19th century movies and TV shows – page 5
Best films
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, 1832. Anne Lister attempts to revitalize her inherited home, Shibden Hall. Most notably for the time period, a part of her plan is to help the fate of her own family - by taking a wife.
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, costume drama, period piece, dramatic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
lgbt, lesbian, lgbtq, strongman, lesbian love, female protagonist, discrimination, private vs public, lesbian relationship, love and romance, rivalry, closeted homosexual ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1830s, regency period, georgian era
Place:
england, yorkshire
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
In the Yorkshire Dales in the 1870s, the shantytown of Jericho is the home of a community that will live, thrive and die in the shadow of the viaduct they've been brought together to build.
Style:
historical drama, costume drama, period piece, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
victorian england, industrialization, family drama, class struggle, secrets, social realism, poverty, betrayal, survival, moral ambiguity, oppression, isolation ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1870s
Place:
england, britain
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Austria, Luxembourg, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A "romantic comedy" based loosely on the suicide of the poet Henrich von Kleist in 1811.
Style:
sexy, atmospheric, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
couples, poet, suicide, love and romance, writer's life, tragic love, loneliness, playwright, aristocracy, writers, society, biopic ...
Time:
19th century, 1810s, 18th century, georgian era
Place:
germany, prussia, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Unable to forget her first love, Félicité, a simple and kind maid, devotes herself completely to her new master, Mathilde Aubain. As the passing of time doesn't heal her wounds, she gives love to all those who surround her: Mathilde's ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, realistic, emotional, touching
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
social differences, friendship, family relations, hopes, family life, unfulfilled love, power relations, friends, master and servant, introspection, women, lesbian ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
europe, france, normandy
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the ...
Style:
sincere, jidai geki, talky, touching, lyrical ...
Plot:
samurai, poverty, feudal japan, sword fight, asian history, friendship, love story, tragedy, character study, samurai era, visceral, assassination ...
Time:
19th century, 2000s, y2k, 1800s, year 2002
Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
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190K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc ...
Style:
realistic, cult classic, costume drama, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
old west, cowboy, vengeance, gunfight, gunslinger, criminal, shootout, friendship, sheriff, western hero, wild west, revenge ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, 90s, 1880s
Place:
arizona, america, usa, tucson arizona, mexico ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven. Beside all the work he is known for, the composer once wrote a famous love letter to a nameless beloved and the movie tries to find out who this beloved was. Not easy as Beethoven has had ...
Style:
emotional, visually stunning, visual, dramatic, touching ...
Plot:
composer, biopic, classical music, music, musician, classical composer, artist, art, deafness, true love, beethoven, piano ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, regency period, 1820s, ancient times ...
Place:
austria, europe, hungary
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Six-part drama series set in and among the alleys, galleries and flesh-houses of 19th-century industrial London, following the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a vagabond group of English painters, poets and critics.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, serious, realistic, stylized ...
Plot:
painting, bohemian life, painter, artist, lust, lifestyle, rebellion, couples, rebelliousness, love and romance, art, female artist ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1860s
Place:
england, london, europe
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. When Yanko enters a farm sick and hungry after the shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for ...
Style:
romantic, scenic, captivating, touching, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
beautiful scenery, chess, sea, immigrant, bullying, passion, social differences, fall in love, human nature, society, countryside, sea disaster ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s, year 1997, victorian era
Place:
cornwall, england, wales, europe, hamburg germany ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In nineteenth century Yorkshire wealthy orphan Anne Lister lives with an aunt and uncle, anxious for her to marry well and blissfully unaware that she is a lesbian,recording her thoughts and exploits in a coded diary. When her lover Mariana Belcombe ...
Style:
captivating, emotional, stylized, period piece, costume drama ...
Plot:
lesbian relationship, lesbian, lgbt, lesbian romance, lgbtq, lesbianism, lesbian sex, lesbian couple, feminism, lesbian love, forbidden love, gay relationship ...
Time:
19th century, regency period, ancient times, 1830s, 1800s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, yorkshire
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
The small town agog Hussars entry. Love between cornet and the young actress suddenly faces intrigue made by a St. Petersburg bureaucrat. The actress father dies after being involved in this game and perspectives look dark... But evil will ...
Style:
melancholic, sincere, tragicomedy, costume drama, emotional ...
Plot:
investigation, secret police, jealousy, actor, love, theater, actress, illicit affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love affair, social relations, honor ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
russia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The true story of William Wilberforce's courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Although meeting intense opposition, his minister, John Newton, urges him to see the cause through.
Style:
emotional, inspirational, period piece, costume drama, factual ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
slavery, politics, politician, mentor, civil rights, slave trade, friendship, freedom, christian, british empire, religion, biopic ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, ancient times, 1800s, georgian era ...
Place:
england, london, britain, paris france, france ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Based on a short story by the acclaimed author of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, comes a holiday story of family and forgiveness. Recently widowed Mary Bassett (Helene Joy) and her three children have hit difficult times on their farm. Suddenly, ...
Style:
touching, emotional, realistic, serious, period drama
Plot:
thanksgiving, family problems, family relations, grandmother granddaughter relationship, farm, youth, hopes, parents and children, family life, teenage life, loss of partner, christmas ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1860s, 1800s
Place:
america, usa, new york
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Ireland
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.
Style:
costume drama, gothic, romantic, period piece, realistic ...
Plot:
love and romance, estate, fall in love, aristocracy, love, friendship, passionate love, family relations, abbey, literary, passion, countryside ...
Time:
18th century, victorian era, 19th century, ancient times, 1800s ...
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Russia, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.
Style:
clever, realistic, suspense, stylized, intense ...
Plot:
inventor, technology, electricity, science and technology, genius, rivalry, science, invention, physics, discovery, storytelling, biopic ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, year 2019, victorian era, 1880s
Place:
brighton, chicago, north dakota, pittsburgh, massachusetts ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly ...
Style:
costume drama, romantic, melancholic, surreal, captivating ...
Plot:
gambling, religion, obsession, wager, inheritance, friendship, fall in love, obsessive quest, love and romance, introspection, church, destiny ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, ancient times, turn of the century, year 1997 ...
Place:
australia, england, britain, europe, sydney australia ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of the penniless Mary Thorne, who grows up with her rich aunt/cousins at Greshamsbury Park estate.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, historical drama, captivating, cynical ...
Plot:
aristocrat, english countryside, family drama, ward, physician, family relations, victorian england, social differences, couples, society, intrigue, love and romance ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1850s, 1840s
Place:
england, britain
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.
Style:
period piece, thought provoking, political, factual, suspense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lawyer, civil war, courtroom drama, assassination, politics, president, historical character, conspiracy, american civil war, courtroom, trial, court ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, 1800s, year 1865, 1860s ...
Place:
usa, north america, washington d.c., england, california
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57K
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
Transylvania, 1897. The blood-drinking Count Dracula is drawing his plans against Victorian London. And be warned: the dead travel fast.
Style:
gothic, dark, suspense, costume drama, atmospheric ...
Plot:
dracula, vampire, supernatural, undead, ghost, paranormal, creature, virus, vampire hunter, convent, vampire human love, villain as protagonist ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s
Place:
transylvania
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 357 min.
Story:
A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young seamstress whose father has been imprisoned for twenty-five years. A film in originally released ...
Style:
captivating, sentimental, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
charles dickens, coming of age, love and romance, age difference, age-gap relationship, family relations, couples, master and servant, couple relations, society, fall in love, rise to the top ...
Time:
19th century, year 1987, victorian era
Place:
england, britain, europe, italy, london ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Set in a rustic English village in the mid 19th century, Under The Greenwood Tree tells the story of a poor young man who falls for a middle-class schoolteacher and attempts to win her over.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
forbidden love, village life, social differences, fall in love, love and romance, unfulfilled love, looking for love, society, couples, social relations, curses spells and rituals, victorian england ...
Time:
19th century, middle ages, victorian era, 50s
Place:
britain, england
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
This powerful adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel spins a story of passion and destruction set in the nineteenth century. The proud, flighty and bewitching Bathsheba Everdene finds herself entangled into the passions of three men and her ...
Style:
historical drama, costume drama, realistic, serious, period drama
Plot:
victorian england, farm, beach, canceled wedding, unrequited love, age difference, seaside, rich and poor, love affair, wooing, social differences, infidelity ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, victorian era
Place:
britain, europe, england
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
An adaptation of the 1848 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray.
Style:
stylized, atmospheric, costume drama, period piece, historical drama ...
Plot:
social differences, life philosophy, social climbing, british, rise to the top, dysfunctional family, life turned upside down, napoleonic era, female protagonist, unrequited love, heir, time machine ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, georgian era, regency period
Place:
england, britain, london
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Life is rough in the coal mines of 1876 Pennsylvania. A secret group of Irish emigrant miners, known as the Molly Maguires, fights against the cruelty of the mining company with sabotage and murder. A detective, also an Irish emigrant, is hired to ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
terrorism, fighting the system, society, injustice, working undercover, legal, social decay, sabotage, union, rebel, social change, coal mine ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s, year 1970
Place:
usa, america, pennsylvania
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
The life of Camille Claudel, a french scupltor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin drive her further away from reason and rationality.
Style:
emotional, psychological, intense, touching, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
art, biopic, mental illness, artist, fall in love, obsession, painter, sculptor, storytelling, art history, love, couples ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, turn of the century
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A supernatural thriller set in the Western frontier of the late 1800s, The Wind stars Caitlin Gerard as a plains-woman driven mad by the harshness and isolation of the untamed land.
Style:
scary, psychological, psychological thriller, brutal, suspenseful ...
Plot:
folk horror, isolation, paranoia, supernatural, alienation, demon, escape, madness, exploitation, survival, rescue, women ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
new mexico
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168K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and ...
Style:
gothic, dark fantasy, atmospheric, gothic horror, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, supernatural, incest, murder, female protagonist, betrayal, macabre, brother sister incest, old mansion, estate, ghost story ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1900s, year 2015, 1800s ...
Place:
england, america, europe, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Queen Victoria is deeply depressed after the death of her husband, disappearing from public. Her servant Brown, who adores her, through caress and admiration brings her back to life, but that relationship creates scandalous situation and is likely ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
victorian england, queen, british history, monarchy, monarch, politics, friendship, widow, british monarchy, skinny dipping, relationships, love story ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, 1860s, 1880s, year 1997 ...
Place:
england, scotland, britain, europe, london
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Nothing - not her father, not the church - can stop unruly Angela from being with her childhood best friend turned great love, Sara. Based on a true story, Viola di Mare, presents a uniquely engaging portrait of family, community and gender roles in ...
Style:
touching, serious, period piece, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, gender, gays and lesbians, island, lesbian romance, lesbianism, forbidden love, lesbian love, lesbian sex, village life ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, turn of the century, 1800s
Place:
italy, mediterranean sea, sicily
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Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of ...
Style:
epic, serious, exciting, emotional, stylized ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, napoleon bonaparte, battles, british army, war, military, medieval, state affairs, politics, military life, tragic hero, betrayal ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 18th century, 1810s ...
Place:
europe, belgium, britain, soviet union, france ...
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