Movies Set in The 1830s

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The Little Mermaid(2023)

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

3.0/5 (with 6 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, ...

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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Les Misérables(2012)

PG-13

| 2h 38min | History, Drama

3.7/5 (with 2,437 votes)

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.

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

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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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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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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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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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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

Children of Paradise(1945)

3h 11min | Drama, Romance / Love

4.1/5 (with 165 votes)

Nathalie falls for Baptiste Debureau, a mime. But his heart is set on Garance, who is also coveted by Frederick Lemaitre and the Count of Montray.

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

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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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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, ...

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, ...

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 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 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

The Story of Vickie(1954)

1h 43min | Drama, History, Comedy, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 19 votes)

Vickie, short for Victoria, is crowned Queen of England and as such needs to learn the responsibilities of her new post.

Directed by Ernst Marischka - With Romy Schneider, Magda Schneider, Paul Hörbiger, Adrian Hoven, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Christl Mardayn, ...

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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, ...

Across the Wide Missouri(1951)

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

2.9/5 (with 13 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 Augustus Wellman - With Clark Gable, Ricardo Montalbán, John Hodiak, Adolphe Menjou, J. Carrol Naish, Alan Napier, ...

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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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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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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, ...

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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Nosferatu(2023)

Fantasy, Mystery, Horror

A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman in 19th century Germany and the ancient Transylvanian vampire who stalks her, bringing untold horror with him.

Directed by Robert Eggers - With Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Lily Rose Depp, Willem Dafoe, Emma Corrin, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, ...

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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Raphael or the Debauched One(1971)

1h 40min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

1830, somewhere in France. Aurore is a young, beautiful and virtuous widow. She meets Raphael, a man of leisure, a debauchee. Raphael is obsessed by the death, and wait for it by chasing women and drinking. He first tries to seduce her, but is impressed by her and gives up. But Aurore felt in love with him, and tries not to look as inacessible. A romantic drama, with dispair, cynism, disgust for life and love.

Directed by Michel Deville - With Maurice Ronet, André Oumansky, Anne Wiazemsky, Brigitte Fossey, Évelyne Dress, Françoise Fabian, ...

Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears(1973)

1h 31min | Western

2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

In this unusual spaghetti western departure for exploitation filmmaker Paolo Cavara (La Tarantola dal Ventre Nero), two friends help Sam Houston work for Texas statehood. Johnny Ears (Franco Nero) and his deaf-mute sidekick Erastus "Deaf" Smith (Anthony Quinn) go after a Mexican general (Franco Graziosi) under orders from Germany to agitate the populace. The film looks terrific, thanks to cinematography by Tonino Delli Colli (Once Upon a Time in America), but is often lacking in the story department. Perhaps part of the blame belongs to co-screenwriter Harry Essex, fresh off the dreadful sci-fi flop Octaman (1971). Pamela Tiffin appears as a prostitute, and the film co-stars Tom Felleghy and Renato Romano.

Directed by Paolo Cavara - With Anthony Quinn, Franco Nero, Pamela Tiffin, Franco Graziosi, Ira von Fürstenberg, Adolfo Lastretti, ...

16 Stones(2014)

| 1h 33min | Adventure

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A modern day adventure about the search for special stones touched by the hand of the Lord and brought to the Americas.

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Movies Set in The 1830s

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The Little Mermaid(2023)

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter(2012)

Les Misérables(2012)

Stardust(2007)

The Young Victoria(2009)

Oliver Twist(2005)

My Cousin Rachel(2017)

Oliver Twist(1948)

Mr. Turner(2014)

Our Hospitality(1923)

Children of Paradise(1945)

Vidocq(2001)

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Onegin(1999)

The Horseman on the Roof(1995)

Woyzeck(1979)

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser(1974)

The Governess(1998)

The Story of Vickie(1954)

The Bronte Sisters(1979)

Across the Wide Missouri(1951)

Hawaii(1966)

Young Mr. Lincoln(1939)

Impromptu(1991)

Comanche Territory(1950)

The Last Mistress(2007)

Nosferatu(2023)

The Strange Woman(1946)

Raphael or the Debauched One(1971)

Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears(1973)

16 Stones(2014)

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