1890s movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant 1890s movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out period drama, captivating, serious, realistic, tense and suspense films and TV shows about / with victorian england, society, revenge, death, bare chested male, friendship, husband wife relationship, nude, murder and female nudity plots mostly in Drama, Biography and Crime genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as 1890s: The Lighthouse (2019), The Alienist (2018), Bel Ami (2012), The Lizzie Borden Chronicles (2015), Young Winston (1972), There Will Be Blood (2007), The Time Machine (2002), Bodies (2023), The Dancer (2016), Chocolat (2016).
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List of 1890s movies
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The story of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Style:
black and white, minimal cast, suspense, gothic horror, mysterious ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
isolation, nightmare, lighthouse keeper, lighthouse, drunkenness, symbolism, hallucination, fight, storm, madness, violence, bird ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, 90s, year 2019, victorian era ...
Place:
new england, nova scotia, canada
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Crime reporter, John Moore, meets with psychologist, Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, to investigate a serial killer in New York during the late 19th century.
Style:
tense, exciting, suspenseful, gothic, costume drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, mental illness, murder mystery, murder investigation, police, crime investigation, psychologist, ritual, forensics, investigation, homicide detective, private detective ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, victorian era, 2010s
Place:
new york, america
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20K
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Georges Duroy travels through 1890s Paris, from cockroach ridden garrets to opulent salons, using his wits and powers of seduction to rise from poverty to wealth, from a prostitute’s embrace to passionate trysts with wealthy beauties, in a world ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
infidelity, older woman younger man relationship, poverty, manipulation, ambition, coitus, extramarital affair, marriage, rise to the top, journalist, society, dishonesty ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, victorian era, turn of the century
Place:
europe, paris france, france
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
An intense and fictionalized account of actual events and people surrounding Lizzie’s life after her controversial acquittal of the horrific double murder of her father and stepmother in 1892.
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, costume drama, captivating ...
Plot:
private detective, murderer, murder, sibling relationship, family relations, serial killer, psychopath, female protagonist, danger, death, gilded age, progress ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
usa, massachusetts, america, nova scotia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.
Style:
epic, realistic, serious, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
soldier, boer war, military, war correspondent, cavalry charge, parliament, rise to the top, ambition, society, politics, medieval, rise to power ...
Time:
turn of the century, 1890s, 19th century, victorian era, year 1972 ...
Place:
england, africa, sudan, morocco, britain ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview moves to oil-rich California. Using his adopted son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. ...
Style:
serious, cerebral, epic, visually stunning, gloomy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
oil, character study, greed, money, capitalism, rise to the top, ambition, rivalry, father son relationship, abusive father, impostor, mission ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century, turn of the century, middle ages, 19th century ...
Place:
california, texas, pacific ocean, los angeles, america ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.
Style:
futuristic, atmospheric, serious, stylized, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, time machine, steampunk, dystopic future, apocalypse, escapades, changing the past or future, utopia, destiny, chase, time warp, post apocalypse ...
Time:
future, distant future, 2030s, victorian era, near future ...
Place:
usa, new york, egypt
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Four detectives in four different time periods of London find themselves investigating the same murder.
Style:
detective, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
time travel, murder investigation, investigation, conspiracy, gay interest, policewoman, male star appears nude, murder, crime investigation, serial killer, murderer, killing ...
Time:
1890s, 1940s, year 1941, future, victorian era ...
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Crime, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever and talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot 'Sundance Kid'. As the west rapidly becomes civilized, the law finally ...
Style:
homoerotic, epic, period piece, freeze frame, scenic ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night, kids, adult
Plot:
buddy, friendship, shootout, old west, bank robbery, cowboy, friendship between men, last stand, gunfight, fugitive, heist, robbery ...
Time:
1900s, 1890s, 20th century, ancient times, year 1969 ...
Place:
bolivia, south america, wyoming, new york, latin america ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: France, Belgium, Czech Republic
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Nothing in her background destined Loïe Fuller from the American Midwest to become a Belle Epoque icon, even less a dancer at the Paris Opera. Even at the risk of destroying her back and burning her eyes with the stage lights, she will never falter ...
Style:
erotic, costume drama, melancholic, colorful, suspense ...
Plot:
dancing, female nudity, flashback, lesbian, love, sex scene, theater, bohemian life, lgbt, dancer, dancer's life, death of father ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, victorian era
Place:
paris france, new york, brooklyn new york city, france
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The history of the clown Chocolate, the first black circus artist in France, which has a great success in the late 19th century.
Style:
humorous, feel good, sentimental, factual, touching ...
Plot:
circus, racism, gambling, clown, black man, illegal immigrant, coworker relationship, rise to the top, fame, comedy duo, racial discrimination, black ...
Time:
1910s, 1890s, year 2016, year 2015, 19th century ...
Place:
paris france, france, caribbean, cuba
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual tendencies by marrying, but unfortunately he chooses a wonky, nymphomaniac girl whom he cannot satisfy.
Style:
sexual, historical drama, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
composer, piano, classical music, homosexual love, snow, biopic, music, gay husband, gay, male homosexuality, lgbt, music composer ...
Time:
1880s, 1890s, 19th century, victorian era
Place:
europe, london, russia, england, moscow russia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Steven Keats plays a Russian emigre who prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by ...
Style:
black and white, independent film, romantic, historically accurate, aesthetic ...
Plot:
culture clash, rabbi, infidelity, immigrant, immigration, woman, marriage, u.s. constitution, street life, women's rights, machismo, jewish history ...
Time:
1890s, 19th century, year 1975, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city, new york, usa, egypt ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Young Visiters, written in twelve days by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford in 1890, is a surreal blend of naiveté, precocious perception and inadvertent social satire.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty, period drama
Audience:
date night
Plot:
high society, aristocrat, social climber, couple relations, society, opposites attract, teaching the ways of the world, love and romance, friendship, rich and poor, social differences, looking for love ...
Time:
1910s, 1890s, georgian era
Place:
england, london, europe
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Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with ...
Style:
sentimental, romantic, sexy, visually stunning, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
cabaret, love story, tragic love, jealousy, nightclub, sexual attraction, showbiz, music, performer's life, bohemian life, passion, love and romance ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, year 2001, ancient times, victorian era ...
Place:
paris france, europe, detroit, france, montmartre paris ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A young man (Cruise) leaves Ireland with his landlord's daughter (Kidman) after some trouble with her father, and they dream of owning land at the big giveaway in Oklahoma ca. 1893. When they get to the new land, they find jobs and begin saving ...
Style:
sentimental, period piece, intense, serious, rom com ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
love, love and romance, enemies to lovers, boxing, ambition, love story, immigrant, boxer, obsessive quest, against the odds, american dream, rise and fall ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s, turn of the century, 1800s ...
Place:
usa, ireland, oklahoma, oklahoma city, europe ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
They loved each other with the ardor of thirteen-year-old boys. Rebellion and curiosity, hopes and doubts, girls and dreams of glory – they shared it all. Paul was rich, Emile poor. They went skinny-dipping, drank absinthe, starved, only to ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, factual, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
painter, art, friendship, artist, painting, novelist, female nudity, portrait, nude painting, seaside, infidelity, end of friendship ...
Time:
1890s, 19th century, 1880s, victorian era, 1860s ...
Place:
south of france, paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 51 min.
TV show
Story:
An aristocratic Englishwoman, Lady Cornelia Locke, arrives into the new and wild landscape of the West to wreak revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, tense, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
revenge, nobility, woman, death of son, american indian, death, son, old west, female protagonist, loss of child, vengeance, teamwork ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
kansas, wyoming
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
The sweeping rags to riches story of the Hardacres, a working-class family in 1890s Yorkshire who strike it rich and move from a grimy fish dock to a vast estate.
Style:
family saga, historical drama, emotional, costume drama, period drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
working class, rags to riches, domestic drama, class conflict, social climbing, manor, moral dilemma, slow burn, family secret, inheritance, class system, country estate ...
Time:
1890s, victorian era, 19th century
Place:
yorkshire
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
A Victorian-era Toronto detective uses then-cutting edge forensic techniques to solve crimes, with the assistance of a female coroner who is also struggling for recognition in the face of tradition, based on the books by Maureen Jennings.
Style:
atmospheric, clever, stylized, detective, costume drama ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police detective, uncover truth, partners against crime, riddles and clues, twists and turns, victorian england, police investigation, murder investigation, forensics, who done it, police station, unconventional method ...
Time:
edwardian era, victorian era, 19th century, future, 1890s
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada, america
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A sled dog struggles for survival in the wilds of the Yukon.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, sincere, inspirational, period piece ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
dog, dog sled, survival, wolf, gold rush, danger, snow, wolf pack, friendship, medieval, grizzly bear, gold ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, 20th century, victorian era, 2020s
Place:
alaska, canada, north america, yukon
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117K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Lawrence Talbot, an American man on a visit to Victorian London to make amends with his estranged father, gets bitten by a werewolf and, after a moonlight transformation, leaves him with a savage hunger for flesh.
Style:
gothic, dark, gothic horror, period piece, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
werewolf, deadly creature, macabre, supernatural, transformation, childhood trauma, medieval, beast, gory, blood, death, violent ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1890s, 2010s, edwardian era ...
Place:
europe, tower bridge london, london, england, scotland
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Genre: Drama, Musical, Sport
Country: India, USA
Duration: 224 min.
Story:
Lagaan tells the tale of the Indian village Champaner, beset by drought and British colonialism in the year 1893. Without a drop of rain in months, the worried villagers of Champaner decide to ask the local authorities for a temporary repeal of ...
Style:
patriotic, inspirational, semi serious, stylized, serious ...
Plot:
british raj, love triangle, sikh, patriotism, cricket, village, caste system, colonialism, self esteem, jealousy, friendship, unrequited love ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, year 2001, 2000s, 50s ...
Place:
middle east, britain, nebraska, europe, india ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young man has an affair with an older woman. He is very jealous of her husband and decides that they should kill him. One night, after the husband had plenty of sake to drink and was in bed, they strangle him and dump his body down a well. To ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex, transgression, murder, ghost, cuckolded husband, rickshaw, husband and wife, illicit affair, married woman, sensuality, love, older woman younger man relationship ...
Time:
1890s, 19th century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The life and times of the Scandinavian artists' colony who lived in Skagen on the Danish coast during the 1890s. Not so much a biographical account, rather a portrait of a way of life. The painters became famous for the way they used the light ...
Style:
contemplative, sensitive, melancholic, pastoral, period drama
Plot:
painting, creative process, art history, impressionism, biopic, female nudity, painter, artist, affair, sunlight, female full frontal nudity
Time:
1890s, 19th century
Place:
scandinavia, denmark, eastern europe
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Genre: Crime, History, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Estonia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Juhan Liiv, a struggling poet and an unlikely detective, solves gruesome murder cases in Estonia, the Wild West of the crumbling Russian Empire in the 1890s. Investigations take him to miserable dwellings of the local Estonian peasants, luxurious ...
Style:
historical drama, melancholic, grim, dark, tense ...
Plot:
murder mystery, russian empire, class conflict, witchcraft, anti hero, schizophrenia, superstition, social decay, isolation, folk horror
Time:
1890s
Place:
estonia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In 1892, the Dalton Gang set out to become the most famous outlaws in America. That dream would become a nightmare.
Style:
tense, serious, dramatic, harsh, period piece ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
violence, bank robbery, outlaw, wild west, fight scenes, escapades, fight, robbery, criminal, heist, heist gone wrong, gunfight ...
Time:
1890s
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
When their brother Frank is killed by an outlaw, brothers Bob Dalton, Emmett Dalton and Gray Dalton join their local sheriff's department. When they are cheated by the law, they turn to crime, robbing trains and anything else they can steal ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, stylized, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
old west, outlaw, criminal heroes, gang, fear, robbery, deal, society, tragic hero, arrest, courage, dishonesty ...
Time:
1890s
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Genre: Biography, Music, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Bio-pic about Czech composer Antonin Dvoraák at the height of his career. Dvorák learns that his love and lifelong muse is ill and must return to her side.
Style:
melancholic, dramatic, emotional, historical romance, period drama
Plot:
composer, love triangle, czech history, classical music, biopic, character study, muse, sacrifice, getting home, moral dilemma, family drama, illness ...
Time:
1890s, 19th century
Place:
central europe
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58K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
Set in the 1800s, the film is about a "dacoit" tribe who take charge in fight for their rights and independence against the British.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, tense, epic, heroic ...
Plot:
betrayal, slave, british raj, oppression, colonialism, rebellion, con trick, battles, life is a bitch, captive, traitor, deception ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, 2020s, 1800s
Place:
india
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