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János Háry
The 1800sThe triumphant adventures of the Hungarian baron Münchausen are recounted in the form of a musical.
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The Terror
🇩🇪 Germany The 1800sTrapped in a Haunted Castle... There is no Escape From The TERROR — A young officer in Napoleon's army pursues a mysterious woman to the castle of an elderly Baron.
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Carry On Jack
England 🇪🇸 Spain The 1800sThat crazy 'Carry On' team . . . on a tidal wave of hilarity ! — Tenth entry in the Carry On series. Able seaman Poop-Decker (Bernard Cribbins) signs up for adventure on the high seas with the wicked Captain Fearless (Kenneth Williams). Those swabbing the decks include Juliet Mills, Charles Hawtrey and Donald Houston. The film was originally to be titled Up the Armada, but the British Board of Film Censors objected to such a rude title.
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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
🇩🇪 Germany The 1800s The 1810sWONDERFUL THRILLS! ADVENTURE! ROMANCE! — The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. In the movie they write a family history for a duke which includes reenactments of three of their stories including "The Dancing Princess," "The Cobbler and the Elves" and "The Singing Bone."
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H.M.S. Defiant
🇫🇷 France The 1800s The 18th CenturyThe cry was MUTINY... and the decks ran red!... — Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's first officer makes this difficult, and when the captain is disabled, the chance for violence increases.
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Ballad of a Hussar
The 1800sA young girl decides to join a Husar squadron and fight against Napoleon. Dressed as a man she has a hard time adjusting to the rude Husar life styles.
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Famous Love Affairs
The 1880s The 1800s The 17th Century The 14th CenturyAnthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.
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The Time Machine
England The 1960s The 1940s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1800sYou Will Orbit into the Fantastic Future! — A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
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Austerlitz
🇦🇹 Austria 🇨🇿 Czechia The 1800sThe first half of this film covers Napoleon's coronation as Emperor and political manoeuvrings while the second half covers the actual battle.
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Carmen la de Ronda
🇪🇸 Spain The 1800s The 1810sAntonio is the leader of an underground armed group fighting in the village of Ronda against Napoleon's troops which have imposed French rule in 1808 Spain. Micaela is madly in love with Antonio but he is devoted to Carmen, the region's most beautiful gypsy who lives and sings at a local inn.
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The Naked Maja
🇪🇸 Spain The 1800s The 18th CenturyNow she is yours...the matchless...the shameless beauty who lives forever as The Naked Maja! — A historical fiction based on the lives of artist Goya and the Duchess of Alba
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War and Peace
🇷🇺 Russia The 1800s The 1810sThe Greatest Novel Ever Written ... Now Magnificently Alive On The Screen! — Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.
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Woody Meets Davy Crewcut
Tennessee The 1800sFrom the time he was a baby, Little Davy Crewcut learns to shoot at bears with a variety of weapons, but when he gets grown and starts taking serious potshots at Mr. Bear with a rifle, Mr. Bear gets rightfully upset at being shot at, and suggest to Davy Crewcut that he turn his shooting in the direction of a more suitable target, such as a woodpecker. The woodpecker turns out to be Woody, and Woody also objects to being shot at.
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The Women of Pitcairn Island
The 1800s The 18th CenturyThe widows and children of survivors of the H.M.S. Bounty rule Pitcairn Island, fighting off sailors and intruders.
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Caroline and the Rebels
🇪🇸 Spain The 1800s The 1810sA swashbuckling heritage reveals itself as the adopted son of 19th-century Spaniards develops into a suave lady-killer.
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The Far Horizons
Oregon Montana North Dakota Iowa Nebraska Missouri The 1800sVirginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and Meriwether Clark, is sent to survey the new lands and go where no white man has gone before.
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The Purple Mask
🇫🇷 France The 1800sFrance, 1803: 11 years after the Revolution, a royalist underground is led by a new 'Scarlet Pimpernel', the Purple Mask, who rescues nobles in distress and kidnaps Napoleon's officials for ransom, aided by the spy services of a group of lovely models headed by Laurette (really the Duc de Latour's daughter). But even she doesn't know the Purple Mask's real identity as foppish dancing master Rene...
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Yankee Pasha
🇲🇦 Morocco The 1800sEvery passionate moment of the strangest adventure ever told ! — Director Joseph Pevney's 1954 swashbuckling adventure saga stars Jeff Chandler as an adventurer trying to rescue a damsel kidnapped by pirates. The cast also includes Rhonda Fleming, Mamie Van Doren, Rex Reason, Lee J. Cobb, Hal March, Arthur Space, Benny Rubin, Harry Lauter and, as a promotional gimmick, Miss Universe 1953 (Christiane Martel of France) and a slew of other pageant contestants (Miss USA, Miss Japan, Miss Panama, Miss Norway, Miss Uruguay, Miss South Africa and Miss Australia).
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The President's Lady
The 1820s The 1800s The 1810s The 18th CenturyThey branded her adulteress! — 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.
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Sea Devils
🇫🇷 France The 1800s The 18th CenturySix-Feet-Four of fighting Man ... to Tame a Wildcat Beauty ! — Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells him she hopes to rescue her brother from the guillotine. Gilliatt finds himself falling in love and so feels betrayed when he later learns this woman is a countess helping Napoleon plan an invasion of England. In reality, however, the "countess" is an English agent working to thwart this invasion. When Gilliatt finds this out, he returns to France to rescue the woman who's true purpose has been discovered by the French.
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Der Korsar des Königs
🇪🇸 Spain The 1800sThey fought for Spanish Gold, the Honor of a man, the love of a woman! — A disgraced member of the Spanish Navy must redeem his family's honor after his father betrays his country to the French.
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Das letzte Aufgebot
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Beauties of the Night
The 1950s The 1890s The 1800sA daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history.
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The Brigand
The 1800sHe fought to win a kingdom... and a women's heart! — Carlos Delargo, the banished son of a royal princess of Mandorra, is returned to the kingdom to be tried for a murder change. However, he is freed by King Lorenzo, whom bears a remarkable resemblance to Delargo. When the king is wounded by assassins sent by Napoleon, Delargo takes over the throne at the request of the Prime Minister in a plot to thwart the traitors. He also falls in love with Princess Teresa, the king's fiancée.
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Lola la Piconera
The 1810s The 1800sCadiz, during the War of Independence. The Lola singer in love with a French military entrusted an important message ...
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Lydia Bailey
🇭🇹 Haiti The 1800sA young Boston lawyer, Albron Hamlin, goes to Haiti in 1802 to find Lydia Bailey, whose estate he must settle. The island is war-torn in the strife between Toussaing L'Overture, the black president, and the French who are trying to retake possession of the country. Hamlin finds Lydia and, against the background of war and rebellion, they fall in love while helping the Haitians against the French.
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Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
The 1800sThe sun never sets on his world of adventure. — A naval adventure, based on the novels by C.S. Forester, about the heroic, 19th-century British seafarer. The story sails with his ship, the Lydia, through battles with Spain and then France won with wit rather than might.
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The Tales of Hoffmann
🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇹 Italy The 1800s The 1810sYou Will Never See Anything Finer On The Screen! — In this film adaptation of the Offenbach opera, a young poet named Hoffman broods over his failed romances. First, his affair with the beautiful Olympia is shattered when he realizes that she is really a mechanical woman designed by a scientist. Next, he believes that a striking prostitute loves him, only to find out she was hired to fake her affections by the dastardly Dapertutto. Lastly, a magic spell claims the life of his final lover.
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El correo del rey
The 1800sKing Charles V sent his confidant, Don Fernando,from France to the Spanish Court carrying an important documentation. However, the frigate where he travels is sunk by the British and all the sailors perish. Don Fernando manages to save his life reaching the island of Menorca where he is helped by a humble fisherman
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Buccaneer's Girl
Louisiana The 1800sUniversal-International's Fiery Swashbuckling Adventure! — Buccaneer's Girl is a 1950 American romantic adventure film directed by Frederick De Cordova and starring Yvonne De Carlo, Philip Friend and Robert Douglas. A New Orleans singer becomes involved with a Pirate Lord.
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The Elusive Pimpernel
England The 1800sA British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.
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Tripoli
🇱🇾 Libya The 1800sFrom the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli ... the guts-and-glory story of the U.S. Marines! — In 1805, the United States battles the pirates of Tripoli as the Marines fight to raise the American flag.
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Agustina de Aragón
Coahuila de Zaragoza The 1800s1808. During the Spanish Independence war the city of Zaragoza is besieged by French troops. Spanish forces under General Palafox are scarce. Brave Agustina doesn't hesitate to lead the battle and even fire a cannon to stop the invaders when others run away. Based on historical facts.
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Tyrant of the Sea
England The 1800sIn 1803, the only thing standing between Napoleon and his plan of world domination is England and the British Navy. The admiralty, learning that Napoleon has assembled an invasion fleet decides to send out one of its vessels to destroy it the French flagship under cover of fog. Forced out of retirement, ruthless, tyrannical and temperamental Captain William Blake is put in command. He wields his command with sadistic fury until an epidemic of scurvy attacks the crew and, when he refuses to go ashore for needed provision, mutiny and insubordination results...and, then, the French flagship arrives.
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The Queen of Spades
🇷🇺 Russia The 1800sAn elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the secret, then finds himself haunted by the woman's spirit.
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The Secret Of St. Ives
England The 1800sA French soldier in the Napoleonic Wars plots his escape after he's captured and imprisoned in a castle fortress in Edinburgh, Scotland. Director Philip Rosen's 1949 film, adapted from a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, stars Richard Ney, Vanessa Brown, Henry Daniell, John Dehner, Douglas Walton, Aubrey Mather, Jean Del Val, Luis Van Rooten, Maurice Marsac and Billy Bevan.
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Big Jack
Maryland The 1800sBEERY and MAIN are partners in crime!...in comedy! — Wallace Beery, in his final film, plays a bandit in this period drama set in Colonial America.
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Barbary Pirate
🇱🇾 Libya The 1800sYANKEE SPY WINS BEAUTEOUS HAREM ALL IN PIRATE WAR-TO-THE-DEATH! — U.S. agent Major Tom Blake is sent to Tripoli to uncover who it is in Washington that is tipping off the pirates as to what's being shipped where. A fast-moving story with lots of sabers and rapiers.
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The Fighting O'Flynn
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1800s The 18th CenturyA swashbuckling Irishman opposes French agents during the Napoleonic wars.
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Slave Girl
🇱🇾 Libya The 1800sA caravan of thrills told with lusty laughter ! — Tongue-in-cheek adventure tale of an American attempting to free sailors held as hostages and becoming involved in middle-East tribal wars.
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Mrs. Fitzherbert
England The 1800s The 1830s The 18th CenturyThe tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.
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A Scandal in Paris
🇫🇷 France The 1800sEvery man has his price... and every woman pays it. — A smooth-talking French thief (George Sanders) wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.
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