230 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 19th Century
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Adorable Sinner
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1880s The 1870s The 1860s The 1850sMen couldn't resist her...not even an Emperor! โ The Tsar Alexandre II meets a young student, Katia. He understands that he loves her and try to send her away but they end up seeing each other again and becomes his mistress. With the help of Katia, Alexandre prepares a liberal constitution, but these reforms make him hostile to the more privileged subjects without satirising the revolutionaries against the regime.
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The Stranglers of Bombay
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1820sThis is true! This is real! This actually happened! โ In 1826 British-ruled India, the secret Cult of Thugee demonstrates their worship of their goddess, Kali, by the mutilation and mass murder of thousands of Indians while pirating the shipments of the British East-Indian Tea Company. As the British military leaders play down the implications of the piracy and disappearances, a lone captain realizes that they are not just coincidence and sets out to uncover the source of the deviltry, at the risk of his career. Based on history.
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The White Warrior
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1850sAt the Power Peak of the Universe... At the Fury Pinnacle of the World Stands... THE WHITE WARRIOR! โ The story of Hadji Murad, a 19th-century Chechen chieftain who led his warriors in a fight against the invading forces of the Russian Czar.
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Prisoner of the Volga
๐ท๐บ Russia The 19th CenturyRaging Floodtide of Savagery! โ Prisoner of the Volga
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Eugene Onegin
๐ท๐บ Russia The 19th CenturyEugene Onegin, a jaded young dandy from the big city of St. Petersburg, travels to the country to ingratiate himself into the affection of a dying uncle. There he meets the idealistic and romantic poet Vladimir Lensky, who introduces him to the daughters of a local landowner.
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Dubrowsky
๐ท๐บ Russia The 19th CenturyDubrowsky (Italian: Il vendicatore) is a 1959 Italian- Yugoslav historical period drama film directed by William Dieterle. It is based on the novel Dubrovsky by Alexander Pushkin.
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The Brothers Karamazov
๐ท๐บ Russia The 19th CenturyThe greatness and glory, the loves and sins of the famed novel. โ Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Katya, herself lovely and rich. The other brothers include a sterile aesthete, a factotum who is a bastard, and a monk. Family tensions erupt when Dmitri falls in love with one of his father's mistresses, the coquette Grushenka. Two brothers see Dmitri's jealousy of their father as an opportunity to inherit sooner. Acts of violence lead to the story's conclusion: trials of honor, conscience, forgiveness, and redemption.
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The Barbarian and the Geisha
๐ฏ๐ต Japan The 1850sThe geisha girl they sent to love and to destroy the barbarian from the west! โ Townsend Harris is sent by President Pierce to Japan to serve as the first U.S. Consul-General to that country. Harris discovers enormous hostility to foreigners, as well as the love of a young geisha.
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War and Peace
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1800s The 1810sThe Greatest Novel Ever Written ... Now Magnificently Alive On The Screen! โ 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 King and I
๐น๐ญ Thailand The 1860sMore than your eyes have ever seenโฆ More than your heart has ever known! โ Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a clash of personalities as she works to teach the royal family about the English language, customs and etiquette, and rushes to prepare a party for a group of European diplomats who must change their opinions about the King.
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Michael Strogoff
๐ท๐บ Russia The 19th CenturyHe Fought Single-Handed Against the Terror of Tartar Hordes! โ After the death of his wife and his son, Michael, an intrepid Russian imperial army officer, lost the joy of living. His family has been the victim of an attack by the commander Ogareff Tartar troops, operating in the eastern DRC. When Tsar commissioned him to cross the dangerous mission across Siberia to restore communications troops sabotaged by Ogareff, the young officer does not hesitate to accept.
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Dunja
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Geliebte Feindin
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt ๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan The 1890s -
Bengal Brigade
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1850sFrom marble palace to teeming jungle all India rocked with the violence of the great rebellion ! โ Year 1856, British India. Capt. Jeffrey Claybourne is severely punished after disobeying an order. Feeling unworthy of his fiancรฉe Vivian Morrow, the daughter of his superior officer, Claybourne leaves the army until he could regain his reputation. When the Rajah Karam launches an attack on the British forces in India, Claybourne finds a chance at redemption.
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Admiral Ushakov
England ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐น๐ท 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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Laughing Anne
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia The 1900s The 1890sStory of love affair of captain who runs ship in Java Seas and a French saloon singer. From a story "Because of the dollars" by Joseph Conrad.
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Fair Wind to Java
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia The 1880sADVENTURE...SPECTACLE...SAVAGE LOVE! โ The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American merchant vessel is looking for a sunken Dutch vessel containing 10,000 precious diamonds. Unfortunately, he's not the only one and then there's also that volcano on the nearby island of Krakatau, waiting to explode in its historical, disastrous eruption...
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Jhansi Ki Rani
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1850sSet in the 19th century against the backdrop of the Mutiny of 1857, the film is about the bravery of queen Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, who took up arms and led her army against the British.
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Outcast of the Islands
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia ๐ธ๐ฌ Singapore The 19th CenturyEven Her Love Was Primitive! โ After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal charges. He persuades the man who gave him his start in life, the merchant ship captain Lingard, to bring him to a trading post on a remote Indonesian island where he can hide out.
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Soldiers Three
England ๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1910s The 1880s The 1890sRough, Tough and Riotous! โ Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India.
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Little Egypt
Illinois ๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1890sTHE SHAPE THAT SHOOK THE WORLD! โ A belly dancer causes a scandal with her suggestive dancing at a Worlds Fair exhibition at the turn of the 20th century.
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Revenge of Black Eagle
๐ท๐บ Russia The 19th CenturyWhen a soldier returns home from the wars, he finds that a local landowner has been terrorizing his family. He disguises himself as a bandit known as "The Black Eagle" and begins taking revenge on the landowner by ravaging his "empire". However, things take a different turn when he falls for the landowner's beautiful daughter
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Kim
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1880sFamed Spectacular Adventure Story Filmed Against Authentic Backgrounds in Mystic India The Greatest Spy Thriller of Them All! โ During the British Raj, the orphan of a British soldier poses as a Hindu and is torn between his loyalty to a Buddhist mystic and aiding the English secret service.
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The Queen of Spades
๐ท๐บ 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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