12 Films & TV Shows Set In France During The 1820s
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Lost Illusions
🇫🇷 France The 1840s The 1830s The 1820sTaking place between the years 1837 and 1843, Balzac’s classic novel focuses on the young poet Lucien de Rubempre, who leaves Angouleme for Paris in the pursuit of becoming an author.
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The Liberator
🇯🇲 Jamaica 🇫🇷 France 🇪🇸 Spain 🇨🇴 Colombia 🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1820sHis army never conquered. It liberated. — Bolívar was instrumental in Latin America’s struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire, and is today considered one of the most influential politicians and emancipators in American history. Libertador is told from the viewpoint of Bolívar, portrayed by Ramírez, about his quests and epic military campaigns, which covered twice the territory Alexander the Great conquered, and his vision to unify South America.
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The Duchess of Langeais
🇫🇷 France The 1820sIn Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. She is Antoinette, for five years he has searched for her. Flash back to their meeting in Paris, he recently returned from Africa, she married and part of the highest society. She flirts with him, and soon he's captivated. His behavior is possessive, insistent. Then, it is her turn to become obsessed. Letters, balls, scandal, a kidnapping, and an ultimatum bring her to the cloister and him to melancholy.
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The Emperor's New Clothes
🇫🇷 France The 1820sNapoleon, exiled, devises a plan to retake the throne. He'll swap places with commoner Eugene Lenormand, sneak into Paris, then Lenormand will reveal himself and Napoleon will regain his throne. Things don't go at all well; first, the journey proves more difficult than expected, but more disastrously, Lenormand enjoys himself too much to reveal the deception. Napoleon adjusts somewhat uneasily to the life of a commoner while waiting, while Lenormand gorges on rich food.
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Mazeppa
🇫🇷 France The 1810s The 1820s The 1800sBased on Lord Byron's poem "Mazeppa" from 1819 and revolving around the painter Théodore Géticault, famous horse trainer and spectacle Bartabas takes art to another level.
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Les Misérables
🇫🇷 France The 1830s The 1820s The 1810sA New Generation...A New Version in English — Valjean's new life as a man of position and respect is forever threatened by dogged detective Javert.
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Children of Paradise
🇫🇷 France The 1820s The 1830sAT LAST! The Celebrated French Film — Filmed during the German occupation, this French milestone centers around the theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan and the four men who love her. Voted the “Best French Film in History” by the French Film Academy in 1990.
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A Song to Remember
🇫🇷 France The 1840s The 1820s The 1830sAs long as the world loves a lover…this romance will live! — Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.
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Wicked Duchess
🇫🇷 France The 1820sEdwige Feuillère and Pierre Richard-Willm star in director Jacques de Baroncelli's adaptation of the Balzac novella The Duchesse de Langeais, which tells the tale of a Parisian socialite who is romantically pursued by a Napoleonic war hero. With a screenplay by Jean Giraudoux.
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The Secret Courier
🇫🇷 France The 1820sA silent adventure based on the classic novel by Stendhal "The Red and the Black".
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The Queen of Spades
🇫🇷 France 🇷🇺 Russia The 1820s The 18th CenturyWhile hosting a game of cards one night, Narumov tells his friends a story about his grandmother, a Countess. As a young woman, she had once incurred an enormous gambling debt, which she was able to erase by learning a secret that guaranteed that she could win by playing her cards in a certain order. One of Narumov's friends, German, has never gambled, but he is intrigued by the story about the Countess and her secret. He soon becomes obsessed with learning this secret from her, and he starts by courting her young ward Lizaveta, hoping to use her to gain access to the Countess.
