16 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 1800s
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The Book of Fish
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1810s The 1800sBorn as noble, one dreams to be humble. Born as humble, the other dreams to be noble. — In 1801, after a new king ascended the throne, a scholar Jeong Yak-jeon who served the late king is exiled to Heuk-san Island. There he meets Chang-dae, a young fisherman who is a huge admirer of Confucianism and has a wide knowledge about the sea.
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Union of Salvation
🇷🇺 Russia The 1800s The 1810s The 1820sWe left, we can not return. — Russian troops occupied Paris. Russia became the first power in the world. Now everything seems possible. Young winners, guards officers, are sure that equality and freedom will come - here and now. For this they are ready to sacrifice everything - position, wealth, love, life ... and the country itself.
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Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja
🇮🇳 India The 1800s The 18th CenturySet in the backdrop of the seventeenth century, the royal family of Kottayam is ruled by Pazhassi. The British government begins to impose heavy taxes on the locals in the Thalassery region of Kerala.
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Passion in the Desert
🇪🇬 Egypt 🇫🇷 France The 1800s The 18th CenturyWhat nature divides, the spirit unites. — Young French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis to Egypt during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Napoleon sent de Paradis to record Egypt's great monuments and temples that are destroyed by French soldiers in acts of barbarism. During combat, Augustin and Jean-Michel are separated from their regiment, and they start wandering through the desert fighting for their life. In one of the canyons Augustin meets a leopard he names Simoom and a strange bond between them appears.
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Assa
🇷🇺 Russia The 1980s The 1800sASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century assassination plot.
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Adieu Bonaparte
🇪🇬 Egypt 🇫🇷 France The 1800sThis big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon's occupation of Alexandria and its effect on a typical Egyptian family. Michel Piccoli leads the cast as a general in Napoleon's army who tentatively befriends a local poet.
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The Duellists
🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany 🇷🇺 Russia The 1800s The 1810sFencing is a science. Loving is a passion. Duelling is an obsession. — In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a decade, they engage in a series of duels amidst larger conflicts, including the failed French invasion of Russia in 1812, and shifts in the political and social systems of Europe.
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Love and Death
🇷🇺 Russia The 1800s The 1810sBoris is a simple Russian villager who pines from afar for his beautiful cousin Sonja. Forced against his will into joining the Russian army during the Napoleonic Wars, the cowardly Boris accidentally becomes a military hero. But when his beloved Sonja comes to him with a dangerous patriotic scheme, Boris debates his desires and beliefs.
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The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
🇨🇳 China The 1900s The 1800sHammer Horror! Dragon Thrills! The First Kung Fu Horror Spectacular! — Professor Van Helsing had been asked to help against the tyranny of skeletal creatures that are responsible for terror and death amongst the peasants in rural China. He is the only person qualified to deal with the cause of these phenomena, for the undead are controlled by the most diabolical force of all.... Count Dracula. But he is not alone- to aid him comes a mystical brotherhood of seven martial arts warriors.
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War and Peace
🇷🇺 Russia The 1800s The 1810sTHE DEFINITIVE EPIC OF ALL TIME. — A seven-hour epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
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War and Peace
🇷🇺 Russia The 1800s The 1810sThe Greatest Novel Ever Written ... Now Magnificently Alive On The Screen! — Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.
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The Queen of Spades
🇷🇺 Russia The 1800sAn elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the secret, then finds himself haunted by the woman's spirit.
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Lieutenant Kizhe
🇷🇺 Russia The 1800s The 18th CenturyA copying error by a military scribe turns the Russian words for "the lieutenants, however" into what looks like "lieutenant Kizhe". The Tsar reads the error, and wants to meet this (non-existent) lieutenant. The fiction turns out to be all too convenient for his courtiers, and Lieutenant Kizhe gets himself exiled to Siberia, recalled from exile, promoted and married.
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Krazy's Waterloo
🇫🇷 France 🇷🇺 Russia The 1800sKrazy plays Napoleon in this savvy spoof of the war of 1812. Enlivened by two original songs.
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The Patriot
🇷🇺 Russia The 1800sThese characters will fascinate you! — In 18th-Century Russia, the Czar, Paul, is surrounded by murderous plots and trusts only Count Pahlen. Pahlen wishes to protect his friend, the mad king, but because of the horror of the king's acts, he feels that he must remove him from the throne.