Movies Set in The 1840s

106 movies found (page 1/4):

12 Years a Slave(2013)

4.0/5 (with 5,107 votes)

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.

Directed by Steve McQueen - With Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Lupita Nyong'o, ...

Rent Amazon Instant Video | Rent Apple / iTunes Store | Buy Amazon Instant Video | Buy Apple / iTunes Store

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, ...

Rent Amazon Instant Video | Rent Apple / iTunes Store | Buy Amazon Instant Video | Buy Apple / iTunes Store

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, ...

Rent Amazon Instant Video | Rent Apple / iTunes Store | Buy Amazon Instant Video | Buy Apple / iTunes Store

The Muppet Christmas Carol(1992)

| 1h 25min | Music, Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy, Drama

3.7/5 (with 408 votes)

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.

Directed by Brian Henson - With Michael Caine, Steven Mackintosh, Dave Goelz, Jerry Nelson, Frank Oz, David Rudman, ...

Rent Amazon Instant Video | Rent Apple / iTunes Store | Buy Amazon Instant Video | Buy Apple / iTunes Store

Ammonite(2020)

| 1h 58min | Romance / Love, Drama

3.5/5 (with 219 votes)

In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship. Despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably.

Directed by Francis Lee - With Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Jones, Fiona Shaw, Claire Rushbrook, Alec Secăreanu, ...

Ammonite(2020)

2h | Romance / Love, Drama

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.

Directed by Francis Lee - With Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Jones, Fiona Shaw, Claire Rushbrook, Alec Secăreanu, ...

Cloud Atlas(2012)

| 2h 52min | Drama, Science Fiction

3.4/5 (with 3,291 votes)

A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.

Directed by Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski - With Tom Hanks, Hugh Grant, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, ...

Rent Amazon Instant Video | Rent Apple / iTunes Store | Buy Amazon Instant Video | Buy Apple / iTunes Store

Ravenous(1999)

| 1h 40min | Horror, Western, Adventure

3.4/5 (with 246 votes)

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 of a wagon train murdered by its supposed guide -- a vicious U.S. Army colonel gone rogue. Fearing the worst, the regiment heads out into the wilderness to verify the gruesome claims.

Directed by Antonia Bird - With Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, David Arquette, Jeremy Davies, Jeffrey Jones, John Spencer, ...

Rent Amazon Instant Video | Rent Apple / iTunes Store | Buy Amazon Instant Video | Buy Apple / iTunes Store

Mandingo(1975)

| 2h 7min | Romance / Love, Drama

3.4/5 (with 51 votes)

Warren Maxwell, the owner of a run-down plantation, pressures his son, Hammond, to marry and produce an heir to inherit the plantation. Hammond settles on his own cousin, Blanche, but purchases a sex slave when he returns from the honeymoon. Meanwhile, Warren buys a new Mandingo slave named Mede to breed and to earn money as a prize-fighter.

Directed by Richard Fleischer - With James Mason, Perry King, Paul Benedict, Ken Norton, Debbi Morgan, Sylvester Stallone, ...

Rent Amazon Instant Video | Rent Apple / iTunes Store | Buy Amazon Instant Video | Buy Apple / iTunes Store

Moby Dick(1956)

1h 56min | Adventure, Drama

3.5/5 (with 163 votes)

In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service abroad the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the great white whale. Ahab lost his his leg to that creature and is desperate for revenge. As the crew soon learns, he will stop at nothing to gain satisfaction.

Directed by John Huston - With Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, Orson Welles, James Robertson Justice, Harry Andrews, ...

Rent Apple / iTunes Store | Buy Apple / iTunes Store

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, ...

Rent Amazon Instant Video | Rent Apple / iTunes Store | Buy Amazon Instant Video | Buy Apple / iTunes Store

The Raven(2012)

| 1h 51min | Crime, Thriller, Mystery

3.1/5 (with 592 votes)

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.

Directed by James McTeigue - With John Cusack, Alice Eve, Luke Evans, Brendan Gleeson, Kevin McNally, Pam Ferris, ...

Ad Protect Your Online Privacy with a VPN

Don't risk your personal information and online activities being exposed to hackers, government surveillance, and other online threats. A VPN encrypts your internet connection and hides your IP, giving you maximum security and privacy. Take control of your online safety, switch to a VPN now. Choose one of these services to learn more:

Reap the Wild Wind(1942)

1h 59min | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 22 votes)

The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.

Directed by Cecil B. DeMille - With Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Robert Preston, Susan Hayward, Charles Bickford, ...

The Emigrants(1971)

| 3h 11min | Drama, History, Western

3.7/5 (with 46 votes)

A Swedish peasant family, ravaged by poverty, privation and misery in mid-19th century Sweden, set out on a perilous journey to America in hope of a better life.

Directed by Jan Troell - With Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, Monica Zetterlund, Allan Edwall, Hans Alfredson, ...

Rent Apple / iTunes Store | Buy Apple / iTunes Store

Zorro, The Gay Blade(1981)

| 1h 33min | Western, Action, Comedy, Adventure, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 20 votes)

George Hamilton stars in a dueling dual role as twin sons of the legendary Zorro. Soon after the dashing Don Diego Vega inherits his father's famous sword and costume, a broken ankle prevents the masked avenger from fulfilling his heroic duties. When his flamboyantly fashion-conscious brother assumes the secret identity to continue an ongoing fight for justice, the results are nothing short of hilarious!

Directed by Peter Medak - With George Hamilton, Lauren Hutton, Brenda Vaccaro, Ron Leibman, Donovan Scott, Clive Revill, ...

The Mark of Zorro(1920)

| 1h 30min | Western, Adventure, Drama, Action, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 27 votes)

Don Diego Vega pretends to be an indolent fop as a cover for his true identity, the masked avenger Zorro.

Directed by Fred Niblo - With Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, Noah Beery, Sr., Robert McKim, Charles Hill Mailes, Claire McDowell, ...

Buy Amazon Instant Video

One Man's Hero(1999)

| 2h 1min | Western, Action, Drama, History

2.8/5 (with 9 votes)

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 ethnic prejudice in the U.S. Army during the Mexican-American War. The plot centers around the personal story of John Riley, an Irishman who had been a sergeant in the American Army who is commissioned as a captain in the Mexican army and commands the battalion, as he leads his men in battle and struggles with authorities on both sides of the border.

Directed by Lance Hool - With Tom Berenger, Joaquim de Almeida, Mark Moses, Stuart Graham, Patrick Bergin, James Gammon, ...

Rent Apple / iTunes Store | Buy Apple / iTunes Store

Buddenbrooks(2008)

2h 31min | Drama

2.9/5 (with 11 votes)

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 economic hardship and personal defeats weigh down family relations.

Directed by Heinrich Breloer - With Jessica Schwarz, Mark Waschke, August Diehl, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Iris Berben, Alexander Fehling, ...

Brigham Young(1940)

| 1h 54min | History, Romance / Love, Western

2.2/5 (with 7 votes)

Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.

Directed by Henry Hathaway - With Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Dean Jagger, Brian Donlevy, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, ...

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, ...

A Song to Remember(1945)

| 1h 53min | Music, Drama

3.1/5 (with 10 votes)

Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.

Directed by Charles Vidor - With Paul Muni, Cornel Wilde, Merle Oberon, Nina Foch, George Coulouris, Frank Puglia, ...

Rent Apple / iTunes Store | Buy Apple / iTunes Store

Wide Sargasso Sea(1993)

NC-17

| 1h 38min | Thriller, Drama, Romance / Love

2.5/5 (with 12 votes)

In the wake of Jamaican emancipation, French colonist Annette Cosway falls into poverty and marries racist Englishman Paul Mason. But when Annette's young son dies in a fire started by former slaves, Mason flees to England, leaving his grief-stricken wife and her Creole daughter Antoinette behind. Soon Antoinette learns she must marry to claim her inheritance and sets her sights on Rochester, an Englishman eerily similar to Mason.

Directed by John Duigan - With Karina Lombard, Nathaniel Parker, Rachel Ward, Michael York, Martine Beswick, Rowena King, ...

Rent Amazon Instant Video | Rent Apple / iTunes Store | Buy Amazon Instant Video | Buy Apple / iTunes Store

All This, and Heaven Too(1940)

| 2h 21min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 19 votes)

When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the volatile and obsessive Duchesse de Praslin, she instantly incurs the wrath of her mistress, who is insanely jealous of anyone who comes near her estranged husband. Though she saves the duchess's little son from a near-death illness and warms herself to all the children, she is nevertheless dismissed by the vengeful duchess. Meanwhile, the attraction between the duke and Henriette continues to grow, eventually leading to tragedy.

Directed by Anatole Litvak - With Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Barbara O'Neil, Jeffrey Lynn, Henry Daniell, Fritz Leiber, ...

Rent Amazon Instant Video | Rent Apple / iTunes Store | Buy Amazon Instant Video | Buy Apple / iTunes Store

The Mysteries of Paris(1962)

1h 50min | History, Adventure

3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

The Marquis Rodolphe de Sombrueil accidentally runs over a working man with his carriage and helps his widow -- unjustly accused of robbery -- to find her missing daughter.

Directed by André Hunebelle - With Jean Marais, Raymond Pellegrin, Jill Haworth, Dany Robin, Alain Bouvette, Alain Dekok, ...

To Walk Invisible(2016)

2h | Drama, History

3.7/5 (with 25 votes)

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.

Directed by Sally Wainwright - With Finn Atkins

The Wanderers(1973)

1h 40min | Drama, Comedy

3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

Follows the fluctuating fortunes of three ronin in feudal Japan who wander from castle to castle, selling their services to whichever lord will fill their rice bowls. Though they use the servants' entrance, they still feel themselves bound by the samurai code of Bushido; and this tension leads to tragedy.

Directed by Kon Ichikawa

Cousin Bette(1998)

| 1h 48min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

2.9/5 (with 18 votes)

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 solace and company in a handsome young sculptor she saves from starvation. But the aspiring artist soon finds love in the arms of another woman, Hortense, leaving Bette a bitter spinster. Bette plots to take revenge on the family who turned her away and stole her only love. With the help of famed courtesan Jenny Cadine she slowly destroys the lives of those who have scorned her.

Directed by Des McAnuff - With Jessica Lange, Elisabeth Shue, Hugh Laurie, Bob Hoskins, Geraldine Chaplin, Aden Young, ...

Rent Amazon Instant Video | Rent Apple / iTunes Store | Buy Amazon Instant Video | Buy Apple / iTunes Store

California Conquest(1952)

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

2.1/5 (with 2 votes)

The period is the 1840s and California is part of Mexico. Many of the citizens wish to become part of the United States. Other countries are also interested and the Russians have established bases in the northern part of the state. To further their hold they have stolen guns and Don Arturo Bordega, a leader of those wanting statehood, is out to recover them.

Directed by Lew Landers - With Cornel Wilde, Teresa Wright, Alfonso Bedoya, Ivan Lebedeff, Rico Alaniz, Hank Patterson, ...

Subscription Amazon Prime Video | Rent Apple / iTunes Store | Buy Apple / iTunes Store

Corridors of Blood(1958)

1h 26min | Drama, Horror, Thriller, Crime

3.1/5 (with 18 votes)

An 1840s British surgeon, experiments with anesthetic gases in an effort to make surgery pain-free. While doing so, his demonstration before a panel of his peers ends in a horrific mishap with his patient awakening under the knife; he is forced to leave his position in disgrace. To complicate matters, he becomes addicted to the gases and gets involved with a gang of criminals, led by Black Ben and his henchman Resurrection Joe.

Directed by Robert Day - With Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee, Betta St. John, Finlay Currie, Francis Matthews

Subscription Amazon Prime Video | Rent Amazon Instant Video | Rent Apple / iTunes Store | Buy Amazon Instant Video | Buy Apple / iTunes Store

Untamed(1955)

| 1h 51min | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love, Western

2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

When the great potato famine hits Ireland, the diaspora begins as thousands emigrate. Among those leaving the Emerald Isle is Katie O'Neill and her husband, who decide that the promised land is South Africa and make their way there. Once there, they discover the hardships that are the reality of the homesteader experience.

Directed by Henry King - With Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Richard Egan, Agnes Moorehead, Brad Dexter, Henry O'Neill, ...

Rent Amazon Instant Video | Buy Amazon Instant Video

Movies Set in The 1840s

RSS feedEntries in this List

12 Years a Slave(2013)

Stardust(2007)

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter(2012)

The Muppet Christmas Carol(1992)

Ammonite(2020)

Ammonite(2020)

Cloud Atlas(2012)

Ravenous(1999)

Mandingo(1975)

Moby Dick(1956)

The Young Victoria(2009)

The Raven(2012)

Ad Protect Your Online Privacy with a VPN

Reap the Wild Wind(1942)

The Emigrants(1971)

Zorro, The Gay Blade(1981)

The Mark of Zorro(1920)

One Man's Hero(1999)

Buddenbrooks(2008)

Brigham Young(1940)

Devotion(1946)

A Song to Remember(1945)

Wide Sargasso Sea(1993)

All This, and Heaven Too(1940)

The Mysteries of Paris(1962)

To Walk Invisible(2016)

The Wanderers(1973)

Cousin Bette(1998)

California Conquest(1952)

Corridors of Blood(1958)

Untamed(1955)

Current Recommendations(20)

New Movies

Favorite Movies

Favorite TV Shows

Favorite Providers