Movies set between 1500 till 1920s
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sgtpowers — 9 years ago(January 28, 2017 07:31 AM)
Any suggestions on great movies with the setting between the years 1500 till 1920s. (I know, that's a wide chioce of years).
Edit:
Thanks for all the movies so farso many. I think my chioce is too wide. The ones I enjoyed already are for example Glory (1989), The Patriot (2000), John Adams (Mini Series 2008), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007).
Correct me if I'm wrong but a lot of movies set in those times are romantic movies,
those I prefer rather NOT. -
Moss_Garden — 9 years ago(January 28, 2017 08:14 AM)
Well, that is quite the range. Not having any criteria on subject or style, here are a few that pop to mind:
Apocalypto
Flesh + Blood
The New World
Wolf Hall (miniseries)
A Field in England
The Libertine
The Crucible
The Red Violin
Rob Roy
John Adams (miniseries)
Belle
Pride + Prejudice (2005)
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Age of Innocence
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biker-1 — 9 years ago(January 28, 2017 09:55 AM)
10..
aguirre the wrath of god (1972-ger)
barry lyndon (1975)
black robe (1991-can)
the devils (1971-uk)
the duellists (1977-uk)
the mission (1986-uk)
mutiny on the bounty (1935)
elizabeth (1998-uk)
mountains of the moon (1990-uk)
lawrence of arabia (1962-uk) -
MikeF-6 — 9 years ago(January 28, 2017 11:16 AM)
Here are five from each decade SINCE the 1920s. I was tempted to just list Westerns. That would have been the easiest. May I ask: is this for a personal viewing journey or some kind of research?
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
/ Lewis Milestone
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
/ James Whale
The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
/ William Dieterle
Jezebel (1938)
/ William Wyler
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
/ John Ford
My Darling Clementine (1946)
/ John Ford
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
/ Michael Curtiz
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
/ Henry King
Genroku Chûshingura (1941)
(47 Ronin) / Kenji Mizoguchi
The Heiress (1949)
/ William Wyler
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
/ Charles Laughton
Scaramouche (1952)
/ George Sidney
Prince of Players (1955)
/ Philip Dunne
Johnny Tremain (1957)
/ Robert Stevenson
Det sjunde inseglet (1957)
(The Seventh Seal) / Ingmar Bergman
The Music Man (1962)
/ Morton DaCosta
Culloden (1964)
/ Peter Watkins
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
/ Lewis Milestone
The Miracle Worker (1962)
/ Arthur Penn
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
/ Fred Zinnemann
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972)
(Aguirre, The Wrath Of God) / Werner Herzog
1776 (1972)
/ Peter H. Hunt
Barry Lyndon (1975)
/ Stanley Kubrick
The Twelve Chairs (1970)
/ Mel Brooks
Love and Death (1975)
/ Woody Allen
Le retour de Martin Guerre (1982)
(The Return Of Martin Guerre) / Daniel Vigne
Amadeus (1984)
/ Milos Foreman
The Pirates of Penzance (1983)
/ Wilford Leach
Babettes gæstebud (1987)
/ Gabriel Axel
The Shooting Party (1985)
/ Alan Bridges
Rob Roy (1995)
/ Michael Caton-Jones
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
/ Ang Lee
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
/ John Madden
Mrs Brown (1997)
/ John Madden
Roger Corman's Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
/ Roger Corman
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
/ Tom Twyker
The Merchant of Venice (2004)
/ Michael Radford
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
/ Kevin Reynolds
The Young Victoria (2009)
/ Jean-Marc Vallée
The Alamo (2004)
/ John Lee Hancock
Lincoln (2012)
/ Steven Spielberg
Les adieux à la reine (2012)
(Farewell, My Queen) / Benoît Jacquot
The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015)
/ Robert Eggers
Les Misérables (2012)
/ Tom Hooper
Mlyn i krzyz (2011)
(The Mill And The Cross) / Lech Majewski
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sgtpowers — 9 years ago(January 28, 2017 11:55 AM)
First, thank you for this massive list.
Second, this is for a personal viewing journeybecause, I'm very interested in history, love all those 'old' settings, and we are getting "bombarded" these days with superhero movies or sci-fi, I'm sick of that. -
scharnbergmaxse — 9 years ago(January 28, 2017 04:27 PM)
You will find particularly many Japanese movies about historical events.
I have included some movies that happened no brief time BEFORE 1500. Are you interested in such movies or not?
How about READING fiction or non-fiction about history?
Many people (including me) but not all people think that the best movie ever made is "Children of Paradise" by Carné. Most central persons really lived. Around 1820 a very famous pantomimic hat the name Bapttiste Dubareau, and an easily famous actress was Frederick LeMêtre. Pierre-Francois Lacenaire was a minor criminal, though he did kill one person in his life. He was executed in 1836. While he waited for execution he wrote his memoirs, which are also published in English translation.
I can give more information about the films if you want to.
Intolerance by Griffith, David / USA, 1916
Herr Arnes penningar by Stiller, Mauritz / Sweden, 1919
Der müde Tod by Lang, Fritz / Germany, 1921
Die Nibelungen by Lang, Fritz / Germany, 1923
Die Weber by Zelnik, Friedrich / Germany, 1927
Napoléon, vu par Abel Gance by Gance, Abel / France, 1927
La passion de Jeanne d'Arc by Dreyer, Carl Theodor / France, 1928
Queen Christina by Mamoulian, Rouben / USA, 1933
Les misérables by Bernard, Raymond / France, 1934
A Midsummer Night's Dream by Reinhardt, Max / USA, 1935
Anna Karenina by Brown, Clarence / USA, 1935
Gone With the Wind by Fleming, Victor / USA, 1939
Wuthering Heights by Wyler, William / UK, 1939
Young Mr. Lincoln by Ford, John / USA, 1939
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Fleming, Victor / USA, 1941
Snapphanar by Ohberg, ke / Sweden, 1941
Himlaspelet by Sjöberg, Alf / Sweden, 1942
Wienerblut by Forst, Willi / Germany/Austria, 1942
Drama på slottet by Ipsen, Bodil / Denmark, 1943
Münchhausen by Báky, Josef von / Germany, 1943
Vredens dag by Dreyer, Carl Theodor / Denmark, 1943
Henry V by Olivier, Lawrence / UK, 1944
Kungajakt by Sjöberg, Alf / Sweden, 1944
Les enfants du Paradis by Carné, Marcel / France, 1945
Great Expectations by Lean, David / UK, 1946
Anna Karenina by Duvivier, Julien / USA, 1948
Hamlet by Olivier, Laurence / UK, 1948
Les amants de Verone by Cayatte, André / France, 1948
Oliver Twist by Lean, David / UK, 1948
La beauté du diable by Clair, René / France, 1949
Singoalla by Christian-Jaque / Sweden, 1949
Under Capricorn by Hitchcock, Alfred / UK, 1949
Rashomon by Kurosawa, Akira / Japan, 1950
Fröken Julie by Sjöberg, Alf / Sweden, 1951
The Tales of Hoffmann by Powel, Michael & Pressburger, Emeric / UK, 1951
La jeune folle by Allegret, Yves / France, 1952
Othello by Welles, Orson / USA, 1952
Saikaku ichidai onna by Mizuguchi, Kenji / Japan, 1952
Barrabas by Sjöberg, Alf / Sweden, 1953
Jigokumon by Kinugasa, Teinosuke / Japan, 1953
Julius Caesar by Mankiewicz, Joseph L. / USA, 1953
Ugetsu monogatari by Mizoguchi, Kenji / Japan, 1953
Jeanne au bucher by Rosselini, Roberto / Italy, 1954
Karin Månsdotter by Sjöberg, Alf / Sweden, 1954
Giftas by Henrikson, Anders / Sweden, 1955
Napoléon by Guitry, Sacha / France, 1955
Les sorcières de Salem by Rouleau, Raymond / France, 1957
Chushingura by Watanabe, Kunio / Japan, 1958
Les misérables by Chanois, Jean-Paul de / France, 1958
Ben Hur by Wyler, William / USA, 1959
Dama s sobatchkoy by Kheifits, Yossif / Russia, 1959
Der Rest ist Schweigen by Käutner, Helmuth / Germany, 1959
Inherit the Wind by Kramer, Stanley / USA, 1960
Spartacus by Kubrick, Stanley / USA, 1960
Elektra by Cacoyannis, Michael / Greece, 1961
Hangyaku-Ji by Ito, Daisuke / Japan, 1961
Le procès de Jeanne d'Arc by Bresson, Robert / France, 1962
Seppuku by Kobayashi, Masaki / Japan, 1962
Gamlet by Kozintsev, Grigori / Russia, 1964
Sult by Carlsen, Henning / Sweden, 1966
Syskonbädd 1782 by Sjöman, Vilgot / Sweden, 1966
Far From the Madding Crowd by Schlesinger, John / UK, 1967
Korol Lir by Kozintsev, Grigori / Russia, 1969
The Music Lovers by Russell, Ken / UK?, 1970
Andrej Rublyov by Tarkovskij, Andrej / Russia, 1971
Macbeth by Polanski, Roman / USA, 1971
Moses und Aron by Straub, Jean-Marie & Huillet, Danièle / France, 1974
L'histoire d'Adèle H. by Truffaut, Francois / France, 1975
Iphigenia by Cacoyannis, Michael / Greece, 1977
Woyzeck by Herzog, Werner von / Germany, 1978
Don Giovanni by Losey, Joseph / France/Italy/Germany, 1979
Tess by Polanski, Roman / UK, 1979
Korpen flyger by Gunnlaugsson, Hrafn / Sweden/Iceland, 1984
Ran by Kurosawa, Akira / Japan, 1985
Der Tod des Empedokles by Straub, Jean-Marie & Huillet, Danièlle /
Germany/France, 1986
Hoffmanns Erzählungen by Kaslic, Vaclav / Germany, 1986
Othello by Nunn, Trevor / UK, 1990
La veuve de Saint-Pierre by Leconte, Patrice / France, 1999 -
Franco_Zed — 9 years ago(January 29, 2017 12:47 AM)
Vanity Fair (2004, Reese Witherspoon)
True Grit
Master and Commander
Ran (Japanese, Kurosawa)
Red Cliff (Chinese)
Shakespeare in Love
The Prestige
Dances with Wolves
Titanic
Gladiator
Les Miserables (various versions)
Moulin Rouge
Phantom of the Opera
Possession (2002, Gwyneth Paltrow)
The Princess Bride?
Tangled?
Frozen?
You have enough suggestions to last you for ages, but I figured I'd list a handful of MY favorites.
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filmmagnet — 9 years ago(January 29, 2017 02:01 AM)
Maybe there's options like 16th Century, 17th Century in the keywords in Search. Shakespeare would have some adaptations from early in the period though I'm aware that a lot of his plays such as MacBeth were older history. Just had a quick glance at my 10 out of 10 list, couldn't see anything apart from a Corpse Bride (technically 19th Century I believe but total fantasy) and Citizen Kane which was partly set very late in the period. I had a few 10s that were older history.