58 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1820s
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The Flesh and the Fiends
Scotland The 1820sCoffins Looted! Cadavers Dissected! — Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne'er-do-wells Burke and Hare find ways to provide him with fresh specimens...
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Les Misérables
🇫🇷 France The 1830s The 1820s The 1810sA New Generation...A New Version in English — Valjean's new life as a man of position and respect is forever threatened by dogged detective Javert.
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The Loves of Carmen
🇪🇸 Spain The 1820sA story of beauty and savagery...love and hate...splendor and shame... — Gypsy Carmen drives men wild in 1820s Spain, especially the dragoon Don Jose.
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The Pretty Miller Girl
🇦🇹 Austria The 1820sFranz Schubert retired from Vienna in country for musical writing. He draws his inspiration from a romance with the watermiller's daughter. An operetta in the fifties Vienna style. This is the only movie from Marcel Pagnol in color and the only movie in rouxcolor, a French experimental process derivated from the agfacolor German process.
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The Greed of William Hart
Scotland The 1820sHart and Moore are grave-robbers who provide cadavers to the medical students of 19th-century Edinburgh. When the supply becomes low and demand still great, the two decide to create their own supply, a plan that proves profitable when they stick to vagrants, prostitutes and drunkards. But when they poison likable Jamie, the townsfolk retaliate. NB: This film was originally written to be about Burke and Hare, but after it was completed, the British censors refused to allow its release on the grounds those names themselves were offensive; thus the entire soundtrack was recut so that new names - Hart and Moore - recorded by the film's actors, were cut into the previously recorded lines, replacing the offending "Burke" or "Hare", sentence by sentence.
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The Foxes of Harrow
Louisiana 🇮🇪 Ireland The 1820s The 1830sAn Irish rascal and inveterate gambler uses his considerable skills at the gaming tables of New Orleans to become fabulously rich.
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Children of Paradise
🇫🇷 France The 1820s The 1830sAT LAST! The Celebrated French Film — Filmed during the German occupation, this French milestone centers around the theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan and the four men who love her. Voted the “Best French Film in History” by the French Film Academy in 1990.
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A Song to Remember
🇫🇷 France The 1840s The 1820s The 1830sAs long as the world loves a lover…this romance will live! — Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.
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Jane Eyre
England The 1820s The 1830s The 1840sA love story every woman would die a thousand deaths to live! — After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.
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Wicked Duchess
🇫🇷 France The 1820sEdwige Feuillère and Pierre Richard-Willm star in director Jacques de Baroncelli's adaptation of the Balzac novella The Duchesse de Langeais, which tells the tale of a Parisian socialite who is romantically pursued by a Napoleonic war hero. With a screenplay by Jean Giraudoux.
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A Prussian Love Story
🇩🇪 Germany The 1820sThe film depicts the love affair between William I and Elisa Radziwill.
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Fanny Elssler
🇦🇹 Austria The 1820s The 1830sPrince Klemens von Metternich orders Friedrich Gentz, one of his aides, to keep the Duke of Reichstadt---Napoleon Francois Joseph Charles---son of Napoleon and heir to the French throne, from thinking about French politics. Gentz enlists the help of ballerina Fanny Elsser, all the rage in several European capitals, to keep the Duke distracted.
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The Mill on the Floss
England The 1820sRomeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.
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Beethoven's Great Love
🇦🇹 Austria The 1800s The 1810s The 1820sLyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.
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Three Girls Around Schubert
🇦🇹 Austria The 1820sComposer Franz Schubert becomes involved with a family with three daughters, falling in love with the two blonds, first one, then the other; but will he notice the quiet brunet third daughter, who has fallen madly in love with him?
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The Student of Prague
🇨🇿 Czechia The 1820sPrague in the 1860s: Balduin is a popular, handsome student, the best fencer in town, in amicable rivalry with his friend Dahl for the affections of Lydia, the innkeeper's niece. While the students are celebrating Lydia's birthday, the opera singer Julia Stella arrives at the inn - and Balduin's life begins to unravel. He is immediately infatuated with the glamorous singer - but she is already kept by an admirer, the wealthy and foppish Baron Waldis. How can a poor student hope to compete? The mysterious Dr. Carpis, who also has ties to Julia and is jealous of the Baron, intervenes. But the price will be higher than Balduin can ever imagine. He risks his sanity and his life - perhaps his very soul - haunted by his own reflection.
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Blossom Time
🇦🇹 Austria The 1820sWorld-renowned tenor Richard Tauber features in a dramatisation of the life of Schubert, focusing on the composer's unrequited love for a dance master's daughter.
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Unfinished Symphony
🇦🇹 Austria The 1820sComposer Franz Schubert--broke, struggling and unhappy--gets a break when a wealthy friend wangles him an invitation to a command performance in front of a princess of the royal family. Schubert performs a version of his new work, "Symphony in B Minor", for the princess, but a misunderstanding results in Schubert storming out of the concert in a rage. Complications ensue.
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Lover Divine
🇦🇹 Austria The 1820sA section from the life of composer Franz Schubert as a material for a love story. Also known in English as Gently My Songs Entreat. An English version called Unfinished Symphony would follow in 1934.
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