Movies Set in The 1870s

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Cowboys & Aliens(2011)

PG-13

| 1h 59min | Action, Science Fiction, Thriller, Western

2.8/5 (with 2,268 votes)

A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella and the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde, he finds himself leading an unlikely posse of cowboys, outlaws, and Apache warriors against a common enemy from beyond this world in an epic showdown for survival.

Directed by Jon Favreau - With Daniel Craig, Abigail Spencer, Matthew Taylor, Clancy Brown, Paul Dano, Adam Beach, ...

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Gone with the Wind(1939)

| 3h 53min | Drama, War, Romance / Love

4.0/5 (with 1,869 votes)

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.

Directed by Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood - With Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel, Butterfly McQueen, ...

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True Grit(2010)

PG-13

| 1h 50min | Drama, Adventure, Western

3.7/5 (with 2,365 votes)

Following the murder of her father by a hired hand, a 14-year-old farm girl sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find—a man with 'true grit'—Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn.

Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen - With Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Hailee Steinfeld, Barry Pepper, Domhnall Gleeson, ...

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The Phantom of the Opera(2004)

PG-13

| 2h 23min | Thriller, Drama, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 704 votes)

Deformed since birth, a bitter man known only as the Phantom lives in the sewers underneath the Paris Opera House. He falls in love with the obscure chorus singer Christine, and privately tutors her while terrorizing the rest of the opera house and demanding Christine be given lead roles. Things get worse when Christine meets back up with her childhood acquaintance Raoul and the two fall in love.

Directed by Joel Schumacher - With Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson, Minnie Driver, Ciarán Hinds, ...

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Song of the South(1946)

| 1h 31min | Kids & Family, Animation

3.2/5 (with 124 votes)

Uncle Remus draws upon his tales of Br'er Rabbit to help little Johnny deal with his confusion over his parents' separation as well as his new life on the plantation.

Directed by Wilfred Jackson, Harve Foster - With Hattie McDaniel, Lucile Watson, Luana Patten, Ruth Warrick, Bobby Driscoll, James Baskett, ...

Young Guns(1988)

| 1h 47min | Western, Crime, Action, Adventure

3.3/5 (with 388 votes)

A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.

Directed by Christopher Cain - With Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney, Casey Siemaszko, ...

The Searchers(1956)

| 1h 59min | Western

3.9/5 (with 572 votes)

As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.

Directed by John Ford - With John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, John Qualen, Harry Carey, ...

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Rosalie(2024)

1h 55min | History, Drama

France, 1870s. Rosalie is a young woman unlike any other. She hides a secret: she was born with a face and body covered in hair. She’s concealed her peculiarity all her life to stay safe, shaving to fit in. Until Abel, an indebted bar owner unaware of her secret, marries Rosalie for her dowry. Will Abel be able to love Rosalie and see her as the woman she is, once he finds out the truth?

Directed by Stéphanie Di Giusto

River of No Return(1954)

| 1h 31min | Adventure, Western

3.4/5 (with 192 votes)

An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.

Directed by Otto Preminger, Jean Negulesco, Paul Helmick - With Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, Tommy Rettig, Rory Calhoun, Murvyn Vye, Douglas Spencer, ...

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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance(1962)

PG-13

| 2h 3min | Western

3.9/5 (with 456 votes)

A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.

Directed by John Ford - With James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien, Woody Strode, ...

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The Professor and the Madman(2019)

2h 4min | History, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

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.

Directed by Farhad Safinia - With Mel Gibson, Natalie Dormer, Sean Penn, Ioan Gruffudd, Jeremy Irvine

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The Age of Innocence(1993)

| 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.

Directed by Martin Scorsese - With Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Alexis Smith, Geraldine Chaplin, Richard E. Grant, ...

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Breakheart Pass(1975)

1h 35min | Thriller, Western, Mystery

3.3/5 (with 73 votes)

At the height of the frontier era, a train races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission to a remote army post. But one by one the passengers are being murdered, and their only hope is the mysterious John Deakin, who's being transported to face trial for murder.

Directed by Tom Gries - With Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna, Jill Ireland, Ed Lauter, Charles Durning, ...

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The Magnificent Ambersons(1942)

| 1h 28min | Drama, Romance / Love, History

3.7/5 (with 173 votes)

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

Directed by Orson Welles, Robert Wise - With Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, ...

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True History of the Kelly Gang(2019)

| 2h 4min | Crime, Drama, Western, Thriller

3.0/5 (with 125 votes)

Set against the badlands of Australia where the English rule with a bloody fist and the Irish endure, Ned Kelly discovers he comes from a line of Irish rebels — an uncompromising army of cross dressing bandits immortalised for terrorising their oppressors back in Ireland. Fuelled by the unfair arrest of his mother, Kelly recruits a wild bunch of warriors to plot one of the most audacious attacks of anarchy and rebellion the country has ever seen.

Directed by Justin Kurzel - With George MacKay, Russell Crowe, Charlie Hunnam, Nicholas Hoult, Essie Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, ...

Far from the Madding Crowd(2015)

PG-13

| 1h 59min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 462 votes)

Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy. Bathsheba Everdene, attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love – as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance.

Directed by Thomas Vinterberg - With Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Tilly Vosburgh, Mark Wingett, Dorian Lough, Sam Phillips, ...

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GomBurZa(2023)

1h 52min | History, Drama

A powerful and moving historical drama that tells the courageous story of three Filipino Catholic priests: Mariano Gomez, José Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora.

Dead Man(1995)

| 2h 1min | Drama, Fantasy, Western

3.6/5 (with 656 votes)

Wounded and branded an outlaw, a young accountant named William Blake flees gunmen and travels the frontier. Nobody, an outcast Native American, aides Blake along a journey beyond the frailty of life as his physical existence grows thin.

Directed by Jim Jarmusch - With Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott, Eugene Byrd, ...

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Ned Kelly(2003)

| 1h 50min | Action, Adventure, Drama, History

3.0/5 (with 155 votes)

After getting threatened by Kelly's friends and family, Constable Fitzpatrick places the blame on Ned Kelly and exaggerates what happened. With the biggest ever award available, Kelly and his gang set into the wild, to remain hidden from everyone who seeks them. Even if it means having his family arrested, the members of the Kelly Gang stay hidden and plan a way to get their names cleared.

Directed by Gregor Jordan - With Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Naomi Watts, Geoffrey Rush, Joel Edgerton, Kerry Condon, ...

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The Molly Maguires(1970)

| 2h | Drama, History, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 32 votes)

Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath, put pressure on the greedy and ruthless company they work for by sabotaging mining facilities in the hope of improving their working conditions and the lives of their families.

Directed by Martin Ritt - With Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Samantha Eggar, Frank Finlay, Bethel Leslie, Anthony Zerbe, ...

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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon(1949)

| 1h 43min | Western

3.5/5 (with 139 votes)

After Custer and the 7th Cavalry are wiped out by Native Americans, everyone expects the worst. Capt. Nathan Brittles is ordered out on patrol but he's also required to take along Abby Allshard, wife of the Fort's commanding officer, and her niece Olivia Dandridge, who are being evacuated. Brittles is only a few days away from retirement and Olivia has caught the eye of two of the young officers in the Company. She's taken to wearing a yellow ribbon in her hair, a sign that she has a beau in the Cavalry, but refuses to say for whom she is wearing it.

Directed by John Ford - With John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Victor McLaglen, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey, ...

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Total Eclipse(1995)

| 1h 51min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 226 votes)

Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.

Directed by Agnieszka Holland - With Leonardo DiCaprio, David Thewlis, Romane Bohringer, Dominique Blanc, James Thiérrée, Andrzej Seweryn, ...

Chisum(1970)

| 1h 51min | Western

3.4/5 (with 75 votes)

Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war.

Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen - With John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, Ben Johnson, Geoffrey Deuel, Glenn Corbett, Bruce Cabot, ...

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The Birth of a Nation(1915)

| 3h 13min | Drama, History, War

3.1/5 (with 223 votes)

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Miriam Cooper, Henry B. Walthall, Ralph Lewis, George Siegmann, ...

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Lessons of a Dream(2011)

1h 53min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 51 votes)

An English teacher brings soccer to a German school in the 19th Century.

Directed by Sebastian Grobler - With Daniel Brühl, Burghart Klaußner, Thomas Thieme, Justus von Dohnányi, Jürgen Tonkel, Adrian Moore, ...

Winchester '73(1950)

| 1h 32min | Western

3.7/5 (with 144 votes)

Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives.

Directed by Anthony Mann - With James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Stephen McNally, Dan Duryea, Millard Mitchell, John McIntire, ...

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Jesse James(1939)

| 1h 46min | Western, Crime, Drama, History

3.3/5 (with 40 votes)

After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.

Directed by Henry King, Irving Cummings, Otto Brower - With Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly, Randolph Scott, John Carradine, Jane Darwell, ...

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The Yearling(1946)

2h 8min | Drama, Kids & Family, Western

3.3/5 (with 37 votes)

Jody convinces his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves?

Directed by Clarence Brown - With Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman, Jr., Henry Travers, Margaret Wycherly, Forrest Tucker, ...

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The Song of Bernadette(1943)

| 2h 36min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 47 votes)

In 1858 Lourdes, France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but the townspeople all assume it to be the Virgin Mary. The pompous government officials think she is nuts, and do their best to suppress the girl and her followers, and the church wants nothing to do with the whole matter. But as Bernadette attracts wider and wider attention, the phenomenon overtakes everyone in the the town, and transforms their lives.

Directed by Henry King - With Jennifer Jones, William Eythe, Charles Bickford, Vincent Price, Lee J. Cobb, Gladys Cooper, ...

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Ludwig(1973)

3h 58min | Drama, History

3.8/5 (with 60 votes)

Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandoned by her, tormented by his homosexuality, he will little by little slip towards madness.

Directed by Luchino Visconti - With Helmut Berger, Trevor Howard, Silvana Mangano, Gert Fröbe, Helmut Griem, Umberto Orsini, ...

Movies Set in The 1870s

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Cowboys & Aliens(2011)

Gone with the Wind(1939)

True Grit(2010)

The Phantom of the Opera(2004)

Song of the South(1946)

Young Guns(1988)

The Searchers(1956)

Rosalie(2024)

River of No Return(1954)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance(1962)

The Professor and the Madman(2019)

The Age of Innocence(1993)

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Breakheart Pass(1975)

The Magnificent Ambersons(1942)

True History of the Kelly Gang(2019)

Far from the Madding Crowd(2015)

GomBurZa(2023)

Dead Man(1995)

Ned Kelly(2003)

The Molly Maguires(1970)

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon(1949)

Total Eclipse(1995)

Chisum(1970)

The Birth of a Nation(1915)

Lessons of a Dream(2011)

Winchester '73(1950)

Jesse James(1939)

The Yearling(1946)

The Song of Bernadette(1943)

Ludwig(1973)

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