Movies Set in The 1810s

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Barbie in the Nutcracker(2001)

3.4/5 (with 392 votes)

"Barbie" stars as Clara in this animated retelling of the classic Christmas ballet, complete with Tchaikovsky soundtrack and ballet choreography.

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Barbie in The 12 Dancing Princesses(2006)

| 1h 23min | Animation, Kids & Family

3.9/5 (with 332 votes)

King Randolph sends for his cousin Duchess Rowena to help turn his daughters, Princess Genevieve and her 11 sisters, into better ladies. But the Duchess takes away all the sisters fun, including the sisters favorite pastime: dancing.Thinking all hope is lost they find a secret passageway to a magical land were they can dance the night away.

Directed by Greg Richardson

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Dolittle(2020)

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

3.4/5 (with 1,257 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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The Emperor of Paris(2018)

2h 1min | Drama, Crime, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 185 votes)

Paris, France, early 19th century. The legendary convict François Vidocq lives in disguise trying to escape from a tragic past that torments him. When, after an unfortunate event, he crosses paths with the police chief, he makes a bold decision that will turn the ruthless mastermind of the Parisian underworld against him.

Directed by Jean-François Richet - With Vincent Cassel, Freya Mavor, Denis Ménochet, August Diehl, James Thiérrée, Patrick Chesnais, ...

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter(2012)

| 1h 34min | Action, Fantasy, Horror

2.8/5 (with 1,249 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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Legend Quest: The Legend of the Guanajuato Mummies(2014)

1h 23min | Animation, Horror, Adventure, Comedy

3.9/5 (with 32 votes)

Leo San Juan returns to face the mummys.

Directed by Alberto "Chino" Rodríguez

The Legend of the Chupacabras(2016)

1h 21min | Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror

3.5/5 (with 41 votes)

Leo San Juan and his team of "ghostbusters" continue with their adventures, this time fighting against the mexican monster himself: "El Chupacabras".

Directed by Alberto "Chino" Rodríguez

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La leyenda del Charro Negro(2018)

1h 25min | Animation

4.0/5 (with 44 votes)

After releasing the Chupacabras, Leo San Juan decides that it is time to return together with his brother Nando to his grandmother's house. Halfway down the road, Charro Negro manages to confuse Leo and because of him, an innocent girl is dragged into the underworld. Leo is forced to repair the damage. Your friends will come to try to help you and get out of there as soon as possible. But it is no coincidence that the Charro has chosen to involve Leo, his intentions go beyond getting a new soul.

Directed by Alberto "Chino" Rodríguez

The Brothers Grimm(2005)

PG-13

| 1h 58min | Adventure, Fantasy, Action, Comedy, Thriller

2.9/5 (with 1,040 votes)

Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. However, they are put to the test when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requiring genuine courage.

Directed by Terry Gilliam - With Heath Ledger, Matt Damon, Monica Bellucci, Peter Stormare, Lena Headey, Jonathan Pryce, ...

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Goya's Ghosts(2006)

| 1h 54min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 163 votes)

Painter Francisco Goya faces a scandal involving his muse, who is labeled a heretic by a monk.

Directed by Miloš Forman - With Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman, Stellan Skarsgård, Randy Quaid, Blanca Portillo, Michael Lonsdale, ...

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An American Haunting(2005)

PG-13

| 1h 23min | Horror, Thriller

2.8/5 (with 160 votes)

Based on the true events of the only case in US History where a spirit caused the death of a man.

Directed by Courtney Solomon - With Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, James D'Arcy, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Matthew Marsh, Susie Almgren, ...

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Byzantium(2012)

| 1h 58min | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 307 votes)

Two mysterious women seek refuge in a run-down coastal resort. Clara meets lonely Noel, who provides shelter in his deserted guesthouse, Byzantium. Schoolgirl Eleanor befriends Frank and tells him their lethal secret—they were born 200 years ago and survive on human blood. As knowledge of their secret spreads, their past catches up on them with deathly consequences.

Directed by Neil Jordan - With Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton, Jonny Lee Miller, Daniel Mays, Sam Riley, Tom Hollander, ...

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Our Hospitality(1923)

| 1h 13min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 81 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

Love and Death(1975)

| 1h 25min | History, Comedy

3.9/5 (with 297 votes)

Boris is a simple Russian villager who pines from afar for his beautiful cousin Sonja. Forced against his will into joining the Russian army during the Napoleonic Wars, the cowardly Boris accidentally becomes a military hero. But when his beloved Sonja comes to him with a dangerous patriotic scheme, Boris debates his desires and beliefs.

Directed by Woody Allen - With Diane Keaton, Woody Allen, Jessica Harper, Harold Gould, James Tolkan, Féodor Atkine, ...

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Jamaica Inn(1939)

1h 48min | Adventure, Crime, History, Drama

3.0/5 (with 58 votes)

In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman discovers that she's living with a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking for profit.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock - With Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Emlyn Williams, Leslie Banks, Robert Newton, Basil Radford, ...

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Jacquou the Rebel(2007)

2h 20min | Adventure, Drama

3.3/5 (with 49 votes)

In 1815, young Jacquou lives an idyllic peasant life with his parents in the Périgord region of France. But one day, his childhood happiness is cruelly ended when his father is arrested, after a dispute with the arrogant Count de Nansac. With both his parents dead, Jacquou is adopted by Bonal, a kind priest, under whose influence he grows into an assured, morally upright young man. Now an adult, Jacquou has one desire. To repay the Count de Nansac for the evil he once inflicted on his parents...

Directed by Laurent Boutonnat - With Albert Dupontel, Claude Berri, Clémence Gautier, Dora Doll, Gaspard Ulliel, Gérald Thomassin, ...

Black Venus(2010)

2h 39min | History, Drama

3.4/5 (with 38 votes)

The true story of Saartjes Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams of being an artist, once in Europe she is exploited as a sideshow attraction due to her large buttocks and genitalia.

Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche - With Olivier Gourmet, Elina Löwensohn, François Marthouret, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Jean-Jacques Moreau, Jean-Louis Dupont, ...

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The Pride and the Passion(1957)

2h 12min | Adventure, Action, Drama, History

3.0/5 (with 14 votes)

During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are going to move a big cannon across Spain in order to help the British defeat the French. A British officer is there to accompany the Spanish and along the way, he falls in love with the leader's girl.

Directed by Stanley Kramer - With Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren, Theodore Bikel, John Wengraf, José Nieto, ...

The Fighting Kentuckian(1949)

1h 40min | Adventure, Western

2.9/5 (with 18 votes)

John Breen (John Wayne), a Kentucky militiaman falls in love with French exile Fleurette De Marchand (Vera Ralston). He discovers a plot to steal the land that Fleurette's exiles plan to settle on and aims to foil it.

Directed by George Waggner - With John Wayne, Oliver Hardy, Vera Ralston, Philip Dorn, Marie Windsor, John Howard, ...

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Frankenstein Unbound(1990)

| 1h 22min | Horror, Science Fiction

2.9/5 (with 31 votes)

The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817 in Switzerland where he meets Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Mary Shelley and others.

Directed by Roger Corman - With John Hurt, Raúl Juliá, Bridget Fonda, Jason Patric, Michael Hutchence, John Karlsen, ...

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake(1942)

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

3.7/5 (with 4 votes)

Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Benjamin working for him as a bonded servant. While he believes the lad was born out of wedlock and so cannot claim the inheritance, he is taking no chances. Benjamin eventually rebels against his uncle and sets sail to try and make his fortune. This may enable him to return to prove his claim to being the rightful heir to the estate.

Directed by John Cromwell - With Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, George Sanders, Frances Farmer, Roddy McDowall, John Carradine, ...

That Hamilton Woman(1941)

2h 8min | Drama, History, Romance / Love, War

3.6/5 (with 21 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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Princess Caraboo(1994)

| 1h 37min | Comedy, Drama, History, Mystery

2.7/5 (with 7 votes)

Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims that he can translate her dialect, it is understood that the woman is a princess from a far away land. She is then welcomed by a family of haughty aristocrats that only wants to heighten their prestige. However, the local reporter is not at all convinced she is what she claims to be and investigates. Is Caraboo really a princess?

Directed by Michael Austin - With Phoebe Cates Kline, Jim Broadbent, Wendy Hughes, Kevin Kline, John Lithgow, Stephen Rea, ...

Colonel Chabert(1994)

1h 50min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 24 votes)

Colonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate. When he regains his health and memory, he goes back to Paris, where his "widow", Anne has married the Count Ferraud and is financing his rise to power using Chabert's money. Chabert hires a lawyer to help him get back his money and his honor.

Directed by Yves Angelo - With Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Fabrice Luchini, Éric Elmosnino, Albert Delpy, André Dussollier, ...

The Tales of Hoffmann(1951)

| 2h 7min | Fantasy, Music, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 20 votes)

In this film adaptation of the Offenbach opera, a young poet named Hoffman broods over his failed romances. First, his affair with the beautiful Olympia is shattered when he realizes that she is really a mechanical woman designed by a scientist. Next, he believes that a striking prostitute loves him, only to find out she was hired to fake her affections by the dastardly Dapertutto. Lastly, a magic spell claims the life of his final lover.

Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger - With Moira Shearer, Pamela Brown, Ludmilla Tchérina, Robert Helpmann, Léonide Massine, Frederick Ashton, ...

Byron(2005)

| 2h 27min | Drama, Romance / Love, History, TV Movie

2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Life and adventures of lord George Gordon Byron. BBC dramatization of the poet's final thirteen years.

Directed by Julian Farino - With Jonny Lee Miller

Pan Tadeusz(1999)

2h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.8/5 (with 17 votes)

A grand and patriotic tale of Poland's struggle for freedom just before Napoleon's war with Russia. Written in poetic style by Adam Mickiewicz, this story follows two feuding Polish families as they overcome their old conflicts and petty lives. However, they are able to unite as one with their patriotic and rebellious efforts to free the country they deeply love from Russian control.

Directed by Andrzej Wajda - With Bogusław Linda, Alicja Bachleda-Curuś, Grażyna Szapołowska, Andrzej Seweryn, Michał Żebrowski, Marek Kondrat, ...

Beau Brummell(1954)

1h 53min | Drama, History, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 12 votes)

Lavishly told story of George Bryan Brummel, a commoner born in the era of Napoleon who uses wit, brilliance and sartorial flair to align himself with the future King George IV. Lush settings in authentic locations and Taylor in Regency ….

Directed by Curtis Bernhardt - With Stewart Granger, Peter Ustinov, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Morley, James Donald, James Hayter, ...

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