9 Films & TV Shows Set In United Kingdom During The 1820s
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Veer
England 🇮🇳 India The 1820sA Pindari Prince goes to England to study military tactics so that he can avenge his people, but while there, he falls in love.
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Burke & Hare
Scotland The 1820sNo Job Too Small. No Body Too Big. No Questions Asked. — Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.
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Bright Star
England 🇮🇹 Italy The 1810s The 1820sFirst love burns brightest. — In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her family friends the Dilkes. After reading a book of his poetry, she finds herself even more drawn to the taciturn Keats. Although he agrees to teach her about poetry, Keats cannot act on his reciprocated feelings for Fanny, since as a struggling poet he has no money to support a wife.
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Burke & Hare
Scotland The 1820sThe pimps and the prostitutes and the body-snatchers. The brothels and dens of iniquity. — Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.
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The Flesh and the Fiends
Scotland The 1820sCoffins Looted! Cadavers Dissected! — Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne'er-do-wells Burke and Hare find ways to provide him with fresh specimens...
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The Greed of William Hart
Scotland The 1820sHart and Moore are grave-robbers who provide cadavers to the medical students of 19th-century Edinburgh. When the supply becomes low and demand still great, the two decide to create their own supply, a plan that proves profitable when they stick to vagrants, prostitutes and drunkards. But when they poison likable Jamie, the townsfolk retaliate. NB: This film was originally written to be about Burke and Hare, but after it was completed, the British censors refused to allow its release on the grounds those names themselves were offensive; thus the entire soundtrack was recut so that new names - Hart and Moore - recorded by the film's actors, were cut into the previously recorded lines, replacing the offending "Burke" or "Hare", sentence by sentence.
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Jane Eyre
England The 1820s The 1830s The 1840sA love story every woman would die a thousand deaths to live! — After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.
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The Mill on the Floss
England The 1820sRomeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.
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The Call of the Road
England The 1820sIn 1820 a disowned gambler becomes a boxer and save his noble uncle from a highway man.
