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, serious, realistic, captivating, atmospheric and costume drama films and TV shows about / with society, death, female nudity, costume, murder, blood, friendship, fire, husband wife relationship and dancing plots mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
1890s
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1890s movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as 1890s: Albert Nobbs (2011), Cezanne and I (2016), The Lighthouse (2019), Murdoch Mysteries (2008), The Lizzie Borden Chronicles (2015), The Alienist (2018), The English (2022), Bel Ami (2012), Bodies (2023), Chocolat (2016).

List of 1890s movies

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 6.7
 26K
Albert Nobbs (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland, UK, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape ...
Style: sad, touching, sincere, period piece, stylized ...
Plot: gender, cross dressing, lesbian, loneliness, master and servant, woman dressed as man, maid, hotel, servant, gender disguise, death, relationships ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, victorian era, 1800s, year 2011
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, england, britain, europe
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Cezanne and I (2016)
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: factual, realistic, exciting, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot: painter, friendship, art, artist, painting, nude painting, novelist, end of friendship, portrait, seaside, infidelity, art history ...
Time: 1890s, 19th century, 1870s, 1880s, victorian era ...
Place: south of france, paris france, france, europe
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 7.4
 252K
The Lighthouse (2019)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The story of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Style: suspense, minimal cast, psychological, mysterious, lovecraft ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: isolation, hallucination, lighthouse, lighthouse keeper, drunkenness, symbolism, island, nightmare, fight, storm, madness, violence ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, victorian era, 2010s, year 2019 ...
Place: nova scotia, new england
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Murdoch Mysteries (2008)
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, detective, stylized, historical drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police detective, partners against crime, uncover truth, riddles and clues, police investigation, twists and turns, forensics, unconventional method, who done it, murder investigation, victorian england, morgue ...
Time: edwardian era, victorian era, 19th century, future, 1890s
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada, america
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The Lizzie Borden Chronicles (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 337 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, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: investigation, private detective, murder, murderer, sibling relationship, family relations, serial killer, psychopath, female protagonist, danger, death, gilded age ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s
Place: usa, massachusetts, america, nova scotia
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 7.7
 60K
The Alienist (2018)
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: exciting, tense, suspenseful, detective, costume drama ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, mental illness, police, murder mystery, murder investigation, psychologist, crime investigation, ritual, private detective, investigation, homicide detective, psychopath ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, victorian era, 2010s
Place: new york, america
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 7.8
 29K
The English (2022)
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: tense, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: revenge, woman, death of son, death, son, old west, city, troubled past, female protagonist, bereavement, vengeance, loss of child ...
Time: 1890s, 19th century, 1900s
Place: wyoming
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 5.4
 19K
Bel Ami (2012)
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: stylized, realistic, serious, captivating, costume drama ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: infidelity, older woman younger man relationship, poverty, ambition, nudity, extramarital affair, rise to the top, marriage, journalist, society, dishonesty, rich and poor ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, victorian era
Place: europe, paris france, france
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 7.3
 51K
Bodies (2023)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 455 min.
TV show
Story: Four detectives in four different time periods of London find themselves investigating the same murder.
Style: detective, period piece, epic, period drama
Plot: investigation, time travel, policewoman, conspiracy, murder investigation, post apocalypse, murder, murder victim, gay subtext, gay love, whodunit, police officer ...
Time: 1890s, 1940s, future, year 1941, 2010s ...
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 7.0
 8K
Chocolat (2016)
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: thought provoking, factual, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: circus, racism, gambling, clown, black man, illegal immigrant, coworker relationship, rise to the top, comedy duo, fame, black, escapades ...
Time: 1910s, 1890s, year 2016, year 2015, 19th century ...
Place: paris france, france, cuba, caribbean
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The Young Visiters (2003)
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, opposites attract, couple relations, society, teaching the ways of the world, social climber, friendship, love and romance, rich and poor, looking for love, social differences ...
Time: 1910s, 1890s
Place: england, london, europe
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Young Winston (1972)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 157 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, military, parliament, politics, ambition, society, rise to the top, war correspondent, rise to power, imperialism, medieval, british empire ...
Time: turn of the century, 1890s, 19th century, victorian era, year 1972 ...
Place: england, africa, britain, morocco, south africa ...
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The Time Machine (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
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, exciting, serious, stylized, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, time machine, dystopic future, steampunk, obsessive quest, post apocalypse, utopia, changing the past or future, chase, apocalypse, loss of loved one, scientist ...
Time: future, distant future, victorian era, 2030s, 19th century ...
Place: usa, new york
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 7.6
 298K
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
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, sexy, visually stunning, romantic, colorful ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: cabaret, love story, showbiz, tragic love, nightclub, jealousy, music, performer's life, love and romance, seduction, tango, terminal illness ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, year 2001, victorian era, 1800s ...
Place: paris france, europe, detroit, montmartre paris, france ...
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 6.5
 3K
The Dancer (2016)
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: melancholic, colorful, factual, suspense, erotic ...
Plot: dancing, female nudity, lesbian, love, sex scene, theater, flashback, bohemian life, lgbt, dancer's life, death of father, performer's life ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, victorian era
Place: paris france, new york, brooklyn new york city, france
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The Call of the Wild (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A sled dog struggles for survival in the wilds of the Yukon.
Style: captivating, disturbing, sincere, inspirational, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: dog, survival, dog sled, wolf, snow, gold rush, danger, friendship, wolf pack, animal, grizzly bear, gold ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, 20th century, victorian era, 2020s
Place: alaska, yukon
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The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, UK, Canada, India, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Follows the ill-fated crew aboard the merchant ship Demeter which carried Dracula's coffin from Transylvania to England only to arrive at port with no survivors aboard.
Style: gothic horror, gothic, atmospheric, captivating, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: vampire, ship, supernatural, dracula, ship captain, vampirism, supernatural horror, danger, ocean, sea voyage, sea, supernatural power ...
Time: victorian era, 1890s, 19th century
Place: england, europe, london, transylvania
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 5.9
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Gabi (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Set towards the end of the 19th century, when coffee was first introduced to Korea, Russian sharpshooter Illichi and Joseon's first barista Danya are manipulated by Japanese officer Sadako into an elaborate plan to assassinate King Gojong.
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating
Plot: assassination attempt, coffee, assassination plot, dynasty, power struggle, threat to kill, king, murder, conspiracy, poison, joseon dynasty, poisoning
Time: 19th century, 1890s
Place: korea
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An Officer and a Spy (2019)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 132 min.
Story: In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island.
Style: costume drama, art film, political, suspense, tense ...
Plot: spy, lawyer, trial, courtroom, espionage, french army, miscarriage of justice, french history, manipulation, french politics, french military, officer ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 2019, 1890s
Place: paris france, israel, france
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Victoria & Abdul (2017)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA, China
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
Style: costume drama, period piece, atmospheric, stylized, touching ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: servant, british history, queen of england, queen victoria, royalty, muslim, biopic, british empire, friendship, hindu, royal court, british monarchy ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, ancient times, year 2017, 2010s ...
Place: britain, america, buckingham palace, florence, india ...
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Fievel's American Tails (1992)
Genre: Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Western
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Fievel's American Tails is an American/Canadian animated television series, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblimation animation studio, Nelvana, and Universal Cartoon Studios. It aired for one season in 1992, and continued Fievel's ...
Audience: kids
Plot: cartoon mouse, mouse, wild west, talking animal, immigrant, family relations, anthropomorphic mouse, surrealism, anthropomorphism, cat, anthropomorphic animal
Time: 1890s, 19th century
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Blue Brave: The Legend of Formosa in 1895 (2008)
Genre: History
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: "1895" tells the story of the resistance against the Japanese invasion in 1895.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: resistance movement, invasion, resistance, battles, war, fight for supremacy, resistance fighter, fight, power struggle
Time: 1890s, 19th century, victorian era
Place: taiwan, asia, east asia, japan
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The Flight of the Eagle (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, West Germany, Norway
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The Swedish 19th century engineer S. A. Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, "The Eagle", takes off from ...
Style: contemplative, epic, sincere, bleak, exciting ...
Plot: north pole, survival, biopic, zeppelin, aviation, nordic, winter, nature, island, polar bear, ice, weather ...
Time: 19th century, year 1982, 1890s
Place: europe, eastern europe
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White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A boy and his dog, White Fang, must try to save the noble Haida tribe from evil white men in turn-of-the-century Alaska.
Style: exciting, semi serious, humorous, period drama
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dog, survival, treasure hunt, human animal relationship, friendship, forest, canine, treasure hunter, wilderness, legends and myths, pets, rivalry ...
Time: year 1994, 1890s, 90s, 19th century
Place: alaska, usa
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There Will Be Blood (2007)
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, suspense, disturbing, cerebral, epic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: oil, greed, character study, ambition, capitalism, money, rise to the top, rivalry, visceral, psychopath, religion, business ...
Time: 20th century, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 19th century ...
Place: california, texas, los angeles, america, persia ...
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 6.5
 4K
Mrs Dalloway (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 97 min.
Story: As society hostess Clarissa Dalloway prepares for another of her legendary parties, she finds herself haunted by figures and scenes from her passionate adolescence.
Style: talky, historical drama, contemplative, gloomy, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lesbian, mental illness, gender, friendship, british, world war one, jazz, mental health, past, lesbian love, lgbt, women ...
Time: victorian era, 20th century, year 1997, edwardian era, 1920s ...
Place: england, london, britain, europe, india ...
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
Style: atmospheric, bleak, cynical, breathtaking, visual ...
Plot: prostitution, snow, prostitute, mining town, old west, wild west, gambling, winter, female nudity, small town, gambler, brothel ...
Time: year 1971, 19th century, 1890s, edwardian era, 20th century ...
Place: washington state, usa, washington d.c., seattle, vancouver
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 7.0
 3K
Mahler (1974)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The film begins on a train journey with Gustav Mahler (Robert Powell) and his wife Alma (Georgina Hale) confronting their failing marriage. The story is then recounted in a series of flashbacks (some of which are surrealistic and nightmarish), ...
Style: art house, psychedelic, road movie, historical drama, serious ...
Plot: classical music, composer, biopic, music composer, artist, classical composer, famous, musician, railway, art history, painter, psychology ...
Time: 20th century, 19th century, 1890s, turn of the century, 1900s
Place: austria, europe
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Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001)
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, realistic, inspirational, semi serious, uplifting ...
Plot: love triangle, village, patriotism, british raj, sikh, cricket, caste system, colonialism, self esteem, friendship, jealousy, poverty ...
Time: 19th century, year 2001, 2000s, 50s, 1800s ...
Place: britain, middle east, nebraska, asia, europe ...
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The Judge and the Assassin (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suicide. Upon release from the filthy asylum where he was placed, with bullets still remaining in his head, he wanders the country roads and rapes and ...
Style: anthology, tense, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, courtroom drama, mental institution, war veteran, confession of crime, serial child killer, rural setting, male rape victim, murder confession, anti semitism, lawyer ...
Time: 19th century, year 1976, 1890s
Place: france, europe, paris france
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