19th century movies and TV shows – page 2

List of 19th century movies

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 8.1
 52K
The Gilded Age (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: It’s 1882 and the Gilded Age is in full swing when Marian Brook, a young orphaned daughter of a Southern general, moves in with her rigidly conventional aunts in New York City. With the help of Peggy Scott, an African-American woman masquerading ...
Style: costume drama, captivating, period piece, historical drama, exciting ...
Plot: high society, wealthy family, rich man, lifestyle, rich woman, sorority, butler, gilded age, female writer, charity, female protagonist, mansion ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s, 20th century, victorian era
Place: new york
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 7.5
 101K
The Piano (1993)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: New Zealand, Australia, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story: After a long voyage from Scotland, pianist Ada McGrath and her young daughter, Flora, are left with all their belongings, including a piano, on a New Zealand beach. Ada, who has been mute since childhood, has been sold into marriage to a local man ...
Style: period piece, sexy, psychological, erotic, sexual ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: piano, desire, sexual relations, adultery, couple relations, mother daughter relationship, love triangle, feminist, love, love affair, couples, infidelity ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1850s, year 1993, 90s ...
Place: new zealand, oceania, scotland
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The Luminaries (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, New Zealand
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The 19th-century tale of love, murder and revenge as men and women travel across the world to make their fortunes on the wild West Coast of New Zealand's South Island.
Style: tense, costume drama, disturbing, suspense, ironic ...
Plot: treasure, treasure hunt, gold rush, gold, buried treasure, greed, ambition, wilderness, one last chance, escapades, prostitution, prostitute ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, victorian era
Place: new zealand
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 7.6
 41K
Alias Grace (2017)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Based on the true story of Grace Marks, a housemaid and immigrant from Ireland who was imprisoned in 1843, perhaps wrongly, for the murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear. Grace claims to have no memory of the murder yet the facts are irrefutable. A ...
Style: period piece, costume drama, psychological, gothic, historical drama ...
Plot: female prisoner, female assassin, female murderer, maid, murder investigation, life is a bitch, women, feminist, women in society, amnesia, memory loss, memory lapse ...
Time: 19th century, year 2017, 1850s, 1840s
Place: canada
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 8.3
 11K
Bleak House (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A suspenseful tale about the injustices of the 19th Century English legal system.
Style: costume drama, period piece, serious, bleak, historical drama ...
Plot: charles dickens, estate, inheritance, aristocracy, orphan, secret, investigation, uncover truth, abbey, social differences, injustice, society ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, turn of the century
Place: england, britain, london, europe
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 7.5
 10K
Belgravia (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: A tale of secrets and scandals set in 1840s London. When the Trenchards accept an invitation to the now legendary ball hosted by the Duchess of Richmond on the fateful evening of the Battle of Waterloo, it sets in motion a series of events that will ...
Style: costume drama, period piece, captivating, romantic, historical drama ...
Plot: high society, aristocracy, estate, twists and turns, aristocrat, country estate, family secret, merchant, life, palace, family life, conflict ...
Time: 19th century, future, regency period, victorian era, 1840s ...
Place: london, england, britain
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 7.8
 10K
Fingersmith (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The lives of two young women collide in Victorian England when a trio of 'fingersmiths' (pick-pockets) concoct an elaborate scam to defraud a young heiress of her inheritance. The story alternates between the twisting back alleyways of ...
Style: costume drama, serious, realistic, eros, erotic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lesbian love, lgbt, lesbian relationship, sapphic, gays and lesbians, deception, manipulation, mistaken identity, voice over narration, lesbian teen, thief ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, ancient times, 1860s, turn of the century
Place: london, britain, england, europe
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 6.4
 18K
Total Eclipse (1995)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
Style: erotic, cult classic, costume drama, sexual, serious ...
Plot: gay, poet, lgbt, homosexuality, male nudity, violence, melancholy, homosexual, writer's life, homoeroticism, teenage boy, gay teenager ...
Time: 19th century, ancient times, victorian era, turn of the century, 1870s
Place: paris france, europe, africa, france, holland ...
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Western
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 160 min.
Story: Outlaw Jesse James is rumored to be the 'fastest gun in the West'. An eager recruit into James' notorious gang, Robert Ford eventually grows jealous of the famed outlaw and, when Robert and his brother sense an opportunity to kill ...
Style: cerebral, atmospheric, visually appealing, visually stunning, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: assassination, jesse james, betrayal, gang, depression, biopic, vengeance, assassin, criminal, idol, modern west, robbery ...
Time: 19th century, year 2007, 2000s, ancient times, 1880s ...
Place: missouri, america, kentucky, usa, new york ...
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 6.2
 644
Feast of July (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: After an abandoned young woman in late 19th Century England is taken in by a rural couple with three handsome sons, tragic consequences result.
Style: stylized, talky, realistic, tense, serious ...
Plot: pregnancy, dysfunctional family, soldier, family relations, tragic hero, couple relations, love triangle, wartime life, down on your luck, love and romance, family life, parents and children ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, turn of the century
Place: england, britain, europe, dublin ireland, israel ...
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Love Takes Wing (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Belinda Simpson is now a doctor in a small Missouri town where an unknown plague is spreading fear and resentment amoung the townspeople. One local resident thinks the illness was spread from the town orphanage and wants to see it shut down. Belinda ...
Style: serious, sentimental, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: small town, old west, plague, love affair, love and romance, christian, friendship, small town life, fall in love, child illness, love, cholera ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: usa, missouri
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 6.9
 1K
Love Begins (2010)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, Western
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Clark Davis (Wes Brown) adventurous dreams of seeing the world are put into jeopardy after he and a friend start a fight which damages a local cafe. Through a plea deal with the Sheriff (Jere Burns) and café owner Millie (Nancy McKeon), Clark works ...
Style: sentimental, serious, realistic, emotional, saga ...
Audience: family friendly, girls' night
Plot: marriage proposal, fall in love, farm, adventurer, disagreement, old west, one more chance, family relations, couples, couple relations, unlikely couple, hopes ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, 21st century
Place: california, usa
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The Crimson Petal and the White (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min.
TV show
Story: Follow Sugar into the underbelly of Victorian London seething with vitality, sexuality, ambition and emotion.
Style: historical drama, costume drama, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: victorian england, prostitute, social climbing, love affair, rich and poor, mistress, social differences, power relations, couples, society, high society, diary ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1880s, 1870s
Place: england, london, britain, europe
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 8.2
 11K
Little Dorrit (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 34 min.
TV show
Story: The series tells the story of Amy Dorrit, who spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father, who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed ...
Style: costume drama, sincere, period piece, captivating, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night, kids
Plot: poverty, young woman, life is a bitch, uncover truth, passionate love, passion, rich and poor, love and romance, employer employee relationship, financial problem, dysfunctional family, social problems ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, regency period, 1800s, georgian era ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
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The Bronte Sisters (1979)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, England, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.
Style: realistic, serious, gloomy, contemplative, period drama ...
Plot: writers, women, art, writer's life, biopic, historical event, tuberculosis, winter, disease, painting, fire, siblings ...
Time: 19th century, 1850s, year 1979, 1840s, 1830s ...
Place: yorkshire, france, united kingdom, europe, england ...
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 5.9
 2K
Buddenbrooks (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 151 min.
Story: Mid-19th-century, Baltic Sea port city of Lubeck, Germany. Follows the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook mercantile family as Tony and Thomas reach the age of marriage. Fatefully impeded every step of the way, the Buddenbrooks struggle as ...
Style: saga, realistic, costume drama, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, family business, fall in love, workplace, society, parents and children, unfulfillment, relationship vs career, victorian england, rivalry, impossible love, friendship ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: germany, europe, northern germany
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 6.2
 3K
Cousin Bette (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her brother-in-law, Baron Hulot, and her niece, Hortense Hulot. Failing to do so, she instead finds ...
Style: light, humorous, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: infidelity, perversion, slut, revenge, sex scene, nobility, seamstress, adultery, dysfunctional family, manipulation, family relations, love ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s, victorian era
Place: france, paris france, europe
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Little House on the Prairie (1974)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s.
Style: sentimental, sincere, touching, feel good, serious ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, toddlers, pre-teens, family outing ...
Plot: farm, parents and children, family life, pioneer, small town, love and romance, small town life, social relations, siblings relations, teachers and students, rural setting, optimism ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1890s, 1870s, 1880s ...
Place: minnesota, kansas
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The Governess (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family father, Charles, start a passionate secret affair.
Style: enigmatic, period piece, costume drama, emotional, colorful ...
Plot: fall in love, couples, love affair, jewess, nanny, society, loss of virginity, male nudity, photograph, couple relations, master and servant, love triangle ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1830s, year 1998, 1800s
Place: england, london, oxford university, middle east, britain ...
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 8.3
 24K
Jane Eyre (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story: In this version of Charlotte Brontë's novel, Jane Eyre (Georgie Henley), a poor relation in the household of her aunt, Mrs. Reed (Tara FitzGerald) is despatched into the care of the callous Mr Brocklehurst at his school at Lowood. As a young ...
Style: costume drama, romantic, sexy, period piece, atmospheric ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: love affair, couple relations, rich and poor, love story, fall in love, estate, unlikely couple, relationships, social differences, love and romance, passion, looking for love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, ancient times, 1800s, regency period ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
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 7.0
 27K
Mansfield Park (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: This fun and sexy comedy tells a timelessly entertaining story where wealthy, secret passions and mischievous women put love to the test.. When a spirited young woman, Fanny Price, is sent away to live on the great country estate of her rich ...
Style: period piece, costume drama, sexy, witty, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: fall in love, country estate, couple relations, literary, women, love, love and romance, feminist, love story, estate, abbey, society ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, middle ages, ancient times, year 1999 ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
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War and Peace (2007)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Italy, France, Germany, Russia, Poland
Duration: 99 min.
TV show
Story: War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events leading up to the French invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families. Portions of an earlier version of ...
Style: captivating, epic, stylized, emotional, historical drama ...
Plot: tragic love, true love, napoleon bonaparte, imperial russia, aristocracy, couple relations, love, love triangle, social differences, romantic relationship, betrayal, invasion ...
Time: 19th century, 1810s, regency period, 1800s, georgian era
Place: russia
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 7.6
 20K
Sanditon (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The spirited and impulsive Charlotte Heywood moves from her rural home to Sanditon, a fishing village attempting to reinvent itself as a seaside resort.
Style: costume drama, period piece, historical drama, romantic drama, crying ...
Plot: resort, marriage, wooing, high society, fall in love, rise to the top, sanity, male female relationship, society, social differences, looking for love, beefcake ...
Time: 19th century, georgian era, 18th century, regency period
Place: england
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 6.1
 415
The Viceroys (2007)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, Spain, Germany, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: captivating, psychological, epic, atmospheric, saga ...
Plot: family relations, politics, political unrest, rivalry, intrigue, revolution, dishonesty, society, family life, palace intrigue, victorian england, power struggle ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1860s
Place: sicily, italy, europe, rome italy
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 5.4
 20K
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: 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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 6.3
 66K
The Beguiled (2017)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: During the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school, young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in ...
Style: sexy, gothic, suspense, period piece, costume drama ...
Plot: union soldier, american civil war, wounded soldier, girl, sexual tension, sex scene, amputee, girls' school, teenage girl, murder, jealousy, seduction ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, victorian era, year 2017, 2010s
Place: virginia
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Colonel Chabert (1994)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Colonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate. When he regains his health and memory, he goes back to Paris, where his "widow", Anne ...
Style: harsh, stylized, disturbing, talky, sentimental ...
Plot: napoleonic wars, betrayal, war, nobility, aristocracy, cavalry charge, battles, lawsuit, military, haunted by the past, homecoming, dishonesty ...
Time: 19th century, 1810s, year 1994, 1800s, 18th century
Place: france, paris france, europe, london, tokyo
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 6.6
 112K
Anna Karenina (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Russia
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Trapped in a loveless marriage, aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.
Style: costume drama, period piece, sentimental, historical drama, colorful ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: high society, forbidden love, imperial russia, infidelity, tragic love, aristocracy, marriage, suicide, adultery, cuckolded husband, love, depression ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, ancient times, year 2012, 1800s ...
Place: moscow russia, russia, st. petersburg russia, europe
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 6.0
 7K
Effie Gray (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
Style: period piece, costume drama, stylized, emotional, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: love, biopic, couples, unfulfillment, self discovery, crumbling marriage, love and romance, fall in love, painter, art, writers, love triangle ...
Time: 19th century, ancient times, victorian era
Place: england, britain, europe, london, scotland
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The Last Samurai (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the ...
Style: epic, breathtaking, exciting, captivating, period piece ...
Audience: manly, girls' night, adult
Plot: samurai, sword fight, battles, war, courage, japanese history, warrior, pride and honor, self discovery, human spirit, honor, loyalty ...
Time: 19th century, middle ages, victorian era, year 2003, 1800s ...
Place: japan, asia, africa, san francisco, pacific ocean ...
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