122 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1800s
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The Iron Duke
England 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇫🇷 France 🇦🇹 Austria The 1800s The 1810sThe life and times of the Duke of Wellington
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The Rebel
🇦🇹 Austria The 1800sA young medical student returns to his Tyrolean home to find out that Napoleon's troops have taken over the area and that his mother and sister have been murdered.
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The Black Hussar
🇩🇪 Germany The 1810s The 1800sIn 1812, during the French period, large parts of Germany are occupied by the troops of Napoleon. Several paramilitary Freikorps units battle the French forces, among them the Black Brunswickers led by the 'Black Duke' Frederick William of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After the War of the Fifth Coalition, the Black Hussars are pursued by Napoleon throughout the country, but frequently take refuge with the noble-minded German people.
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Marschall Vorwärts
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Eternal Love
🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1800sIn the Swiss Alps of the early 19th century, a couple forced into loveless marriages struggle to find happiness with one another.
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The Divine Lady
England 🇮🇹 Italy The 1800s The 1810s The 18th CenturyLady Hamilton's love affair with Admiral Horatio Nelson rocks the British Empire.
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Andreas Hofer
🇦🇹 Austria The 1800s The 1810sA film based on the story of the Tyrolean innkeeper and patriot Andreas Hofer who led an Austrian uprising against Bavarian and French troops during the Napoleonic Wars.
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The Patriot
🇷🇺 Russia The 1800sThese characters will fascinate you! — In 18th-Century Russia, the Czar, Paul, is surrounded by murderous plots and trusts only Count Pahlen. Pahlen wishes to protect his friend, the mad king, but because of the horror of the king's acts, he feels that he must remove him from the throne.
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Bolibar
🇪🇸 Spain The 1800sHessian officers' flirtations with an artist's daughter accidentally give signals to the attacking English.
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Napoleon
🇫🇷 France 🇮🇹 Italy The 18th Century The 1800sA massive 5 1/2 hour biopic of Napoleon, tracing his career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign), his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797 (the film stops there because it was intended to be part one of six, but director Abel Gance never raised the money to make the other five). The film's legendary reputation is due to the astonishing range of techniques that Gance uses to tell his story, culminating in the final twenty-minute triptych sequence, which alternates widescreen panoramas with complex multiple- image montages projected simultaneously on three screens.
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Lützow's Wild Hunt
🇩🇪 Germany The 1810s The 1800sFilm by Richard Oswald.
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Young Medardus
🇦🇹 Austria The 1800sPatriotic Austrian costume drama, about the martyr Medardus who opposed Napoleon's occupation of Vienna in 1809. The plot proceeds in a series of confrontations with Medardus, his mother and sister, the blind exiled Count of Valois, his ambitious daughter, and Napoleon himself (portrayed as a cool strategist), including several brief flashbacks.
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Der Marquis von Bolibar
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The Romance of Lady Hamilton
England 🇮🇹 Italy The 1800sAn aged ambassador's wife loves an admiral but is rejected by society after his death.
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Ireland, a Nation
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1800s The 18th CenturyThe story of Ireland and her fight for Home Rule, as seen through the experiences of Father Tom Murphy, a patriot with a price on his head, and the famous Irish leader Robert Emmet.
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The Netherlands and Orange
🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇫🇷 France The 1800s The 1810s The 18th Century The 17th Century The 16th CenturyA collection of short scenes portraying highlights of Dutch history, from the Eighty Years' War to King Willem I's return from exile. This film was made to commemorate the centenary of the Dutch royal family.
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The Battle of Waterloo
🇧🇪 Belgium The 1800s The 1810s'1815. Wellington defeats Napoleon.' (British Film Catalogue)
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La Tosca
🇮🇹 Italy The 1800sRome, June 1800. Floria Tosca is a celebrated opera singer, better known as La Tosca. Her lover is Mario Cavaradossi, a young artist and Bomapartist sympathizer. When the latter helps Angelotti, the leader of the opposition, to escape from prison and hides him in La Tosca's home, he antagonizes Baron Scarpia, the ruthless chief of police, all the more as his love for Tosca is unrequited. Scarpia has Mario arrested and condemned to death. Upset, Floria begs the Baron for her lover's life. He accepts to have the bullets of the firing squad replaced by blanks if... she sleeps with him. She agrees nominally but when she finds herself with Scarpia, she stabs him to death. She then goes to see Mario in his cell and lets him know about his phony execution. But Scarpia had had time to get the order reversed and in the early hours of the morning, Mario is executed in the proper manner. In despair, Tosca throws herself into the void...
