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1930s Historical Romance Movies

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Anna Karenina(1935)

1h 35min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 35 votes)

In 19th century Russia a woman in a respectable marriage to a senior statesman must grapple with her love for a dashing soldier.

Queen Christina(1933)

3.5/5 (with 50 votes)

Queen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country. However, when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, she must choose between the throne and the man she loves.

A Tale of Two Cities(1935)

3.4/5 (with 24 votes)

The exciting story of Dr. Manette, who escapes the horrors of the infamous Bastille prison in Paris. The action switches between London and Paris on the eve of the revolution where we witness 'the best of times and the worst of times' - love, hope, the uncaring French Aristocrats and the terror of a revolutionary citizen's army intent on exacting revenge.

Annie Oakley(1935)

1h 30min | Drama, Western
3.3/5 (with 13 votes)

Awkward Annie (Barbara Stanwyck) loves her sharpshooting rival (Preston Foster) in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

Jane Eyre(1934)

2.5/5 (with 5 votes)

Jane Eyre is an orphan who was raised by her aunt until she came to Thornfield Hall as governess to the young ward of Edward Rochester. But Jane is attracted by the intelligent and energetic Sir Rochester, a man of almost twice her age. But just when Sir Rochester seems to pay attention to her, he invites the beautiful and wealthy Blanche Ingram to stay at his house.

Alice Adams(1935)

3.4/5 (with 20 votes)

In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climbing stratagem despite snubs and embarrassment. When Alice finally meets her dream man Arthur, mother nags father into a risky business venture and plans to impress Alice's beau with an "upscale" family dinner. Will the excruciating results drive Arthur away?

The Devil Is a Woman(1935)

3.3/5 (with 26 votes)

In the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican Antonio Galvan comes from Paris masquerade to enjoy the party and visit his friend Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar. However, he flirts with the mysterious Concha Perez and they schedule to meet each other later. When Antonio meets Pasqualito, his old friend discloses his frustrated relationship with the promiscuous Concha and her greedy mother and how his life was ruined by his obsession for the beautiful demimondaine. Pasqualito makes Antonio promise that he would not see Concha. However, when Antonio meets Concha, she seduces him and the long friendship between Antonio and Pasqualito is disrupted.

Operator 13(1934)

1h 22min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.0/5 (with 5 votes)

American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress Gail Loveless to become one of his operators and infiltrate enemy territory.

Suez(1938)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 44min | Drama, History, Romance / Love
2.7/5 (with 6 votes)

Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.

Waltzes from Vienna(1934)

2.6/5 (with 18 votes)

The story of Johann Strauss the elder and younger.

The Barretts of Wimpole Street(1934)

1h 49min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 7 votes)

Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her siblings, especially her youngest sister, Henrietta, but feels stifled by the domestic tyranny of her wealthy widowed father. When she meets fellow poet Robert Browning in a romantic first encounter, her heart belongs to him. However, her controlling father has no intention of allowing her out of his sight.

Berkeley Square(1933)

2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

A young American man is transported back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.

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The Great Garrick(1937)

3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

A British actor insults a French acting group only to fall victim to a prank that might destroy his career.

Quality Street(1937)

3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

In the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson.

A Prussian Love Story(1938)

The film depicts the love affair between William I and Elisa Radziwill.

Three Girls Around Schubert(1936)

1h 33min | Romance / Love

Composer Franz Schubert becomes involved with a family with three daughters, falling in love with the two blonds, first one, then the other; but will he notice the quiet brunet third daughter, who has fallen madly in love with him?

Directed by E. W. Emo

Mimi(1935)

1h 34min
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A struggling playwright in 1850s Paris and his mate finds love that furnishes him with the inspiration he has long sought.

Madame Guillotine(1931)

During the French Revolution, a revolutionary falls in love with and marries an aristocratic woman.

Young Man's Fancy(1939)

1h 17min
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball.

The Emperor's Candlesticks(1937)

3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.

Katia(1938)

1h 29min | Drama, History

In the middle of the 19th century, Tsar Alexander II made the acquaintance of a young aristocratic girl from the provinces, unruly in character. He falls in love with her and tries to see her again.

Carolina(1934)

During Civil War Reconstruction, the Connelly family is romantically restored to their former glory when Will Connelly marries a Yankee farm girl, Joanna Tate, despite the objects of his temperamental father Bob Connelly.

So Ended a Great Love(1934)

1h 34min | Drama, History
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The political advisor to the French emperor Napoleon, and the Austrian emperor Franz I, arrange a marriage between Napoleon and the Austrian archduchess Marie-Luise in order to prevent another war.

Du Barry, Woman of Passion(1930)

1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Jeannette Vaubernier, an impulsive shopgirl en route to deliver a hat, dreams of luxury and position as she saunters through the woods, and attracted by a pool of water, she disrobes and plunges in. Cosse de Brissac, a handsome private in the King's Guards, comes to her rescue and they become sweethearts. Meanwhile, Jean Du Barry, a shrewd roué, takes note of her at the millinery shop and tricks her into staying at La Gourda's, where she soon becomes a favorite among the men.

Masquerade in Vienna(1934)

2.8/5 (with 5 votes)

After a masked carnival ball, Gerda Harrandt, wife of the surgeon Carl Ludwig Harrandt, allows the fashionable artist Ferdinand von Heidenick to paint a portrait of her wearing only a mask and a muff. This muff however belongs to Anita Keller, in secret the painter's lover but also the fiancée of the court orchestra director Paul Harrandt. The picture is then published in the newspaper. When Paul sees it and asks von Heidenick some questions about the identity of the model, the artist is forced to improvise a story and on the spur of the moment invents a woman called Leopoldine Dur as the alleged model. Leopoldine Dur however turns out to be a real woman whose acquaintance Heidenick makes shortly afterwards.

Wara Wara(1930)

3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

Set in the 16th century, a peaceful Inca community is massacred by a group of conquistadors, and the survivors including Wara Wara flee into the mountains. Later, Wara Wara is assaulted by two Spanish soldiers, and rescued by a conquistador with a noble heart. The two fall in love, but are confronted with the mutual hatred between their peoples. Sentenced to death, they escape, and live happily ever after.

Directed by José María Velasco Maidana - With José María Velasco Maidana, Guillermo Viscarra Fabre, Arturo Borda, Marina Núñez del Prado

Shirin and Farhad(1934)

2h

A Princess is forbidden to see her childhood sweetheart and forced to marry an emperor.

Directed by Abdolhossein Sepanta - With Abdolhossein Sepanta, Roohangiz Saminejad, Fakhrozzaman Jabbar Vaziri, Iran Daftari

The Court Concert(1936)

2.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Before he became cult director Douglas Sirk, Detlef Sierck cut his teeth on such lavish European star vehicles as Das Hofkonzert (The Court Concert). Marta Eggerth is cast as Christine, a young singer who aspires to find out who her father was. Her odyssey brings her to the court of a mythical kingdom, where she is romanced by handsome lieutenant Walter (Johannes Heesters). He is warned not to lose his heart to a "commoner," but all turns out all right when King Serenissimus (Otto Tressler) turns out to be Christine's long-lost daddy. Hofkonzert was designed as a comeback for Marta Eggerth, whose star had eclipsed by the mid-1930s.

Escapade(1935)

A romantic comedy-drama-musical of mistaken identity, infidelity and farce, set in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century.

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