196 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1890s
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Madame Curie
🇫🇷 France The 1900s The 1890sMR. and MRS. MINIVER together again — Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
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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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Variety Jubilee
England The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sThis domestic melodrama chronicles three generations of a family of music-hall owners. In the early 1900s, two variety stars, Kit Burns and Joe Swann, are staunch friends even when Kit marries Joe's dancing partner Evelyn. Joe fights in the Boer War where a bullet puts an end to his dancing days. He goes to work on the staff at Burns' Music Hall where Kit Jr. soon finds a place in his affections. Kit and Joe purchase the music hall and soon become a success.
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Kings Row
🇦🇹 Austria The 1900s The 1890sThe town they talk of in whispers. — Five children in an apparently ideal American small town find their lives changing as the years pass near the turn of the century in 1900. Parris and Drake, both of whom have lost their parents, are best friends; Parris dreams of becoming a doctor, studying under the father of his sweetheart Cassie, while Drake plans on becoming a local businessman when he receives his full inheritance - juggling girlfriends in the meantime. As they become adults, the revelations of local secrets threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.
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The Dismissal
🇩🇪 Germany The 1890s The 1880sGerman chancellor Otto von Bismarck promises the dying emperor Wilhelm I. to be loyal to his grandson. But the gap between young Kaiser Wilhelm II. and old Bismarck is rapidly widening. It soon appears that an era is coming to an end.
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Anushka
🇦🇹 Austria The 1890sVienna during the fin de siecle. Farmer's daughter Anuschka has to sell the farm after her father's death to the rich but mean farmer's wife Nowarek and her friendly son Jaro. Anuschka goes to Vienna and starts to work as a housemaid until she is wrongly accused of theft.
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Charley's Aunt
England The 1890sIn 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.
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Uncle Kruger
England 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇿🇦 South Africa The 1900s The 1890sOhm Krüger (English: Uncle Krüger) is a 1941 German biographical film directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring Emil Jannings, Lucie Höflich and Werner Hinz. It was one of a series of propaganda films produced in Nazi Germany attacking the British. The film depicts the life of the South African politician Paul Kruger and his eventual defeat by the British during the Boer War. It was the first film to be awarded the 'Film of the Nation' award. It was re-released in 1944
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Carl Peters
England 🇹🇿 Tanzania The 1890s The 1880sNational-Socialist propaganda film that serves to memorialize one of the early representatives of colonialism: the German philologist Carl Peters. He is, at the end of the 1900′s, a noted advocate of the establishment of a German colony. Without support from Germany, he struggles on his own account against the English in East Africa. Later he is named Reichskommissar and promotes the expansion of a German colony. But Jewish and Social-Democrat opponents order him back to Germany and force him to resign.
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
🇩🇪 Germany The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880sNOT A GANGSTER PICTURE BUT ...a war on the deadliest public enemy of all! — True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.
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Lady with Red Hair
New York Illinois England The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880sAn actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
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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! — Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
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Spring Parade
🇦🇹 Austria The 1890sLIVE, LAUGH and LOVE! With a Dancing, Romancing Deanna! — In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
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From Mayerling to Sarajevo
🇦🇹 Austria 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880sAn Austrian prince's doomed love affair with a Czech countess sparks turmoil across Europe.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
England The 1890sThe Struggle of Super-Minds in the Crime of the Century! — Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes, by making him fail to prevent the perfect crime. Does it involve a family curse, the crown jewels of England, or something else…
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The Little Princess
England The 1890sA great classic comes to life in glorious Technicolor! — The classic Shirley Temple film in which a little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
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The Life of Emile Zola
🇫🇷 France 🇬🇫 French Guiana The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1860sHe'll hold you in silence as deep as your emotions! — Biopic of the famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair.
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Parnell
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1890s The 1880sIrish politician Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891) struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.
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For Valour
🇿🇦 South Africa England The 1890sIn this British comedy, set during the Boer War, a foot soldier saves his major's life. The officer is most grateful and puts the soldier in line for a Victoria Cross (a medal for valor). Unfortunately the well-meaning major's actions cause the soldier to be extradited back to England where he must stand trial for a series of crimes he committed before he joined the military. Later the major scours the British jails in search of the heroic lad. He finally finds him recruiting soldiers for WW I.
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Brown on Resolution
England The 1910s The 1890sForever England gives John Mills his first leading role as Brown. Born after a brief affair between his mother and a naval officer, he joins the Royal Navy during the First World War. There his bravery and marksmanship keeps a German ship in port so a British ship can sink it. He becomes a hero, but at what cost?
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Spring Parade
🇦🇹 Austria The 1890sThis Hungarian musical comedy (English title: Spring Parade) was produced by Joseph Pasternak, who later remade the picture in Hollywood as a Deanna Durbin vehicle. The original 1934 version stars Franciska Gaal as a Hungarian serving girl who heads to Vienna to visit a relative. Stopping over at an outdoor carnival, Gaal is told by a fortune teller that she will enjoy a happy marriage with a handsome and wealthy stranger. Later on, she finds herself at a fancy dress ball, where a good-looking aristocrat, assuming that our heroine is a countess masquerading as a peasant, falls in love with her. Delighted that the fortune-teller's prophecy seems to be coming true, Gaal finds herself in a dilemma when she falls in love with poverty-stricken soldier Wolf Albach Retty. But things turn out OK when Retty, the regimental drummer, composes a hit song which brings him fame and fortune, thereby neatly fulfilling that prophecy.
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My Old Dutch
England The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sMoving family drama of the life of a working-class Hackney couple over 40 years, inspired by the famous music hall song This moving family drama - with time for some laughs - portrays the life and hardships of a working class Hackney couple over a span of 40 years. Our intrepid couple (wonderfully played by Betty Balfour and Michael Hogan) have to face everything life throws at them with fortitude, from the Great War (a son in the RAF and zeppelin raids) to a raging oil fire during the Great Strike. The inimitable Gordon Harker provides sterling support. The film the couple watch at the cinema is the 1915 version of My Old Dutch, starring Albert Chevalier (writer of the original music hall song) and Florence Turner. As the complete silent film is now believed to be lost, this 1934 version contains the only surviving footage.
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Liebelei
🇦🇹 Austria The 1890sVienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end his affair with Baroness Eggerdorff when he meets the young Christine, the daughter of an opera violinist. Baron Eggerdorff however soon hears of his past misfortune...
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