19th century movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant 19th century movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out period drama, costume drama, period piece, serious, realistic and historical drama films and TV shows about / with costume, love and romance, victorian england, love, society, fall in love, horse and carriage, betrayal, adaptation and love story plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres shot in UK, USA, Ireland and other countries.
19th century movies
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TOP 10 movies tagged as 19th century: North & South (2004), Lady Macbeth (2016), Dorian Gray (2009), Far from the Madding Crowd (2015), Pride & Prejudice (2005), Les Misérables (2012), Emma. (2020), Taboo (2017), Miss Scarlet and the Duke (2020), Mary Shelley (2017).

List of 19th century movies

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 8.5
 38K
North & South (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: North & South is a British television drama serial, produced by the BBC and originally broadcast in four episodes on BBC One in November and December 2004. It follows the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman from southern England who has to ...
Style: touching, period piece, serious, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: prejudice, initially antagonists, social differences, love and romance, pride and honor, society, young woman, rich and poor, fall in love, couple relations, love affair, owner ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 50s, turn of the century, 1850s ...
Place: england, britain, london
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 6.8
 30K
Lady Macbeth (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The passionate affair of a young woman trapped in a marriage of convenience unleashes a maelstrom of murder and mayhem on a country estate.
Style: costume drama, psychological, cynical, depressing, historical drama ...
Plot: secret lover, cruelty, forbidden love, infidelity, horse, adultery, marriage of convenience, neglectful husband, male nudity, secret relationship, forced marriage, sex scene ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, year 1865, victorian era
Place: england, northern england
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 6.2
 71K
Dorian Gray (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A vain London playboy offers his soul in exchange for eternal beauty in this adaptation of the chilling tale by author Oscar Wilde. Seduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton (Colin Firth), handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray (Ben ...
Style: gothic, atmospheric, sexy, gothic horror, dark fantasy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: supernatural, eternal youth, aristocracy, painting, deal with the devil, destiny, beefcake, male nudity, fall in love, society, immortality, artist ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, year 2009, turn of the century ...
Place: england, europe, london, britain, ireland
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Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd is the story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene, who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching ...
Style: romantic, costume drama, sexy, period piece, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: victorian england, couples, relationships, love story, looking for love, countryside, couple relations, love and romance, love affair, love, unrequited love, wooing ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, year 2015, 18th century
Place: england, britain, europe, london
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Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Pride & Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters. If Mr. Bennet dies their house will ...
Style: romantic, costume drama, sweet, sexy, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, family friendly ...
Plot: prejudice, love, fall in love, happy ending, women, strong female character, love and romance, opposites attract, aristocracy, initially antagonists, wooing, social differences ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century, victorian era, 1790s, georgian era ...
Place: england, britain, united kingdom, europe, london ...
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 7.5
 360K
Les Misérables (2012)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story: An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France, in which a paroled prisoner named Jean Valjean seeks redemption.
Style: inspirational, historical drama, epic, emotional, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, adult
Plot: redemption, rebellion, arrest, parole, historical character, broadway, dying man, historical event, prostitute, orphan, father daughter relationship, revolution ...
Time: 19th century, 2010s, year 2012, 1800s, 18th century ...
Place: france, paris france, seattle, europe, london
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 6.7
 71K
Emma. (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, China, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In 1800s England, a well-meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.
Style: humorous, feel good, entertaining, period piece, captivating ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, kids, teens
Plot: love and romance, male female relationship, estate, couples, friendship, looking for love, female protagonist, fall in love, wedding, prejudice, unrequited love, matchmaking ...
Time: 19th century, 2020s, 1800s, future, victorian era ...
Place: england, yorkshire
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 8.3
 162K
Taboo (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, serious, rough, period piece ...
Plot: british empire, family business, incest overtones, murder, brother sister incest, witchcraft, greed, adventurer, investigation, conspiracy, incest, dark secret ...
Time: 19th century, 1810s, victorian era, georgian era, regency period
Place: england, britain, united kingdom, syria, usa ...
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Miss Scarlet and the Duke (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When Eliza Scarlet’s father dies, he leaves her penniless, but she resolves to continue his detective agency. To operate in a male-dominated world, though, she needs a partner... step forward a detective known as the Duke. Eliza and The Duke ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, romantic, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, family outing, girls' night
Plot: victorian england, detective agency, female detective, private detective, investigation, female police detective, murder investigation, crime investigation, forensics, humour, murder, sleuth ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, future
Place: london
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 6.4
 19K
Mary Shelley (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Luxembourg, USA, Ireland, Australia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”
Style: gothic, stylized, costume drama, atmospheric, period piece ...
Audience: date night
Plot: poet, forbidden love, young lovers, literature, love and romance, relationship problems, tragedy, female writer, renegade, frustration, social misfits, writers ...
Time: 19th century, regency period, 1810s, georgian era
Place: london, scotland, switzerland
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Love's Enduring Promise (2004)
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In this Janette Oke sequel to "Love Comes Softly," the eldest child in an 1800s frontier family, Missie Davis is a bright and beautiful elementary schoolteacher whose love for the prairie is matched only by her passion for books. When ...
Style: touching, christian film, serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: farm, young lovers, parents and children, old west, christian, fall in love, love triangle, family relations, couples, lifestyle, haunted by the past, countryside ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: usa
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A Fortunate Man (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Austria
Duration: 162 min.
Story: On his quest for happiness, Per decides to leave Jutland and an upbringing in a strict religious home. He runs from his family and his patriarch father, and sets sail towards Copenhagen to become an engineer. Parallel to his studies, he works on a ...
Style: disturbing, romantic, touching, sweet, uplifting ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: religion, engineer, jewish family, poverty, nordic, love interest, loner, pride, love affair, adaptation, hopes, rivalry ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: austria, copenhagen
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 7.2
 59K
Quills (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France ...
Style: erotic, period piece, sexy, gothic, sexual ...
Plot: sexuality, writer's life, rape, priest, sex, perversion, steamy romance, aristocracy, eccentricity, fetish, sexual tension, writers ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, ancient times, year 2000, georgian era ...
Place: france, paris france, europe
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 6.7
 171K
From Hell (2001)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.
Style: gothic, atmospheric, suspense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, jack the ripper, freemason, conspiracy, graphic violence, a vision, police investigation, murder of a prostitute, violent, prostitution, who done it, life is a bitch ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1880s, year 2001, 1800s ...
Place: england, london, britain, ireland, europe ...
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 7.1
 646
Love in Chains (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ukraine
TV show
Story: Kateryna is beautiful, clever and by the will of her godmother was raised as a lady of noble blood. But for the whole world, she is only someone else’s property, a bondmaid of the richest landowner in Nizhyn – Chervinskyi. Struggling for her ...
Style: captivating, romantic, thought provoking, sincere, social ...
Plot: noblewoman, brutality, love and romance, nobleman, tragic love, impossible love, management, high society, rivalry, death, rich and poor, relationships ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1850s, 1800s
Place: ukraine
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 7.7
 64K
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: 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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Great Expectations (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip's "Uncle Pumblechook" (who is actually Joe's uncle) to find a boy to play with her adopted daughter Estella. Pip ...
Style: costume drama, period piece, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: generosity, orphan, charles dickens, unfulfilled love, benefactor, love and romance, redemption, social differences, rise to the top, hopes, haunted by the past, youth ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, regency period
Place: england, london
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The Young Victoria (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: From Academy Award® winners Graham King and Martin Scorsese, along with the makers of Gosford Park and The Departed, comes the story of Queen Victoria’s early rise to power. From an object of a royal power-struggle to her romantic courtship and ...
Style: period piece, costume drama, romantic, touching, historical drama ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: royal family, queen of england, marriage, royalty, queen, politics, queen victoria, royal court, aristocracy, love and romance, princess, love story ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, middle ages, ancient times, 1800s ...
Place: london, buckingham palace, england, britain, europe ...
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The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Switzerland, UK, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, Fernand, deceives him. After spending 13 miserable years in prison, Dantés escapes with the help of a fellow inmate and plots his revenge, ...
Style: suspense, exciting, costume drama, period piece, sexy ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: vengeance, revenge, sword fight, treason, treasure, lone hero, twists and turns, corruption, prison, confined, betrayal, arrest ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 2002, 18th century, 1800s ...
Place: france, ireland, marseille, europe, paris france
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 6.5
 633
Maison close (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Paris, 1871. This is a story of the women trapped in a luxury brothel, 'Paradise'. The very young Rose came to Paris in search of her mother, former prostitute. She is trapped and forced to enroll in Paradise. Vera is 35 years. She knows ...
Style: sexy, erotic, realistic, tense, sensual ...
Plot: brothel, lesbian interest, lesbianism, female nudity, sexual relations, workplace, prostitute, lifestyle, power relations, society, strong sexual content, lesbian ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1870s
Place: paris france, france
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Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico, UK, Colombia
Duration: 139 min.
Story: In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a ...
Style: costume drama, sexy, sexual, psychological, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: impossible love, love, new love, love triangle, letter, magic realism, power of love, epidemic, betrayal, multiple storylines, visceral, justice ...
Time: 19th century, turn of the century, year 2007, 1900s, 20th century ...
Place: colombia, latin america, caribbean, paris france
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Daniel Deronda (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story: Daniel Deronda is a British television serial drama adapted by Andrew Davies from the George Eliot novel of the same name. The serial was directed by Tom Hooper, produced by Louis Marks, and was first broadcast in three parts on BBC One from 23 ...
Style: costume drama, period piece, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot: aristocracy, marriage of convenience, jewess, love triangle, society, drowning, social differences, love affair, rise to the top, fall in love, betrayal, unlikely couple ...
Time: 19th century, middle ages, victorian era, 1870s
Place: britain, england, europe, london, italy
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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: touching, sad, costume drama, period piece, stylized ...
Plot: gender, loneliness, cross dressing, lesbian, lgbtq, master and servant, woman dressed as man, relationships, society, death, maid, gender disguise ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, 1800s, victorian era, turn of the century ...
Place: ireland, england, britain, dublin ireland, europe
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 7.7
 13K
The Paradise (2012)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: An intoxicating love story set in England's first department store in the 1870s. The Paradise revolves around the lives of the people who live and work in the store, each bound in their own way by the power of the world they live in, and the ...
Style: captivating, costume drama, period piece, stylized, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: fashion, workplace situations, rise to the top, high society, success, workplace, love affair, nouveau riche, love and romance, department store, hot and sexy, workplace problem ...
Time: 19th century, 1900s, victorian era, 1870s, 20th century ...
Place: england, britain
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The Third Wife (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Though only 14 years old, May is selected to be the third wife of a wealthy landowner. Her new home seems idyllic, her husband favours her, and she quickly becomes pregnant with what she is certain will be the desired male progeny. But trouble is ...
Style: suspense, psychological, rough, thought provoking, touching ...
Plot: arranged marriage, teenage girl, childhood, sex with stepmother, wedding planning, eye, family relations, teenager, fiancee, countryside, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: vietnam
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The Pale Blue Eye (2022)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: West Point, New York, 1830. When a cadet at the burgeoning military academy is found hanged with his heart cut out, the top brass summons former New York City constable Augustus Landor to investigate. While attempting to solve this grisly mystery, ...
Style: gothic horror, detective, period piece, costume drama, gothic ...
Plot: murder mystery, winter, edgar allan poe, occult, murder, investigation, renaissance, academy, veteran, secret, violence, army ...
Time: 1830s, 19th century, 2020s
Place: west point, persia, america
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Wives and Daughters (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 75 min.
TV show
Story: Elizabeth Gaskell's enchanting tale of romance, scandal, and intrigue in a gossipy English town comes to Masterpiece Theatre in a lavish four-part production of Wives and Daughters, adapted by celebrated screenwriter Andrew Davies.Davies, who ...
Style: period piece, costume drama, uplifting, serious, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: prejudice, aristocrat, family relations, estate, love and romance, aristocracy, parent child relationship, secret marriage, marriage, gossip, sibling relationship, parents and children ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1820s, 18th century, 1800s ...
Place: england, europe, london, britain, africa
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 6.8
 9K
Onegin (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In the opulent St. Petersburg of the Empire period, Eugene Onegin is a jaded but dashing aristocrat - a man often lacking in empathy, who suffers from restlessness, melancholy and, finally, regret. Through his best friend Lensky, Onegin is ...
Style: atmospheric, period piece, costume drama, romantic, romantic drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: unfulfilled love, forbidden love, marriage, poetry, unfulfillment, love and romance, obsession, unrequited love, inheritance, fall in love, victorian england, poet ...
Time: 19th century, 1820s, 1830s, year 1999, 1800s ...
Place: st. petersburg russia, russia, london, tokyo
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 6.7
 34K
Hysteria (2011)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Hysteria is a romantic comedy with an accomplished cast led by Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce, Felicity Jones and Rupert Everett, that tells an untold tale of discovery - the surprising story of the birth of the electro-mechanical ...
Style: sexy, period piece, romantic, costume drama, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: hospital, hysteria, doctor, trial, masturbation, sexuality, happy ending, orgasm, sexual pleasure, invention, ex prostitute, court ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, ancient times, edwardian era ...
Place: england, london, east end london, europe, san francisco
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Lark Rise to Candleford (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the small hamlet of Lark Rise and the wealthier neighbouring market town, Candleford, the series chronicles the daily lives of farm-workers, craftsmen and gentry at the end of the 19th Century. Lark Rise to Candleford is a love letter to a ...
Style: costume drama, sentimental, sincere, period piece, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, kids
Plot: village life, friendship, social relations, hopes, small town, abbey, true love, victorian england, father son relationship, employer employee relationship, neighbor neighbor relationship, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place: england, britain, europe
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