122 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1800s
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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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The Secret Of St. Ives
England The 1800sA French soldier in the Napoleonic Wars plots his escape after he's captured and imprisoned in a castle fortress in Edinburgh, Scotland. Director Philip Rosen's 1949 film, adapted from a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, stars Richard Ney, Vanessa Brown, Henry Daniell, John Dehner, Douglas Walton, Aubrey Mather, Jean Del Val, Luis Van Rooten, Maurice Marsac and Billy Bevan.
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The Fighting O'Flynn
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1800s The 18th CenturyA swashbuckling Irishman opposes French agents during the Napoleonic wars.
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Mrs. Fitzherbert
England The 1800s The 1830s The 18th CenturyThe tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.
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A Scandal in Paris
๐ซ๐ท France The 1800sEvery man has his price... and every woman pays it. โ A smooth-talking French thief (George Sanders) wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.
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Kolberg
๐ฆ๐น Austria The 1800s The 1810sThe fortified town of Kolberg, the last town in Pomerania still held by Prussian forces, holds out against a siege of French troops during the Napoleonic Wars. A Nazi propaganda piece intended to encourage Germans to resist the coming Allied forces.
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Forever and a Day
England The 1940s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1800s The 1840sThe Picture With a $1,000,000 Cast โ In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
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Colonel Chabert
๐ซ๐ท France The 1810s The 1800sThe story of a French officer who is assumed dead during the Napoleonic Wars, but returns ten years later to a very different France, both on a political and personal level. The film is based on the novel Colonel Chabert by Honorรฉ de Balzac.
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The Young Mr. Pitt
England ๐ซ๐ท France The 1800s The 18th CenturyThis biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
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That Hamilton Woman
England ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ซ๐ท France The 1800s The 1810s The 18th CenturyThe Year's Most Exciting Team of Screen Lovers! โ The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Der Feuerteufel
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The Rothschilds
England ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ช๐ธ Spain ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1800s The 1810sNazi biography of the Rothschilds, a Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.
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Schneider Wibbel
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Anthony Adverse
๐จ๐บ Cuba ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฎ๐น Italy Africa - General The 1800sThe thrill of thrills the world could not forget! โ Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.
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Lloyd's of London
England ๐ซ๐ท France The 1800s The 18th CenturyNorfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, they must separate their paths. The former will head his footsteps to London and bound his destiny to Lloyd's, a thriving insurance company; the latter will eventually become one of the greatest heroes in the history of the British Empire.
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Beethoven's Great Love
๐ฆ๐น Austria The 1800s The 1810s The 1820sLyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.
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Die Nacht mit dem Kaiser
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Midshipman Easy
England ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ซ๐ท France The 1800s The 18th CenturySet during the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic War, Mr Midshipman Easy has just joined the Royal Navy. He is very keen to do well but luckily he has an understanding captain to pull him out of the various adventures he seems to get involved in.
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Invitation To The Waltz
England ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1800sAs the threat of Napoleonic invasion looms ever closer, a German duke and potential ally of England falls for a pretty ballerina.
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Lieutenant Kizhe
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1800s The 18th CenturyA copying error by a military scribe turns the Russian words for "the lieutenants, however" into what looks like "lieutenant Kizhe". The Tsar reads the error, and wants to meet this (non-existent) lieutenant. The fiction turns out to be all too convenient for his courtiers, and Lieutenant Kizhe gets himself exiled to Siberia, recalled from exile, promoted and married.
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Krazy's Waterloo
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1800sKrazy plays Napoleon in this savvy spoof of the war of 1812. Enlivened by two original songs.
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