80 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1870s
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Without Trumpet or Drum
π«π· France The 1870sSummer 1870. Following the French defeat at Sedan. LΓ©on, a soldier in a detachment isolated in the Ardennes forest, is sent in search of water. When he discovers the most peaceful of rivers, he decides to undress and bathe in it. At bend of the river he catches sight of another naked swimmer. It's a Prussian! Both men start bickering a bit: aren't they supposed to be arch enemies? But they soon fraternize. Unfortunately the patrol has not vanished in the haze and they hear it coming. Each man gets hold of his uniform and runs away in two opposite directions. The only trouble is that Fritz the Prussian has donned the French uniform and Leon the Prussian one!
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Blood of the Vampire
π·π΄ Romania The 1880s The 1870sA man and wife are terrorized by Mad Scientist Dr. Callistratus who was executed but has returned to life with a heart transplant. Along with his crippled assistant Carl, the 'anemic' Mad Scientist, believed to be a vampire, conducts blood deficiency research on the inmates of a prison hospital for the criminally insane to sustain his return to life.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
California England The 1870sIt's a wonderful world, if you'll only take the time to go around it! β Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
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The Black Sleep
England The 1870sThe Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead! β In 19th century England, a noted brain surgeon rescues a former student from being hanged on a false conviction for murder, and spirits him away to an ancient, repurposed abbey far in the countryside. There, he connives his pupil into assisting him in mapping the functions of the various parts of the human brain, using living subjects who are under a terrible animation-suspending drug called "black sleep". Subsequently, the student, along with the daughter of one of the subjects, discover that most of these subjects have survived but are being kept in a dungeon-like cellar, in various stages of physical and mental derangement...
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Ludwig II
π©πͺ Germany The 1880s The 1870s The 1860sLife and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.
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Heroes of Shipka
π§π¬ Bulgaria The 1870sHeroes of Shipka was the first solo effort for Soviet director Sergei Vasilyev, who had previously collaborated with his late brother Georgi. As head of the Leningrad Film Studios, Vasilyev was obliged to traffic in propaganda, but he never forgot how to make his material entertaining. The film is set in 1887 during the pivotal battle between the Russians and the Turks at the Shipka Pass. Stressing the solidarity of the Soviet states, tribute is paid to the courageous Bulgarian volunteers who helped the Russians fend off their mutual enemy. American critics were impressed by Heroes of Shipka, but felt that the film would have been twice as effective had it been lensed in Cinemascope rather than "standard aspect."
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Melba
π¦πΉ Austria π¨πΏ Czechia π¦πΊ Australia The 1890s The 1880s The 1870sThe story follows the career of Melba from the time she left her father's Australian cattle ranch and a suitor to travel to Paris to get her voice training, and picks up another suitor. She debuts in Brussells and is a smash hit followed by international fame. The suitor from Australia shows up in Monte Carlo, marries her and soon is cast in the role of "Mr. Melba" until he can take it no longer and returns to Australia, while Melba decides her voice belongs to the world and sadly goes on alone.
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Corinna Schmidt
π©πͺ Germany The 1870sBerlin in 1878: Corinna Schmidt, who was brought up in a petit-bourgeois, academic family, is romantically interested in Leopold Treibel, the son of the lordly councillor of commerce Jenny Treibel β although Corinna is also deeply in love with her cousin Marcel. Leopold is also falling for cute Corinna, and Jenny Treibel tries to prevent their friendship by all means, but changes her opinion when their secret engagement becomes public. To avoid a scandal, she urges them to marry quickly. But Corinna soon withdraws from this complicated situation and again turns to her cousin, who is banished from the country for his social democratic beliefs.
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Academician Ivan Pavlov
π·πΊ Russia The 1870s The 20th CenturyRussia, 1875: In Riazanβ, Dr Pavlov is summoned to a landowner who refuses to accept the inevitability of his death; to Pavlovβs dismay, he orders the destruction of a beautiful apple orchard. 1894: Experimenting on dogs, Pavlov tries to comprehend the interaction between nerves and external signals governing digestion. In 1904, he formulates the principles of conditional reflexes. When Zvantsev, an opponent of Pavlovβs materialist worldview, leaves the laboratory, the scientist hires Varvara Ivanova who becomes his most reliable assistant. 1912: Pavlov receives an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University. 1917: Despite Pavlovβs political scepticism, the Bolshevik administration treats him with great respect.
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The Master of Bankdam
England The 1890s The 1880s The 1870s The 1860s The 1850sTwo brothers struggle for control of the family business in 19th century Yorkshire.
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The Keys of the Kingdom
Scotland π¨π³ China The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1870sTHE PICTURE THAT TOUCHES NEW HEIGHTS OF EMOTION β A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area of the world, Father Chisholm struggles. He encounters hostility, isolation, disease, poverty and a variety of set backs which humble him, but make him more determined than ever to succeed.
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Mademoiselle Fifi
π«π· France The 1870sHow much should a woman give for her country? β In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors. But when a Prussian officer holds the coach over, social standings are leveled and integrity and spirit are put to the test.
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Fanny by Gaslight
England π«π· France The 1880s The 1870s The 1860s The 1850sReturning to 1870's London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds that her family has for many years been running a bordello next door to their home. When her mother dies shortly after, she next discovers that her real father is in fact a well-respected politician. Meeting him and then falling in love with his young advisor Harry Somerford leads to a life of ups and downs and conflict between the classes. Periodically the scoundrel of a Lord crosses her path, always to tragic effect.
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The Song of Bernadette
π«π· France The 1870s The 1860s The 1850sHere is greatness... wonder... and majesty... no human words can describe! β In 1858 France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but the townspeople all assume it to be the virgin Mary. The pompous government officials think she is nuts, and do their best to suppress the girl and her followers, and the church wants nothing to do with the whole matter. But as Bernadette attracts wider and wider attention, the phenomenon overtakes everyone in the the town, and transforms their lives.
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Lillian Russell
England The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1870sThe life and loves of the woman whose beauty had the world and its famous men at her feet! β Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
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Bismarck
π«π· France π¦πΉ Austria π©πͺ Germany The 1870s The 1860sA biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite Germany.
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Gone with the Wind
Georgia England The 1870s The 1860sThe greatest romance of all time! β The spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner is forced to use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty, following Maj. Gen. William Sherman's destructive "March to the Sea,β during the American Civil War.
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips
England The 1930s The 1910s The 1900s The 1870s The 1880sAt The Top Of The Year's "Ten Best" - The picture that earns for 1939 a proud place in motion-picture history! β A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Massachusetts England The 1870sDarryl F. Zanuck's Entertainment gem will take its place in the Hall of Fame ! β Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.
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Stanley and Livingstone
England πΉπΏ Tanzania The 1870sWhen American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.
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Young Man's Fancy
England π«π· France The 1870sAn aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball
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The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
π·πΊ Russia The 1880s The 1870sYoung Maxim grows up under the czarist regime with his grandparents as guardians. Continually demeaned by his martinet grandfather, Maxim is drawn to his warm-hearted grandmother, who instills in him the willingness to pursue his writing muse.
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Katia
π·πΊ Russia The 1880s The 1870s The 1860s The 1850s - load more