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Movies Set in The 1780s

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Mr. Peabody & Sherman(2014)

PG
| 1h 32min | Animation, Adventure, Kids & Family
3.4/5 (with 994 votes)

A young boy and his dog, who happens to have a genius-level IQ, spring into action when their time-machine is stolen and moments in history begin to be changed.

Directed by Rob Minkoff
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Highlander(1986)

R
| 1h 56min | Adventure, Action, Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 993 votes)

He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is Connor MacLeod. He is immortal.

Directed by Russell Mulcahy - With Sean Connery, Clancy Brown, Roxanne Hart, Alan North, Jon Polito, James Cosmo, ...
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The Patriot(2000)

R
| 2h 45min | Drama, History, War, Action
3.6/5 (with 1,557 votes)

After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their new nation, America, against the British, Benjamin reluctantly returns to his old life to protect his son.

Directed by Roland Emmerich - With Heath Ledger, Mel Gibson, Jason Isaacs, Joely Richardson, Chris Cooper, René Auberjonois, ...
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Marie Antoinette(2006)

PG-13
| 2h 3min | Drama, History
3.3/5 (with 1,104 votes)

The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and ultimately the fall of Versailles.

Directed by Sofia Coppola - With Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis, Rip Torn, Rose Byrne, Asia Argento, ...
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Amadeus(1984)

R
| 2h 40min | History, Music, Drama
4.0/5 (with 1,634 votes)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a remarkably talented young Viennese composer who unwittingly finds a fierce rival in the disciplined and determined Antonio Salieri. Resenting Mozart for both his hedonistic lifestyle and his undeniable talent, the highly religious Salieri is gradually consumed by his jealousy and becomes obsessed with Mozart's downfall, leading to a devious scheme that has dire consequences for both men.

Directed by Miloš Forman - With F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice, Christine Ebersole, ...
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Brotherhood of the Wolf(2001)

R
| 2h 17min | Adventure, Horror, Action, History
3.4/5 (with 551 votes)

In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.

Directed by Christophe Gans - With Samuel Le Bihan, Vincent Cassel, Émilie Dequenne, Monica Bellucci, Jérémie Renier, Mark Dacascos, ...

Highlander III: The Sorcerer(1994)

R
| 1h 39min | Fantasy, Action
2.4/5 (with 170 votes)

Starts off in the 15th century, with Connor McLeod training with another immortal swordsman, the Japanese sorcerer Nakano. When an evil immortal named Kane kills the old wizard, the resulting battle leaves him buried in an underground cave. When Kane resurfaces in the 20th century to create havoc, it's up to McLeod to stop him.

Directed by Andy Morahan - With Christopher Lambert, Mario Van Peebles, Mako, Deborah Kara Unger, Raoul Trujillo, Daniel Dõ, ...
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Barry Lyndon(1975)

PG
| 3h 5min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
4.0/5 (with 1,065 votes)

An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.

Directed by Stanley Kubrick - With Hardy Krüger, Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Steven Berkoff, Patrick Magee, Gay Hamilton, ...
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Dangerous Liaisons(1988)

R
| 1h 59min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 421 votes)

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.

Directed by Stephen Frears - With Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Uma Thurman, Keanu Reeves, Swoosie Kurtz, ...
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Amazing Grace(2006)

PG
| 1h 57min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 108 votes)

The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition, but his minister urges him to see the cause through.

Directed by Michael Apted - With Ioan Gruffudd, Benedict Cumberbatch, Romola Garai, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon, Rufus Sewell, ...
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Belle(2013)

PG
| 1h 45min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 287 votes)

BELLE is inspired by the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate mixed race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral. Raised by her aristocratic great-uncle Lord Mansfield and his wife, Belle's lineage affords her certain privileges, yet the color of her skin prevents her from fully participating in the traditions of her social standing. Left to wonder if she will ever find love, Belle falls for an idealistic young vicar's son bent on change who, with her help, shapes Lord Mansfield's role as Lord Chief Justice to end slavery in England.

Directed by Amma Asante - With Alex Jennings, Emily Watson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, James Northcote, Matthew Goode, Miranda Richardson, ...
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Valmont(1989)

R
| 2h 17min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 90 votes)

Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as he will. However, in the process of seducing the married woman, Valmont falls in love. Based on the same novel as "Dangerous Liaisons.".

Directed by Miloš Forman - With Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly, Fairuza Balk, Siân Phillips, Jeffrey Jones, ...
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The Bounty(1984)

PG
| 2h 12min | Action, Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 194 votes)

The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.

Directed by Roger Donaldson - With Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, Daniel Day-Lewis, Liam Neeson, ...
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Farewell, My Queen(2012)

R
| 1h 40min | Drama, History
2.9/5 (with 123 votes)

A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution.

Directed by Benoît Jacquot - With Diane Kruger, Léa Seydoux, Virginie Ledoyen, Xavier Beauvois, Noémie Lvovsky, Anne Benoît, ...

Revolution(1985)

2h 6min | Adventure, Drama, History, War
2.8/5 (with 33 votes)

New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts to find his son, and eventually becomes convinced that he must take a stand and fight for the freedom of the Colonies, alongside the aristocratic rebel Daisy McConnahay. As Tom undergoes his change of heart, the events of the war unfold in large-scale grandeur.

Directed by Hugh Hudson - With Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland, Nastassja Kinski, Joan Plowright, Dave King, Steven Berkoff, ...
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Scaramouche(1952)

1h 55min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 30 votes)

In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.

Directed by George Sidney - With Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh, Mel Ferrer, Henry Wilcoxon, Nina Foch, ...
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The Madness of King George(1994)

PG-13
| 1h 47min | Comedy, Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 84 votes)

Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confusion and near-violent outbursts of temper, his hapless doctors attempt the ineffectual cures of the day. Meanwhile, Queen Charlotte and Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger attempt to prevent the king's political enemies, led by the Prince of Wales, from usurping the throne.

Directed by Nicholas Hytner - With Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm, Amanda Donohoe, Rupert Graves, Rupert Everett, ...
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The Black Tulip(1964)

1h 55min | Adventure
3.2/5 (with 38 votes)

In 1789, when the Revolution went on, a bandit named "Black Tulip" held the surroundings of village Roussillon in fear. The poor people respected him as Robin Hood, who declare himself a revolutioner but Count Guillaume de Saint Preux "plays" this benefactor.

Directed by Christian-Jaque - With Alain Delon, Virna Lisi, Dawn Addams, Akim Tamiroff, Francis Blanche, George Rigaud, ...

The Affair of the Necklace(2001)

R
| 1h 58min | Drama, History, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 32 votes)

In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.

Directed by Charles Shyer - With Hilary Swank, Jonathan Pryce, Simon Baker, Adrien Brody, Joely Richardson, Christopher Walken, ...
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Drums Along the Mohawk(1939)

1h 40min | Drama, History, War
3.3/5 (with 37 votes)

Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinister sound of drums that announce dark times of revolution and war.

Directed by John Ford - With Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver, John Carradine, Ward Bond, Eddie Collins, ...
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Napoleon(1927)

5h 33min | Drama, History, War
3.9/5 (with 59 votes)

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797. Originally intended to be the first of six films, director Abel Gance realized the full project would be nigh impossible, and never raised the money to complete the other five. The film's legendary reputation is due to the astonishing range of techniques that Gance uses to tell his story, culminating in the final twenty-minute triptych sequence, which alternates widescreen panoramas with complex multiple- image montages projected simultaneously on three screens.

Directed by Abel Gance - With Albert Dieudonné, Gina Manès, Antonin Artaud, Edmond Van Daële, Abel Gance, Suzanne Bianchetti, ...

Ridicule(1996)

1h 42min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 74 votes)

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.

Directed by Patrice Leconte - With Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, Fanny Ardant, Judith Godrèche, Bernard Giraudeau, Albert Delpy, ...

Jefferson in Paris(1995)

PG-13
| 2h 19min | Drama, Romance / Love, History
2.5/5 (with 15 votes)

His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.

Directed by James Ivory - With Nick Nolte, Greta Scacchi, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Simon Callow, Seth Gilliam, James Earl Jones, ...
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That Hamilton Woman(1941)

2h 8min | Drama, History, Romance / Love, War
3.7/5 (with 27 votes)

The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.

Directed by Alexander Korda - With Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Sara Allgood, Gladys Cooper, Henry Wilcoxon, Heather Angel, ...
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Don't Lose Your Head(1966)

1h 30min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 19 votes)

The time of the French revolution, and Citizen Robespierre is beheading the French aristocracy. When word gets to England, two noblemen, Sir Rodney Ffing and Lord Darcy Pue take it upon themselves to aid their French counterparts. Sir Rodney is a master of disguise, and becomes "The Black Fingernail", scourge of Camembert and Bidet, leaders of the French secret police.

Directed by Gerald Thomas - With Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Dany Robin, ...

The Very Same Munchhausen(1979)

2h 22min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
3.9/5 (with 24 votes)

A philosophical and poetic portrait of the famous (or maybe infamous?) Baron Munchhausen. His crazy, yet very merriment, stories, views and behavior is what sets him apart from others. He becomes alienated from the society that failed to grasp his brilliance. In fact, his brilliance is what underlines the faults with the society itself. It's a beautiful yet tragic story that is filled with dense and intellectual dialogue.

Directed by Mark Zakharov - With Oleg Yankovsky, Yelena Koreneva, Inna Churikova, Aleksandr Abdulov, Igor Kvasha, Leonid Bronevoy, ...

The House of Rothschild(1934)

1h 28min | Drama, History
3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons. From humble beginnings the business grows and helps to finance the war against Napoleon, but it's not always easy, especially because of the prejudices against Jews.

Directed by Alfred L. Werker, Sidney Lanfield - With George Arliss, Boris Karloff, Loretta Young, Robert Young, C. Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen, ...

La Marseillaise(1938)

2h 15min | History, Drama
3.7/5 (with 10 votes)

A film about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of the citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course, the king Louis XVI, each showing their own small problems.

Directed by Jean Renoir - With Pierre Renoir, Capucine, Louis Jouvet, Aimé Clariond, Andrex, Edmond Ardisson, ...

Interlude In Prague(2017)

1h 43min | Drama, Music
3.5/5 (with 4 votes)

The incredible tale of Mozart's Prague years.

Directed by John Stephenson - With Aneurin Barnard, James Purefoy, Trent Garrett, Samantha Barks, Klára Issová, Ruby Bentall, ...

The Time of Their Lives(1946)

1h 22min | Comedy, Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 16 votes)

Two ghosts who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War return to 20th century New England to retieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence.

Directed by Charles Barton - With Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Binnie Barnes, Gale Sondergaard, Ann Gillis, Donald MacBride, ...
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