280 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1900s
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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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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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Addio, giovinezza!
🇮🇹 Italy The 1900sA university student falls in love with a seamstress. But one day he meets a beautiful woman and things become complicated.
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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! — A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.
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Bel Ami
🇫🇷 France 🇦🇹 Austria The 1900sShortly after being demobilized, Georges Duroy becomes aware of his power over women in the arms of Rachel, a young singer. Thanks to his good looks and his charming manners and his unabashed cynicism he will rapidly rise to the top by courtesy of women women (Mme Walter, Clotilde, Madeleine), from journalist to member of Parliament to cabinet minister. But it is also the fair sex that will cause his fall in the end.
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Entente Cordiale
🇫🇷 France The 1900sThe film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and France and ending their historic rivalry. It was based on the book King Edward VII and His Times by André Maurois. It was made with an eye to its propaganda value, following the Munich Agreement of September 1938 and in anticipation of the outbreak of a Second World War which would test the bonds between Britain and France in a conflict with Nazi Germany.
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Three Waltzes
🇫🇷 France The 1900s The 1860s"Les Trois Valses" traces the love story of two people over three eras. In the first waltz (music based on Johann Strauss I), Yvonne is a sensitive Parisian ballet dancer, whose romance with a dashing officer is brought to an abrupt end by his family. She goes off to Vienna to become a big star. In the second waltz, her daughter, an even bigger star, but now of Paris music halls, has a brief flirtation with the rakish man-about-town who is the son of suitor number one. She throws him over pretty quickly for a chance to shine at a Gala performance. Finally, in the third waltz, the two get together, when she is a movie star, and he is posing as an insurance salesman.
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Stolen Death
🇫🇮 Finland The 1900sA thriller set in turn-of-the-century Helsinki, Stolen Death uses elements of German expressionism to tell the story of Finnish resistance fighters smuggling arms to overthrow the Tsarist occupiers of Finland. Tapiovaara stresses the divided loyalties of the Finnish bourgeoisie, torn between preserving their privileged economic position and taking a risky stand for an independent Finland. Stolen Death can be viewed as a thinly disguised protest against the rise of the fascist movement in Finland in the 1930s. Tapiovaara's allegorical indictment of class inequality and the suppression of free speech and political expression, coupled with his death at 28 fighting the Russians in the Winter War of 1939-1940, earned him almost a mythic status in Finland.
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Ziel in den Wolken
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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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Drôle de Drame
England The 1900sA French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their sanctimonious cousin - an Anglican bishop who is leading a campaign against such writing.
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Die göttliche Jette
🇩🇪 Germany The 1900sCheeky Jette is a typical Berlin girl. Together with her mother, she performs couplets in a Berlin suburb theatre every night. Then, a young Austrian baron, who is worshipping Jette, enables her to audition for Königstädtisches Theater. Although she at first fails with an aria from an opera, Jette wins over the hearts of the board members with her fresh style when she performs a cheeky couplet that was written by Barsch, the stage manager of the suburb theater.
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Ein Mädel vom Ballett
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Burg Theatre
🇦🇹 Austria The 1900sIn this convoluted melodrama, an elderly thespian falls for a rising young starlet. He admits his love for her and then announces that he will retire. The young woman pretends she loves him too, but her real motive is to give her struggling lover, also an aspiring actor, a break.
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Black Roses
🇫🇮 Finland The 1900sReleased in Germany as Schwarze Rosen, Black Roses represented the return to UFA studios of British musical comedy favorite Lillian Harvey, after several years in Hollywood. The delectable Harvey plays a Russian ballerina, stranded in turn-of-the-century Finland. She falls in love with sculptor Esmond Knight, a political dissident with a price on his head. To save Knight, Harvey spends the night with Tsarist governor Robert Rendel. The story is based on the real-life ballerina Marina Feodorovna, who ended up sacrificing her life on behalf of her lover. Black Roses was filmed in three languages: German, French and English; the English version was originally titled Did I Betray?
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Cavalleria
🇮🇹 Italy The 1910s The 1900sUmberto Solaro loses the love of his life Speranza, a noble but poor girl who has been forced to marry a rich Austrian army officer. Heartbroken Umberto becomes a riding instructor but during a competition his horse dies and he decides to give up equitation and become an aviator.
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Sins of Man
🇦🇹 Austria The 1910s The 1900sAustrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI bombing.
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La vie parisienne
🇫🇷 France The 1900s The 1930sA rich Brazilian, Mendoza, visited Paris in 1900 and was romantically involved with the star of Offenbach's 'La vie parisienne' which was playing at the time. Thirty five years later, he returns with his son and granddaughter, who is engaged to a young Frenchman. But Mendoza's puritanical son forbids the marriage. Mendoza and the actress's friends conspire to change his mind and convert him to 'Parisian life.'
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Ruggles of Red Gap
Washington 🇫🇷 France The 1900sSH-H-H-H! TONIGHT'S YOUR NIGHT TO HOWL! And howl you will at this funniest of all comedies... — In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles, a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles's life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidently becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.
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Escapade
🇦🇹 Austria The 1900sA romantic comedy-drama-musical of mistaken identity, infidelity and farce, set in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century.
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The Night Is Young
🇦🇹 Austria The 1900sYoung Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement to Princess Matilda, but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl continue his fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck. Lisi is not Gusti's lover, but a decoy.
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