96 Films & TV Shows Set In Italy During The 19th Century
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Magic Fire
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland The 19th CenturyDirector William Dieterle's 1956 film biography of classical composer Richard Wagner stars Carlos Thompson, Yvonne De Carlo, Rita Gam, Alan Badel and Valentina Cortese.
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Fatal Desire
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 19th CenturyThere is a special kind of payment for "borrowing" another man's wife. โ In Pietro Mascagni's tragic opera, a soldier returns home from war to reclaim his former fiancรฉe, only to find that she's married someone else in his absence, leading to jealousy, betrayal, and murder.
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House of Ricordi
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 19th CenturyThe film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
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Senso
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1860sA troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.
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Poverty and Nobility
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 19th CenturyEugene, a young nobleman, asks two penniless idlers to impersonate his noble relatives to help him marry Gemma, the daughter of an enriched cook.
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Der rote Prinz
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The Upstarts
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1890sFilm about moral decay of Trieste elite during 1890s based on novel by Slovenian writer Janko Kersnik.
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Anita Garibaldi
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The Tales of Hoffmann
๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1800s The 1810sYou Will Never See Anything Finer On The Screen! โ In this film adaptation of the Offenbach opera, a young poet named Hoffman broods over his failed romances. First, his affair with the beautiful Olympia is shattered when he realizes that she is really a mechanical woman designed by a scientist. Next, he believes that a striking prostitute loves him, only to find out she was hired to fake her affections by the dastardly Dapertutto. Lastly, a magic spell claims the life of his final lover.
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Mask of the Avenger
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1840sMonte Cristo lives... fights... loves again! โ Costume swashbuckler with heroic John Derek battling evil Anthony Quinn.
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Enrico Caruso - Leggenda di una voce
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 19th CenturyThe UNTOLD intimate story of his most PASSIONATE years, his most GLORIOUS songs, his most EXCITING escapades!
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That Lady in Ermine
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1860sGAY, MUSICAL COMEDY...SPARKLING WITH SPICY SITUATIONS! โ Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army. Her lookalike ancestress Francesca, who saved a similar situation 300 years before, comes to life from a portrait to help her descendant. Complicating factor: the newlywed countess feels strangely drawn to the handsome invader...
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Il cappello da prete
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1880sThe baron of Santafusca, descended from a noble family, leads a dissipated life. To pay debts he is forced to sell his house. He tries to steal from the house of a very rich priest and, surprised during the theft, he kills the priest, and then throws the body in an abandoned well. He continues his life of revelries and luxury, until the remorse for the crime trigger a process of self-destruction. The nightmares of the baron, tormented by the only evidence left of the murder, the hat of the priest ,drags him into a daring and hallucinated series of ups and downs to the brink of insanity and jail.
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Tristi amori
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1880sEmma, who is married to lawyer Giulio Scarli, is secretly in love with Fabrizio Arcieri, who works with her husband.
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That Hamilton Woman
England ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ซ๐ท France The 1800s The 1810s The 18th CenturyThe Year's Most Exciting Team of Screen Lovers! โ 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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Pinocchio
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 19th CenturyWhen you wish upon a star, your dreams come true. โ Lonely toymaker Geppetto has his wishes answered when the Blue Fairy arrives to bring his wooden puppet Pinocchio to life. Before becoming a real boy, however, Pinocchio must prove he's worthy as he sets off on an adventure with his whistling sidekick and conscience, Jiminy Cricket.
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The Mountain Calls
๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland The 1860sThe Italian mountaineer Carel wants to be the first man to stand on the top of the Matterhorn. Since the climb is very difficult, he agrees to try it together with the British mountaineer Whymper. But due to an intrigue this agreement is dropped and the two man try it on the same day with two different teams and then disaster strikes.
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The Challenge
England ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland The 1860sDramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
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Anthony Adverse
๐จ๐บ Cuba ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฎ๐น Italy Africa - General The 1800sThe thrill of thrills the world could not forget! โ Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.
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