72 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 18th Century
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The Adventures of Hajji Baba
🇮🇷 Iran The 18th CenturyIn Ispahan, Persia, Hajji Baba is leaving his father's shop to seek a greater fortune, while the Princess Fawzia is trying to talk her father, the Caliph into giving her in marriage to Nur-El-Din, a rival prince known far and wide as mean and fickle. Her father intends Fawzia for Fawzia to marry a friend and ally, and makes plans to send her to him.
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Admiral Ushakov
England 🇷🇺 Russia 🇹🇷 Turkey The 19th Century The 18th CenturyHistorical epic about the legendary Russian naval commander of the 18th century, admiral Fyodor Ushakov, and his fight for Crimea during the Russo-Turkish War.
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Flame of Calcutta
🇮🇳 India The 18th CenturyA British captain and a French official's daughter save the East India Company.
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Shadow of the Eagle
🇮🇹 Italy 🇷🇺 Russia The 18th CenturyDuring the eighteenth century the Empress of Russia sends her lover to kidnap her rival for the throne.
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A Royal Scandal
🇷🇺 Russia The 18th CenturySaucy! Naughty! Delicious! — Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.
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David Bek
🇦🇲 Armenia The 18th CenturyThe Armenian national hero, David Bek, leads a major Armenian uprising against Safavid Persia in the Syunik region in the 18th century.
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Münchhausen
🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇹 Italy 🇷🇺 Russia 🇹🇷 Turkey The Moon The 18th CenturyWanting a lavish production to mark the 25th anniversary of UFA, the German film studio, Joseph Goebbels, director of the Nazi propaganda machine, commissioned an adaptation of Baron von Münchhausen‘s “autobiographical” stories. Baron von Münchhausen (1720-97) was an eccentric figure in European history, whose tall tales about his adventures rival anything to be found in the legends of Paul Bunyan or classic figures like Odysseus. This film recounts some of the episodes from the Baron’s sensational stories, which are set in the world of the 18th century.
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Princess Tarakanova
🇷🇺 Russia The 18th CenturyA film about the story of princess Élisabeth Tarakanova.
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The Empress's Favourite
🇷🇺 Russia The 18th CenturyComedy about the love life of the Russian emperor.
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Clive of India
England 🇮🇳 India The 18th CenturySix words from a woman changed the map of Asia! — Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous territory, rich in spices and precious metals beyond the wildest dreams, and try to gain the favor of the local kings, Robert Clive (1725-1774), a frustrated but talented clerk who works for the East Indian Company and struggles to earn his fortune, makes a bold decision that will change his life forever.
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The Scarlet Empress
🇩🇪 Germany 🇷🇺 Russia The 18th CenturyThe Reigning Beauty of the Screen! — During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.
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The Rise of Catherine the Great
🇷🇺 Russia The 18th CenturyThe more he hated her, the more she loved him...this girl of MANY loves who rose to rule a hundred million souls but could not govern her own heart. — The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Peter, the nephew of Empress Elizabeth. Although the couple has moments of contentment, Peter's cruel and erratic behavior causes a rift between him and Catherine. Mere months after Peter succeeds his aunt as the ruler of Russia, a revolt is brewing, and Catherine is poised to ascend to the throne as the country's new empress.
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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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Tarakanova
🇷🇺 Russia The 18th CenturyTarakanova is a 1930 French historical drama film directed by Raymond Bernard and starring Édith Jéhanne, Paule Andral and Olaf Fjord. It depicts the life of Princess Tarakanoff, the pretender to the throne of Catherine II in Eighteenth Century Russia.
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The Tsarevich
🇷🇺 Russia The 18th CenturyBased on the play and subsequent operetta of the same name.
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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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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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Forbidden Paradise
🇷🇺 Russia The 18th CenturyFilm based on the Lajos Biró play, directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
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The Queen of Spades
🇫🇷 France 🇷🇺 Russia The 1820s The 18th CenturyWhile hosting a game of cards one night, Narumov tells his friends a story about his grandmother, a Countess. As a young woman, she had once incurred an enormous gambling debt, which she was able to erase by learning a secret that guaranteed that she could win by playing her cards in a certain order. One of Narumov's friends, German, has never gambled, but he is intrigued by the story about the Countess and her secret. He soon becomes obsessed with learning this secret from her, and he starts by courting her young ward Lizaveta, hoping to use her to gain access to the Countess.
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Princess Tarakanova
🇷🇺 Russia The 18th CenturyDuring the reign of Russia's Empress Ekaterina II (Catherine the Great), Count Orlov writes a letter to the Empress, denouncing Princess Tarakanova as a traitor and a would-be usurper. On the Empress's orders, Tarakanova is led into a trap and arrested. Because the Princess continues to insist that she is the only true heir to the throne, she quickly finds herself in great danger.
