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✔️ The Victorian era (1837–1901) films and TV shows
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During the reign of Queen Victoria, it was an era of exciting discoveries, inventions and exploration following the Industrial Revolution. Gender and class were the main organizing principles of Victorian society. Melodrama emerged in theater and literature.

This collection is a selection of movies and TV dramas set around the time of the Victorian era. Including a few rare kinetoscope (early motion-picture) films by Edison Manufacturing Company (1890s).


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Movie: An Ideal Husband ( 1999 )
London 1895: Cabinet minister, Sir Chiltern, and bachelor, Lord Goring, are victims of scheming women.
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Movie: Angels and Insects ( 1996 )
In the 1800s a naturalist marries into a family of British country gentry.
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Movie: Angelica ( 2017 )
A couple living in Victorian London endure an unusual series of psychological and supernatural happenings following the birth of their child.
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Movie: Amy Foster ( 1998 )
The film tells the story of Russian emigree, and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall, and servant Amy Foster in the end of nineteenth century. When Yanko enters a farm, sick and hungry after the shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy, who is very kind and helps him. Soon he becomes like a son for Dr. James Kennedy and romance between Yanko and Amy follows.
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Movie: A Mother's Gift ( 1995 )
A singer and her husband leave their home in their frontier town for Pioneer life in the West but realizes that life in the west is hard on their marriage and her dreams.
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Movie: Ammonite ( 2020 )
1840s England, acclaimed but overlooked fossil hunter Mary Anning and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.
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Movie: Amistad ( 1997 )
In 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island. The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legally free.
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Movie: A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1999 )
Lovers' lives are complicated by city law, feuding faerie royalty, and... love.
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Movie: American Friends ( 1991 )
Reverend Francis Ashby (Sir Michael Palin), a senior Oxford don on vacation alone in the Alps, meets vacationing American Miss Caroline Hartley (Connie Booth) and her companion Miss Elinor Hartley (Trini Alvarado), the blossoming Irish-American girl she adopted many years before. Ashby finds he enjoys their company, particularly that of Elinor, and both of the women are drawn to him. Back at Oxford he is nevertheless taken aback when they arrive unannounced. Women are not allowed in the College grounds, let alone the rooms. Indeed any liaison, however innocent, is frowned on by the upstanding Fellows.
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TV Show: A Man Called Shenandoah ( 1965 )
A bit after the Civil War ended, a man was shot while traveling out of a town and then left for dead. The head would caused him to loose his memory, and now he travels through the west under the assumed name of Shenandoah trying to discover who he is, he takes various odd jobs along the way to support himself and has encounters with people who try to kill him, gets entangled with crooks while trying to foil their schemes and more. The theme song is sung by Richard Horton who plays Shenandoah.
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Movie: All This, and Heaven Too ( 1940 )
A duchess' irrational behavior toward the governess of her children triggers tragic events that will change her family's lives forever.
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TV Show: All the Rivers Run ( 1983 )
Orphaned after a shipwreck off the Victorian coast of Australia, the beautiful and spirited Philadelphia Gordon finds both love and adventure aboard a paddle-steamer on the Murray River.
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Movie: All Mine to Give ( 1957 )
This is a story based on fact that follows a husband and wife who emigrate from Scotland to Wisconsin in the 1850's. They work very hard and become welcome citizens of their new town, Eureka. They have six children. They prosper in the husband's boat building business. But when their eldest is 12, tragedy strikes the family, and the 12-year old is burdened with a terrible task which he handles as well as any adult could.
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TV Show: A Little Princess ( 1987 )
Sara Crewe is the pampered darling of her father, an army colonel, and the Victorian London girls' school where he places her. But when her father dies, penniless, Sara becomes a skivvy in Miss Michin's school, befriended only by the scullery maid, Becky, her friends Ermengarde and Lottie, a little monkey, a lascar, and the mysterious man next door.
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Movie: A Light for Greytowers ( 2007 )
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Movie: Alice Through the Looking Glass ( 2016 )
Alice returns to the whimsical world of Wonderland and travels back in time to help the Mad Hatter.
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Movie: Alice in Wonderland ( 1999 )
Alice falls down a rabbit hole, and finds herself in Wonderland, a fantasy land of strange characters and ideas.
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Movie: Alice in Wonderland ( 2010 )
Nineteen-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen's reign of terror.
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Movie: Alice in Wonderland ( 1951 )
Alice stumbles into the world of Wonderland. Will she get home? Not if the Queen of Hearts has her way.
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Movie: Alice in Wonderland ( 1985 )
Alice is in Looking Glass Land, where she meets many Looking Glass creatures and attempts to avoid the Jabberwocky, a monster that appears due to her being afraid.
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Movie: Alice in Wonderland ( 1955 )
A young girl named Alice falls down a rabbit-hole and finds herself in Wonderland, a fantasy land of strange characters and ideas.
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TV Show: Alias Grace ( 2017 )
The story of Alias Grace follows Grace Marks, a poor, young Irish immigrant and domestic servant in Upper Canada who, along with stable hand James McDermott, was convicted of the brutal murders of their employer, Thomas Kinnear, and his housekeeper, Nancy Montgomery, in 1843. James was hanged while Grace was sentenced to life imprisonment. Grace became one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of 1840s Canada for her supposed role in the sensational double murder, and was eventually exonerated after 30 years in jail. Her conviction was controversial, and sparked much debate about whether Grace was actually involved in the murder, or merely an unwitting accessory. The mini is inspired by the historical true story of convicted murderer Grace Marks and based on Margaret Atwood's novel.
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Movie: Albert Nobbs ( 2012 )
Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th-century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most elegant hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living.
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TV Show: Ai no Wakakusa Monogatari ( 1987 )
Meg, faithful and gentle, Jo, independent and energetic, Beth, quiet and shy, Amy, amiable and precocious–the four sisters live vigorously and happily at home with their gentle mother while waiting for their father to return from the Civil War. Helping each other, they challenge their fates and grow up to become wonderful women.
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Movie: A House Divided ( 2000 )
In the aftermath of the terrible Civil War which has devastated the South, Amanda America Dixon returns home to find she has become the sole heir to a vast cotton plantation. But the dreadful secret which has blighted her life threatens to deprive her of the birthright which her beloved father David had struggled for so long to create. Raised by her father and grandmother to be the perfect white Southern Belle, Amanda's true mother was a black slave Julia. Confronted with the forces of greed and bigotry, Amanda has to face not only the hatred of a racist world, but the complex truth of a family whose lives have been built on a lie.
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Movie: A High Wind in Jamaica ( 1965 )
In 1870, a Jamaican colonial family sends its children to Britain for proper schooling but their ship is taken over by pirates who become fond of the kids.
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Movie: A Ghost in Monte Carlo ( 1990 )
Weary of her very public life in Paris, an aging courtesan takes her orphaned niece from her convent home and relocates to Monte Carlo to begin a new life. Determined to bury the past, the courtesan Madame Bluet becomes the respectable Countess de Secret, and her niece Mistral, Mademoiselle Phantome. Soon, the secretive Countess and the beautiful Mlle. Phantome are the talk of Monte Carlo. Mistral finds herself surrounded by admirers - some with less than honorable intentions, while her aunt plots a long-awaited revenge. Will Mistral's chance for happiness be destroyed when her aunt's plot and past are revealed?
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Movie: Affinity ( 2008 )
A grieving upper class woman becomes a "Lady Visitor" at Millbank prison, hoping to escape her troubles and be a guiding figure in the lives of the female prisoners. Of all her friendships with prisoners, she is most fascinated by Selina - a medium. Set in the 1870s.
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TV Show: A Escrava Isaura ( 2004 )
Isaura was born in 1835, in the farm of Commender Almeida. She is the daughter of the slave Juliana and the tenant of the farm, Miguel. Juliana dies right after the birth, because she denied going to bed with the Commender. He whips her to death in revenge. So, Isaura is raised and educated by Gertrudes, wife of the Commender, who always wanted to have a daughter. In spite of her excellent education and the white skin, Isaura, as a daughter of a slave,will always be treated as a slave.
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Movie: A Dog of Flanders ( 1999 )
Poor, but happy, young Nello and his grandfather live alone, delivering milk as a livelihood, in the outskirts of Antwerp, a city in Flanders (the Flemish or Dutch-speaking part of modern-day Belgium). They discover a beaten dog (a Bouvier, a large sturdy dog native to Flanders) and adopt it and nurse it back to health, naming it Patrasche, the middle name of Nello's mother Mary, who died when Nello was very young. Nello's mother was a talented artist, and like his mother, he delights in drawing, and his friend Aloise is his model and greatest fan and supporter.
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Movie: A Dispatch from Reuters ( 1940 )
Starting with a small flock of carrier pigeons, nineteenth-century entrepreneur Julius Reuter turns his small company into Europe's most respected news wire service.
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Movie: A Cruel Romance ( 1985 )
Cinematographic adaptation of classical Russian play "Dowry-less" by A. Ostrovsky. Noble but poor widow seeks to arrange marriage for her three daughters. She maintains "open house" or provincial form of salon hoping to attract gentlemen well-off enough to marry for love to a dowry-less.
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Movie: A Christmas Carol: The Musical ( 2004 )
An old bitter miser is given a chance for redemption when he is haunted by ghosts on Christmas Eve.
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Movie: A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong ( 2017 )
The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society hijack a BBC production of A Christmas Carol.
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Movie: A Christmas Carol ( 1995 )
Telling of the Dickens classic in animated form with music.
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Movie: A Christmas Carol ( 1938 )
On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and he warns him to change his ways or face the consequences in the afterlife. Scrooge dismisses the apparition but the first of the three ghosts, the Ghost of Christmas Past, visits as promised. Scrooge sees those events in his past life, both happy and sad, that forged his character. The second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present, shows him how many currently celebrate Christmas. The Ghost of Christmas yet to Come shows him how he will be remembered once he is gone. To his delight, the spirits complete their visits in one night giving him the opportunity to mend his ways.
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Movie: A Christmas Carol ( 2009 )
An animated retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.
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Movie: A Christmas Carol ( 2015 )
When the miserly Ebeneezer Scrooge receives ghostly visitations one fateful Christmas Eve, he is shown the error of his ways.
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Movie: A Christmas Carol ( 2020 )
A reinvention of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. The radical new take on Dickens' classic seeks both to exhume the original story's gritty commentary on social inequality and the corrupting influence of greed, and to breathe new life into the lyricism of the original text by setting its scenes to extraordinary tableaux of modern dance. The opening scenes of the film follow a Victorian family preparing a toy theatre for their annual performance of 'A Christmas Carol'. As the family's grandmother narrates the much-edited story and her grandchildren change the scenery, we enter the imagination of one of the children in the audience and watch as the cardboard stage, and the story with it, transforms into a darkly fantastical otherworld.
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TV Show: A Christmas Carol ( 2019 )
A Christmas Carol is a unique and original take on the Charles Dickens' iconic ghost story and a haunting, hallucinatory, spine-tingling immersion into Scrooge's dark night of the soul.
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Movie: A Christmas Carol ( 1951 )
An old bitter miser is given a chance for redemption when he is haunted by three ghosts on Christmas Eve...
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Movie: A Christmas Carol ( 1998 )
Misanthropic miser Ebenezer Scrooge is haunted by his deceased business partner, Jacob Marley. Marley's ghost is followed by three more spirits from Christmases Past, Present, and Yet to Come. Each has a lesson Scrooge must learn.
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Movie: A Christmas Carol ( 2019 )
It was the night before Christmas. As the towns folk merried themselves at the annual Victorian fayre, Scrooge sat in his counting-house tallying his books. He was soon to set off on a journey that would change his life forever. A modern take on a Dickens classic.
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Movie: A Christmas Carol ( 1999 )
An old bitter miser who makes excuses for his uncaring nature learns real compassion when three ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve.
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Movie: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter ( 2012 )
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, discovers vampires are planning to take over the United States. He makes it his mission to eliminate them.
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Movie: 4 for Texas ( 1963 )
Zack Thomas is a tough guy who hooks up with Joe Jarrett to open a casino.
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TV Show: 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother ( 1976 )
3000 Leagues in Search of Mother is about an Italian boy, Marco, and his journey in search of his mother. Italy was in a deep depression, so to support her family, Marco's mother went to Argentina to work as a domestic. But after she wrote to her family that she was sick, her letters stopped coming. So Marco decides to go to Argentina to look for her. Marco has to travel across Argentina to find her, meeting many wonderful people, and encountering many adventures during his journey.
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TV Show: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ( 1997 )
The year is 1886, when New England's fishing harbours are the scene for a "creature of unknown origin" destroying ships at sea. It is the job of Professor Pierre Arronax, a marine expert, and Ned Land, the iron-willed sailor, to learn the truth of the "monster" roaming the seas. The great novelist, Jules Verne, described this perilous journey to the darkest depths of the sea with Captain Nemo aboard the Nautilus.
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Movie: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ( 1955 )
A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.
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Movie: 1900 ( 1976 )
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
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TV Show: 1899 ( 2022 )
1899. A migrant steamship heads west to leave the old continent. The passengers, a mixed bag of European origins, united by their hopes and dreams for the new century and their future abroad. But their journey takes an unexpected turn when they discover another migrant ship adrift on open sea. What they will find on board, will turn their passage to the promised land into a horrifying nightmare.
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Movie: 1898. Los últimos de Filipinas ( 2016 )
A soldiers trapped inside a church as last refugee. A fight that no one couldn't win. A war that no one wanted to lose.
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TV Show: 1883 ( 2021 )
1883 follows the Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. It is a stark retelling of Western expansion, and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America's promised land - Montana.
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TV Show: 1864 ( 2014 )
When Germany and Prussia declare war on Denmark, two brothers are called to serve in the bloodiest battle in Denmark's history. We follow the brothers Peter and Laust during the years of the Second Schleswig War, two brothers in love with the same woman.
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Movie: 17 Miracles ( 2011 )
The Mormon pioneers trek across the plains.
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Movie: 12 Years a Slave ( 2013 )
Based on an incredible true story of one man's fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty personified by a malevolent slave owner, as well as unexpected kindnesses, Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon's chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.