19th Century Movies

A comedy about a lost inheritance, love and a red umbrella, which, according to a local legend, belonged to St. Peter himself.

In times of the French Intervention, a student of Nunó, author of the Mexican National Anthem, falls in love with the niece of the French...

Capt. Eugenio arrives in a remote castle to take charge of a unit guarding a nameless prisoner. No one knows much about the inmate as he is held in a...

A student rebellion precedes revolutionary events in Prague.

In 1870 Friendship, Wisconsin, a small town of Scandinavian settlers still suffering the repercussions of the recent Civil War. When faced with a new...

This remarkable series of 10 short silent dramas by John M. Stahl, produced by Benjamin Chapin as a vehicle for his performance as Abraham Lincoln,...

In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt...

In 1890, in one of the villages of Ukrainian Polissia, a man died under mysterious circumstances. The locals blamed his wife, a young healer, and...

In the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson.

Stuck in a loveless marriage to intellectual George Tesman, the ambitious Hedda Gabler hungers for a life her husband can't provide. Then a former...

The history of the potato through the ages—with a focus on European history and a twinkle in its eye

Film about famous poet Karel Hynek Mácha

In pre-famine Ireland when poverty and magic were rife, introverted farm girl Maura discovers a magical world of the imagination through the...

Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.

Set against the backdrop of the late 1800s, Bub Meek helplessly watches his best friend rise to infamy as an outlaw, known only as Butch Cassidy, the...