114 Films & TV Shows Set In Germany During The 19th Century
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Effigy:ย Poison and the City
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1820s1828: Two very different women collide in an age that has no place for either of them. โ 1828 in the German port city of Bremen: Two very different women collide in an age that has no place for either of them. One strives for a career in law, at a time when women aren't even admitted to universities. The other has lived life outside the law and may now have to pay the tab. One of them needs to get her head together โ while the other would do anything not to lose hers. -- Based on a true story.
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Ottilie von Faber-Castell - Eine mutige Frau
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1890s The 1900s The 1910sHead of the famous pencil corporation tries to make his 16 year old granddaughter ready to take his place.
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Charitรฉ: Season 1
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1880sBerlin, 1888. After penniless Idaโs life is saved at the Chariteฬ Hospital she must work off the treatment costs. While she becomes acquainted with the most brilliant physicians of this era at the world-famous hospital, the self-determined young woman discovers her passion for medicine.
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Paula
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1900s The 1890sPainting is an unacceptable vocation for a woman in provincial Germany in the year 1900, but budding artist Paula Becker is determined to make her own rules.
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Heidi
๐จ๐ญ Switzerland ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1880sHeidi, is an eight-year-old Swiss orphan who is given by her aunt to her mountain-dwelling grandfather. She is then stolen back by her aunt from her grandfather to live in the wealthy Sesemann household in Frankfurt, Germany as a companion to Klara, a sheltered, disabled girl in a wheelchair. Heidi is unhappy but makes the best of the situation, always longing for her grandfather.
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Damiana Kryygi
๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ต๐พ Paraguay The 1890s The 1900sThe year is 1896. In the dense jungle of Paraguay a three years old Ache girl survives a slaughter perpetrated by white settlers. The girl is named Damiana by her captors. Anthropologists from the La Plata Museum of Natural Sciences in Argentina take her as an object of scientific interest in the context of their racial studies. Later she is handed over to a family where she grows up as a maid. In 1907, at the age of 14, she is committed to a mental institution. There she is photographed naked just two months before her death from tuberculosis. Once dead her body is studied in La Plata and in Berlin. One hundred years later, an anthropology student identifies part of her remains in the La Plata museum. Her head is found soon after at Charite Hospital in Berlin.
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Lucy
New York England ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐น๐ผ Taiwan The 2010s The 19th CenturyThe average person uses 10% of their brain capacity. Imagine what she could do with 100%. โ A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
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Amour Fou
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1810sA "romantic comedy" based loosely on the suicide of the poet Henrich von Kleist in 1811.
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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1820sClassic tale. New twist. โ After getting a taste for blood as children, Hansel and Gretel have become the ultimate vigilantes, hell-bent on retribution. Now, unbeknownst to them, Hansel and Gretel have become the hunted, and must face an evil far greater than witches... their past.
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Measuring the World
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 19th Century The 18th CenturyGermany in the early 19th century. "Die Vermessung der Welt" follows the two brilliant and eccentric scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss on their life paths.
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Ludwig II
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1880s The 1870s The 1860sA dramatic retelling of the life of Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, one of the most fascinating monarchs of modern times. From his accession to the throne at the age of 18 to his passionate support of Richard Wagner and his music. From his ingenuous political commitment to his obsessive construction of extravagant palaces and to his gradual withdrawal into a lonely dream world, an epic narrative of breathtaking grandeur.
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
England ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland The 1890sThe game is afoot. โ There is a new criminal mastermind at large (Professor Moriarty) and not only is he Holmesโ intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil and lack of conscience may give him an advantage over the detective.
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Faust
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 19th CenturyFaust inhabits an earthy, 19th-century world of primitive autopsies and medical rituals. He becomes obsessed with the beautiful Margarete and desperately turns to a physically grotesque moneylender to conjure their union.
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Effi Briest
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1880sFollowing her parents' wishes, spirited seventeen-year-old Effi Briest marries Baron von Innstetten โ a former admirer of her mother โ who is twenty years Effi's senior. This marriage of prudence heralds the beginning of a humdrum life, far from home, for Effi. Innstetten devotes himself entirely to his political career, and the sleepy small town of Kessin has very little to offer in terms of variety. But then, one day, Innstetten's old regimental comrade, Major Crampas โ a charming womanizer โ arrives on the scene.
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Buddenbrooks
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1870s The 1860s The 1850s The 1840sMid-19th-century, Baltic Sea port city of Lubeck, Germany. Follows the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook mercantile family as Tony and Thomas reach the age of marriage. Fatefully impeded every step of the way, the Buddenbrooks struggle as economic hardship and personal defeats weigh down family relations.
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Beloved Clara
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1850sA look at the lives of 19th-century composers Clara and Robert Schumann.
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Lissi and the Wild Emperor
๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 19th CenturyThe plot concerns a yeti who makes a pact with the devil to kidnap the most beautiful girl in the world. This turns out to be the Princess Lissi, who is clearly the Austrian Princess and later Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria, and much of the film is taken up with subplots related to the court and to the romantic relationship between Elisabeth and her husband. The film is thus a comic parody of the Sissi films.
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Barbie in The 12 Dancing Princesses
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1810sEnchanted dancing in a magical world! โ King Randolph sends for his cousin Duchess Rowena to help turn his daughters, Princess Genevieve and her 11 sisters, into better ladies. But the Duchess takes away all the sisters fun, including the sisters favorite pastime: dancing.Thinking all hope is lost they find a secret passageway to a magical land were they can dance the night away.
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The Brothers Grimm
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1810sEliminating Evil Since 1812. โ Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. However, they are put to the test when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requiring genuine courage.
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Around the World in 80 Days
New York New Mexico California England ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐น๐ท Turkey ๐ฎ๐ณ India ๐จ๐ณ China Atlantic Ocean The 1890sLet your imagination soar. โ A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days.
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The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sThe life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German anti-sodomy laws in the late 19th century. The script reveals main characters in Hirschfeld's life including impossible love interest Baron von Teschenberg, and Hirschfeld's aids- young Karl Giese and guardian angel, the transvestite Dorchen, as they establish the First Institute of Sexual Sciences in Berlin in 1920, and follows their struggles to keep it open, up to the rise of the Third Reich in the mid 1930s.
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A Trick of the Light
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1890sA rare gem of cinematic storytelling that weaves docudrama, fictional reenactment, and experimental photography into a powerful, reflective work on the early days of German cinema. The film tells the story of the Skladanowsky Brothers, the German-born duo responsible for inventing the "bioskop", an early version of the film projector.
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Immortal Beloved
๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 19th CenturyA chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle with hearing loss. Following Beethoven's death in 1827, his assistant, Schindler, searches for an elusive woman referred to in the composer's love letters as "immortal beloved." As Schindler solves the mystery, a series of flashbacks reveal Beethoven's transformation from passionate young man to troubled musical genius.
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Torrents of Spring
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1840sIn 1840, a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, is returning home after a long tour of Europe. In Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful pastry shop girl, Gemma Rosselli, who soon starts sharing his feelings. They decide to get married and, in order to finance the wedding, Dimitri goes back to Russia to sell his family estate. Unfortunately he falls prey to a seductress, Princess Maria Nikolaevna, who pretends to be willing to buy his land to come nearer him. Now Sanin is in a fix: should he choose the pure Gemma or the evil but irresistible Maria?
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Rosa Luxemburg
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sPolish socialist and Marxist Rosa Luxemburg works tirelessly in the service of revolution in early 20th century Poland and Germany. While Luxemburg campaigns for her beliefs, she is repeatedly imprisoned as she forms the Spartacist League offering a new vision for Germany.
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