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Movies Set in The 1890s

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The Prestige(2006)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 10min | Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction
4.1/5 (with 7,192 votes)

A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

Midnight in Paris(2011)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 34min | Fantasy, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 3,314 votes)

A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.

The Call of the Wild(2020)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 40min | Adventure, Kids & Family, Drama
3.8/5 (with 1,602 votes)

Buck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team—and later its leader—Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in the world and becoming his own master.

The Blue Lagoon(1980)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 44min | Romance / Love, Adventure
3.1/5 (with 805 votes)

Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon, however, the cook dies and the young boy and girl are left on their own. Days become years and Emmeline and Richard make a home for themselves surrounded by exotic creatures and nature's beauty. But will they ever see civilization again?

The Lighthouse(2019)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 49min | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller, Horror
3.8/5 (with 2,009 votes)

Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

Holes(2003)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 57min | Adventure, Kids & Family, Drama, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 603 votes)

A wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he must dig holes in order to build character. What he doesn't know is that he is digging holes in order to search for a lost treasure hidden somewhere in the camp.

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain(2021)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 51min | Drama, History, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 170 votes)

The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes even psychedelic pictures helped to transform the public's perception of cats forever.

Doctor Zhivago(1965)

FSK: 16+ years
| 3h 20min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.8/5 (with 473 votes)

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

Return to the Blue Lagoon(1991)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 38min | Adventure, Drama
3.1/5 (with 509 votes)

In this sequel to the 1980 classic, two children are stranded on a beautiful island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together and eventually become tanned teenagers in love.

Adventures of Arsène Lupin(2004)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 11min | Romance / Love, Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery
2.7/5 (with 148 votes)

As the daring thief Arsène Lupin ransacks the homes of wealthy Parisians, the police, with a secret weapon in their arsenal, attempt to ferret him out.

Bone Tomahawk(2015)

FSK: 18+ years
| 2h 12min | Western, Horror, Drama
3.4/5 (with 983 votes)

During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.

The Professor and the Madman(2019)

3.6/5 (with 483 votes)

Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.

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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes(1984)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 23min | Adventure, Drama, Action, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 201 votes)

A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captain Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid(1969)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 51min | Western
3.8/5 (with 999 votes)

In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever and talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot Sundance Kid. As the west rapidly becomes civilized, the law finally catches up to Butch, Sundance and their gang. Chased doggedly by a special posse, the two decide to make their way to South America in hopes of evading their pursuers once and for all. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 1998.

Woman Walks Ahead(2018)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 43min | Drama, History, Western
3.4/5 (with 74 votes)

Based on a true story, this riveting western follows a headstrong New York widow as she journeys west to meet Sioux chief Sitting Bull, facing off with an army officer intent on war with Native Americans.

The Age of Innocence(1993)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 18min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 465 votes)

In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.

The Tin Drum(1979)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 42min | Drama, History, War
3.5/5 (with 189 votes)

Repulsed by the hypocrisy of adults and the irresponsibility of society, a boy refuses to grow older after his third birthday.

A Midsummer Night's Dream(1999)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 56min | Fantasy, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 153 votes)

A film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy about lovers whose romantic affections are manipulated by fairy magic. The setting is updated to a Tuscan hill town in the late 19th century.

Chaplin(1992)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 23min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 450 votes)

An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI.

The Picture of Dorian Gray(1945)

3.5/5 (with 106 votes)

Posing for a portrait, Dorian Gray talks with Lord Henry Wotton, who says that men should pursue their sensual longings, but laments that only the young get to do so. Taken with the idea, Dorian imagines a scenario in which the painting will age as he stays youthful. His wish comes true, and his boyish looks aid him as he indulges his every whim. But when a stunning revelation forces him to see what he's become, Dorian faces some very dangerous questions.

Fitzcarraldo(1982)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 37min | Drama, Adventure
3.8/5 (with 335 votes)

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.

Hello, Dolly!(1969)

3.5/5 (with 155 votes)

Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. In doing so, she convinces his niece, his niece's intended, and Horace's two clerks to travel to New York City.

Wild Strawberries(1957)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 31min | Drama
4.1/5 (with 693 votes)

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.

Love in the Time of Cholera(2007)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 19min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 162 votes)

In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.

The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo(1997)

2.8/5 (with 15 votes)

In this exciting live-action adventure, young Mowgli, an orphan raised by wolves, is spotted by a scout for a giant circus. Accompanied by a cruel hunter and a snake charmer, the scout sets out to trap Mowgli. But with the help of Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther, little Mowgli leads the adults into his biggest and wildest adventure yet! A fun-filled movie every member of the family will enjoy.

Directed by Dee McLachlan - With Roddy McDowall, Billy Campbell, Hal Fowler

Jungle Book(1942)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 46min | Action, Adventure, Kids & Family, Fantasy
3.2/5 (with 42 votes)

Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book is given the full treatment in this lavish retelling filled with huge sets, exotic animals, a large cast and the incomparable Sabu, starring as Mowgli, the young orphan boy raised by wolves. Curious to reconnect with his human village, Mowgli returns only to find disappointment in the greed and treachery of man. Over time, Mowgli and the village members do grow to trust one another, but not before the village finds itself under siege. It's up to Mowgli and his jungle friends to save the day.

Finding Neverland(2004)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 46min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 1,630 votes)

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and the inspiration that lead him to create his masterpiece. Peter Pan'.

Wilde(1997)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 58min | Drama, History
3.3/5 (with 127 votes)

The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred Douglas.

In a Valley of Violence(2016)

1h 44min | Western, Action
3.0/5 (with 250 votes)

The story of a drifter named Paul who arrives in a small town seeking revenge on the thugs who murdered his friend. Sisters Mary Anne and Ellen, who run the town's hotel, help Paul in his quest for vengeance.

The Gold Rush(1925)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 35min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
4.0/5 (with 669 votes)

A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.

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