Salome
Movie19531h 43m59% Match

Salome

The Glory And Excitement Of Rome... In All Its Greatness and Badness!

In the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod and Queen Herodias. The latter wants John dead, but Herod fears to harm him due to a prophecy. Enter beautiful Princess Salome, Herod's long-absent stepdaughter. Herodias sees the king's dawning lust for Salome as her means of bending the king to her will. But Salome and her lover Claudius are (contrary to Scripture) nearing conversion to the new religion. And the famous climactic dance turns out to have unexpected implications...

Drama
Romance

Why watch this

In the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod and Queen Herodias. The latter wants John dead, but Herod fears to harm him due to a prophecy. Enter beautiful Princess Salome, Herod's long-absent stepdaughter. Herodias sees the king's dawning lust for Salome as her means of bending the king to her will. But Salome and her lover Claudius are (contrary to Scripture) nearing conversion to the new religion. And the famous climactic dance turns out to have unexpected implications...

Released March 24, 1953

Quick facts

Language
en
Status
Released
Votes
49
Seasons
-

Top cast

The faces you are about to watch.

Rita Hayworth

Rita Hayworth

Princess Salome

Charles Laughton

Charles Laughton

King Herod

Stewart Granger

Stewart Granger

Commander Claudius

Judith Anderson

Judith Anderson

Queen Herodias

Alan Badel

Alan Badel

John the Baptist

Cedric Hardwicke

Cedric Hardwicke

Tiberius Caesar

Basil Sydney

Basil Sydney

Pontius Pilate

Maurice Schwartz

Maurice Schwartz

Ezra the King's Advisor

More like this

Keep exploring without dropping back to the home feed.

Purple Hearts

Purple Hearts

Movie

An aspiring musician agrees to a marriage of convenience with a soon-to-deploy Marine, but a tragedy soon turns their fake relationship all too real.

Life in a Year

Life in a Year

Movie

A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.

The Sleeping Dictionary

The Sleeping Dictionary

Movie

In the 1930s, British officer John Truscott journeys to a remote village in colonial Malaysia to educate and Westernize the local Iban population. There, he's introduced to the lovely Selima. In keeping with tradition, Selima is assigned to sleep with Truscott and teach him the native language and customs. But when they fall in love, both colonists and natives object to their plans to marry.

Winter's Tale

Winter's Tale

Movie

A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.

Titanic

Titanic

Movie

Unhappily married, Julia Sturges decides to go to America with her two children on the Titanic. Her husband, Richard also arranges passage on the luxury liner so as to have custody of their two children. All this fades to insignificance once the ship hits an iceberg.

Possession

Possession

Movie

Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash, now best-known for a collection of poems dedicated to his wife. When Maud and Roland discover a cache of love letters that appear to be from Ash to La Motte, they follow a trail of clues across England, echoing the journey of the couple over a century earlier.

Departure

Departure

Movie

An English mother and her teenage son spend a week preparing the sale of their remote holiday house in the South of France. Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his dawning sexuality and an increasing alienation from his mother, Beatrice. She in turn is confronted by the realisation that her marriage to his father, Philip, has grown loveless and the life she knows is coming to an end. When an enigmatic local teenager, Clément, quietly enters their lives, both mother and son are compelled to confront their desires and, finally, each other.

Not Easily Broken

Not Easily Broken

Movie

A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.

Nine Lives

Nine Lives

Movie

Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.

Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between

Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between

Movie

Clare and Aidan make a pact to break up before college — no regrets, no broken hearts. But will one epic goodbye date offer them a last chance at love?

The Yellow Handkerchief

The Yellow Handkerchief

Movie

A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.

Forever First Love

Forever First Love

Movie

Paul travels the world to capture the perfect photographic moment. Amid the colour and chaos of a crowded Filipino market, destiny intervenes when Paul’s first love, Anna appears in his lens. The travellers spend the day exploring the beauty of a 16th century town and whilst passions reignite, their principles on relationships, religion and morality clash. The night they spend together will change everything.