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Caligula

1979
Drama
Horror
2h 36m
Details the graphic and shocking, yet undeniably tragic story of Rome's most infamous Caesar, Gaius Germanicus Caligula. (imdb)
Directed by:
Tinto Brass Tinto Brass Bob Guccione Giancarlo Lui
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Written by:
Gore Vidal Gore Vidal
Starring:
Malcolm McDowell Malcolm McDowell Helen Mirren Helen Mirren Peter O\ Peter O'Toole John Gielgud John Gielgud Teresa Ann Savoy John Steiner Guido Mannari
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Genres:
Drama, Horror, History
AKA:
Caligola
Countries:
Italy, USA
Language:
English
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Caligula

1979
Drama
Horror
2h 36m
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kubricksuckskubricksucks
Rated 15 Jan 2009
55
7th
this film is best experienced while masturbating in a tub of spiders
Rated 15 Jan 2009
billyshearsBillyShears
Rated 01 Feb 2017
100
98th
A hurricane of bad taste and bad ideas. If there isn't a dick flopping around on screen or a vagina closeup and I ain't hooting about vulvas, the movie gets lost in its own ghoulishness. Lol a dwarf gets blown spoilers.
Rated 01 Feb 2017
herzdameHerzdame
Rated 26 Jul 2010
0
8th
This is the kind of garbage that makes you feel as if the Apostles have crucified you to the floor and taken a major piss into your mouth through a funnel. I just love it when a director creates a 156-minutes worth graphic mishmash of violent gore, melodrama, incest, genital mutilation, rape, necrophilia, horse-fucking, mass orgies and hardcore pornography and calls it "revolutionary cinema". I would tell this movie to go fuck itself but it most probably would.
Rated 26 Jul 2010
kramyessevKramYessev
Rated 07 Dec 2011
76
76th
There's more sleaze here than a child porn ring. Possibly the most infamous movie of all time, "Caligula" on the one hand has grandiose sets, extreme violence, hardcore sex and fisting, and on the other has terrible acting, pacing and fisting. Everything balances out to create a stupendous hardcore porn flick that you can watch with the family under the guise of a period drama.
Rated 07 Dec 2011
overratedoverrated
Rated 03 Nov 2011
45
40th
Much like Salo, Cannibal Holocaust and others of that era, Caligula's infamy overshadows the movie itself. I don't know what cut I saw but there were only a couple of truly disgusting scenes. What plagues the film is the emphasis on blood and tits at the expense of everything else, I was at least expecting McDowell to be impressive but all he does is wild-eyed megalomania spliced with weird infantility. Shame, because the sets are incredible. Tiberius' palace is straight out of a Bosch painting.
Rated 03 Nov 2011
eveeluneveelun
Rated 27 Jan 2007
10
0th
Though the costumes and set work are incredible, this movie is a mess. Neither cut is satisfactory, as the uncut version has well over twenty minutes of superfluous (and grotesque) hardcore pornography, whereas the R rated cut (almost an hour shorter) removes plot related scenes as well. Some great actors were (and still should be) very embarrased for being in this one.
Rated 27 Jan 2007
okkervilOkkervil
Rated 30 Sep 2009
35
24th
One of many films of the era to star Helen Mirren & her breasts, 'Caligula' mixes good with bad. I was once told by a friend that this "was the best porno ever made" on account of: 1. its a good film & 2. its a porno flick. I dismissed this ridiculous claim on the basis that 1. It's not a porno (well maybe the uncut version is!?) & 2. Its fucking shit. This is a mess of bad editing and filmmaking, yet it's admittedly strangely compelling with some oddly entertaining performances. Contradictory.
Rated 30 Sep 2009
guttiwutsGuttiwuts
Rated 03 Mar 2009
85
45th
I love it, you don't. Big fucking deal.
Rated 03 Mar 2009
spanksSpanks
Rated 18 May 2011
10
6th
Holy shit I cannot believe I watched this whole thing (no idea what cut it was). I feel almost shameful even ranking it. I mean, I tried really, really hard to like something about it- mostly based solely on McDowell's performance, but this is truly a complete shitfest. Even if you're a huge McDowell as am I, don't waste your time.
Rated 18 May 2011
backwardsuitbackwardsuit
Rated 15 Nov 2014
60
24th
The Wolf of Via Sacra. There's a great insanely excessive exploitation epic in there about the corruptive influence of power but sadly it's lost under a heap of unrelated softcore porn. McDowell, Mirren and O'Toole are all great. Have to feel bad for Tinto Brass whose vision was highjacked and murdered by some assholes from the Penthouse. Which does complete the joke on some ironic level.
Rated 15 Nov 2014
djrossdjross
Rated 14 Aug 2007
15
0th
To think, this comes a mere 15 years after THE BEST MAN. Have you ever looked at R. J. Buffalo's caligula.org?
Rated 14 Aug 2007
vengefulkbmVengefulKBM
Rated 11 Feb 2015
15
1st
God movies like this are hard to rank. It's pretty much trash, but at times it's very, very entertaining trash. But then there's the porn scenes, most of which are FAR from titillating and some of which are actually quite terrifying and/or gross. In the end it's pretty much terrible on every conceivable level.
Rated 11 Feb 2015
thedicemanTheDiceman
Rated 24 Feb 2007
50
35th
Strange film.
Rated 24 Feb 2007
karamazovkaramazov.
Rated 06 Jul 2014
61
82nd
[watched the 149 min. re-release]. Has got to be something like the absolute maximum in pure spectacle; unparalleled novelty. Five gold pieces!
Rated 06 Jul 2014
fudgiebfudgieb
Rated 14 Aug 2007
75
33rd
When history and porn meet, great things are bound to happen. Portions of this film will arouse you, some may disgust you, but it is a strange and memorable achievement in the end.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
jodamicojodamico
Rated 23 Jul 2014
48
7th
I Claudius manages to be more shocking just by measuring out its acts and giving us grounded characters to bounce it all off of. Beautiful sets and the Tiberius stuff is great, but frankly it doesn't even work as shock shlock after a while.
Rated 23 Jul 2014
hellboy76hellboy76
Rated 24 Sep 2010
39
11th
When your biggest selling point is the porn, and the porn is all terribly frightening...
Rated 24 Sep 2010
ocelotOcelot
Rated 02 Jun 2020
15
9th
like Salo if it was made by a retard. it manages to be fascinatingly bad when O'Toole is on-screen, but after he dies it commits the greatest sin a movie can make: it's both bad AND boring. also, about two hours in, one of the extras has obviously fake tits. there is some very base merit in the idea of intersecting porn and mainstream cinema, but this movie effectively buried it. there is more than enough blame to go around, which is fair, because all of them deserve it
Rated 02 Jun 2020
eldred08Eldred08
Rated 23 Aug 2008
50
12th
Unnecessary porn scenes...
Rated 23 Aug 2008
miss_jesusmiss jesus
Rated 01 May 2008
50
35th
Worth seeing just because of what a brazen attempt at cinematic revolution it was. And the sets rival Cleopatra--they must be seen to be believed. But something about this film tells me that everyone involved was too far from sober to make great decisions; the word 'overindulgent' doesn't even cover it. It's far too long, flawed in many ways, and worst of all it gives us no answers for why Caligula is the man he is.
Rated 01 May 2008
davidblastDavidBlast
Rated 05 Apr 2011
35
20th
Most outrageously, here's a movie featuring hardcore adult sex to a point where one is sick of it. The Romans were never a people to shy away from epic stories, and there is a great one hidden here, lurking with the atmospheric score and the sea of bodies engulfed in decadent orgies. Unfortunately every scene outstays its welcome, and few make much overall sense. The director has little interest in Caligula's personality, and would rather see him as Cesar apparently saw himself: A mad God.
Rated 05 Apr 2011
mattburgessmattburgess
Rated 07 May 2012
84
91st
Jaw-dropping excess, all the drama behind the scenes have made a disjointed mess of the film itself but it works brilliantly as pure, balls-out spectacle. Shakespearean actors hamming it up in sublimely grandoise sets and locations, amongst masses of tits, piss, fist-fucking and cocksucking. Fucking awesome.
Rated 07 May 2012
shmendrekShmendrek
Rated 28 Mar 2010
0
0th
So bloated and decadent it could have been directed by Caligula himself. If Pasolini had been an amoral pig instead an avowed anti-Fascist, this would have been his Salo. And even that's giving it a little too much credit.
Rated 28 Mar 2010
childintimechildintime
Rated 05 May 2009
85
93rd
McDowell is fuckin' insane! ahahha
Rated 05 May 2009
bofbof
Rated 18 Nov 2011
44
18th
Well, you've got to admire their balls.
Rated 18 Nov 2011
frederikaFrederikA
Rated 13 Oct 2009
15
3rd
McDowell anally fistfucks a newlywed man and has a amorous relationship with his sister... other than this ... not really anything to subtract from this miserable sexspoitatain.
Rated 13 Oct 2009
cloakcloak
Rated 12 Sep 2009
44
35th
bad? maybe. it's a total mess, yet a true curiosity.
Rated 12 Sep 2009
koalafishKoalafish
Rated 07 Dec 2008
30
2nd
I have no idea what to think about this one. Lots of porn and violence, most of it completely pointless. VERY weird stuff...
Rated 07 Dec 2008
teknicolorteknicolor
Rated 02 Aug 2007
40
24th
I tried really hard to like it based purely on Malcom McDowell's performance, so this was as high a score as I could muster for what was basically a soft-core pornography (swiss cheese plot and all).
Rated 02 Aug 2007
cinemahellcinema_hell
Rated 16 Aug 2008
30
2nd
Yuk.
Rated 16 Aug 2008
suture_selfSuture Self
Rated 07 Jun 2008
1
4th
This film is a disgusting, unecessary mess. The gratuitous sex serves no purpose other than to shock even the most desensitized of viewers and the plot is so strangled that it's hard to understand what the hell is even going on.
Rated 07 Jun 2008
teftef
Rated 01 Aug 2009
0
1st
This is just a bad porn movie with a rape scene.
Rated 01 Aug 2009
kito1kito1
Rated 08 Sep 2022
60
47th
Wow, just wow... I found it a bit boring in the middle, but otherwise the sheer excess and demonic evil is thrilling, shocking and mind-numbing at the same time. -- This must be what Werner Herzog calls "the bliss of evil".
Rated 08 Sep 2022
mr_vincentMr Vincent
Rated 20 Mar 2023
30
10th
Malcolm McDowell's performance is great. Everything else is just a porn movie with historical elements, instead of it being vice versa. It's a surreal and memorable experience, in the worst possible way.
Rated 20 Mar 2023
mrolivierMr.Olivier
Rated 17 Jan 2015
100
99th
Everything about this is amazing, fuck the haters.
Rated 17 Jan 2015
kavuKavu
Rated 20 Dec 2007
20
7th
Good script, decent directing and absolutely brilliant performance by Malcom McDowell. Unfortunately Bob Cuccione turned it into a bad porn movie. What a shame.
Rated 20 Dec 2007
pickypicnicpickypicnic
Rated 02 Sep 2017
14
7th
it's porn
Rated 02 Sep 2017
joemcmahonjoemcmahon
Rated 26 Aug 2007
70
49th
Malcom McDowell makes this movie.
Rated 26 Aug 2007
hotsakehotsake
Rated 25 Oct 2018
40
19th
Over the top and pointlessly ridiculous. Features an over abundance of nudity which wouldn't be so bad if they wouldn't have randomly panned to a nude scene for no apparent reason other than to be like "Hey look hardcore naked people" The acting, costumes and sets were very theatrical and come off feeling a bit stiff. The film is quite a spectacle but unfortunately it wasn't entertaining and I found it very hard to sit through...
Rated 25 Oct 2018
astrakhanastrakhan
Rated 15 Aug 2017
77
49th
Surprisingly watchable Roman epic which emphasises the brutality and excess associated with the most powerful man in the world. No expense is spared on the opulent sets and crowds of extras, and everybody looks to be having a suitably Bacchanalian time, until another traitor gets beheaded or anally probed, which seems to happen quite a lot. Great cast including Malcolm MacDowell and Helen Mirren. A graphic film for sure, but one of the most lurid and memorable depictions of Ancient Rome.
Rated 15 Aug 2017
helfen419helfen419
Rated 24 Sep 2007
61
22nd
I know nothing about Caligula, historically, but if it's at all fact based, I'd say somewhat educational. And I feel like a piece of shit to say, this didn't shock me that much.
Rated 24 Sep 2007
biggerkevinbiggerkevin
Rated 31 Mar 2021
4
48th
Shoots itself in the foot on its way to greatness. Trim back the sex scenes and keep the dark surreal chaos of the first 40 minutes and this would be an essential.
Rated 31 Mar 2021
timyjltimyjl
Rated 27 Jul 2008
70
20th
pretentious highbrow porn
Rated 27 Jul 2008
bellamyrbellamyr
Rated 10 Jan 2009
55
25th
Historically inaccurate and poor acting too frequently to make this watchable or believable.
Rated 10 Jan 2009
redactedredacted
Rated 02 Feb 2013
15
2nd
Ultimately the film falls in a heap due to the lack of vision on the director(s) behalf, scene's aren't built properly, blocking is atrocious, shot choices are poor. Only after the madness struck did it seem like they were having a bit of purposeful fun with it all, but you have to wait through 2 hours of what Sasha Grey wouldn't call a hetero/homo/incest sex scene to get there. A R-rated remake would be interesting.
Rated 02 Feb 2013
fantacbobFantacBob
Rated 11 Jun 2009
2
0th
OK, so I've only seen the cut version, but it's dreadful.
Rated 11 Jun 2009
svicciarellisvicciarelli
Rated 14 Aug 2007
35
1st
Caligula is rotten through and through. Some decent sets but otherwise an exercise in pornographic boredom.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
rthornhillrthornhill
Rated 26 Jan 2011
12
0th
joins an extremely small group of films that i am totally embarrassed to admit that i saw........
Rated 26 Jan 2011
ndkchkNdkchk
Rated 20 Jul 2007
40
12th
An example of why Penthouse Films should stick to porn.
Rated 20 Jul 2007
phlagPhlag
Rated 14 Aug 2007
25
0th
I thought that the rumors of gratuitous pornographic scenes end up being exaggerations and a degree of prudishness, but they really weren't. I don't have a problem with the sex in this film so much as I have a problem with the sex being truly unnecessarily long and serving very little purpose other than to create some crude shock effect - and even still, many sex scenes depicted were exceedingly lengthy, unnecessary, and even annoying.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
teoremaTeorema
Rated 21 Feb 2008
10
0th
A fucking travesty.
Rated 21 Feb 2008
prowlerprowler
Rated 28 Nov 2008
19
15th
haha, this is quite ridiculous
Rated 28 Nov 2008
ahamel7896ahamel7896
Rated 29 May 2012
7
54th
Makes me sick in a wonderful, wonderful way.
Rated 29 May 2012
lostinlodoslostinlodos
Rated 08 Oct 2009
75
52nd
Directors cut =75 Full cut (3hr 49 min) = 95 Penthouse cut = 76 Gorehouse cut (3hr 40min) = 90 Amazing film. The longest two versions actually flow better despite the "added" sex, as it's offset by a more accurate display of Caligula's brutality and instability.
Rated 08 Oct 2009
metismetis
Rated 06 Aug 2021
50
6th
5????…
Rated 06 Aug 2021
frederFreder
Rated 05 Jul 2007
0
1st
A vulgar, inhuman, offensive stink-bomb from a grotty little man who somehow persuaded some top-level actors to participate.
Rated 05 Jul 2007
lumpnboylumpnboy
Rated 18 Jul 2014
25
9th
I had to ask djross why I couldn't find this on the site and then I had to go into 'update personal information' and 'tick' the Display Adult Titles box so that I could come here and rate this. Even though I had tried to find it by looking up Gore Vidal. Now maybe I should go back and 'untick' the box, but I will probably let it go and see if it makes a difference to my experience of the site. If somehow annoying porn will be everywhere now. As opposed to the kind of porn that isn't annoying.
Rated 18 Jul 2014
ruudtruudt
Rated 10 Nov 2007
15
2nd
If I want to see Porn, I hire Porn. This is disgusting!
Rated 10 Nov 2007
irvinejumpirvinejump
Rated 02 Sep 2009
10
6th
"I don't remember ANY of the sex and violence when I read the original Paycheck" (Not the Nine O'Clock News)
Rated 02 Sep 2009
onacOnac
Rated 24 Feb 2022
45
21st
Oh dear Lord. One of the most disgusting movies I have ever seen. I can't say I am happy I've seen it. However I will give credit for its historical accuracy and also for being disgusting for a good reason: In order to explain the viewer the necessity of murdering this insane person and how absurd his rule was over an empire. Still, it's very hard to recommend it unless you feel you are prepared to see scenes that would be disturbing even in porn. You're probably better off if you skip it.
Rated 24 Feb 2022
gorejunkygorejunky
Rated 16 Aug 2010
80
39th
A very guilty pleasure--only because I am interested in Roman/Greek history. Lots of over the top acting and silly sexual scenes but worth a look, if not to laugh at the campy cheese!
Rated 16 Aug 2010
svengaliSvengali
Rated 17 Aug 2012
6
1st
I had no idea Caesar was such a player! It's a bit like a huge plastic Greenaway film.
Rated 17 Aug 2012
jswinderjswinder
Rated 16 Jan 2009
80
64th
What can I say? I'm a McDowell fan. Although I did "feel a bit shagged and fagged and fashed" by the time this one was over. I read the book prior to viewing the film, and was surprised that they didn't totally molest the true likeness. Pun intended.
Rated 16 Jan 2009
janusjanus
Rated 12 Aug 2009
60
32nd
The most elaborate, high-profile hardcore porno you're ever gonna see. Expect no more and no less and you just might enjoy it.
Rated 12 Aug 2009
mikmakmikmak
Rated 14 Aug 2007
35
2nd
Pornographic but pointless. See the embarassed looks on the established stars
Rated 14 Aug 2007
wcnitzwcnitz
Rated 08 Mar 2008
60
6th
What an absolute mess of a big budget, star-driven movie. The pornographic scenes intertwined with the rest of the film are both completely un-erotic and pointless all at the same time. This movie was a failure, but give it a watch if you're into gutting, castration and mass orgies.
Rated 08 Mar 2008
gnalkhereGnalkhere
Rated 09 Sep 2015
50
12th
This movie is bloated, nuts, and flesh consumed by a messy post-production botching, despite being aesthetically lush, decently over-acted and has a wonderful soundtrack. Getting this film as a 4-disc set was a great decision, and the documentaries/interviews of its balls-to-the-wall production gives it a very interesting perspective on the making of this movie. Here's hoping the Ultimate cut does it justice
Rated 09 Sep 2015
gleebgleeb
Rated 06 Jul 2007
52
13th
Both better and worse than you'd think. It has some very interesting sets and lighting. It also has a whole mess of needlessly grotesque stuff. And that's before you even get to the out-and-out porn.
Rated 06 Jul 2007
markkermodemarkkermode
Rated 09 Jan 2009
1
0th
"Bigger and longer is no guarantee of satisfaction as the BBFC-approved pornographer's version of legendary 70s epic Caligula illustrates."
Rated 09 Jan 2009
dooooooleydooooooley
Rated 02 Oct 2008
70
23rd
Be sure to take a shower after watching this one
Rated 02 Oct 2008
dolemite23Dolemite23
Rated 02 Jun 2014
75
16th
A curiosity of its time. Interesting as a phenomenon and the story of its making and presentation is actually more interesting than the movie itself.
Rated 02 Jun 2014
xacviantxacviant
Rated 28 Oct 2015
43
8th
Bob Guccione's infamous epic has come to be regarded as one of the sickest and worst films ever made. It's neither, being too dull (and long surpassed in terms of transgression) to be the sickest, and possessed of just enough moments which achieve the desired heights of grotesquerie to not be the worst. It's pretty heavy-going, to be fair, and the performances, while not as bad as you might think, don't elevate the material above its repetitive, simplistic nature. Stick with FELLINI SATYRICON.
Rated 28 Oct 2015
emredostemredost
Rated 30 Mar 2009
31
1st
Again an extra ordinary movie but a bad film I think not the worst movie of tinto brass But many people can't watch this film without closing their eyes because movie insist a sex scene with a horse:)
Rated 30 Mar 2009
lukey86lukey86
Rated 05 Jan 2010
10
0th
A travesty of a film.
Rated 05 Jan 2010
faloozaFalooza
Rated 12 Jan 2010
50
18th
I watched this for Helen Mirren, and I fell asleep for at least 10 minutes of the film. I have no idea what I missed, but I doubt I'll be rewatching it anytime soon.
Rated 12 Jan 2010

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