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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.

This film-related list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2021)

Hebrew Bible

Genesis

Genesis in General

Adam and Eve - Genesis 2-5

The Flood - Genesis 6-9

Abraham - Genesis 11:26-25:10

Sodom and Gomorrah - Genesis 19

• Lot in Sodom (1933)
• Sodom and Gomorrah (1962)
• Greatest Heroes of the Bible: Sodom and Gomorrah (1979, TV episode)
• Zohi Sdom (2010) (Israel)

Isaac and Rebecca - Genesis 24

• Isaac and Rebecca (1953) (Israel)

Jacob - Genesis 25:26-49:33

• Jacob: The Man Who Fought with God (1963) (Italy)
• The Story of Jacob and Joseph (1974)
• Greatest Heroes of the Bible: Jacob's Challenge (1979, TV episode)
• Jacob (1994, TNT Bible Series)
• La Genese (1999) (France)

Dinah - Genesis 34

• The Red Tent (2014)

Joseph - Genesis 37-50

Moses (Exodus - Deuteronomy)

Judges Era

General Judges

Samson and Delilah - Judges 13-16

Ruth

• The Story of Ruth (1960)
• Duke and the Great Pie War (2005)
• The Book of Ruth: Journey of Faith (2009)

Kings and Queens of Israel

David - First Samuel 16:1-First Kings 2:11

Solomon - First Kings 1-11

Jezebel - First Kings 16:29-Second Kings 9:37

• Sins of Jezebel (1953)

Prophets

Exile

Daniel

Esther

Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

• Judith of Bethulia (1914)
• The Old Testament (1962) (Book of Maccabees film)

Christian Bible

Life of Christ

Arabic

• The Savior (2014) (Palestinian-Bulgarian-Jordanian production)

Aramaic/Latin

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

English

Filipino

• Kristo (1996) (Philippines)

French

• Vie et Passion du Christ (1903) (France)
• Golgotha (1935) (France)

German

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

Italian

Malayalam

• Jesus (1973) (India) ^{[5] [6]}

Persian

• The Messiah (2007) (Iran)

Sinhala

• Christhu Charithaya (1990) (Sri Lanka)
• Jayathu Kristhu (TV 1999) (Sri Lanka)
• Jesu Kristhu Yuga Peraliya (TV 2013) (Sri Lanka)

Spanish

Telugu

• Karunamayudu (1978) (India) ^[5]
• Rajadhi Raju (1980) (India) ^{[7] [8]}
• Shanti Sandesham (2004) (India) ^{[5] [9]}
• Mulla Kireetam (2005) (India) ^{[5] [10]}

Animated movies

Mary, Mother of Jesus

Herod the Great

• Erode il Grande (1959) (Italy)

Mary Magdalene

• Magdalanaattu Mary (1957) (India) ^[12]
• The Friends of Jesus - Mary Magdalene ^[13] (2000)
• Mary Magdalene (2018)

John the Baptist

• Snapaka Yohannan (1963) (India) ^[12]

Salome

Judas Iscariot

Barabbas

Parable of the Prodigal Son

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

Life of the Apostles

Creative

Revelation / Apocalypse

Fictional Interpolations

Adam and Eve

• Mary's Incredible Dream (1976)
• Year One (2009)
• The Tragedy of Man (2011) (Hungary)

Moses

• Wholly Moses! (1980)
• The Ten (2007)
• Seder-Masochism (2018)

Samson

Esther

• Megillas Lester (2014)

Ben-Hur

Early Christians

Opus Dei

• The Da Vinci Code (2006)

See also

• The Bible in film
• Dramatic portrayals of Jesus Christ
  • List of actors who have played Jesus
• Lists of movie source material
• List of Christian films
• List of Islamic films

References

Print sources

• Reinhartz, Adele (2016). Bible and Cinema: Fifty Key Films. De Gruyter. ISBN  978-1-61451-561-6.
• Burnette-Bletsch, Rhonda (2013). The Bible in Motion. A Handbook of the Bible and Its Reception in Film. Routledge. ISBN  978-0415677202.
• Baugh, Lloyd (1997). Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ-figures in Film. Sheed & Ward. ISBN  1556128630.