80 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1870s
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Ohio Nevada 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇫🇷 France 🇵🇱 Poland 🇺🇦 Ukraine Hiroshima Prefecture The 1980s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1870sPioneer. Genius. Rebel. — The story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.
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The Professor and the Madman
England The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1870s The 1880sThe incredible true story that defined our world. — Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
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Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
🇫🇷 France The 1870s The 1880s The 1890s The 1900s The 1910s The 1920s The 1930s The 1950s The 1960s The 1940sShe saw the future through the camera lens — The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and forgotten. At last remembered.
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Tommy's Honour
Scotland The 1870s The 1860sThe pride of a father. The love of a wife. The soul of a rebel. The heart of a champion. — In every generation, a torch passes from father to son. And that timeless dynamic is the beating heart of Tommy's Honor - an intimate, powerfully moving tale of the real-life founders of the modern game of golf.
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
England The 1870sIt's time for a little madness. — Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.
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Finding Altamira
🇪🇸 Spain The 1870sSome secrets are too powerful to hide. — The story of nine-year old Maria and her father Marcelino who, in 1879, found the first pre-historic cave paintings at the now world famous Altamira cave.
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Cezanne and I
🇫🇷 France The 1890s The 1880s The 1870s The 1850s The 1860s The 1900sThey loved each other with the ardor of thirteen-year-old boys. Rebellion and curiosity, hopes and doubts, girls and dreams of glory – they shared it all. Paul was rich, Emile poor. They went skinny-dipping, drank absinthe, starved, only to overeat. Sketched models by day, caressed them by night... Now, Paul is a painter and Emile a writer. Glory has passed Paul by. But Emile has it all: fame, money, the perfect wife, whom Paul once loved. They judge each other, admire each other, confront each other. They lose touch, meet up again, like a couple who cannot stop loving each other.
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Far from the Madding Crowd
England The 1870sBased on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy. Bathsheba Everdene, attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love – as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance.
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April and the Extraordinary World
🇫🇷 France The 2000s The 1940s The 1930s The 1870sA Film By Christian Desmares And Franck Ekinci — France asleep in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon VI, where scientists vanish mysteriously, a girl, Avril, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.
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Prim: el asesinato de la calle del Turco
🇪🇸 Spain The 1870sA game in which the throne of Spain is at stake — Madrid, Spain, December 27, 1870. General Juan Prim i Prats, president of the Council of Ministers and Minister of War gets involved in a treacherous ambush, is mortal injured and dies three days later. A mystery, a conspiracy, a murder that was never solved.
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Anna Karenina
🇷🇺 Russia The 1870sAn epic story of love. — Trapped in a loveless marriage, aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.
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Ludwig II
🇩🇪 Germany The 1880s The 1870s The 1860sA dramatic retelling of the life of Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, one of the most fascinating monarchs of modern times. From his accession to the throne at the age of 18 to his passionate support of Richard Wagner and his music. From his ingenuous political commitment to his obsessive construction of extravagant palaces and to his gradual withdrawal into a lonely dream world, an epic narrative of breathtaking grandeur.
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Alice in Wonderland
England The 1870sYou're invited to a very important date. — Alice, now 19 years old, returns to the whimsical world she first entered as a child and embarks on a journey to discover her true destiny.
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Free Man
🇹🇷 Turkey The 1870s The 1880s The 1890s The 1900s The 1910s The 1920s The 1930s The 1950s The 1940she story is real story that tells about a man's life who has a very influential philosopher that had lived in between 1877-1960. His name is 'Said Nursi' and he is originally Kurdish. But, he speaks perfectly Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic, and Persian. He wrote and compiled too many books that had aimed to develop personal beliefs, the belief of faith, brotherhood, philanthropy, the loyalty of state, moreover, discovering the problems in Turkey; the reasons of weakness, poorness, ignorance, untutored, divisions in society, divergence, estrangement of ethics, religion. And to find the solutions of those problems.. And his struggle for doing this toward a secret committee..
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Buddenbrooks
🇩🇪 Germany The 1870s The 1860s The 1850s The 1840sMid-19th-century, Baltic Sea port city of Lubeck, Germany. Follows the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook mercantile family as Tony and Thomas reach the age of marriage. Fatefully impeded every step of the way, the Buddenbrooks struggle as economic hardship and personal defeats weigh down family relations.
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Black Gruja and the Stone of Wisdom
🇷🇸 Serbia The 1870sBased on a comedy TV series about Serbian "aristocracy" during the Turkish "answer" to the Serbian Uprising during the Serbian-Turkish war in the 19th century. During this time it was of the utmost importance to take the right steps and wisdom is really needed for making those right steps. With the help of a fortune teller, Karadjordje (the leader of the Uprising) learns that, according to a legend, somewhere in the hills exists a Stone of Wisdom which makes you, if you hit your head against it three times, more wise. So he employs his nephew Crni Gruja, with assistants Ceda Velja and Bole, to find him this miraculous Stone. Crni Gruja finds the Stone and, convinced that he is really becoming more wiser, decides to make some business.
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Corpse Bride
England The 1870sThere's been a grave misunderstanding. — Set in a 19th-century european village, this stop-motion animation feature follows the story of Victor, a young man whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride Victoria waits bereft in the land of the living.
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The Call of Cthulhu
Rhode Island Louisiana 🇳🇴 Norway 🇬🇱 Greenland New South Wales 🇳🇿 New Zealand The 1920s The 1900s The 1870sA dying professor leaves his great-nephew a collection of documents pertaining to the Cthulhu Cult. The nephew begins to learn why the study of the cult so fascinated his grandfather. Bit-by-bit he begins piecing together the dread implications of his grandfather's inquiries, and soon he takes on investigating the Cthulhu cult as a crusade of his own.
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The Turkish Gambit
🇧🇬 Bulgaria The 1870sThe film is based on the second book from the Adventures of Erast Petrovich Fandorin series of novels written by the Russian author Boris Akunin. The film takes place in 1877 during the Russian-Turkish war. Erast Fandorin has just escaped from Turkish prison and is trying to get on the Russian side as soon as possible to give important information about the upcoming attack of the enemy. On his way he meets Varvara Suvorova, a young lady who is going to see her fiancée - a soldier of the Russian army. Erast also knows that there is a spy somewhere in the Russian army, everyone is under suspicion.
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The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby
Scotland The 1870s The 1860s The 1850sThis is the true story of a little dog that refused to leave his master's graveside in Edinburgh. The dog visited the grave for years.
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The Phantom of the Opera
🇫🇷 France The 1910s The 1870sThe classic musical comes to the big screen for the first time. — Deformed since birth, a bitter man known only as the Phantom lives in the sewers underneath the Paris Opera House. He falls in love with the obscure chorus singer Christine, and privately tutors her while terrorizing the rest of the opera house and demanding Christine be given lead roles. Things get worse when Christine meets back up with her childhood acquaintance Raoul and the two fall in love
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La Commune (Paris, 1871)
🇫🇷 France The 1870sWe are in the year 1871. A journalist for Versailles Television broadcasts a soothing and official view of events while a Commune television is set up to provide the perspectives of the Paris rebels. On a stage-like set, more than 200 actors interpret characters of the Commune, especially the Popincourt neighbourhood in the XIth arrondissement. They voice their own thoughts and feelings concerning the social and political reforms. The scenes consist mainly of long camera takes.
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I Am Dina
🇳🇴 Norway The 1860s The 1870sThis is my Story — In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise her, leaving her in the care of the household servants. Dina grows up wild and unmanageable, with her only friend being the stable boy, Tomas. She summons her mother's ghost and develops a strange fascination with death as well as a passion for living.
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Interview with the Vampire
California Louisiana 🇫🇷 France The 18th Century The 1870s The 1980sDrink from me and live forever — A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
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Cows
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930s The 1910s The 1900s The 1870sA film set in the Basque region, beginning in the Carlist war of 1875 and ending during the Spanish Civil war of 1936. The film portrays how one single act of cowardice shapes the life of the next three generations of two families and fuels the intense rivalry which will span the next sixty-one years.
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