122 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1800s
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Marat/Sade
๐ซ๐ท France The 1800s The 18th CenturyIn Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based on 'The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade', a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.
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Seven Guys and a Gal
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1800sItaly during the Napoleonic wars: A French General and his Adjutant are separated from their unit get beyond the enemy lines. There they meet Carlotta the resolute daughter of an Italian Count, who cannot withstand the charm of the French.
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The Rover
๐ซ๐ท France The 1800s The 18th CenturyA former counterrevolutionary pirate befriends a mentally ill young woman and this in turn leads to tragedy when she falls in love with a French naval officer.
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The Sweet Sins of Sexy Susan
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1800sThe literal English translation of the German-titled film here is "The Hostess of the Lahn." Suzanne (Terry Torday) is the beautiful redhead who runs an inn in the town of Giessen. She is the subject of many inspirational love songs by the student population. The lyrics also reflect the Germans' resentment and hostility toward the French occupation by the army of Napoleon. Suzanne appears in various stages of undress in this slow-moving feature.
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War and Peace
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1800s The 1810sTHE DEFINITIVE EPIC OF ALL TIME. โ A seven-hour epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
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The Saragossa Manuscript
๐ช๐ธ Spain The 1800s The 18th CenturyIn the Napoleonic wars, an officer finds an old book that relates his grandfather's story, Alfons van Worden, captain in the Walloon guard. A man of honor and courage, he seeks the shortest route through the Sierra Morena. At an inn, the Venta Quemada, he sups with two Islamic princesses. They call him their cousin and seduce him; he wakes beside corpses under a gallows. He meets a hermit priest and a goatherd; each tells his story; he wakes again by the gallows. He's rescued from the Inquisition, meets a cabalist and hears more stories within stories, usually of love. He returns to Venta Quemada, the women await with astonishing news.
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The Terror
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1800sTrapped in a Haunted Castle... There is no Escape From The TERROR โ A young officer in Napoleon's army pursues a mysterious woman to the castle of an elderly Baron.
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Carry On Jack
England ๐ช๐ธ Spain The 1800sThat crazy 'Carry On' team . . . on a tidal wave of hilarity ! โ Tenth entry in the Carry On series. Able seaman Poop-Decker (Bernard Cribbins) signs up for adventure on the high seas with the wicked Captain Fearless (Kenneth Williams). Those swabbing the decks include Juliet Mills, Charles Hawtrey and Donald Houston. The film was originally to be titled Up the Armada, but the British Board of Film Censors objected to such a rude title.
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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1800s The 1810sWONDERFUL THRILLS! ADVENTURE! ROMANCE! โ The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. In the movie they write a family history for a duke which includes reenactments of three of their stories including "The Dancing Princess," "The Cobbler and the Elves" and "The Singing Bone."
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H.M.S. Defiant
๐ซ๐ท France The 1800s The 18th CenturyThe cry was MUTINY... and the decks ran red!... โ Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's first officer makes this difficult, and when the captain is disabled, the chance for violence increases.
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The Time Machine
England The 1960s The 1940s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1800sYou Will Orbit into the Fantastic Future! โ A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
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Austerlitz
๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐จ๐ฟ Czechia The 1800sThe first half of this film covers Napoleon's coronation as Emperor and political manoeuvrings while the second half covers the actual battle.
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Carmen la de Ronda
๐ช๐ธ Spain The 1800s The 1810sAntonio is the leader of an underground armed group fighting in the village of Ronda against Napoleon's troops which have imposed French rule in 1808 Spain. Micaela is madly in love with Antonio but he is devoted to Carmen, the region's most beautiful gypsy who lives and sings at a local inn.
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The Naked Maja
๐ช๐ธ Spain The 1800s The 18th CenturyNow she is yours...the matchless...the shameless beauty who lives forever as The Naked Maja! โ A historical fiction based on the lives of artist Goya and the Duchess of Alba
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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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Caroline and the Rebels
๐ช๐ธ Spain The 1800s The 1810sA swashbuckling heritage reveals itself as the adopted son of 19th-century Spaniards develops into a suave lady-killer.
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The Purple Mask
๐ซ๐ท France The 1800sFrance, 1803: 11 years after the Revolution, a royalist underground is led by a new 'Scarlet Pimpernel', the Purple Mask, who rescues nobles in distress and kidnaps Napoleon's officials for ransom, aided by the spy services of a group of lovely models headed by Laurette (really the Duc de Latour's daughter). But even she doesn't know the Purple Mask's real identity as foppish dancing master Rene...
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Sea Devils
๐ซ๐ท France The 1800s The 18th CenturySix-Feet-Four of fighting Man ... to Tame a Wildcat Beauty ! โ Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells him she hopes to rescue her brother from the guillotine. Gilliatt finds himself falling in love and so feels betrayed when he later learns this woman is a countess helping Napoleon plan an invasion of England. In reality, however, the "countess" is an English agent working to thwart this invasion. When Gilliatt finds this out, he returns to France to rescue the woman who's true purpose has been discovered by the French.
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Der Korsar des Kรถnigs
๐ช๐ธ Spain The 1800sThey fought for Spanish Gold, the Honor of a man, the love of a woman! โ A disgraced member of the Spanish Navy must redeem his family's honor after his father betrays his country to the French.
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The Tales of Hoffmann
๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1800s The 1810sYou Will Never See Anything Finer On The Screen! โ In this film adaptation of the Offenbach opera, a young poet named Hoffman broods over his failed romances. First, his affair with the beautiful Olympia is shattered when he realizes that she is really a mechanical woman designed by a scientist. Next, he believes that a striking prostitute loves him, only to find out she was hired to fake her affections by the dastardly Dapertutto. Lastly, a magic spell claims the life of his final lover.
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The Elusive Pimpernel
England The 1800sA British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.
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Tyrant of the Sea
England The 1800sIn 1803, the only thing standing between Napoleon and his plan of world domination is England and the British Navy. The admiralty, learning that Napoleon has assembled an invasion fleet decides to send out one of its vessels to destroy it the French flagship under cover of fog. Forced out of retirement, ruthless, tyrannical and temperamental Captain William Blake is put in command. He wields his command with sadistic fury until an epidemic of scurvy attacks the crew and, when he refuses to go ashore for needed provision, mutiny and insubordination results...and, then, the French flagship arrives.
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