177 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 17th Century
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Das Bad auf der Tenne
🇧🇪 Belgium The 17th CenturyA comedy directed by Paul Martin.
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El amor de Don Juan
🇪🇸 Spain The 17th CenturyDon Juan is arrested during one of his raids loving, just as he intended to seduce the daughter of the Governor, who was about to marry. His faithful servant, too accustomed to be all sticks, passed by him to save his skin, a situation that will allow you to win the love of a beautiful comic. Meanwhile, the real Don Juan is reduced to the status of servant.
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Zar und Zimmermann
🇳🇱 Netherlands The 17th CenturyIn the Dutch town of Saardam, Tsar Peter the Great has disguised himself in order to learn the art of ship-building. Another Russian named Peter also works at the wharf, causing a comical case of mistaken identities. Emissaries sent from France and England have difficulty locating the man they are looking for, and the lovely Marie is courted by both Peters. An adaptation of Albert Lortzing's eponymous comic opera (1837).
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The King's Thief
England The 17th CenturyAn ex-soldier turned highwayman uncovers a plot to take control of England from King Charles II.
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Das Fräulein von Scuderi
🇫🇷 France The 17th CenturySeveral men have been murdered lately, mostly rich lovers on their way to meet their mistresses with gifts of fine jewelry. To fight this scourge, King Louis XIV decides to create a special court named "La chambre ardente", designed to find and punish the perpetrators of such heinous crimes. An unexpected person, Mademoiselle de Scudéry, the famous poetess, will find herself entangled in the web of a criminal intrigue linked with the jewel murders, along with a a goldsmith, his daughter and her fiancé...
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Star of India
🇫🇷 France The 17th CenturyThe most swashbuckling screen adventure in a decade! — Squire Pierre St. Laurent returns from wars in India to 17th-century provincial France to find his estate confiscated by governor Narbonne, for back taxes, and resold to Katrina, a Dutch Countess. Katrina offers to return Pierre's property if he will help her get possession of the 'Star of India,' a fabulous sapphire, held at the moment by Narbonne.
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Captain John Smith and Pocahontas
Virginia England The 17th CenturyThe story of, well, Captain John Smith and Pocahontas. Jamestown. Early 1600s.
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The Diamond Queen
🇫🇷 France 🇮🇳 India The 17th CenturyQueen of a Jungle Dynasty but Slave of Love! — A French jeweler travels to India in search of a fabulous diamond.
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Plymouth Adventure
Massachusetts England The 17th CenturyMGM presents The Great TECHNICOLOR Drama of the Sea ! — The story of the voyage of the "Mayflower" in its historic voyage across the Atlantic to the New World. The passenger list includes John Alden and Priscilla Mullins among those who made the 96-day storm-filled crossing. Along the way the Captain has an ill-starred romance with the wife of a religious fanatic that ends in a sudden, dramatic way off the coast of Cape Cod.
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At Sword's Point
🇫🇷 France The 17th CenturyHot-blooded adventure! — France, 1648: Richelieu and Louis XIII are dead, the new king is a minor, and the Duc de Lavalle is in virtually open rebellion, scheming to seize power. As a last resort, Queen Anne summons the heirs of the original Musketeers to her aid...including Claire, daughter of Athos, who when she chooses can miraculously pass as a boy, and wields as fine a sword as any. All their skills will be needed for a battle against increasing odds. One for all and all for one! Written by Rod Crawford
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Milady and the Musketeers
🇫🇷 France The 17th CenturyVery stylish Italian swashbuckler - The Three Musketeers from the viewpoint of Milady de Winter
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Cyrano de Bergerac
🇫🇷 France The 17th CenturyThe Most Loved of All Love Stories! — France, 1640: Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The chivalrous Cyrano sets up with Christian an innocent deception, with tragic results.
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Il figlio di d'Artagnan
🇫🇷 France The 17th CenturyD'Artagnan, the famous musketeer, has a son who does not feel like following in his father's steps. For the time being he is a novice in a monastery. But when a King's courier, pursued by a bunch of killers, takes refuge in the monastery, things change. All the more as the murderers try to get rid of him. Raoul decides to react and set off in search of adventure - after a few fencing lessons of course!
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Cardboard Cavalier
England The 17th CenturyCardboard Cavalier is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood and Jerry Desmonde.The film depicts a historical romance between Lord Lovelace and Nell Gwyne.
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Adventures of Don Juan
🇪🇸 Spain The 17th CenturyHistory's Boldest Lover . . . Most Daring Swordsman ! ! — The adventures of the notorious Spanish Lothario Don Juan highlights Errol Flynn's swashbuckling and romantic antics.
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Saraband for Dead Lovers
🇩🇪 Germany The 17th CenturyA Romance that rocked the Thrones of Kings. — Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever experiencing true love, the depressed queen finds life at court no solace. Sophie then falls for a dashing Swedish soldier of fortune, Count Konigsmark.
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Ruy Blas
🇪🇸 Spain The 17th CenturyExiled from the court of Spain, Don Salluste, the chief of police, wants to take revenge on the Queen. One day he meets Ruy Blas, a young student who happens to be a lookalike of Don Cesar, his nephew. Salluste disguises Ruy Blas and presents him as Don Cesar. It doesn't take long before Ruy Blas, intelligent, virtuous and generous as he is becomes popular and the Queen, who has fallen in love with him, appoints him Prime Minister. All seems for the best in the best of worlds but Salluste has not forgotten his revenge, far from that ...
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The Gallant Blade
🇫🇷 France The 17th CenturyThe Greatest Swordsman in France! The boldest lover in Paris! — Larry Parks in a Cinecolor swashbuckler.
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Don Quixote
🇪🇸 Spain The 17th CenturyThe old hidalgo Don Alonso Quijano, maddened by the excessive reading of books on chivalry and determined to become a famous and heroic knight-errant, leaves his village and sets out on the road in search of adventure, accompanied by his faithful friend Sancho Panza.
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The Exile
🇳🇱 Netherlands The 17th CenturyIn 17th-century England, Charles II, the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his country by militants working for rogue leader Oliver Cromwell. Charles ends up in the Netherlands, where he falls for local beauty Katie and spends his days happily in the quiet countryside. Unfortunately, Cromwell's associate Col. Ingram and his men track Charles down, and the would-be monarch must resort to swashbuckling his way to freedom.
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Beauty and the Beast
🇫🇷 France The 17th CenturyOnce upon a time — The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests her fidelity by giving her a key, telling her that if she doesn't return it to him by a specific time, he will die of grief. She is unable to return the key on time, but it is revealed that the Beast is the genuinely handsome one. A simple tale of tragic love that turns into a surreal vision of death, desire, and beauty.
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The Phantom Lady
🇪🇸 Spain The 17th CenturyWit... Love... Intrigue... in the spectacular setting of 18th Century Spain — The young widow of the viceroy of Peru, facing the dismal prospect of either a convent or a marriage of convenience, sets out to conquer a handsome officer, pretending she’s a duende, a ghost. Voted the best Argentine film of 1945, La dama duende is a beautifully crafted comedy of errors, based on the 17th-century play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. The most ambitious production of Estudios San Miguel, it was brought to the screen mostly by Spaniards exiled in Argentina as a result of the Civil War.
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Henry V
England The 17th Century The 14th CenturyIn the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
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