101 Films & TV Shows Set In United Kingdom During The 18th Century
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Midshipman Easy
England 🇮🇹 Italy 🇫🇷 France The 1800s The 18th CenturySet during the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic War, Mr Midshipman Easy has just joined the Royal Navy. He is very keen to do well but luckily he has an understanding captain to pull him out of the various adventures he seems to get involved in.
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Me and Marlborough
England 🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyA woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
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Peg of Old Drury
England The 18th Centurya biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces.
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The House of Rothschild
England The 1810s The 18th CenturyThe story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons. From humble beginnings the business grows and helps to finance the war against Napoleon, but it's not always easy, especially because of the prejudices against Jews.
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Berkeley Square
England The 1930s The 18th CenturyA young American man is transported back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
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Dick Turpin
England The 18th CenturyThe adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York.
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Sweet Kitty Bellairs
England The 18th CenturyKitty Bellairs, a flirtatious young woman of 18th Century England, cuts a swath of broken hearts and romantic conquests as she visits a resort with her sister.
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The Divine Lady
England 🇮🇹 Italy The 1800s The 1810s The 18th CenturyLady Hamilton's love affair with Admiral Horatio Nelson rocks the British Empire.
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The Man Who Laughs
England The 18th Century The 17th CenturyGwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and becomes a popular idol. He falls in love with the blind Dea. The king dies, and his evil jester tries to destroy or corrupt Gwynplaine.
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The Only Way
England 🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyA dissolute English advocate goes to the guillotine in place of his aristocratic double.
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Monsieur Beaucaire
England 🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyThe Duke of Chartres is in love with Princess Henriette, but she seemingly wants nothing to do with him. Eventually he grows tired of her insults and flees to England when Louis XV insists that the two marry. He goes undercover as Monsieur Beaucaire, the barber of the French Ambassador, and finds that he enjoys the freedom of a commoner’s life. After catching the Duke of Winterset cheating at cards, he forces him to introduce him as a nobleman to Lady Mary, with whom he has become infatuated. When Lady Mary is led to believe that the Duke of Chartres is merely a barber she loses interest in him. She eventually learns that he is a nobleman after all and tries to win him back, but the Duke of Chartres opts to return to France and Princess Henriette who now returns his affection.
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Beau Brummel
England 🇫🇷 France The 1810s The 18th Century...the Most Beautiful Romance in all History — George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord Alvanley. Brummel, broken-hearted, embarks upon a life of revelry.
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Eugene Aram
England The 18th CenturyA blackmailed ex-thief is executed for a murder he didn't commit.
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Bonnie Prince Charlie
Scotland The 18th CenturyIn the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.
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A Glass of Water
England The 18th CenturyA Glass of Water (German: Ein Glas Wasser) is a 1923 German silent historical film directed by Ludwig Berger and starring Mady Christians, Lucie Höflich and Hans Brausewetter. It premiered at the UFA-Palast am Zoo on 1 February 1923. It was based on a play of the same title by Eugène Scribe, set in England during the reign of Queen Anne. The film was very well received both commercially and critically on its release. It is considered one of the milestones of Weimar cinema
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Dick Turpin's Ride to York
England The 18th CenturyA highwayman rides to York to stop a lady marrying a usurper.
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Ninety-Three
England The 18th CenturyIn Britain, during the revolution, the nephew of the Marquis de Lantenac, Gawain (P. Capellani) befriends Cimourdain (H. Krauss), a priest who follows the precepts of the Revolution. During the Terror, the Marquis went into exile in England while his nephew is a soldier in the Revolutionary Army ...
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The Vicar of Wakefield
England The 18th CenturyThe production vindicated the new feature-length movie format by restoring several characters, plot complications, and atmosphere that had been truncated in Thanhouser’s 1910 version of less than one-sixth the length.
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A Tale of Two Cities
England 🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyAt the outbreak of the French Revolution, Charles Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned former family servant. He is himself imprisoned and condemned by the revolutionary forces there. His wife, the former Lucie Manette, is secretly loved by a gentlemanly wastrel, Sydney Carton. Carton embarks on a daring plan to save the husband of the woman he loves.
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Masks and Faces
England The 18th CenturyAn actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife.
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