Mary Magdalene (2018)

Salome

Salome (1908)
Salome (1910) (Italy)
Salome (1918)
Salome (1923)
Salome (1953)
Salome (1972) (Italy)
Salome (1978) (Spain)
Salome's Last Dance (1988) (UK)
Salome (2002) (Spain)
Salome (2007)

Judas Iscariot

Blade af Satans bog (1920) (Denmark)
El beso de Judas (1953) (Spain)
Neither Are We Enemies (1970-TV)
The Friends of Jesus - Judas^[3] (2001)
Judas (2004)
Story of Judas (2015) (France)

Barabbas

Barabbas (1953) (Sweden)
Give Us Barabbas^[4] (1961-TV)
Barabbas (1961)
Barabbas (1964) (Belgium)
Barabbas (2012 - TV)

Parable of the Prodigal Son

L'Enfant prodigue (1907) (France)
L'Enfant prodigue (1916) (France)
The Prodigal (1955)

Life of the Apostles

The Big Fisherman (1959)
Peter and Paul (1981-TV)
A.D. (1985 miniseries)
The Visual Bible: Acts (1994)
The Emissary^[5] (1997)
Stephen's Test of Faith (1998)
St. Paul (a. k. a. Paul the Apostle)^[6] (2000)
St. Peter (2005-TV)
The Friends of Jesus - Thomas^[7] (2001) (Italy)
Apostle Peter and the Last Supper (2012)
A.D. The Bible Continues (2015 miniseries)
Paul, Apostle of Christ (2018)

Creative

The Fourth Wise Man (1985)
Jesus of Montreal (French-Canadian) (1989)
Joshua (2002)
Mary (2005)
Jesus loves me (2012)
He Knows My Name (2015)

Revelation / Apocalypse

Rosemary's Baby (1968)
A Thief in the Night (1972)
The Omen (1976)
Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby (1976)
A Distant Thunder (1978)
The Late, Great Planet Earth (1979)
Image of the Beast (1980)
Years of the Beast (1981)
Early Warning (1981)
The Prodigal Planet (1983)
The Seventh Sign (1988)
The Rapture (1991)
Apocalypse (1998)
Apocalypse II: Revelation (1999)
Apocalypse III: Tribulation (1999)
End of Days (1999)
The Moment After (1999)
The Omega Code (1999)
The Apocalypse (2000, TNT Bible Series)
Left Behind: The Movie (2000) (V)
Apocalypse IV: Judgment (2001)
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 (2001)
Left Behind II: Tribulation Force (2002) (V)
Apocalypse (2002, TNT Bible Series)
Six: The Mark Unleashed (2004)
Left Behind: World at War (2005)
The Poor Ones in the Paradise (2005)
The Moment After 2 (2006)
Left Behind (2014)

Fictional interpolations

Ben-Hur

Ben Hur (1907 short)
Ben-Hur (1925)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Ben Hur (2003)
Ben Hur (2010)
Ben Hur (2016)

Early Christians

The Robe (1953)
Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)
Quo Vadis? (1901) (France)
Quo Vadis? (1910) (France)
Quo Vadis? (1913) (Italy)
The Sign of the Cross (1914)
Quo Vadis? (1924) (Germany)
The Sign of the Cross (1932)
Quo Vadis? (1951)
The Silver Chalice (1954)
Quo Vadis? (1985 TV mini-series) (Italy)
Quo Vadis? (2001) (Poland)
Agora (2009) (Spain)

Miracles and Apparitions

The Song of Bernadette (1943)
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)
Miracle of Marcelino (1955)
The Reluctant Saint (1962)
Thérèse (1986) (France)
Gospa (1995) (Croatia)
The Third Miracle (1999)
Padre Pio (2000) (TV Movie) (Italy)
Padre Pio: Tra cielo e terra (2000) (TV Movie) (Italy)

Fictional

Stigmata (1999)

Misc.

The Old Testament (Italy) (1962)
Greatest Heroes of the Bible (TV series) (1978-1979)
The Bible (TV miniseries) (2013)
Superbook (Animated TV series) (1981-1983) (2011-present)

References

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