19th Century Movies

In the capital of southern Brazil in the 1890s, a beautiful and mysterious couple gained notoriety, both for the achievements of the husband, Dr....

The life of Puerto Rican revolutionary José Maldonado Román, known as Águila Blanca, on the island in the late 19th century....

Based on the true story of John Scobell, one of the first African American spies in our nation’s intelligence service. In 1861, President...

A British widower in the 1880s Pacific Northwest hires a Native American governess, educated in a Christian mission school, to teach his two...

Heinrich wishes to conquer death through love, and when he meets Henriette, the wife of a business acquaintance, she expresses interest in a suicide...

A grandfather recalls how he and his wife met and fell in love during the Second Italian War of Independence.

Andalusia, Spain, 1840. After three years of wandering, Salva, who works as an assistant to a blind knife sharpener, returns to Seville, his...

Born into the chaos of the French Revolution, Mathias Loras would come to develop a vision for a state of spirituality in the New World that few dare...

Born into a family of farmers in the mid-19th century, Karoline Augusta Antonsen moves to a nearby industrial city in her late teens, driven by the...

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she...

it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided to instill law, order and fear of God into the...

Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women...

Against the backdrop of New York City of the early 1850s, a young woman -- naively seeking to win the love she reads about in the romance novels she...

An actuality and reportage film. This film captures Lord Frederick Roberts (British Army rank Field Marshal) departing England for South Africa on...

Bucharest, 1876. Don Dumitrache instructs his trusted man, Chiriac, to watch his young wife, Veta. Dumitrache is sure that Veta having an affair, she...

Young Henning and his friends are struggling to stay alive in 19th century Stockholm, where he has ended up in search of employment. In the harsh...

Bordeaux, France, 1828. Spanish painter Francisco de Goya y Lucientes dies in his French exile on April 16th and is buried in the local cemetery....

In Nepalese society, "Jaar" refers to a man who has an illicit affair with another man's wife. During the reign of Jung Bahadur Rana...

Set in the frigid prairies and woodlands of the 19th century, a young hunter struggles to survive after suffering a major head injury. He must...