230 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 19th Century
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Marigold
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1840sMarigold Lexton, an American actress who gets stranded in Mumbai and lands a minor role in a Bollywood musical. She meets Prem, the film's choreographer, and undergoes a personal transformation as she experiences Bollywood firsthand.
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Valley of Flowers
Tibet Tokyo Prefecture The 19th Century The 2000sA Himalayan legend of a love struggling against the inevitability of death, an astonishing tale spanning from the early 19th century mountain existence, to hectic, bustling modern day Tokyo.
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Dynamite Warrior
๐น๐ญ Thailand The 1890sThe story is set in 1890s Siam. Siang is a young Muay Thai warrior and rocketry expert who steals back water buffalo taken from poor Isan farmers by unscrupulous cattle raiders. He is searching for a man with a tattoo who killed his parents.
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As You Like It
๐ฏ๐ต Japan The 19th CenturyWitty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is played out against a backdrop of political rivalry, banishment and exile in the Forest of Arden - set in 19th-century Japan.
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Umrao Jaan
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1840sBollywood film about the famous courtesan of the title. Aishwarya Rai stars in the lead role. The film is directed by J.P. Dutta and also stars Shabana Azmi, Sunil Shetty, Abhishek Bachchan, Divya Dutta, Himani Shivpuri and Kulbhushan Kharbanda. A remake of the original directed by Muzaffar Ali and released in 1981.
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Mangal Pandey - The Rising
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1850sThe film begins in 1857, when India was ruled by the British East India Company. Mangal Pandey is a sepoy, a soldier of Indian origin, in the army of the East India Company. Pandey is fighting in the Anglo-Afghan Wars and saves the life of his British commanding officer, William Gordon. Gordon is indebted to Pandey and a strong friendship develops between them, transcending both rank and race.
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Around the World in 80 Days
New York New Mexico California England ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐น๐ท Turkey ๐ฎ๐ณ India ๐จ๐ณ China Atlantic Ocean The 1890sLet your imagination soar. โ A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days.
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The Last Samurai
Kyoto Prefecture California The 1870sIn the face of an enemy, in the heart of one man, lies the soul of a warrior. โ Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.
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Shanghai Knights
๐จ๐ณ China England Nevada New York The 1880sA Royal Kick In The Arse. โ The dynamic duo of Chon Wang and Roy O'Bannon return for another crazy adventure. This time, they're in London to avenge the murder of Chon's father, but end up on an even bigger case. Chon's sister is there to do the same, but instead unearths a plot to kill the royal family. No one believes her, though, and it's up to Chon and Roy (who has romance on his mind) to prove her right.
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
England ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐ฐ๐ช Kenya The 1890sThe power of seven become a league of one. โ To prevent a world war from breaking out, famous characters from Victorian literature band together to do battle against a cunning villain.
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Painted Fire
๐ฐ๐ต North Korea (DPRK) ๐ฐ๐ท South Korea The 1880s The 1890sThe struggles of an artist. Jang Seung-up (1843-1897), also called Owon, focusing on the years 1882 to 1897, when Korea was in political upheaval, caught between China and Japan, the conservative dynasty dying, and peasant revolt at hand. Jang, born poor, has genius; a merchant, Kim, becomes his patron, finding him a teacher. Jang must convince others that a commoner can have talent, then move beyond his ability to copy old masters and find his own style. He's bedeviled by a temper and alcohol, arguments with patrons as he seeks commissions, and relationships with kisaeng, particularly Mae-hyang, that start and stop. It's the life of a restless spirit producing great art.
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Barbie in the Nutcracker
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1810s"Barbie" stars as Clara in this animated retelling of the classic Christmas ballet, complete with Tchaikovsky soundtrack and ballet choreography.
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Resurrection
๐ท๐บ Russia The 19th CenturyAt the end of the XIX century in Russia, Prince Dimitri Necklivdov is called as a jury-man in a trial. The defendant is Katiuscia Maslova, accused of murdering a merchant in order to rob him. Dimitri recognizes Katiuscia: she was the girl he seduced many years before. Dimitri decides to save her.
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Beijing The 19th Century The 18th CenturyA timeless story of strength, secrets and two warriors who would never surrender. โ Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.
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Shanghai Noon
Nevada ๐จ๐ณ China The 1880sThe old west meets the far east. โ Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard trails Princess Pei Pei when she is kidnapped from the Forbidden City and transported to America. Wang follows her captors to Nevada, where he teams up with an unlikely partner, outcast outlaw Roy O'Bannon, and tries to spring the princess from her imprisonment.
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Anna and the King
๐น๐ญ Thailand The 19th CenturyThe story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teacher Anna Leonowens during the 1860s. Anna teaches the children and becomes romanced by the King. She convinces him that a man can be loved by just one woman.
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Onegin
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1820s The 1830sA magical era. A passionate longing. A love that spans time. โ In the opulent St. Petersburg of the Empire period, Eugene Onegin is a jaded but dashing aristocrat - a man often lacking in empathy, who suffers from restlessness, melancholy and, finally, regret. Through his best friend Lensky, Onegin is introduced to the young Tatiana. A passionate and virtuous girl, she soon falls hopelessly under the spell of the aloof newcomer and professes her love for him
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The King and I
๐น๐ญ Thailand The 1860sThe All New Animated Family Spectacular Adapted From The Musical By Rodgers And Hammerstein โ Animated version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical about when the King of Siam meets a head strong English school mistress.
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The Red Violin
Quebec England ๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ฎ๐น Italy Shanghai The 1990s The 1960s The 1890s The 18th Century The 17th CenturySpans 300 years in the life of one famed musical instrument that winds up in present-day Montreal on the auction block. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin derives its unusual color from the human blood mixed into the finish. With this legacy, the violin travels to Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and tragedy in its wake.
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Flowers of Shanghai
Shanghai The 1880sWomen struggle in a Shanghai brothel where everything only appears to be beautiful.
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The Barber of Siberia
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1900s The 1890s The 1880sHe's Russian. That explains a lot. โ Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrej Tolstoy with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her.
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Swami Vivekananda
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Passion in the Desert
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt ๐ซ๐ท France The 1800s The 18th CenturyWhat nature divides, the spirit unites. โ 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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The Opium War
๐จ๐ณ China The 1840s The 1830sThe story of the Opium War between China, in the waning days of the Qing Dynasty, and the British Empire, in the 1830s, and the subsequent takeover of Hong Kong by Britain; through the eyes of the key figures, fiercely nationalistic Lin Zexu, and opportunistic British naval diplomat Charles Elliot.
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My Heart Is Mine Alone
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1870s The 1860sHelma Sanders-Brahms directs this inventive film that uses the verse of Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schรผler and Nazi poet Gottfried Benn to dramatize the passionate, real-life affair between the two unlikely lovers. Forced out of Germany, Lasker-Schรผler makes her way to Jerusalem even as Benn discovers the true nature of the Nazi ideology he had once championed. Lena Stolze and Cornelius Obonya star.
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