19th Century Movies

Soviet Georgian film by Eldar Shengelaia. Based on short story by D. Kldiashvili

In the late 19th century at Längelmäki two men kill a mailman and rob all the money he carried. Based on actual events.

In mid-19th-century Costa Rica, President Juan Rafael Mora vows to defend his nation from American filibuster and slaver William Walker, who has seized nearby Nicaragua. Flashbacks trace Mora’s rise from reformist coffee planter to national leader, modernizing his family’s plantation with fair...

Hyde Park Corner (also known as Leisurely Pedestrians, Open Topped Buses and Hansom Cabs with Trotting Horses) depicts life at Hyde Park Corner in London. It is claimed to be the first film set in London, as well as the first to be filmed on celluloid. It is currently considered a partially lost...

Inaugurated in 1986 by François Mitterrand, a link between the Louvre and Pompidou, Orsay houses the largest collection of Impressionist art in the world. Project after project, the museum has been transformed to modernize and welcome more visitors, while preserving its historic character....

Since this is lost the content of the film can only be presumed but it was supposedly depicted a schoolboy smoking his first cigar.

An adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina is having an extramarital affair that causes her grave consequences.

A 1984 Slovak language drama film directed by Martin Tapák.

Newsreel-type short about music from the 1890s making a resurgence in the '40s

Set during the first Anglo-Boer War 1880-1881 details the events leading up to this final battle ending in one of the most humiliating defeats for Britain in history.

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

Set in 19th century country side and a small town. Leni and later her daughter Hanni living in Pimeänpirtti croft are seduced by Otto von Holten, the Patron of Kankaanpää Estate.