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The Divine Lady
England 🇮🇹 Italy The 1800s The 1810s The 18th CenturyLady Hamilton's love affair with Admiral Horatio Nelson rocks the British Empire.
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Cagliostro
🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyParis, France, 1784. After living many tribulations, Joseph Balsamo, known as Count Cagliostro, an infamous adventurer, enigmatic magician and necromancer, experienced physician and ruthless swordsman, triumphs among the members of the decadent French aristocracy. But a bold foretelling about a very prominent noblewoman causes his fall in disgrace… (Partially lost film.)
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General Crack
🇧🇪 Belgium 🇦🇹 Austria The 18th CenturyThe film takes place in the 18th century Austria and revolves around Prince Christian, commonly known as General Crack. His father had been a respectable member of the nobility but his mother was a gypsy. General Crack, as a soldier of fortune, spent his adult life selling his services to the highest bidder. He espouses the doubtful cause of Leopold II of Austria after demanding the sister of the emperor in marriage as well as half of gold of the Empire. Before he has finished his work, however, he meets a gypsy dancer and weds her. Complications arise when he takes his gypsy wife to the Austrian court and falls desperately in love with the emperor's sister.
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The American Prisoner
The 18th CenturyAn American sailor imprisoned on Dartmoor during the American War of Independence manages to escape and falls in love with a local Squire's daughter.
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The Tsarevich
🇷🇺 Russia The 18th CenturyBased on the play and subsequent operetta of the same name.
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Figaro
The 18th CenturyA silent adaptation of the 1778 Beaumarchais play The Marriage of Figaro, with material also used from its two sequels.
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The Man Who Laughs
England The 18th Century The 17th CenturyGwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and becomes a popular idol. He falls in love with the blind Dea. The king dies, and his evil jester tries to destroy or corrupt Gwynplaine.
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Chushingura: The Truth
The 18th CenturyLord Asano Takumi-no-Kami Naganori was charged with receiving a group of envoys from the Imperial Court in Kyoto. He was young and slightly inexperienced, so Lord Kira Kozuke-no suke Yoshinako was given the task of instructing Lord Asano in the customs of the ceremony. On the day of the reception, something went terrible wrong, and Lord Asano attempted to kill Lord Kira. For this, Lord Asano was order to commit seppuku. However, in violation of existing law, Lord Kira was not punished. The ruling Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi eventually confiscated Lord Asano's land and dismissed the samurai that had served him so faithfully, effectively making them all ronin. Two years later, Oishi Kuranosuke Yoshi led a group of samurai loyal to Lord Asano in an attack on Kira's compound. Their aim was to capture and kill him.
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Dream of Love
🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyA duke has deposed Prince Mauritz's father, so Mauritz spends his time in affairs with a countess, the duke's wife and a gypsy girl Adrienne. Years later she is a famous actress in a play resembling the sad story of their earlier relationship. He falls in love with her again. The jealous duchess and the duke arrange to have him shot by firing squad but revolutionaries save him and make him King.
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The Birth of White Australia
New South Wales The 1860s The 18th CenturyAn early Australian silent film depicting historical events on the Young district goldfields, then known as Lambing Flat. During the gold rush of 1861, tensions between Australian miners and immigrant Chinese led to rioting, with Chinese miners attacked and driven from the diggings. The film portrays these events as being the genesis - or birth - of the White Australia policy, a significant political issue of the day.
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Schinderhannes
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Napoleon
🇫🇷 France 🇮🇹 Italy The 18th Century The 1800sA massive 5 1/2 hour biopic of Napoleon, tracing his career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign), his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797 (the film stops there because it was intended to be part one of six, but director Abel Gance never raised the money to make the other five). The film's legendary reputation is due to the astonishing range of techniques that Gance uses to tell his story, culminating in the final twenty-minute triptych sequence, which alternates widescreen panoramas with complex multiple- image montages projected simultaneously on three screens.
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When a Man Loves
🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyTo love her meant-disaster...he fought the world and wrecked his life! — A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.
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The Chess Player
🇷🇺 Russia The 18th CenturyIn 1776, an inventor conceals a Polish nobleman in his chess-playing automaton, a machine whose fame leads it to the court of the Russian empress.
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Winners Of The Wilderness
The 18th CenturyDuring the French and Indian War the Indians under Pontiac kidnap Rene. Colonel O'Hara hopes to rescue and wed her.
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Ein Mädel aus dem Volke
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Manon Lescaut
The 18th CenturyA French adventurer fights to save a woman in the life of prostitution.
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Mauprat
The 18th CenturyMauprat was adapted into a silent film with the same title by French director Jean Epstein in 1926. Luis Buñuel was assistant director on this film; it was his first film credit.
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Jean Chouan
🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyThis 8 chapter serial drama tells the story of a resistance movement led by Jean "Chouan" Cottereau against the Republicans in Western France starting in 1793.
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The Only Way
England 🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyA dissolute English advocate goes to the guillotine in place of his aristocratic double.
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The Eagle
🇷🇺 Russia The 18th CenturyVladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He spurns her advances and flees, and she puts out a warrant for his arrest, dead or alive. Vladimir learns that his father's lands have been taken by the evil Kyrilla Troekouroff, and his father dies. He dons a black mask, and becomes the outlaw The Black Eagle. He enters the Troekouroff household disguised as a French instructor for Kyrilla's daughter Mascha. He is after vengeance, but instead falls in love with Mascha.
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The Knight of the Rose
The 18th CenturyThe story: While her husband is becoming famous in the war, the marshal of Werdenberg's wife consoles herself in the arms of the youngster Octavian and tries to arrange the love affairs of her cousin, the baron Ochs, by presenting him to young Sophie. This baron is taken with her and the Marschallin proposes Octavian to be his "Rosenkavalier" in order to present the traditional silver rose to his fiancée. But youngsters are youngsters and sex hormones hold sway over the whole world so for that reason immediately Octavian and Sophie fall in love with each other…
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Fanfan-la-Tulipe
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Madame Sans-Gêne
The 18th CenturyA Romantic Story of Napoleon's Court — A French washerwoman becomes a duchess and a friend of Napoleon.
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Surcouf
The 18th CenturyBased on Charles Cunat's novel, Surcouf tells a romanticized version of the life story of Robert Surcouf, a French privateer and slave trader who operated in the Indian Ocean from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 19th century.
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Karl XII
🇸🇪 Sweden The 18th Century The 17th CenturyThe film depicts the life of Charles XII of Sweden who oversaw the expansion of the Swedish Empire until its defeat at the Battle of Poltava. It was the most expensive production in Swedish history when it was made, and inspired a string of large budget Swedish historical films
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Die Anne-Liese von Dessau
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Monsieur Beaucaire
England 🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyThe Duke of Chartres is in love with Princess Henriette, but she seemingly wants nothing to do with him. Eventually he grows tired of her insults and flees to England when Louis XV insists that the two marry. He goes undercover as Monsieur Beaucaire, the barber of the French Ambassador, and finds that he enjoys the freedom of a commoner’s life. After catching the Duke of Winterset cheating at cards, he forces him to introduce him as a nobleman to Lady Mary, with whom he has become infatuated. When Lady Mary is led to believe that the Duke of Chartres is merely a barber she loses interest in him. She eventually learns that he is a nobleman after all and tries to win him back, but the Duke of Chartres opts to return to France and Princess Henriette who now returns his affection.
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America
New York Massachusetts Virginia The 18th CenturyThe story of a family caught up in the American Revolutionary War.
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Janice Meredith
🇺🇸 United States of America The 18th CenturyIt is 1774, the eve of the American War of Independence. Janice comes from a Tory household. She cavorts with American and British alike, is pursued by Charles Fownes, patriot and friend of General Washington.
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Beau Brummel
England 🇫🇷 France The 1810s The 18th Century...the Most Beautiful Romance in all History — George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord Alvanley. Brummel, broken-hearted, embarks upon a life of revelry.
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Forbidden Paradise
🇷🇺 Russia The 18th CenturyFilm based on the Lajos Biró play, directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
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Eugene Aram
England The 18th CenturyA blackmailed ex-thief is executed for a murder he didn't commit.
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Das Kalte Herz
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The Man Without Desire
🇮🇹 Italy The 1920s The 18th CenturyA doctor suspends the life of a mourning lover and he is revived 200 years later.
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The Lost Shoe
The 18th CenturyDirected by Ludwig Berger.
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Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend
The 18th CenturyIn his film version, Curt Goetz shifts the focus away from the poetic output towards the young Friedrich Schiller himself: on the misery of his soul whilst a pupil of the ducal military academy, his opposition to the strict physical drill and the narrow intellectual confines of the "Karlsschule", his juvenile passion for the works of Shakespeare, Klopstock and Lessing, his anger at unjust authorities, his devotion to women, and finally his inability to cope with financial matters
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Bonnie Prince Charlie
Scotland The 18th CenturyIn the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.
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A Glass of Water
England The 18th CenturyA Glass of Water (German: Ein Glas Wasser) is a 1923 German silent historical film directed by Ludwig Berger and starring Mady Christians, Lucie Höflich and Hans Brausewetter. It premiered at the UFA-Palast am Zoo on 1 February 1923. It was based on a play of the same title by Eugène Scribe, set in England during the reign of Queen Anne. The film was very well received both commercially and critically on its release. It is considered one of the milestones of Weimar cinema
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