Cleopatra: Queen of Sex

When an alien planet called Pasatorine initiates something called the 'Cleopatra Plan,' three soldiers from the far future get their consciousnesses yanked out of their bodies and dropped into ancient Egypt — and nobody can figure out why aliens would name anything after an Egyptian queen. That's the setup, and it's genuinely strange in the best way. Once those minds land in the past, you're watching political chaos unfold around Cleopatra herself — a crumbling Egyptian throne, Roman ambitions creeping in, and enough power struggles to keep things moving. The tone is where this gets interesting. It's not a straight historical drama. It's satirical, sometimes comedic, occasionally absurd, and the animation style shifts in ways that feel deliberately experimental — mixing traditional techniques with something closer to avant-garde collage, including live-action elements woven right into the film. It was made by Mushi Production in 1970, and it shows that era's willingness to push animation into genuinely weird territory. If you've seen A Thousand and One Nights or Belladonna of Sadness from the same studio, you'll recognize the energy — adult-oriented animation that treats the medium as a place to take risks. Think Asterix and Cleopatra, but filtered through a sci-fi framing device and a much looser grip on conventional storytelling. It's a single movie, so the commitment is low. Worth it if you're curious about what animation looked like when people were still figuring out what it could do.