280 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1900s
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The Kiss of the Vampire
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1900sShocking! - Horrifying! - Macabre! โ Honeymooning in Bavaria, the young couple become stranded and are forced to stay the night in the area. Doctor Ravna, owner of the impressive chateau that sits imposingly above the village, invites them to dinner that evening. Their association with Ravna and his charming, beautiful family is to prove disastrous as they become unwittingly embroiled with this family of vampires who seek to initiate them into their diabolical creed.
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The Organizer
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1890s The 1900sDrama...Comedy...Power...Wit...Impact...A Remarkable Film! โ Professor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni) is the title character in this darkly comedic Italian drama about mistreated factory workers in the city of Turin. Toiling away in appalling conditions in a textile mill, these employees have no one to stand up for them until Sinigaglia puts his academic career on the line by helping them to start a strike. Although the teacher comes under scrutiny by unsympathetic authorities, he maintains his dedication to the workers' cause.
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Skylark
๐ญ๐บ Hungary The 1900sBased on a novel by Dezso Kosztolani, this Hungarian drama is set at the turn of the 20th century. A young, homely woman lives at home with her mother and retired father. Because of all the care the girl provides for her parents, the couple becomes detached from the world outside their home. When the girl leaves for a short visit to her uncle's home, the parents realize the extent of their separation from society and their selfish feelings toward their own daughter.
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Codine
๐ท๐ด Romania The 1900sAn ex-convict struggles to survive by brute force alone in a turn-of-the-century slum in Bucharest. Codine is the thug who served 10 years for murdering a friend. He returns home to his miserly mother, whose penny-pinching ways infuriate her son. A young boy looks up to Codine, and through the man's eyes he sees the economic and social injustices from an adult perspective. When Codine kills another man who violated his trust, his mother becomes more unhinged and paranoid. Thinking her son will steal her hoarded money, she plots to kill her only son. The impressionable child watches in horror and amazement at the cruel machinations of the adult work that surrounds him.
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Uncle Vanya
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1900sAdaptation of Chekhov's play from the Chichester Festival.
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Lulu
England ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1900sA 14-year-old girl is caught while trying to pick a doctor's pocket. The doctor ends up taking her in and turning her into a sophisticated lady, whom he marries off to a wealthy man.
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Story of San Michele
๐ธ๐ช Sweden ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1920s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s -
Dersu Uzala
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1900sDersu Uzala (Russian: ะะตััั ะฃะทะฐะปะฐ) is a 1961 Soviet film, adapted from the books of Vladimir Arsenyev, about his travels in Russian Far East with a native trapper, Dersu Uzala.
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The Time Machine
England The 1960s The 1940s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1800sYou Will Orbit into the Fantastic Future! โ A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
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The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
England The 1900sNever before revealed! โ London at the turn of the century. Three men is on a mission from the IRA to steal all the gold in the vaults of the Bank of England. Norgate, their leader, discovers the bank's weak spot: an old forgotten sewer straight under the vaults.
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Bezaubernde Arabella
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Gigi
๐ซ๐ท France The 1900sThank heaven for Gigi โ A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something money can't buy.
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The Violet Seller
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ช๐ธ Spain The 1910s The 1900sOn New Year's Eve 1899, Soledad is peddling violets in a Madrid busy street when she meets aristocrat Fernando. The couple falls in love but their different social backgrounds threatens the relationship. Fernando is under constant pressure from his older brother Alfonso who reminds him of his duties including his engagement to Magdalena, a countess. Disregarding all social conventions and scandalizing high society, Fernando sets up Soledad in a plush apartment and announces their marriage plans.
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The Doctor's Dilemma
England The 1900sAbout a young artist, his wife and a doctor who, when the artist suffers from consumption, uses his limited serum on a more worthwhile case. (BFI Website)
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Mikosch, der Stolz der Kompanie
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School for Coquettes
๐ซ๐ท France The 1900sA young Parisian woman attends a school for coquettes in order to rise in society.
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The Admirable Crichton
England Pacific Ocean The 1900sThe Hilarious Story of What the Girls Saw in the Butler... โ Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household, he believes in treating his servants as his equals - at least sometimes. His butler, Crichton, still believes that members of the serving class should know their place and be happy there. But when the Loam family are shipwrecked on a desert island with the self-reliant Crichton and lady's maid Tweeny, the class system is put to the test.
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After the Ball
England The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880sThe life and loves of Music hall singer Vesta Tilley, who married into the nobility
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The Captain from Kopenick
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1900sThe 1956 movie based on the theater play by Carl Zuckmayer based on the true story of cobbler Wilhelm Voigt who dressed up as a German military officer and, with the help of unsuspecting soldiers, took over the city hall in Kรถpenick and confiscated the city's purse.
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Three Men in a Boat
England The 1900sThree London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.
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Footsteps in the Fog
England The 1900sCLOSE ENOUGH TO KISS...OR KILL! โ A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid that discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
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