332 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 18th Century
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Andreas Schlüter
🇩🇪 Germany The 18th Century The 17th CenturyHistorical drama portraying the life of German baroque architect Andreas Schlüter.
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The Great Mr Handel
England 🇮🇪 Ireland The 18th CenturyA lavish period drama produced in 1942 by Lord Rank's G.H.W. Productions Ltd.
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That Hamilton Woman
England 🇮🇹 Italy 🇫🇷 France The 1800s The 1810s The 18th CenturyThe Year's Most Exciting Team of Screen Lovers! — The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Friedemann Bach
🇩🇪 Germany The 18th CenturyDuring a house concert, the Bach family gets a visit by their son Wilhelm Friedemann, who has just given up his position in Dresden because he no longer could endure the reprisals of his superiors.
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Cadets
🇩🇪 Germany The 18th CenturyThe year is 1760: it is the time of the Seven Years' War and the advancing Russian army has taken captive 100 underage Prussian cadets. The kids are mishandled by the raping and pillaging Russians, but with the help of a Rittmeister now in the service of the Tsar, they succeed in getting away. They hole up in a deserted fort and eventually sally forward to take back their military academy from the bloodthirsty, pillaging Cossacks.
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A Night in Transylvania
🇷🇴 Romania The 18th CenturyJoseph II and his adjutant, Kléber travel to Transylvania in disguise.
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Jew Süss
🇩🇪 Germany The 18th CenturyProduced by Terra Film at the behest of Joseph Goebbels, this costume melodrama was wildly successful in its day. A conniving, ambitious Jewish businessman, Süß Oppenheimer, snares a post as treasurer to the Duke of Wurttemburg by showering the corrupt duke with treasure and promises of even greater riches. Swayed by his silver-tongued treasurer, the Duke all but scuttles the constitution and alienates the assembly by lifting the local ban on Jews in Stuttgart. As Oppenheimer's schemes grow more elaborate and his actions more brazen, the dukedom nearly erupts into civil war.
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Eternal Melody
🇦🇹 Austria The 18th CenturyThe life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Kidnapped
Scotland The 18th CenturyRobert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour (Freddie Bartholomew) joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart (Warner Baxter) in 18th-century Scotland.
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Pietro Micca
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The Chess Player
🇵🇱 Poland The 18th CenturyA toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist who is being hunted by occupying Russian forces.
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Capriccio
🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyLilian Harvey plays a young heiress in long-ago France named Madelon who is raised by her grandfather as a boy in order to frighten away fortune hunters. But when the old man dies, her guardian Cesaire wants to marry her off to the rich prefect Barberousse. She is tricked by Cesaire with the portrait of a young man (Viktor von Staal) which is presented to her as that of her future husband. But when Madelone discovers this scheme she flees, again in men's clothing. But on her route to escape, she meets the young man from the portrait and falls in love with him. But Madelone can't give up her disguise right now...
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Princess Tarakanova
🇷🇺 Russia The 18th CenturyA film about the story of princess Élisabeth Tarakanova.
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Adrienne Lecouvreur
🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyAdrienne Lecouvreur is an acclaimed actress who falls in love with Polish prince Maurice de Saxe, only to be poisoned by a jealous rival while Maurice is away at war. The film was a co-production between the two countries, and was made at UFA's Berlin Studios. It was based on the 1849 play Adrienne Lecouvreur by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé about the life of the eighteenth century actress Adrienne Lecouvreur.
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John Halifax
England The 18th CenturyAdapted from the novel by Elizabeth Craik it tells the story of John Halifax who, despite humble beginnings, becomes a highly respected local businessman. As partner in a mill he weathers the turbulent economic times of the early 1800s.
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The Great Garrick
England 🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyHE'S WHAT LOVE IS ALL ABOUT! (Just ask Olivia!) — A British actor insults a French acting group only to fall victim to a prank that might destroy his career.
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Auld Lang Syne
Scotland The 18th CenturyAuld Lang Syne is a 1937 British historical drama film directed by James A. Fitzpatrick. It portrays the life of the eighteenth century Scottish poet Robert Burns.
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Diego Corrientes
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Lloyd's of London
England 🇫🇷 France The 1800s The 18th CenturyNorfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, they must separate their paths. The former will head his footsteps to London and bound his destiny to Lloyd's, a thriving insurance company; the latter will eventually become one of the greatest heroes in the history of the British Empire.
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Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife
🇦🇹 Austria The 18th CenturyMozart biopic.
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The Beggar Student
🇵🇱 Poland The 18th CenturyTo take a revenge on countess Laura, who slapped him at his proposal, the Governor of the occupied Poland gets her fall in love with a poor student, and exposes him during wedding banquet.
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The Postman from Longjumeau
🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyAdapted from the Famous Opera by ADOLPHE ADAM — La Marquise de Pompadour desires the best tenor in France for her opera company, and after an extensive search in the provinces, Chapelou is selected and forced to leave his bride-of-an-hour to go to Paris. Alfer seeing the handsome tenor, the Marquise decides not to let his bride, Madeliane, join him in Paris. Graf de Latour, banished from the court for his bawdy song about La Pompadour, goes to the town where Chapelou has left his bride and sees an opportunity to get even. He takes Madeleine in hand and after exhaustive grooming and make-over he returns to court with her as his banishment has been lifted, and Chepelou, failing to recognize hie own wife, falls in love with her.
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The Empress's Favourite
🇷🇺 Russia The 18th CenturyComedy about the love life of the Russian emperor.
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