Movies Set in The 1830s

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The Convert(2024)

3.1/5 (with 49 votes)

Munro, a soldier turned lay preacher, comes to New Zealand to minister to the first British colonists, but he is converted by the powerful chief Maianui to serve a different purpose.

Directed by Lee Tamahori

The Little Mermaid(2023)

2h 15min | Adventure, Kids & Family, Fantasy, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 1,184 votes)

The youngest of King Triton’s daughters, and the most defiant, Ariel longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea, and while visiting the surface, falls for the dashing Prince Eric. With mermaids forbidden to interact with humans, Ariel makes a deal with the evil sea witch, Ursula, which gives her a chance to experience life on land, but ultimately places her life – and her father’s crown – in jeopardy.

Directed by Rob Marshall - With Halle Bailey, Melissa McCarthy, Javier Bardem, Jonah Hauer-King, Noma Dumezweni, Art Malik, ...

Dolittle(2020)

| 1h 41min | Kids & Family, Fantasy, Adventure

3.3/5 (with 1,596 votes)

After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria’s England, hermits himself away behind the high walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals for company. But when the young queen falls gravely ill, a reluctant Dolittle is forced to set sail on an epic adventure to a mythical island in search of a cure, regaining his wit and courage as he crosses old adversaries and discovers wondrous creatures.

Directed by Stephen Gaghan - With Robert Downey Jr., Antonio Banderas, Michael Sheen, Jim Broadbent, Tom Holland, Selena Gomez, ...

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Stardust(2007)

PG-13

| 2h 7min | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance / Love, Kids & Family

3.6/5 (with 1,790 votes)

In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm. His journey takes him into a world beyond his wildest dreams and reveals his true identity.

Directed by Matthew Vaughn - With Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert De Niro, Sienna Miller, Ricky Gervais, ...

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Les Misérables(2012)

PG-13

| 2h 38min | History, Drama

3.7/5 (with 2,647 votes)

An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France. Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

Directed by Tom Hooper - With Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helena Bonham Carter, ...

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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter(2012)

| 1h 34min | Action, Fantasy, Horror

2.8/5 (with 1,482 votes)

President Lincoln's mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.

Directed by Timur Bekmambetov - With Benjamin Walker, Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Rufus Sewell, Marton Csokas, ...

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Oliver Twist(2005)

PG-13

| 2h 10min | Crime, Drama, Kids & Family

3.4/5 (with 524 votes)

Oliver Twist the modern filmed version of Charles Dickens bestseller, a Roman Polanski adaptation. The classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.

Directed by Roman Polanski - With Barney Clark, Ben Kingsley, Jeremy Swift, Jamie Foreman, Harry Eden, Leanne Rowe, ...

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Onegin(1999)

1h 44min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 44 votes)

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 introduced to the young Tatiana. A passionate and virtuous girl, she soon falls hopelessly under the spell of the aloof newcomer and professes her love for him.

Directed by Martha Fiennes - With Liv Tyler, Irene Worth, Toby Stephens, Ralph Fiennes, Lena Headey, Martin Donovan, ...

Vidocq(2001)

| 1h 38min | Fantasy, Action, Thriller, Crime, Science Fiction, Mystery

3.0/5 (with 223 votes)

Paris, 1830. In the heart of the town, Vidocq, a famous detective, disappears as he fights the Alchemist, an assassin that he has been pursuing for a few months. His young biographer, Etienne Boisset, decides to avenge Vidocq's death and takes the investigation on...

Directed by Pitof - With Gérard Depardieu, Guillaume Canet, Inés Sastre, André Dussollier, André Penvern, Dominique Zardi, ...

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Oliver Twist(1948)

| 1h 56min | Adventure, Drama, Kids & Family

3.8/5 (with 93 votes)

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

Directed by David Lean - With Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, Kay Walsh, John Howard Davies, Anthony Newley, Francis L. Sullivan, ...

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Mr. Turner(2014)

| 2h 30min | History, Drama

3.3/5 (with 228 votes)

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.

Directed by Mike Leigh - With Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey, Karl Johnson, Ruth Sheen, ...

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Our Hospitality(1923)

| 1h 13min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 106 votes)

A man returns to his Appalachian homestead. On the trip, he falls for a young woman. The only problem is her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.

Directed by Buster Keaton, John G. Blystone - With Buster Keaton, Joe Keaton, Natalie Talmadge, Joe Roberts, Edward Coxen

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My Cousin Rachel(2017)

PG-13

| 1h 46min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.9/5 (with 256 votes)

A young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.

Directed by Roger Michell - With Rachel Weisz, Sam Claflin, Iain Glen, Holliday Grainger, Andrew Knott

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Impromptu(1991)

1h 47min | Drama, Comedy, Music, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 22 votes)

In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.

Directed by James Lapine - With Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Julian Sands, Emma Thompson, ...

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Lust for a Vampire(1971)

| 1h 31min | Horror

2.9/5 (with 29 votes)

In 1830, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the beautiful Mircalla - or as she was in 1710, Carmilla. The nearby Finishing School offers rich pickings not only in in the blood of nubile young ladies but also with the headmaster who is desperate to become Mircalla's disciple, and the equally besotted and even more foolish author Richard Lestrange.

Directed by Jimmy Sangster - With Ralph Bates, Barbara Jefford, Suzanna Leigh, Michael Johnson, Yutte Stensgaard, Christopher Neame, ...

The Young Victoria(2009)

| 1h 45min | Drama, History, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 454 votes)

As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the political machinations of her own family. Victoria's mother wants her to sign a regency order, while her Belgian uncle schemes to arrange a marriage between the future monarch and Prince Albert, the man who will become the love of her life.

Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée - With Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Miranda Richardson, Jim Broadbent, Paul Bettany, Mark Strong, ...

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The Horseman on the Roof(1995)

2h 15min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 55 votes)

In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.

Directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau - With Juliette Binoche, Olivier Martinez, Pierre Arditi, Claudio Amendola, François Cluzet, Isabelle Carré, ...

Children of Paradise(1945)

| 3h 11min | Drama, Romance / Love

4.1/5 (with 209 votes)

In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actress Garance. But Garance, in turn, is loved by three other men: pretentious actor Frederick, conniving thief Lacenaire, and Count Edouard of Montray.

Directed by Marcel Carné - With Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir, María Casares, Gaston Modot, ...

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Woyzeck(1979)

| 1h 22min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 76 votes)

Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some extra money for them. One of them is volunteering for experiments conducted by a local doctor, who puts Woyzeck on a diet of peas. This serves to drive him close to madness, and the discovery that Marie is involved in an affair with the local drum major exacerbates the situation. Pushed too far, Woyzeck resorts to violence.

Directed by Werner Herzog - With Klaus Kinski, Eva Mattes, Wolfgang Reichmann, Willy Semmelrogge, Josef Bierbichler, Volker Prechtel, ...

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The Bronte Sisters(1979)

2h | Drama

3.0/5 (with 12 votes)

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.

Directed by André Téchiné - With Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier, Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory, Patrick Magee, Julian Curry, ...

Comanche Territory(1950)

| 1h 16min | Western

2.4/5 (with 6 votes)

Silver has been found on comanche territory and the government accomplished a peaceful agreement with the indians. When James 'Jim' Bowie comes into the scene he finds the white settlers living near by planning to attack the indians although they know about that agreement and the beautiful Katie seems to play a leading role in this intrigue.

Directed by George Sherman - With Maureen O'Hara, Macdonald Carey, Charles Drake, Edmund Cobb, Glenn Strange, Ian MacDonald, ...

Hawaii(1966)

3h 9min | Drama, Adventure, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 19 votes)

Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead of understanding there comes tragedy.

Directed by George Roy Hill - With Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Gene Hackman, Jocelyne LaGarde, Richard Harris, Carroll O'Connor, ...

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Young Mr. Lincoln(1939)

1h 40min | Drama, History

3.6/5 (with 69 votes)

In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.

Directed by John Ford - With Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver, Richard Cromwell, Donald Meek, Eddie Quillan, ...

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The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser(1974)

1h 49min | Drama, History

3.7/5 (with 128 votes)

The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.

Directed by Werner Herzog - With Bruno Schleinstein, Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira, Willy Semmelrogge, Michael Kroecher, Hans Musäus, ...

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The Strange Woman(1946)

| 1h 40min | Drama, Romance / Love, Thriller

3.1/5 (with 14 votes)

Isaiah, a 19th-century businessman, has his eye on the beautiful and very young Jenny. Finally of age, she accepts his marriage proposal, but their love affair quickly turns sour. Ephraim, Isaiah's college-age son, comes for a visit, immediately striking up a chemistry with Jenny. She promises marriage -- if he murders his father first. But Jenny also swoons for John, the fiancé of her best friend, Meg.

Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer - With Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, Louis Hayward, Alan Napier, Chief Yowlachie, Dennis Hoey, ...

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The Last Mistress(2007)

1h 54min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 22 votes)

Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.

Directed by Catherine Breillat - With Asia Argento, Fu'ad Aït Aattou, Roxane Mesquida, Amira Casar, Anne Parillaud, Claude Sarraute, ...

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The Governess(1998)

1h 55min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.9/5 (with 11 votes)

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.

Directed by Sandra Goldbacher - With Minnie Driver, Tom Wilkinson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Prophecies of Nostradamus(1974)

| 1h 54min | Drama, Action, Science Fiction

3.6/5 (with 5 votes)

Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately, nobody listens to him until it is too late. As the effects of mankind's tampering of the earth - radioactive smog clouds, hideously mutated animals, destruction of the ozone layer - rage out of control, the world leaders hurtle blindly toward the final confrontation. The film sparked controversy in Japan and was subsequently pulled out of circulation, with no official video release of the uncut film.

Directed by Toshio Masuda - With Kaoru Yumi, Yōko Tsukasa, Sō Yamamura, Tetsurō Tamba, Kyōko Kishida

Devotion(1946)

1h 47min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Rev. Arthur Nicholls. Along with their sister Anne, Emily and Charlotte also try to help their tormented brother Branwell, a gifted artist whose life is being destroyed by alcohol.

Directed by Curtis Bernhardt - With Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Olivia de Havilland, Sydney Greenstreet, Nancy Coleman, Arthur Kennedy, ...

Across the Wide Missouri(1951)

| 1h 18min | Adventure, Romance / Love, Western

3.0/5 (with 16 votes)

In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a way to gain entrance into her people's rich lands, but finds she means more to him than a ticket to good beaver habitat.

Directed by William A. Wellman - With Clark Gable, Ricardo Montalbán, John Hodiak, Adolphe Menjou, J. Carrol Naish, Alan Napier, ...

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Movies Set in The 1830s

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The Convert(2024)

The Little Mermaid(2023)

Dolittle(2020)

Stardust(2007)

Les Misérables(2012)

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter(2012)

Oliver Twist(2005)

Onegin(1999)

Vidocq(2001)

Oliver Twist(1948)

Mr. Turner(2014)

Our Hospitality(1923)

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My Cousin Rachel(2017)

Impromptu(1991)

Lust for a Vampire(1971)

The Young Victoria(2009)

The Horseman on the Roof(1995)

Children of Paradise(1945)

Woyzeck(1979)

The Bronte Sisters(1979)

Comanche Territory(1950)

Hawaii(1966)

Young Mr. Lincoln(1939)

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser(1974)

The Strange Woman(1946)

The Last Mistress(2007)

The Governess(1998)

Prophecies of Nostradamus(1974)

Devotion(1946)

Across the Wide Missouri(1951)

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