Movies Set in The 1790s

58 movies and TV shows/series found (page 1/2):

Amadeus(1984)

4.0/5 (with 1,824 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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Love & Friendship(2016)

PG-13

| 1h 34min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 248 votes)

From Jane Austen’s novella, the beautiful and cunning Lady Susan Vernon visits the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors of her dalliances and to find husbands for herself and her daughter. Two young men, handsome Reginald DeCourcy and wealthy Sir James Martin, severely complicate her plans.

Directed by Whit Stillman - With Kate Beckinsale, Xavier Samuel, Emma Greenwell, Morfydd Clark, Jemma Redgrave, Tom Bennett, ...

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The Vampire Lovers(1970)

| 1h 31min | Horror

3.2/5 (with 84 votes)

In the heart of Styria the Karnstein Family, even after their mortal deaths, rise from their tombs spreading evil in the countryside in their lust for fresh blood. Baron Hartog whose family are all victims of Karnstein vampirism, opens their graves and drives a stake through their diabolical hearts. One grave he cannot locate is that of the legendary beautiful Mircalla Karnstein. Years of peace follow that grisly night until Mircalla reappears to avenge her family's decimation and satisfy her desire for blood.

Directed by Roy Ward Baker - With George Cole, Kate O'Mara, Peter Cushing, Dawn Addams, Douglas Wilmer, ...

That Hamilton Woman(1941)

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

3.6/5 (with 30 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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The Awakening Land(1978)

5h 33min per episode | Drama

3.6/5 (with 3 votes)

A lusty frontier saga about a pioneer woman and her love for her family, the man she marries, and the land on which she lives, dramatized from Conrad Richter's Pulitzer Prize-winning trilogy: 'The Trees;' 'The Fields;' and 'The Town.' The series originally aired on NBC in three installments from February 19 to February 21, 1978 and stars Elizabeth Montgomery and Hal Holbrook.

Directed by Boris Sagal - With Elizabeth Montgomery

The Night of Varennes(1982)

2h 31min | Drama, History

3.4/5 (with 22 votes)

During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.

Directed by Ettore Scola - With Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla, Harvey Keitel, Didi Perego, Caterina Boratto, ...

Marat/Sade(1967)

| 1h 56min | Music, Drama, History

3.1/5 (with 11 votes)

In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based on 'The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade', a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.

Directed by Peter Brook - With Patrick Magee, Ian Richardson, Michael Williams, Clifford Rose, Glenda Jackson, Freddie Jones, ...

The Devil(1988)

2h 5min | Horror, Drama, History

3.6/5 (with 32 votes)

Young Polish nobleman Jakub is saved from imprisonment by a stranger. In return, the stranger wants to obtain a list of Jakub’s fellow conspirators. As he follows his mysterious savior across the country, Jakub is affected by the overall chaos and moral corruption; he goes insane and becomes a mass murderer.

Directed by Andrzej Żuławski - With Wojciech Pszoniak, Małgorzata Braunek, Leszek Teleszyński, Maciej Englert, Iga Mayr, Michał Grudziński, ...

The Lady and the Duke(2001)

PG-13

| 2h 9min | Drama, History, Romance / Love, War

3.2/5 (with 15 votes)

Grace Dalrymple Elliot is a British aristocrat trapped in Paris during the French Revolution. Determined to maintain her stiff upper lip and pampered life despite the upheaval, Grace continues her friendship with the Duke of Orléans while risking her life and liberty to protect a fugitive.

Directed by Éric Rohmer - With Lucy Russell, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Alain Libolt, Rosette, Éric Viellard, François Marthouret, ...

Hornblower: The Even Chance(1998)

1h 40min | Adventure, TV Movie

3.8/5 (with 17 votes)

Portsmouth, 1794. Under thundery skies and in lashing rain, 17-year-old midshipman Horatio Hornblower takes the first tentative steps of his naval career, but a feud with a shipmate causes complications.

Directed by Andrew Grieve

Beloved Sisters(2014)

| 3h | Romance / Love, Drama, History

3.0/5 (with 19 votes)

A love triangle forms between post-Enlightenment writer Friedrich Schiller and two sisters -- one who became his wife, and the other, his biographer.

Directed by Dominik Graf - With Hannah Herzsprung, Florian Stetter, Henriette Confurius, Claudia Messner, Ronald Zehrfeld, Maja Maranow, ...

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The Last Supper(1976)

2h | Drama

3.9/5 (with 10 votes)

A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper.

Directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea - With Nelson Villagra

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Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil(1999)

1h 33min | Action, Adventure, Drama, War, TV Movie

3.8/5 (with 12 votes)

Acting Lieutenant Hornblower and his crew are captured by the enemy while escorting a Duchess who has secrets of her own.

Directed by Andrew Grieve - With Ioan Gruffudd

Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant(1998)

1h 33min | Adventure, TV Movie

3.8/5 (with 13 votes)

Acting Lieutenant Hornblower attempts to study for his promotion examination, but becomes distracted by the serious supply problems that face his crew.

With Ioan Gruffudd

Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters(1999)

1h 40min | Adventure, TV Movie

3.7/5 (with 13 votes)

Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.

With Ioan Gruffudd

Dialogue with the Carmelites(1960)

1h 52min | Drama, History

3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

This drama about the Carmelite order of nuns is set during the French Revolution. A young woman seeks refuge with the Carmelites because she is terrified of dying during the upheaval. The longer she associates with the nuns the more she is transformed by their faith and devotion.

Directed by Philippe Agostini, Raymond Léopold Bruckberger - With Jeanne Moreau, Alida Valli, Madeleine Renaud, Pierre Brasseur, Jean-Louis Barrault, Georges Wilson, ...

Many Rivers to Cross(1955)

1h 35min | Action, Comedy, Western

3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

Packaged and sold as an outdoor actioner, Many Rivers to Cross is as much a comedy as anything else. Robert Taylor stars as 18th century trapper Bushrod Gentry, who is himself entrapped into marriage by the spunky Mary Stuart Cherne (Eleanor Parker). Escaping his marital responsibilities (which were impressed upon him on threat of death), Gentry heads into the North Country, with Mary in hot pursuit. Hero and heroine spend the rest of the picture taking turns rescuing each other from hostile Indians. Some of the humor is predicated upon the wholesale slaughter of the "redskins", and as such is a bit hard to take when seen today. Supporting Taylor and Parker are Victor McLaglen as the heroine's burly father, and TV-stars-to be James Arness (Gunsmoke) and Russell Johnson and Alan Hale Jr. (Gilligan's Island).

Directed by Roy Rowland - With Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, Victor McLaglen, Russ Tamblyn, James Arness, Josephine Hutchinson, ...

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Cadet Rousselle(1954)

1h 45min | Comedy, History, Adventure

2.8/5 (with 6 votes)

The Adventures of Cadet Rousselle that on the French Revolution left his hometown in search of fortune. He thinks he knows love with Violeta, a dancer in a band of comedians but ends up involved in a monarchist plot.

Directed by André Hunebelle - With François Périer, Bourvil, Dany Robin, Alfred Adam, André Numès Fils, André Wasley, ...

Madame DuBarry(1919)

1h 54min | Drama, History

3.1/5 (with 10 votes)

The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch - With Alexander Ekert, Pola Negri, Emil Jannings, Harry Liedtke, Reinhold Schünzel, Bernhard Goetzke, ...

The Naked Maja(1958)

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

3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

A historical fiction based on the lives of artist Goya and the Duchess of Alba.

Directed by Henry Koster, Mario Russo - With Ava Gardner, Anthony Franciosa, Amedeo Nazzari, Gino Cervi, Lea Padovani, Massimo Serato, ...

The Divine Lady(1929)

1h 39min | Drama, History, Romance / Love, War

2.8/5 (with 6 votes)

Lady Hamilton's love affair with Admiral Horatio Nelson rocks the British Empire.

Directed by Frank Lloyd - With Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi, H. B. Warner, Ian Keith, Marie Dressler, William Conklin, ...

John Paul Jones(1959)

| 2h 6min | Action, History, Romance / Love, War

3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.

Directed by John Farrow - With Robert Stack, Bette Davis, Marisa Pavan, Peter Cushing, Charles Coburn, Macdonald Carey, ...

Emma Hamilton(1968)

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

2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

The Making of a Lady: The Story of Lady Hamilton is a 1968 historical drama film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Michèle Mercier, Richard Johnson and John Mills.[1] It was based on the novel La San-Felice by Alexandre Dumas and depicts the love affair between Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson. It was a co-production between Italy, West Germany, France and the United States.

Directed by Christian-Jaque - With John Mills, Mario Pisu, Nadja Tiller, Michèle Mercier, Richard Johnson, Venantino Venantini, ...

The President's Lady(1953)

| 1h 36min | Drama, Romance / Love, Western

3.7/5 (with 5 votes)

The story of president Andrew Jackson from his early years, through his meeting with and subsequent marriage to Rachel Donelson Robards. The plot concentrates on the later scandal concerning the legality of their marriage and how they overcame the difficulties.

Directed by Henry Levin - With Susan Hayward, Charlton Heston, Charles Dingle, Fay Bainter, John McIntire, Margaret Wycherly, ...

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The Favorite(1989)

1h 44min | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love

2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

A French girl is kidnapped and sold as slave to the sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

Directed by Jack Smight - With F. Murray Abraham, Maud Adams, Francesco Quinn

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Les Hussards(1955)

1h 42min | War, Comedy, Adventure

3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

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Directed by Alex Joffé - With Bernard Blier, Louis de Funès, Albert Rémy, Bourvil, André Weber, François Darbon, ...

Veerapandiya Kattabomman(1959)

3h 21min | History, Drama, War

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

After the East India Company forces Kattabomman, the king of Panchalankurichi, to pay taxes and be their subordinate, the latter decides to fight against them.

Directed by B. R. Panthulu - With Sivaji Ganesan, Gemini Ganesan, Padmini, S. Varalakshmi, V. K. Ramasamy

Lloyd's of London(1936)

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

3.6/5 (with 8 votes)

Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, they must separate their paths. The former will head his footsteps to London and bound his destiny to Lloyd's, a thriving insurance company; the latter will eventually become one of the greatest heroes in the history of the British Empire.

Directed by Henry King - With Freddie Bartholomew, Madeleine Carroll, Guy Standing, Tyrone Power, George Sanders, C. Aubrey Smith, ...

The Rover(1967)

1h 43min | Drama, History

2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A former counterrevolutionary pirate befriends a mentally ill young woman and this in turn leads to tragedy when she falls in love with a French naval officer.

Directed by Terence Young - With Anthony Quinn, Rosanna Schiaffino, Rita Hayworth, Richard Johnson, Ivo Garrani, Mino Doro, ...

Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment(1971)

2h 16min | Drama, History

3.0/5 (with 5 votes)

As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in King and Church, yet he is also a Spaniard who dearly loves his people. This contradiction presents him with a dilemma.

Directed by Konrad Wolf - With Ernst Busch, Wolfgang Kieling, Donatas Banionis, Olivera Katarina, Fred Düren, Rolf Hoppe, ...