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1. Stargate SG-1 (1997–2007)
TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A secret military team, SG-1, is formed to explore other planets through the recently discovered Stargates.
Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge
Votes: 101,674
2. Gods of Egypt (2016)
PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Mortal hero Bek teams with the god Horus in an alliance against Set, the merciless god of darkness, who has usurped Egypt's throne, plunging the once peaceful and prosperous empire into chaos and conflict.
Director: Alex Proyas | Stars: Brenton Thwaites, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Gerard Butler, Chadwick Boseman
Votes: 126,190 | Gross: $31.15M
3. Tron: Legacy (2010)
PG | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father's corrupted creation and a unique ally who was born inside the digital world.
Director: Joseph Kosinski | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, Bruce Boxleitner
Votes: 356,499 | Gross: $172.06M
4. Stargate (1994)
PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.
Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Kurt Russell, James Spader, Jaye Davidson, Viveca Lindfors
Votes: 205,519 | Gross: $71.57M
5. The Prince of Egypt (1998)
PG | 99 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
Egyptian Prince Moses learns of his identity as a Hebrew and his destiny to become the chosen deliverer of his people.
Directors: Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, Simon Wells | Stars: Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock
Votes: 146,806 | Gross: $101.22M
6. Alien vs. Predator (2004)
PG-13 | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
During an archaeological expedition on Bouvetøya Island in Antarctica, a team of archaeologists and other scientists find themselves caught up in a battle between the two legends. Soon, the team realize that only one species can win.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Sanaa Lathan, Lance Henriksen, Raoul Bova, Ewen Bremner
Votes: 212,697 | Gross: $80.28M
7. Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002)
PG | 107 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, believes she can build a temple in record time and makes a bet with Julius Caesar. Her architect, however, needs the help of Asterix and Obelix to fight Romans who try to stop the construction.
Director: Alain Chabat | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Christian Clavier, Jamel Debbouze, Monica Bellucci
Votes: 57,979 | Gross: $3.12M
8. Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)
PG | 92 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Sherman, a young boy, misuses a time machine made by his scientist father Mr. Peabody and causes the world history to go haywire. It is now up to Mr. Peabody to rescue his son and the world.
Director: Rob Minkoff | Stars: Ty Burrell, Max Charles, Stephen Colbert, Leslie Mann
Votes: 78,038 | Gross: $111.51M
9. The Tenant (1976)
R | 126 min | Drama, Thriller
A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet
Votes: 47,712 | Gross: $1.92M
10. The Pyramid (2014)
R | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An archaeological team attempts to unlock the secrets of a lost pyramid only to find themselves hunted by an insidious creature.
Director: Grégory Levasseur | Stars: Ashley Hinshaw, James Buckley, Denis O'Hare, Christa Nicola
Votes: 27,295 | Gross: $2.76M
11. The Awakening (1980)
R | 101 min | Horror
An archeologist discovers his daughter is possessed by the spirit of an Egyptian queen. To save mankind he must destroy her.
Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Charlton Heston, Susannah York, Jill Townsend, Stephanie Zimbalist
Votes: 2,873 | Gross: $8.42M
12. Prisoners of the Sun (2013)
TV-14 | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A multinational expedition discovers a lost city beneath a pyramid, where they must stop the reawakened gods of ancient Egypt from initiating the Apocalypse.
Director: Roger Christian | Stars: John Rhys-Davies, David Charvet, Carmen Chaplin, Emily Holmes
Votes: 1,619
13. The Mummy's Ghost (1944)
Passed | 61 min | Fantasy, Horror
Kharis the mummy is given a sacred potion that grants him eternal life to search for his lost love, Princess Ananka, despite the unending curse that haunts them.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Robert Lowery, Ramsay Ames
Votes: 3,441
14. Garfield: His 9 Lives (1988 TV Movie)
TV-G | 48 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
This sometimes very funny and sometimes highly emotional anthology follows Garfield's nine lives throughout history, from his first life as a prehistoric cat-Neanderthal to his ninth life as an astronaut in a jam.
Directors: Phil Roman, Doug Frankel, Bob Scott, Ruth Kissane, Bill Littlejohn, Bob Nesler, George Singer, John Sparey | Stars: Lorenzo Music, Thom Huge, Gregg Berger, Desirée Goyette
Votes: 850
15. Sentinels of Silence (1971)
G | 18 min | Documentary, Short
An 18-minute helicopter-based aerial visit across the archaeological ruins in Mexico.
Director: Robert Amram | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Orson Welles
Votes: 182
16. Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb (2020)
TV-PG | 113 min | Documentary, History
After unearthing a tomb that had been untouched for 4,400 years, Egyptian archaeologists attempt to decipher the history of the astonishing find.
Director: James Tovell | Stars: Ahmed Zikrey Abdellhak, Ghareeb Ali Mohammed Abushousha, Nabil Eldaleel, Sabry Mohyeldin Farag
Votes: 7,193
17. Murder in Aquitaine (2018 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama
While setting up an exhibition of "The Mummies of St. Michael" an archaeologist discovers a real skeleton in a red robe.
Director: David Morley | Stars: Lucie Lucas, Pierre-Yves Bon, Marianne Basler, Cyrielle Debreuil
Votes: 67
18. Breaking the Maya Code (2008)
TV-G | 116 min | Documentary, Mystery
The complex and beautiful hieroglyphic script of the ancient Maya was until recently one of the last great untranslated writing systems. Based on the best-selling book by Michael Coe, ... See full summary »
Director: David Lebrun | Stars: Michael D. Coe, Ian Graham, Nikolai Grube, Peter Mathews
Votes: 333
19. Ariad
Action, Fantasy, Horror | Pre-production
Five friends fight for their souls in Hell's Labyrinth in search of the magical Amulet of Ariad, but find a war with gods and pursued by a shape-shifting evil goddess and the demigod Minotaur, seeking King Minos' lost treasure.
20. Nefertiti Resurrected (2003 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 120 min | Documentary
Dr. Joann Fletchers, an Egyptologist finds three abandoned mummies in a tomb in the Valley Of Kings. She thinks the third mummy is the forgotten legend, once the most powerful woman on ... See full summary »
Director: Matthew Wortman | Stars: Tamara Tunie, Joann Fletcher, Jason Yates
Votes: 130
21. Laura Bow 2: The Dagger of Amon Ra (1991 Video Game)
Adventure, Comedy, Crime
In her second detective adventure, young 1920's newspaper reporter Laura Bow is sent to cover the theft of an ancient egyptian dagger from a New York museum, where she soon finds herself ... See full summary »
Director: Bruce Balfour | Stars: Leslie Wilson, Bruce Balfour, Kelli Spurgeon, John Smoot
Votes: 61
22. Egyptian Melodies (1931)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Family
A spider sneaks into the Sphinx and has several spooky encounters.
Director: Wilfred Jackson | Star: Marcellite Garner
Votes: 680
23. Dans le secret des hiéroglyphes : Les frères Champollion (2022 TV Movie)
93 min | Documentary
Mit der Entschlüsselung der ägyptischen Hieroglyphen vor rund 200 Jahren löste Jean-François Champollion eines der größten Rätsel der Menschheitsgeschichte. An seiner Seite: sein älterer ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Plaisant | Stars: Céline Sallette, Susanne Grawe, Karine Madrigal, Robert Solé
Votes: 24
24. The Tomb Robbery Papyrus: Notes of a Past (2009)
97 min | Drama, Family
A century long search for an important ancient Egyptian royal tomb ... its location defined by a discredited antique manuscript ... a young archaeologist believing in its veracity. The ... See full summary »
Director: A.C. Lily T.-Rampenthal | Stars: Chris Abbott, Ray Anderson, David Astley, Robert Barton
Votes: 22
25. Ramses ja unet (1982)
80 min | Documentary
Director: Heikki Partanen | Stars: Rauno Ketonen, Markku Blomqvist, Asko Sarkola, Jukka Sipilä
Votes: 8
26. Gypped in Egypt (1930)
8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Waffles the Cat and Don Dog find themselves at the mercy of animate skeletons inside an Egyptian tomb.
Directors: Mannie Davis, John Foster
Votes: 66
27. The Shriek (1933)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Oswald the Rabbit comes to the rescue when a peg-legged sheik abducts his girlfriend and brings her to a mysterious pyramid filled with walking skeletons, animate hieroglyphics and other strange sights.
Directors: William Nolan, Walter Lantz | Stars: Tex Avery, Bernice Hansen
Votes: 49
28. Murder Will Out (1930)
Passed | 67 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Chinese gang blackmails businessman.
Director: Clarence G. Badger | Stars: Jack Mulhall, Lila Lee, Noah Beery, Malcolm McGregor
30.
Quantum Leap (1989–1993)
Episode:
The Curse of Ptah-Hotep - March 2, 1957
(1992)
TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
At an archaeological dig in Egypt Sam has to deal with an approaching sandstorm and a 3000 year old curse.
Director: Joe Napolitano | Stars: Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell, Lisa Darr, John Kapelos
Votes: 428
31.
Relic Hunter (1999–2002)
Episode:
Afterlife and Death
(2000)
TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Sydney and Nigel are in Cairo, Egypt and then Amsterdam. They must beat rival relic hunter Avery Ko to the Pharaoh Thutmose's diamond before it is cut up and sold.
Director: Don McCutcheon | Stars: Tia Carrere, Christien Anholt, Lindy Booth, Kevin Jubinville
Votes: 111
32.
Relic Hunter (1999–2002)
Episode:
Nine Lives
(2000)
TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
NIgel awakes the obvious gay interest of dodgy New York (fake) art gallery owner and fence Lagerfeld when he and Sydney are begged by foxy antiquities museum curator Elizabeth Rukeyser to ... See full summary »
Director: Paolo Barzman | Stars: Tia Carrere, Christien Anholt, Lindy Booth, Rena Lesnar
Votes: 120
33.
Relic Hunter (1999–2002)
Episode:
Out of the Past
(2001)
TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Sydney leaves weary Nigel to deal with the long-delayed accounting audit by foxy Maxine Schneider, as she can't wait to check out the Cleopatra exhibition at the Alexandria Museum. The ... See full summary »
Director: Paolo Barzman | Stars: Tia Carrere, Christien Anholt, Lindy Booth, Madhuri Bhatia
Votes: 97
34.
Centurions (1986)
Episode:
The Mummy's Curse
(1986)
TV-Y7-FV | 30 min | Animation, Action, Family
Professor Sloan asks the Centurions to guard the tomb of the lost pharaoh. Jake discovers Sloan' connection with Terror and gets trapped in the pyramid helpless. Terror and Sloan bring the ancient statue warriors to live and attack Cairo.
Stars: Pat Fraley, Neil Ross, Vince Edwards, Ron Feinberg
Votes: 15
35.
The Transformers (1984–1987)
Episode:
Madman's Paradise
(1986)
TV-Y7 | 21 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Daniel and Grimlock fall through an old Quintesson portal into another world. They meet a red wizard who seeks to use Grimlock against the forces of his enemy the Golden One. The Autobots learn of their absence and send in a rescue team.
Directors: Andy Kim, Ray Lee | Stars: Jack Angel, Arlene Banas, Gregg Berger, Corey Burton
Votes: 109
36.
Thunderbirds (1965–1966)
Episode:
The Uninvited
(1965)
TV-G | 49 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Scott has been dispatched in Thunderbird 1 to rescue a pair of archeologists who've become stranded in the desert. Little does he suspect they've stumbled into the secret pyramid lair of the mysterious and hostile Zombites!
Director: Desmond Saunders | Stars: Sylvia Anderson, Ray Barrett, Peter Dyneley, Christine Finn
Votes: 171
37.
Secrets of the Dead (2000– )
Episode:
Egypt's Darkest Hour
(2019)
TV-PG | 84 min | Documentary, History, War
A look into what took down the Egyptian Empire.
Director: Davina Bristow | Stars: Fabio Abraham, Salima Ikram, Jay O. Sanders
Votes: 42
38.
Drain the Oceans (2018– )
Episode:
Egypt's Sunken City
(2020)
TV-14 | 47 min | Documentary, History, Mystery
A legendary ancient Egyptian city, lost beneath the waves for 2,000 years, finally gives up its secrets.
Director: Olive King | Stars: Craig Sechler, Franck Goddio, Bob Bianchi, Damian Robinson
Votes: 40
39.
Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers (1990– )
Episode:
Special from Egypt and Israel
(1993)
TV-PG | Documentary
Saving an Israeli Coral Reef; The Pyramid Builders; Neot Kedumim: Nogah's Ark; New mothers' mental processes; Desert Rescue - Storks vs Jets; Sports Imports Israeli Russian Immigrants; Resurrecting Ancient Egyptian Music
Stars: Woodie Flowers, Zahi Hawass
40.
True Blood (2008–2014)
Episode:
It Hurts Me Too
(2010)
TV-MA | 59 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Eric instructs a werewolf to look after Sookie and accompany her to Jackson, Mississippi; Jason is distracted from his police exams; Bud reaches the end of his rope; Arlene copes with ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Lehmann | Stars: Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell, Ryan Kwanten
Votes: 1,622
41.
Nova (1974– )
Episode:
Riddles of the Sphinx
(2010)
TV-G | 55 min | Documentary
Nova investigates the Great Sphinx of Egypt in an attempt to understand its origin, creation, and purpose.
Director: Gary Glassman | Stars: Laura Brown, Rick Brown, Günter Dreyer, Ramsey Faragallah
Votes: 60
42.
Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2000)
Episode:
Gigatron no Shûgeki!
(2000)
TV-Y7 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Megatron attacks Metro City... but it's a ruse, as he sends his lieutenant Sky-Byte off to investigate some mysterious ruins.
Director: Tony Oliver | Stars: Neil Kaplan, Daniel Riordan, Jason Spisak, Peter Spellos
Votes: 10
43.
TopTenz (2010– )
Episode:
Top 10 Facts the Mormon Church Doesn't Want Its Members to Know
(2018)
10 min | Documentary
Based on Hans H. Mattsson's interview for the New York Times, here is a report of some of the shaky foundations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The report contends that ... See full summary »
Star: Simon Whistler
44.
Warehouse 13 (2009–2014)
Episode:
Buried
(2010)
TV-PG | 43 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
The team unearths an earlier Warehouse in search of a cure for Mrs. Frederic's mystery illness.
Director: Stephen Surjik | Stars: Eddie McClintock, Joanne Kelly, Saul Rubinek, Genelle Williams
Votes: 521
45.
Secrets of the Dead (2000– )
Episode:
The Silver Pharaoh
(2010)
TV-PG | 53 min | Documentary, History, War
Secrets of the Dead examines the the tomb of Psusennes I an Egyptian Pharaoh of the Intermediate Period whose burial place was discovered shortly before World War II.
Director: Andy Webb | Stars: Melissa Dring, Yasmin El Shazly, King Faroukh, Fawzi Gaballah
Votes: 51
46.
White Collar (2009–2014)
Episode:
On the Fence
(2011)
TV-PG | 44 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Peter learns that Keller stole an Egyptian artifact and that he's trying to get into New York. Mozzie is anxious to unload the art but Neal wants him to wait. Peter asks Neal how Keller ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Holahan | Stars: Matt Bomer, Tim DeKay, Willie Garson, Marsha Thomason
Votes: 799
47.
The Story of Maths (2008)
Episode:
The Language of the Universe
(2008)
TV-G | 58 min | Documentary, History
This program traces the development of mathematics in the Medeteranean region beginning with the Egyptians through the formalized geometry of the Greeks. Along the way a few remarkable ... See full summary »
Director: Karen McGann | Stars: Marcus du Sautoy, Christopher Anagnostakis, John Britton, Jim Carlson
Votes: 59
48.
Phineas and Ferb (2007–2024)
Episode:
Ferb Latin/Lotsa Latkes
(2011)
TV-G | 23 min | Animation, Short, Action
Phineas and Ferb decide to create their own language - Ferb Latin - and later end up creating a hybrid race while addressing a potato famine caused by Doofenshmirtz.
Directors: Robert Hughes, Jay Lender | Stars: Vincent Martella, Ashley Tisdale, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Caroline Rhea
Votes: 218
49.
Planet Egypt (2011– )
Episode:
Pharaohs at War
(2011)
TV-14 | 47 min | Documentary, History
For centuries the Pharaohs managed to shield Egypt from the outside world. But in the second millennia BC, foreign tribes began to infiltrate the north. From now on, foreign kings would regularly threaten the Nile Kingdom.
Stars: Eric Cline, Israel Finkelstein, Donald Redford, Cheryl Ward
Votes: 25
50.
Planet Egypt (2011– )
Episode:
Quest for Eternity
(2011)
TV-14 | 47 min | Documentary, History
From the days of the first Pharaoh's tombs to the end of their era, Egyptians were united by one burning desire: to extend their lives to all eternity. This is why they built the gigantic ... See full summary »
Directors: Daniel Gerlach, Stephan Koester | Stars: Günter Dreyer, Salima Ikram, Mark Lehner, Martin Sahlhof
Votes: 18