1840s movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant 1840s movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out period drama, serious, realistic, period piece, suspense and captivating films and TV shows about / with death, victorian england, culture clash, love, destiny, female nudity, dialogue, mentor, nude and violence plots mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as 1840s: Black '47 (2018), Jane Eyre (2011), Ammonite (2020), Ravenous (1999), Madame Bovary (1991), Kamouraska (1973), Mr. Turner (2014), Firelight (1997), The Poisoning Angel (2016), Monster (2019).
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14K
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Ireland, Luxembourg, Belgium, USA, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
It’s 1847 and Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years. Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, abandons his post to return home and reunite with his ...
Style:
costume drama, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
poverty, deserter, revenge, starvation, british colonialism, manhunt, british army, hunger, firing squad, death, desperation, brutality ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, victorian era
Place:
ireland, iraq, britain, afghanistan
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97K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close ...
Style:
romantic, touching, gothic, atmospheric, visually appealing ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
love, love and romance, couples, forbidden love, social differences, power of love, young woman, unlikely couple, fall in love, orphan, older man younger woman relationship, estate ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1840s, ancient times, 1800s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, yorkshire
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26K
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
1840s England, an infamous fossil hunter and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.
Style:
sexy, psychological, period piece, costume drama, realistic ...
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian romance, lgbtq, lesbian love, lesbian couple, lesbianism, lesbian sex, scientist, sapphic, lesbian cunnilingus ...
Time:
1840s, 19th century, victorian era, ancient times, 2020s ...
Place:
london, england
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46K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Western
Country: UK, Mexico, USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier, Capt. John Boyd investigates. After arriving at his new post, Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale ...
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, scary, suspenseful, gothic ...
Plot:
cannibalism, cannibal, wendigo, winter, death, fort, mountain, gory, survival, food, violent, snow ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, 20th century, victorian era, 1800s ...
Place:
usa, california
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and purses scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, melancholic, costume drama, intense ...
Plot:
infidelity, adultery, tragic hero, family life, hopes, village life, destructive relationship, dull life, love affair, husband wife relationship, adulterer, male female relationship ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, turn of the century, victorian era, 1830s ...
Place:
normandy, france, europe, switzerland, london
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; ...
Style:
independent film
Plot:
countryside, dancer, freedom, judge, unfaithfulness, teenage girl, morality, husband wife relationship, tragic love, marital infidelity, extramarital affair, dance ...
Time:
1840s, 1830s, 19th century
Place:
quebec
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA, Belgium
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.
Style:
sincere, costume drama, clever, surreal, meditative ...
Plot:
painter, painting, artist, biopic, art, eccentricity, art history, character study, estrangement, couple relations, elderly, love and romance ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, 1830s, 1840s, ancient times ...
Place:
london, england, britain, holland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Firelight is a period romance/drama film written and directed by William Nicholson. It was Nicholson's first, and to date only, film as director.
Style:
erotic, feel good, touching, sexy, uplifting ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
fall in love, victorian england, love affair, governess, couples, hopes, marriage proposal, estate, love and romance, parents and children, happy ending, british ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, victorian era, year 1997, 1830s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london, san francisco
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In 1800, Brittany is on its knees, overwhelmed by the regime in place and by the omnipotent clergy. It founders in an economic slump without end in sight and, in the middle of all this, a young, suffering girl pushes back as best she can. She is ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, bleak, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, poisoned, mother daughter relationship, death of mother, jail, death, woman, poison, chicken, lovers, jewelry, castaway ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s
Place:
brittany
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593
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Colmán Sharkey - a fisherman, a father, a husband - takes in a stranger at the behest of a local priest. Patsy, a former soldier arrives just ahead of ‘the blight,’ a crop disease that caused the Great Plague, killing and displacing millions of ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, melancholic, period piece, grim ...
Plot:
survival, hunger, starvation, poverty, fatherhood, desperation, loss, grief, trauma, social injustice, moral ambiguity, mental breakdown ...
Time:
1840s, 19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place:
ireland
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The Chisholms is a CBS western miniseries starring Robert Preston, which aired from March 29, 1979, to April 19, 1979; and continued as a television series from January 19, 1980, to March 15, 1980. The 1979 miniseries showed the family moving from ...
Style:
family saga, serious, reflective, epic, scenic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
wagon train, journey, oregon trail, pioneer, survival, hardship, resilience, migration, patriarch, travel, family conflict, matriarchy ...
Time:
1840s, 19th century
Place:
wyoming, virginia
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Hawken is a rugged drifter and loner who meets and comes to rescue a young Shawnee woman, named Spirit in 1840s Tennessee, whom he leaves after saving her from a rouge group of Shawnee Indians. After taking up residence with an old fur trapper and ...
Style:
suspense, tension, emotional, independent film, splatter
Plot:
outlaw, rescue, wilderness, drifter, violence, survival, trapper, isolation, outsider, racism, narration, revenge ...
Time:
1840s, 1800s, 19th century
Place:
tennessee
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90K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain, Hungary
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.
Style:
gothic, psychological, period piece, gothic horror, costume drama ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder mystery, investigation, police investigation, who done it, edgar allan poe, police detective, riddles and clues, writer's life, writers, murder investigation, murder ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 2012, 1840s, edwardian era ...
Place:
maryland, baltimore, former yugoslavia, usa, paris france ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present and future.
Style:
anthology, christmas horror, costume drama, sincere, serious ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
scrooge, ghost, christmas eve, employer employee relationship, miser, christmas, spirit, christmas carol, charles dickens, greed, poor family, introspection ...
Time:
victorian era, 1840s, 19th century, future
Place:
london, england
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877
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
If you’re a fan of Ken Russell’s particular brand of stylistically dizzy biographies covering the lives of old-school classical composers, then you’re going to love The Blue Note, Zulawski’s outré ode to Frédéric Chopin (played here by ...
Style:
experimental, avant garde
Plot:
composer, female nudity, nudity, feminist, pianist, picnic, teenage girl, love triangle, mother daughter relationship, dying man, male female relationship, musician ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, 1800s
Place:
france
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529
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai, a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.
Style:
manga, jidai geki, erotic
Plot:
female nudity, nude model, painter, master apprentice relationship, suicide by hanging, single father, obsession, father daughter relationship, art, biopic, japanese culture, erotic art ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s
Place:
japan, mount fuji
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
It's the gold rush era in the Wild West. A mysterious stranger (Huckleberry Hound) arrives in a small desert town carrying a huge golden nugget. The notorious Dalton brothers steal it. The town asks "the stranger" to go after them.
Style:
slapstick, lighthearted, period piece, parody, spaghetti western ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
cartoon dog, gold rush, outlaw, cowboy, animal protagonist, treasure, sheriff, brothers, heist, wild west, native american, satire ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s
Place:
california
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
Get ready for the wildest adventure of a lifetime in the most ambitious production ever brought to film. Earning a 1967 Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, this dazzling fantasy turns both ordinary and exotic animals into talking, dancing and ...
Style:
cute, light, retro, light hearted, mythical ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschool
Plot:
animal, sailing, youth, dancing, animal lover, talking animal, veterinarian, literary, sea, myth, broadway, bomb squad ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, 20th century, year 1967, victorian era ...
Place:
africa, england, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 213 min.
Story:
Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the world of white privilege and black oppression.
Style:
atmospheric, touching, emotional, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
sexual content, rape, plantation, interracial relations, racism, biracial, mistress, slavery, wealth, loveless marriage, poverty, human spirit ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, victorian era
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, haiti, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A young girl from the provinces, comes to Paris with one goal: to become a part of the rich bourgeoisie. To achieve this she will use her unique beauty and charm.
Style:
erotic, period drama, beautiful
Plot:
sex, prostitute, tuberculosis, filmmaking, eroticism, teenage prostitute, death of protagonist, teenage prostitution, girl, male pubic hair, female pubic hair, menarche ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s
Place:
france, paris france
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6K
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal with the same rebels that he built up because they ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, serious, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
revolution, racism, slavery, politics, bank, island, sugarcane, betrayal, assassination, political unrest, injustice, political corruption ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, year 1969, victorian era, 1850s
Place:
caribbean, england, europe, portugal, fictional island ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War, Western
Country: Mexico, Spain, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
One Man's Hero tells the little-known story of the "St. Patrick's Battalion" or "San Patricios," a group of mostly Irish and other immigrants of the Catholic faith who deserted to Mexico after encountering religious and ...
Style:
epic, tense, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
military, soldier, immigrant, army, heroes, foe turned friend, culture clash, society, tragic hero, propaganda, medieval, anger ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, year 1999
Place:
mexico, latin america, ireland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accountable for his dastardly ways during night-time visitations by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and future.
Style:
funny, christmas special, humorous, talky, christmas classics ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, family outing, adult, preschool
Plot:
christmas, holiday, ghost, muppets, childhood, redemption, christmas carol, lost love, charles dickens, puppetry, scrooge, greed ...
Time:
19th century, year 1992, 1840s, 90s, 1800s ...
Place:
england, london, usa, europe
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A slave owner in the 1840s trains one of his slaves to be a bare-knuckle fighter.
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, suspense, sexual ...
Plot:
interracial relations, slave trade, slavery, racism, black slave, interracial romance, plantation, white male black female relationship, interracial sex, sex slave, slave girl, slave ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, year 1975
Place:
usa, america, new orleans, louisiana, turkey
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan, UK
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.
Style:
unusual plot structure, intense, suspense, harsh, tense ...
Plot:
samurai, sword fight, samurai sword, warrior, medieval, seppuku, swords and armor, assassin, shogun, swordsman, battles, revenge ...
Time:
19th century, year 2010, 2010s, 1840s, 1800s ...
Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
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Genre: Action, Adventure, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 164 min.
Story:
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.
Style:
exciting, epic, intense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
old west, native american, wilderness, american civil war, civil war, usa history, small town, gold, marriage proposal, native american attack, train, outlaw ...
Time:
19th century, 1830s, 1880s, 1840s, 1870s ...
Place:
california, missouri, arizona, ohio, usa ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
To Walk Invisible takes a new look at the extraordinary Brontë family, telling the story of these remarkable women who, despite the obstacles they faced, came from obscurity to produce some of the greatest novels in the English language.
Style:
captivating, dark, historical drama, cult classic, gothic ...
Plot:
writers, victorian england, novelist, sisters, female writer, publisher, women, sister, historical figure, family relations, social relations, writer's life ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1840s
Place:
yorkshire
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens’ semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Personal History of David Copperfield, set in the 1840s, chronicles the life of its iconic title character as he navigates a chaotic world to find his elusive ...
Style:
costume drama, sentimental, period piece, visually stunning, satirical ...
Plot:
charles dickens, orphan, victorian england, poverty, kite, aunt, child's point of view, children, blackmail, survivor, friendship, social differences ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, victorian era, future, 1840s ...
Place:
england, europe, dover england, london
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A karmic journey that sees the hapless heroine Agnes reincarnated every time she makes the same mistake: falling in love with the wrong man.
Style:
independent film, black comedy, emotional, melancholic, poignant ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female protagonist, reincarnation, fate, doomed love, self discovery, destiny, bittersweet, tragic romance, obsession, retribution, women, star crossed lovers ...
Time:
victorian era, 60s, 1840s, 18th century, 80s ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Musical, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
In July of 2001, the concert edition of Stephen Sondheim's Broadway masterpiece, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, was presented at San Francisco's famed Davies Symphony Hall, with Patti LuPone and George Hearn starring. The ...
Style:
horror musical, disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot:
vengeance, revenge, loss of wife, murder mystery, bereavement, new identity, hidden identity, secret identity, murderer, escaped prisoner, family problems, criminal's revenge ...
Time:
1840s, 19th century
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