57 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1840s
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The Five Days
🇮🇹 Italy The 1840sAs Italy becomes engulfed in a bubbling revolution to finally get rid of the ruling Austrian's,a patriotic prisoner called Cainazzo begins to wonder if he will soon get the chance to see the revolution in action away from his prison cell.Suddenly,a cannon ball comes flying through the air and knocks the main wall of the prison down. Excited in at last having the chance to see the change taking place in person,Cainazzo hits a bumpy road,when one of his former fellow prisoner yells out to all the revolutionary gangs that Cainazzo is not a patriot,but is in fact a traitor!
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The Emigrants
Minnesota 🇸🇪 Sweden Atlantic Ocean The 1840sa new land...a new hope...a new dream — A Swedish peasant family, ravaged by poverty, privation and misery in mid-19th century Sweden, set out on a perilous journey to America in hope of a better life.
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Web of the Spider
England The 1840sAlan Foster, a professional American journalist, travels to London to meet with Edgar Allen Poe for an interview. While in London, Alan soon finds himself in the company of Lord Blackwood, and Alan accepts a bet to spend a night in his castle
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Burn!
England The 1850s The 1840sThe man who sells war. — The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal with the same rebels that he built up because they have seized too much power that now threatens British sugar interests.
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Doctor Dolittle
England The 1840sRide across the sea inside the GIANT PINK SEA SNAIL! — A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail.
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A King Without Distraction
🇫🇷 France The 1840sA policeman and a serial killer play cat and mouse in an isolated mountain village in Nineteenth century France.
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The Mysteries of Paris
🇫🇷 France The 1840sThe Marquis Rodolphe de Sombrueil accidentally runs over a working man with his carriage and helps his widow -- unjustly accused of robbery -- to find her missing daughter.
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Buddenbrooks
🇩🇪 Germany The 1850s The 1860s The 1840s The 1870sFirst part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in mid 19th century Germany.
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Untamed
🇮🇪 Ireland 🇿🇦 South Africa The 1850s The 1840sIt's AFRICOLOSSAL! in CINEMASCOPE — When the great potato famine hits Ireland, the diaspora begins as thousands emigrate. Among those leaving the Emerald Isle is Katie O'Neill and her husband, who decide that the promised land is South Africa and make their way there. Once there, they discover the hardships that are the reality of the homesteader experience.
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Anita Garibaldi
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Mask of the Avenger
🇮🇹 Italy The 1840sMonte Cristo lives... fights... loves again! — Costume swashbuckler with heroic John Derek battling evil Anthony Quinn.
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El capitán Veneno
🇪🇸 Spain The 1840sIn Madrid, under Queen Isabel II reign, rebellions are frequent events. During one of them Captain Jorge de Córdoba, nicknamed Veneno (poison) for his quarrelsome disposition, bad temper and outright misogyny, is hurt and taken to a house where two women, a widow and her daughter, are to take care of him.
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Song of Love
🇩🇪 Germany The 1850s The 1830s The 1840sA Love Story So Beautiful It Was Set to Music! — Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifelong friend, composer Johannes Brahms.
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Devotion
England The 1840s The 1830sIt tells ALL about those Brontë sisters!...They didn't dare call it love- they tried to call it Devotion — In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Reverend Arthur Nichols. Along with their sister Anne, Emily and Charlotte also try to help their tormented brother Branwell, a gifted artist whose life is being destroyed by alcohol.
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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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Forever and a Day
England The 1940s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1800s The 1840sThe Picture With a $1,000,000 Cast — 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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Women Are Better Diplomats
🇩🇪 Germany The 1840sA seductive dancer (Marika Rökk) helps her uncle to fight against the closing of his casino. Through her feminine charm she achieves diplomatic success.
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All This, and Heaven Too
🇫🇷 France The 1840sThe screen has never held greater thrills than these: the deep-stirring romance of two heaven-destined lovers ...the magnificent surge of its history-making story ...and the first, momentous clash of Hollywood's most dynamic stars! — When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the volatile and obsessive Duchesse de Praslin, she instantly incurs the wrath of her mistress, who is insanely jealous of anyone who comes near her estranged husband. Though she saves the duchess's little son from a near-death illness and warms herself to all the children, she is nevertheless dismissed by the vengeful duchess. Meanwhile, the attraction between the duke and Henriette continues to grow, eventually leading to tragedy.
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A Dispatch from Reuters
England 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany The 1860s The 1850s The 1840sGerman Julius Reuter (Edward G. Robinson) sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
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To New Shores
England 🇦🇺 Australia The 1840sLondon 1846. Singer Gloria Vane has a resounding success at the Adelphi Theater. While she throws a brilliant party
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