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The Red and the Black
The 1820sHistorical psychological drama which chronicles the attempts of a provincial young man to rise socially beyond his modest upbringing through a combination of talent, hard work, deception, and hypocrisy - who ultimately allows his passions to betray him.
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The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
🇩🇪 Germany The 1820s The 1830sThe film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.
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Burke & Hare
Scotland The 1820sThe pimps and the prostitutes and the body-snatchers. The brothels and dens of iniquity. — Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.
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Eagle in a Cage
Atlantic Ocean The 1820s The 1810s1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon
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Man in the Wilderness
Montana North Dakota South Dakota Wyoming The 1820sHe was left for dead. He would not forget. — In the early 1800s, a group of fur trappers and Indian traders are returning with their goods to civilization and are making a desperate attempt to beat the oncoming winter. When guide Zachary Bass is injured in a bear attack, they decide he's a goner and leave him behind to die. When he recovers instead, he swears revenge on them and tracks them and their paranoiac expedition leader down.
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An intriguing Hans Christian Anderson-style fairy tale aesthetic and voice over narration. Sudden Wealth is a despairing chronicle of a group of starving peasants who finally seize governmental wealth like a dysfunctional group of Robin Hood's Merry Men, only to be betrayed by their inescapable selves and systematically dehumanized (think bucolic Orwell) and reprogrammed by what we'll put under the rubric of God and Country.
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Goya: historia de una soledad
🇪🇸 Spain The 1820s The 1810s The 1800sA biography of the Spanish painter Francisco José de Goya (1746-1828), who went from being a court painter to creating heartbreaking images denouncing the atrocities and injustices of his time.
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Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
🇪🇸 Spain The 1800s The 1810s The 1820s The 18th CenturyAs 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.
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A Man Called Horse
South Dakota The 1820sIn 1825, English peer Lord John Morgan is cast adrift in the American West. Captured by Sioux Indians, Morgan is at first targeted for quick extinction, but the tribesmen sense that he is worthy of survival. He eventually passes the many necessary tests that will permit him to become a member of the tribe.
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The Knight of the Sword
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1820s The 1810sThe life story of Argentine independence hero Jose de San Martin.
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The Conspirators
🇮🇹 Italy The 1820sRome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola (Tognazzi) and colonel Nardoni (Salerno) are in charge to suppress liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia (Manfredi) got the information that the liberal Filippo Spada (Ekland) is a spy and is going to denounce his revolutionary companions. So Cornacchia decides to report Spada to two "Carbonari" (kind of Freemasons) to kill Spada. The two, Montanari (Hossein) and Targhini (Verley) fail to kill him and decide to escape from Rome. But they are arrested and sentenced to death. Cornacchia will spend his last chance to save them.
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Simón Bolívar
🇨🇴 Colombia 🇵🇪 Peru 🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1820s The 1810sSimon Bolivar is the true-life story of the leader of the 1817 Venezuelan revolution.
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Hawaii
Hawaii The 1810s The 1820s The 1830sJames Michener's novel reaches the screen. — Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead of understanding there comes tragedy.
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The Tomb of Ligeia
The 1820sEven on her wedding night she must share the man she loved with the "female thing" that lived in the Tomb of the Cat! — Verden Fell is shattered after the death of his lovely wife. But, after an unexpected encounter with Lady Rowena Trevanion, Fell soon finds himself married again. Nevertheless, his late wife's spirit seems to hang over the dilapidated abbey that Fell shares with his new bride. Lady Rowena senses that something is amiss and, when she investigates, makes a horrifying discovery -- learning that Fell's dead wife is closer than she ever imagined possible.
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Weeping for a Bandit
The 1830s The 1820sJosé María "El Tempranillo" fleeing from justice, takes refuge in Sierra Morena. After a period of hard learning, he becomes the leader of a group of bandits.
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Vanina Vanini
🇮🇹 Italy The 1820sVanina Vanini, a bored, spoiled Roman countess, falls in love with a dedicated young patriot who is in Rome to assassinate a traitor to the brotherhood of the Carboneria.
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The Flesh and the Fiends
Scotland The 1820sCoffins Looted! Cadavers Dissected! — Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne'er-do-wells Burke and Hare find ways to provide him with fresh specimens...
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Queen of Spades
The 1820sScreen adaptation of Tchaikovsky's opera based on the Aleksandr Pushkin short story of the same name.
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The Stranglers of Bombay
🇮🇳 India The 1820sThis is true! This is real! This actually happened! — In 1826 British-ruled India, the secret Cult of Thugee demonstrates their worship of their goddess, Kali, by the mutilation and mass murder of thousands of Indians while pirating the shipments of the British East-Indian Tea Company. As the British military leaders play down the implications of the piracy and disappearances, a lone captain realizes that they are not just coincidence and sets out to uncover the source of the deviltry, at the risk of his career. Based on history.
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The Kentuckian
Kentucky Texas The 1820sHunter...Frontiersman...Adventurer! — A frontiersman and his son fight to build a new home in Texas.
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Le Rouge et le Noir
The 1820sIt's no holds barred for Julian in pursuit of upward mobility. Although expected to channel career aspirations into the Church of the post-Napoleonic era, his intensely romantic liaisons propel him forward at a pace he cannot control.
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The Seekers
🇳🇿 New Zealand The 1820sA western set in New Zealand during the 1820s following a group of British pioneers seeking a new life Down Under.
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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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Saginaw Trail
Michigan The 1820sGENE CLEARS THE WOODS OF RENEGADES...and runs them out of Michigan Territory! — Hamilton's Rangers, led by our hero Gene, must keep the Indians in the northern Michigan territory from attacking the settlers.
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Yankee Buccaneer
The 1820sSEA ADVENTURE! — A United States Navy ship in the first half of the 19th century, under the command of Captain David Porter, is expecting to put ashore after a year on the seas; but the arrival of one of Porter's ex-students, the willful and independent Lieutenant David Farragut, brings a new mission: to disguise the ship and crew as a pirate ship and help the Navy locate the criminals who have been robbing America's merchant fleet. But as Farragut's disobedience threatens the safety of the crew, they stumble upon an international conspiracy.
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The Iron Mistress
Louisiana The 1820sJIM BOWIE...a man with his name on a knife - and a woman with a weapon all her own! — In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge Narcisse's murder, but Judalon takes up with another man. Jim eventually has another romantic interlude with Judalon and is forced to kill one of her suitors in self-defense. Jim leaves town, and falls for the daughter of a Texas politician, but his entanglement with Judalon continues to bedevil him.
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Young Chopin
The 1830s The 1820sAs directed by Aleksander Ford in 1952, this Polish-language period drama chronicles the life, times and accomplishments of revered Warsaw-born Romantic composer Frederic Chopin, here played by Czeslaw Wollejko (Danton). The feature focuses exclusively on the youth of Chopin (who died at age 39), spanning his 15th year (c. 1825) through his 21st year (c. 1831); it also depicts Chopin as both prodigiously gifted and one filled with a tremendous spirit of Polish nationalism. Ford concludes with the onset of the illness that eventually killed Ford, set against the backdrop of the famous November Uprising in 1830.
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The Death Agony of the Eagles
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Across the Wide Missouri
Montana The 1820s The 1830sThe action, the drama, the men, the women... who blasted their heroic way into a new empire! — In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a way to gain entrance into her people's rich lands, but finds she means more to him than a ticket to good beaver habitat.
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The Mark of the Renegade
California The 1820sAdventure... rules the outlaw coast of old California! — An agent of Mexico poses as a pirate to foil a would-be emperor in 1820s California.
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Vendetta
The 1820sLove is wild - life is violent - death is cheap! — The daughter of a slain man pushes her brother toward vengeance in 19th-century Corsica.
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The Farm of Seven Sins
The 1820sFollows a murder trial during the reign of Charles X. Winner of the Golden Leopard at Locarno.
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Les Misérables
🇫🇷 France The 1830s The 1820s The 1810sA New Generation...A New Version in English — Valjean's new life as a man of position and respect is forever threatened by dogged detective Javert.
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Oliver Twist
The 1830s The 1820sA Screen Event To Be Remembered For All Time ! — When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
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The Loves of Carmen
🇪🇸 Spain The 1820sA story of beauty and savagery...love and hate...splendor and shame... — Gypsy Carmen drives men wild in 1820s Spain, especially the dragoon Don Jose.
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The Pretty Miller Girl
🇦🇹 Austria The 1820sFranz Schubert retired from Vienna in country for musical writing. He draws his inspiration from a romance with the watermiller's daughter. An operetta in the fifties Vienna style. This is the only movie from Marcel Pagnol in color and the only movie in rouxcolor, a French experimental process derivated from the agfacolor German process.
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The Greed of William Hart
Scotland The 1820sHart and Moore are grave-robbers who provide cadavers to the medical students of 19th-century Edinburgh. When the supply becomes low and demand still great, the two decide to create their own supply, a plan that proves profitable when they stick to vagrants, prostitutes and drunkards. But when they poison likable Jamie, the townsfolk retaliate. NB: This film was originally written to be about Burke and Hare, but after it was completed, the British censors refused to allow its release on the grounds those names themselves were offensive; thus the entire soundtrack was recut so that new names - Hart and Moore - recorded by the film's actors, were cut into the previously recorded lines, replacing the offending "Burke" or "Hare", sentence by sentence.
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Sword of the Avenger
🇵🇭 Philippines The 1820sRoberto Balagtas is falsely arrested for treason and sent to prison where he is tortured. He escapes with other prisoners, but only Batagtas survives the escape, carrying with him a treasure map left by one of the others. He crosses paths with Ming Tang (Strong) and a group of Chinese smugglers, with whom he finds the treasure. The booty makes him extremely wealthy, and he changes his name to Don Diego Sebastian. He then goes back to the Philippines to seek his revenge.
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The Foxes of Harrow
Louisiana 🇮🇪 Ireland The 1820s The 1830sAn Irish rascal and inveterate gambler uses his considerable skills at the gaming tables of New Orleans to become fabulously rich.
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The Strange Woman
Maine The 1820s The 1830sIsaiah, a 19th-century businessman, has his eye on the beautiful and very young Jenny. Finally of age, she accepts his marriage proposal, but their love affair quickly turns sour. Ephraim, Isaiah's college-age son, comes for a visit, immediately striking up a chemistry with Jenny. She promises marriage -- if he murders his father first. But Jenny also swoons for John, the fiancé of her best friend, Meg.
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Children of Paradise
🇫🇷 France The 1820s The 1830sAT LAST! The Celebrated French Film — Filmed during the German occupation, this French milestone centers around the theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan and the four men who love her. Voted the “Best French Film in History” by the French Film Academy in 1990.
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