10 Films & TV Shows Set In Egypt During The 19th Century
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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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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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Tosun Pasha
🇪🇬 Egypt The 19th CenturyGreen Valley is ours! — Late 19th century in Alexandria. Two traditionally rival Turkish families, "Seferoglu"s and "Tellioglu"s are competing for the "Green Valley". The winner will be determined by Daver Bey, who has a beautiful young daughter, Leyla. Both families try to arrange a marriage between a man from their family and Leyla, so that Daver Bey will be inclined to give the green valley to his "relatives". Tellioglus, who are behind in the race, desperately find a final solution: They will fake their idiotic butler, Saban, as the highest ranked Ottoman soldier in Egypt: Tosun Pasha.
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The Night of Counting the Years
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1880sSet in 1881, a year before the start of British colonial rule, it is based on the true story of the Abd el-Rasuls, an Upper-Egyptian clan that had been robbing a cache of mummies they have discovered at tomb DB320 near the village of Kurna, and selling the artifacts on the black market. After a conflict within the clan, one of its members made a crucial decision when the Antiquities Service arrived.
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Khartoum
England 🇪🇬 Egypt 🇸🇩 Sudan The 1880sWhere the Nile divides, the great Cinerama adventure begins! — English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.
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Geliebte Feindin
🇪🇬 Egypt 🇸🇩 Sudan The 1890s -
Little Egypt
Illinois 🇪🇬 Egypt The 1890sTHE SHAPE THAT SHOOK THE WORLD! — 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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Temptation
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1900s The 1890sYOU CAN'T RESIST IT! — A Victorian-era drama about a beautiful young woman with a shady past.
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Suez
🇫🇷 France 🇪🇬 Egypt The 1860s The 1850sHE CHANGED THE MAP of the World! — Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
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Bella Donna
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1900s The 1890sBella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involved with brutish Baroudi.
