Sword-and-sandal

thumb|This poster for Goliath and the Barbarians (1959) by [[Carlo Campogalliani illustrates many people's expectations from films of this genre.]] Sword-and-sandal, also known as peplum (: pepla), is a subgenre of largely Italian-made historical, mythological, or biblical epic films mostly set in the Greco-Roman antiquity or the Middle Ages. These films attempted to emulate the big-budget Hollywood historical epics of the time, such as Samson and Delilah (1949), Quo Vadis (1951), The Robe (1953), The Ten Commandments (1956), Ben-Hur (1959), Spartacus (1960), and Cleopatra (1963). These films

1989 film by Luigi Cozzi, Enzo G. Castellari

1962 film by Michele Lupo

1963 film by Guido Malatesta

1961 film by Antonio Leonviola

1963 film by Giacomo Gentilomo

1960 historical drama film directed by Fernando Cerchio

1982 film by Francesco Prosperi

1962 film by Giuseppe Vari