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13 results for “nineteenth century setting”

Immoral Tales

1974 ★ 5.8

Four erotic tales from various historical eras. The first, 'The Tide', is set in the present day, and concerns a student and his young female cousin stranded on

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Seven Women

2003 ★ 8.6

When the men go to war, the women also battle. This tale takes place in the XIX century, during a terrible civil war. Italy’s revolutionary leader Garibaldi mus

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The Whistler: Origins

2018 ★ 6.6

In the mid-nineteenth century, in a small Venezuelan village, Father Giovanni and a clerk write the story of a supernatural case that they have witnessed, is th

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Kamouraska

1973 ★ 5.9

A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'A

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Mimi

1935 ★ 5.8

A struggling playwright in 1850s Paris and his mate finds love that furnishes him with the inspiration he has long sought. Topic: Film "Mimi" (1935). Role: Meti

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The Courage to Love

2000 ★ 6.8

In 19th century New Orleans, creole Henriette must choose between love and devotion to the church. Neither choice is going to be easy, as there is great opposit

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Curro Jiménez

1976 ★ 7.3

Curro Jiménez was a successful Spanish TV series that aired on TVE1 from 22 December 1976 to 1979. Its main theme was Andalusian "bandolerismo" in the 19th cent

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April and the Extraordinary World

2015 ★ 7.1

It's 1941, but France is trapped in the 19th Century, governed by steam and Napoleon V. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.

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Santiago

1956 ★ 5.8

Two American gun runners at odds with each other and looking to sell guns to the rebels during the Cuban War of Independence navigate a boat to Cuba. Along for

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Cuban Ambush

1898 ★ 4.4

From the upper windows of a ruined mill Cubans are firing at a scouting party of Spaniards, who return the volley. Fine smoke effects. Cuban Ambush is a short f

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Hadj Cheriff

1894 ★ 4.6

Hadji Cheriff, a performer known for a variety of unusual abilities, demonstrates part of his act in the Thomas Edison studio. He has a large knife in his hand

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Fishing Smacks

1897 ★ 4.3

Another Edison film shot in San Francisco at the Fisherman's Wharf. Once again the camera is looking down on a group of men doing their jobs. Fishing Smacks is

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Game of Seduction

1976 ★ 3.2

A virtuous young woman becomes the target of the schemes of an amoral womanizer who is in the habit of wooing women and killing their lovers and husbands in due

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