Movies / TV Series Set in the 18th Century
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1. Fanfan la Tulipe (1952)
Not Rated | 102 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Swashbuckling adventures of young army recruit Fanfan la Tulipe during the reign of King Louis XV in 18th Century France.
Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Gérard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida, Marcel Herrand, Olivier Hussenot
Votes: 3,433
2. Alexander Hamilton (1931)
Passed | 70 min | Biography, Drama, History
With the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783, General George Washington took Colonel Hamilton with him into the newly formed government. While the main disagreements in the early days was ... See full summary »
Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: George Arliss, Doris Kenyon, Dudley Digges, June Collyer
Votes: 323 | Gross: $0.99M
3. Danton (1931)
92 min | Drama
At the height of the French Revolution, the fanatic Robespierre brings the popular but more moderate leader Danton to trial and demands his execution.
Director: Hans Behrendt | Stars: Fritz Kortner, Lucie Mannheim, Gustaf Gründgens, Alexander Granach
Votes: 70
4. Trenck - Der Roman einer großen Liebe (1932)
100 min | Drama
A celebration of strong Prussian leadership during the reign of Frederick the Great.
Directors: Ernst Neubach, Heinz Paul | Stars: Hans Stüwe, Dorothea Wieck, Olga Tschechowa, Theodor Loos
Votes: 19
5. Voltaire (1933)
Passed | 72 min | Drama
Writer and philosopher Voltaire, loyal to his king, Louis XV of France, nonetheless writes scathingly of the king's disdain for the rights and needs of his people. Louis admires Voltaire ... See full summary »
Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: George Arliss, Doris Kenyon, Margaret Lindsay, Reginald Owen
Votes: 244
6. Der Choral von Leuthen (1933)
91 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of the rise to power of King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia of his military campaigns to make Prussia a major power in Europe.
Directors: Carl Froelich, Walter Supper, Arzén von Cserépy | Stars: Otto Gebühr, Olga Tschechowa, Elga Brink, Harry Frank
Votes: 78
7. The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934)
Not Rated | 95 min | Biography, Drama, History
Straightforward biography of the Russian Empress, up to her assumption of the throne.
Directors: Paul Czinner, Alexander Korda | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Elisabeth Bergner, Flora Robson, Gerald du Maurier
Votes: 739
8. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
Not Rated | 97 min | Adventure, Drama
A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.
Director: Harold Young | Stars: Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce
Votes: 4,766
9. The Czar Wants to Sleep (1934)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Drama
A sarcastic comedy about the Imperial Russian bureaucracy, based on the eponymous novella by Yuri Tynyanov. Set in the reign of Emperor Paul I. A copying error by a military scribe turns ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Faintsimmer | Stars: Mikhail Yanshin, Boris Gorin-Goryainov, Nina Shaternikova, Sofiya Magarill
Votes: 142
10. Madame Du Barry (1934)
Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Madame DuBarry is a 1934 American historical film directed by William Dieterle and starring Dolores del Rio, Reginald Owen, Victor Jory and Osgood Perkins. The film portrays the life of ... See full summary »
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Dolores Del Río, Reginald Owen, Victor Jory, Osgood Perkins
Votes: 308
11. A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
Not Rated | 128 min | Drama, History, Romance
A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amidst the turmoil of the French Revolution.
Directors: Jack Conway, Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen
Votes: 6,297
12. Clive of India (1935)
Approved | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
In the mid-1700's the East India Company has power over commerce on the sub-continent, with the blessings of the British government. A clerk in the company, Robert Clive, is frustrated by ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Colin Clive, Francis Lister
Votes: 457
13. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Passed | 132 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
First mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1789 mutiny.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Herbert Mundin
Votes: 24,841
14. The Making of a King (1935)
91 min | Drama
The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia.
Director: Hans Steinhoff | Stars: Emil Jannings, Werner Hinz, Leopoldine Konstantin, Claus Clausen
Votes: 113
15. Der Bettelstudent (1936)
90 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
To take a revenge on countess Laura, who slapped him at his proposal, the Governor of the occupied Poland gets her fall in love with a poor student, and exposes him during wedding banquet.
Director: Georg Jacoby | Stars: Fritz Kampers, Harry Hardt, Ida Wüst, Carola Höhn
Votes: 74
16. Pugachev (1937)
93 min | Biography, Drama
Emelian Pugachev pretends to be Czar Peter III and leads an uprising against Catherine. His Cossack-Bashkir army has some success, and the people in the territory believe him to be the Czar... See full summary »
Director: Pavel Petrov-Bytov | Stars: Konstantin Skorobogatov, Kasim Mukhutdinov, Yakov Malyutin, Vladimir Gardin
Votes: 18
17. Peter the First (1937)
96 min | Biography, Drama, History
A historical film about the life and state activities of Tsar Peter I, the reformer of Russia of the XVIII century, starting from the Battle of Narva in 1700 and ending with the adoption of the title of emperor by Peter the Great in 1721.
Director: Vladimir Petrov | Stars: Nikolai Simonov, Nikolay Cherkasov, Alla Tarasova, Mikhail Zharov
Votes: 239
18. Fridericus (1937)
97 min | Drama
In 18th century Europe, King Friedrich II of Prussia leads his army through the seven-years-war with neighboring states, and after numerous near defeats, eventually brings a victorious army back to Berlin.
Director: Johannes Meyer | Stars: Otto Gebühr, Hilde Körber, Lil Dagover, Agnes Straub
Votes: 86
19. La Marseillaise (1938)
Not Rated | 130 min | Drama, History, Music
A news-reel like movie about early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of individual people, citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course the king Louis XVI, ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Pierre Renoir, Lise Delamare, Louis Jouvet, Léon Larive
Votes: 1,395
20. Marie Antoinette (1938)
Passed | 149 min | Biography, Drama, History
The tragic life of Marie Antoinette, who became queen of France in her late teens.
Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Julien Duvivier | Stars: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley
Votes: 3,284
21. Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
Approved | 104 min | Drama, Romance, War
Newlyweds Gil and Lana Martin try to establish a farm in the Mohawk Valley but are menaced by Indians and Tories as the Revolutionary War begins.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver, Eddie Collins
Votes: 6,792 | Gross: $1.00M
22. Manon Lescaut (1940)
92 min | Drama
Manon escapes with the young nobleman Des Grieux, then becomes a high-class courtesan and finally forced to exile to America.
Director: Carmine Gallone | Stars: Alida Valli, Vittorio De Sica, Lamberto Picasso, Giulio Donadio
Votes: 21
23. Northwest Passage (1940)
Passed | 126 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Langdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers' Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They set out for Fort Wentworth, but when they arrive they find no soldiers and none of the supplies they expected.
Directors: King Vidor, Jack Conway, W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey
Votes: 3,902
24. Trenck, der Pandur (1940)
80 min
Film about the fictitious adventures of Franz Freiherr von Trenck, who lived during the times of empress Maria Theresia of Austria garnished with espionage and twisted love affairs.
Director: Herbert Selpin | Stars: Hans Albers, Käthe Dorsch, Sybille Schmitz, Hilde Weissner
Votes: 39
25. The Howards of Virginia (1940)
Approved | 116 min | Drama, History, War
Just prior to the American War of Independence, aristocratic Virginian Jane Peyton marries unsophisticated rustic farmer and surveyor Matt Howard who takes her to his Shenandoah Valley plantation and later goes to war.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Marshal
Votes: 1,263
26. Salavat Yulayev (1941)
72 min | Action, Biography, Drama
A film about the national hero of the Bashkir people Salavat Yulaev, the leader of the Bashkirs in the peasant uprising led by Yemelyan Pugachev.
Director: Yakov Protazanov | Stars: Arslan Muboryakov, Gimaletdin Mingazhev, Abdullamin Zubairov, Rim Syrtlanov
Votes: 37
27. The Comedians (1941)
111 min | Biography, Drama
For his first return film in now National Socialist Germany, Pabst presented a historical tribute to the very first national theater troupe there,founded by a group of actors in the town of Weimar in the 18th century.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Käthe Dorsch, Hilde Krahl, Henny Porten, Gustav Diessl
Votes: 66
28. General Suvorov (1941)
Passed | 100 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Primarily a biographical documentary about the military career of Alexander Vasilvich Suvorov, who was Field Marshal of the armies of Catherine the Great and Czar Paul I. After many ... See full summary »
Directors: Mikhail Doller, Vsevolod Pudovkin | Stars: Nikolay P. Cherkasov, Aleksandr Khanov, Mikhail Astangov, Apollon Yachnitskiy
Votes: 221
29. Tanz mit dem Kaiser (1941)
102 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Emperor Joseph II escapes the intrigues of his court. In Transylvania Baroness Christine mistakes his adjutant Kleber for the emperor and falls for him. Her love letter leads to her being summoned as a suitable bride for the real emperor.
Director: Georg Jacoby | Stars: Marika Rökk, Wolf Albach-Retty, Maria Eis, Axel von Ambesser
Votes: 35
30. Friedemann Bach (1941)
102 min | Drama, Music
During a house concert, the Bach family gets a visit by their son Wilhelm Friedemann, who has just given up his position in Dresden because he no longer could endure the reprisals of his superiors.
Directors: Traugott Müller, Gustaf Gründgens | Stars: Gustaf Gründgens, Leny Marenbach, Johannes Riemann, Camilla Horn
Votes: 107
31. Wen die Götter lieben (1942)
112 min | Biography, Drama, History
A film relating to the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. [This is from the US copyright record, which is public domain.]
Director: Karl Hartl | Stars: Hans Holt, Irene von Meyendorff, Winnie Markus, Doris Hild
Votes: 87
32. Der große König (1942)
118 min | Drama, History, War
A story of Prussian king (from 1740 to 1786) Frederick II the Great.
Director: Veit Harlan | Stars: Otto Gebühr, Kristina Söderbaum, Gustav Fröhlich, Hans Nielsen
Votes: 321
33. The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
Approved | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of twenty-four.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Robert Donat, Geoffrey Atkins, Jean Cadell, Robert Morley
Votes: 445
XVIII c. - XIX c.
34. Tordenskjold går i land (1942)
91 min | Drama
The Great Nordic War was in full swing, and the Danes and Norwegians had heard with increasing wonder and excitement about a series of victorious and daring feats practiced by a young ... See full summary »
Director: George Schnéevoigt | Stars: Ingeborg Brams, Angelo Bruun, Rasmus Christiansen, Benny Fagerlund
Votes: 19
35. Luisa Sanfelice (1942)
75 min | Drama
Director: Leo Menardi | Stars: Laura Solari, Massimo Serato, Osvaldo Valenti, Carlo Ninchi
36. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1943)
Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy
This lavish, impudent, adult fairy tale takes the viewer from 18th-century Braunschweig to St. Petersburg, Constantinople, Venice, and then to the moon using ingenious special effects, stunning location shooting.
Director: Josef von Báky | Stars: Hans Albers, Wilhelm Bendow, Michael Bohnen, Hans Brausewetter
Votes: 2,183
XVIII c. / XX c.
37. David Bek (1944)
93 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Armenian national hero, David Bek, leads a major struggle against Turkish invaders in the Syunik region of Armenia in the 18th century.
Director: Amo Bek-Nazaryan | Stars: Hrachia Nersisyan, Avet Avetisyan, Hasmik Agopyan, Arus Asryan
Votes: 52
38. A Royal Scandal (1945)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, History
In 18th century Russia, the naive and idealistic lieutenant Chernov meets Empress Catherine the Great who becomes infatuated with him and appoints him Chief of the Imperial Guard.
Directors: Otto Preminger, Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Coburn, Anne Baxter, William Eythe
Votes: 1,213
39. The Queen's Necklace (1946)
118 min | Drama, History
3 years before the Revolution, clever Jeanne De La Motte manages to procure a special necklace belonging to Marie Antoinette.
Director: Marcel L'Herbier | Stars: Viviane Romance, Maurice Escande, Jacques Dacqmine, Jean Hébey
Votes: 90
40. Monsieur Beaucaire (1946)
Not Rated | 93 min | Adventure, Comedy, History
A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princess of Spain.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Bob Hope, Joan Caulfield, Patric Knowles, Marjorie Reynolds
Votes: 751
41. The Royalists (1947)
99 min | Adventure, History
Director: Henri Calef | Stars: Jean Marais, Marcel Herrand, Pierre Dux, Louis Seigner
Votes: 85
42. Unconquered (1947)
Passed | 146 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Intrepid frontiersman Chris Holden foils the political and personal ambitions of renegade Martin Garth in the Ohio Valley following the French and Indian War.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff
Votes: 2,889
43. Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948)
Passed | 98 min | Biography, Drama, History
In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.
Directors: Anthony Kimmins, Leslie Arliss, Alexander Korda, Robert Stevenson | Stars: David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Morland Graham, John Laurie
Votes: 334
44. Reign of Terror (1949)
Approved | 89 min | History, Romance, Thriller
Robespierrre, a powerful figure in the French revolution, is desperately looking for his black book, a death list of those marked for the guillotine.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart, Richard Hart, Arlene Dahl
Votes: 2,120
45. Black Magic (1949)
Passed | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.
Directors: Gregory Ratoff, Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, Nancy Guild, Akim Tamiroff, Frank Latimore
Votes: 1,465
46. The Fighting Pimpernel (1949)
88 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Cyril Cusack, Jack Hawkins
Votes: 610
47. Treasure Island (1950)
PG | 96 min | Adventure, Family
The treasure seeking adventures of young Jim Hawkins and pirate captain Long John Silver.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney, Walter Fitzgerald
Votes: 9,461
48. Shadow of the Eagle (1950)
93 min | Drama
Count Orlof, one of Catherine of Russia's many overnight favourites, travels to Venice on her behalf to abduct Elizabeth Tarakanova who has been laying claim to the throne from the Crimea. ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Richard Greene, Valentina Cortese, Greta Gynt, Binnie Barnes
Votes: 108
49. Cartouche, roi de Paris (1950)
80 min | Adventure
The romantic life of the head of a bandit gang, wanted by the police. Cartouche gets away with being deported to Louisiana after unmasking a plot by a Duke against the throne.
Director: Guillaume Radot | Stars: Roger Pigaut, Renée Devillers, Claire Duhamel, Jean Davy
Votes: 10
50. Anne of the Indies (1951)
Approved | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In order to recover his ship impounded by the British, former pirate captain LaRochelle agrees to spy on the notorious Caribbean Sea pirates Blackbeard and Anne Providence.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan, Debra Paget, Herbert Marshall
Votes: 1,492
51. Maria Theresia (1951)
91 min | Drama, History
Director: Emil E. Reinert | Stars: Paula Wessely, Fred Liewehr, Marianne Schönauer, Rosa Albach-Retty
Votes: 37
52. Dear Caroline (1951)
115 min | Comedy
14th July 1789. While the wedding of her older unprepossessing sister Louise to a wealthy aristocrat is being celebrated, sixteen-year old beauty Caroline falls in love with an attractive ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Pottier | Stars: Martine Carol, Alfred Adam, Jacques Baumer, Paul Bernard
Votes: 172
53. The Crimson Pirate (1952)
Not Rated | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
During the 1700s, pirate Captain Vallo seizes a British warship and gets involved in various money-making schemes involving Caribbean rebels led by El Libre, British envoy Baron Jose Gruda, and a beautiful courtesan named Consuelo.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok, Torin Thatcher
Votes: 6,986
54. Scaramouche (1952)
Approved | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
In France during the late 18th Century, a man sets out to avenge the death of his friend at the hands of a master swordsman.
Director: George Sidney | Stars: Stewart Granger, Janet Leigh, Eleanor Parker, Mel Ferrer
Votes: 6,363
55. Caribbean (1952)
Approved | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Francis Barclay, a former member of the British Admiralty, who was captured in the early 1700s and sold into slavery by Andrew MacAllister, and forced into piracy, enlists the aid of Dick ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: John Payne, Arlene Dahl, Cedric Hardwicke, Francis L. Sullivan
Votes: 231
56. Don Juan's Night of Love (1952)
102 min | Adventure
Mandrin, the French army deserter, becomes the leader of a gang of smugglers in Piedmont. He is loved by the beautiful innkeeper Rosetta but draws attention to the Marquise de Montbricourt,... See full summary »
Director: Mario Soldati | Stars: Raf Vallone, Jacques Castelot, Silvana Pampanini, Michèle Philippe
Votes: 38
57. The Golden Coach (1952)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Three men of varying social standing - a viceroy, a bullfighter, and a soldier - vie for the affections of an actress in 18th-century Peru.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Anna Magnani, Odoardo Spadaro, Nada Fiorelli, Duncan Lamont
Votes: 3,441
58. Admiral Ushakov (1953)
108 min | Biography, Drama, History
Historical epic about the legendary Russian naval commander of the 18th century, admiral Fyodor Ushakov, and his fight for Crimea during the Russo-Turkish War.
Director: Mikhail Romm | Stars: Ivan Pereverzev, Boris Livanov, Sergey Bondarchuk, Vladimir Druzhnikov
Votes: 220
59. The Master of Ballantrae (1953)
Approved | 90 min | Action, Adventure, History
Two noble Scottish brothers deliberately take opposite sides when Bonnie Prince Charlie returns to claim the throne of Scotland in order to preserve the family fortune.
Director: William Keighley | Stars: Errol Flynn, Roger Livesey, Anthony Steel, Beatrice Campbell
Votes: 1,782
60. Attack from the Sea (1953)
94 min | Biography, Drama, War
The historical and biographic movie about the glorified Russian naval commander Ushakov. France begins aggressive wars. The Russian and allied troops freeing Italy are headed by A. V. ... See full summary »
Director: Mikhail Romm | Stars: Ivan Pereverzev, Gennadi Yudin, Vladimir Druzhnikov, Aleksey Alekseev
Votes: 168
XVIII c. - XIX c.
61. Madame du Barry (1954)
106 min | Drama, History
The daughter of a seamstress, Jeanne Bécu could hardly imagine she would later become one of the most influential women of the Kingdom of France. Nor could she anticipate her quick fall and... See full summary »
Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Martine Carol, Daniel Ivernel, Gianna Maria Canale, Jean Parédès
Votes: 103
62. Le due orfanelle (1954)
95 min | Adventure, Drama
Director: Giacomo Gentilomo | Stars: Myriam Bru, Milly Vitale, André Luguet, Franco Interlenghi
Votes: 31
63. John Wesley (1954)
Approved | 77 min | Biography, Drama, History
When young John Wesley is saved from the flames burning his family's home, he believes God has chosen him for a higher mission. He grows up to become a minister in the Church of England but... See full summary »
Director: Norman Walker | Stars: Leonard Sachs, Gerard Lohan, Neil Heayes, Keith Pyott
Votes: 55
64. Cadet Rousselle (1954)
105 min | Adventure, Comedy
The Adventures of Cadet Rousselle that on the French Revolution left his hometown in search of fortune. He thinks know love with Violeta, a dancer in a band of comedians but a ends involved in a monarchist plot.
Director: André Hunebelle | Stars: François Périer, Dany Robin, Bourvil, Madeleine Lebeau
Votes: 169
65. Casanova's Big Night (1954)
Approved | 86 min | Adventure, Comedy
A meek tailor thinks his wooing will be helped if he assumes the identity of the famous Casanova...who's deeply in debt.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Bob Hope, Joan Fontaine, Audrey Dalton, Basil Rathbone
Votes: 1,143 | Gross: $7.63M
66. More studyonoye (1955)
92 min | Drama, History
XVIII century, the White Sea. The crew of the Pomors is going to fish. During their stay on Svalbard, pirates attack the boat and lower it to the bottom. Only four Pomors survive on the island and spend difficult 6 years there.
Director: Yuri Yegorov | Stars: Nikolay Kryuchkov, Valentin Grachyov, Gennadi Yudin, Elza Lezhdey
Votes: 43
67. Moonfleet (1955)
Approved | 87 min | Adventure, Drama
A young orphan is sent to the village of Moonfleet in Dorset, England to stay with his mother's former lover, who has the facade of a gentleman but leads a gang of swashbuckling bootleggers; the duo go on a treasure hunt.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood, Viveca Lindfors
Votes: 3,974
68. Mikhaylo Lomonosov (1955)
104 min | Biography
Director: Aleksandr Ivanov | Stars: Boris Livanov, Asta Vihandi, Vladimir Soshalsky, Vladimir Belokurov
Votes: 31
69. The Scarlet Coat (1955)
Approved | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, History
During the Revolutionary War, American Major John Boulton feigns desertion in order to uncover a British plot to seize the stronghold of West Point.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Michael Wilding, George Sanders, Anne Francis
Votes: 770
70. Shadow of the Guillotine (1956)
120 min | Drama, History
While Louis XV is dying, the Dauphine of France, Marie-Antoinette, seduces a Swedish officer, Axel de Fersen, which pains her husband, the new King Louis XVI, who will know how to be generous when he learns of this deception.
Director: Jean Delannoy | Stars: Michèle Morgan, Richard Todd, Jacques Morel, Jeanne Boitel
Votes: 171
71. The Buccaneers (1956–1957)
30 min | Adventure, Drama
The Crown takes Tempest's stronghold. The ex-pirate wins a pardon and becomes a privateer. He and Deputy Gov. Beamish fight Spanish raiders despite their unease. They defend the Caribbean.
Stars: Robert Shaw, Paul Hansard, Brian Rawlinson, Edwin Richfield
Votes: 188
72. Khozyayka gostinitsy (1956)
85 min | Comedy
Soviet TV production of a Carlo Goldoni play.
Director: Mikhail Nazvanov | Stars: Olga Viklandt, Anatoli Myagkikh, Mikhail Nazvanov, Vsevolod Yakut
Votes: 38
73. Posledná bosorka (1957)
96 min | Drama, History
This dramatic story is situated in the town of Trnava of the 18th century. Painter Peter paints an altar-piece of the Martyrdom of St. Juliet and his model is a young girl. This is much ... See full summary »
Director: Vladimír Bahna | Stars: Olga Zöllnerová, Mikulás Huba, Frantisek Dibarbora, Karol Machata
Votes: 56
74. King in Shadow (1957)
104 min | Drama
The German physician Dr. Struensee, brilliant doctor and favorite of women, is summoned to the royal court in Copenhagen.
Director: Harald Braun | Stars: O.W. Fischer, Odile Versois, Horst Buchholz, Fritz Tillmann
Votes: 103
75. A Tale of Two Cities (1958)
117 min | Drama, History, Romance
During the turbulent days of the French Revolution, Frenchwoman Lucie Manette falls in love with Englishman Charles Darnay, who's hiding his true identity and purpose.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Cecil Parker, Stephen Murray
Votes: 1,616
76. Kapitanskaya dochka (1958)
78 min | Drama
This literary adaptation focuses on the life of a rebellious young man in Tsarist Russia.
Director: Vladimir Kaplunovskiy | Stars: Oleg Strizhenov, Sergei Lukyanov, Iya Arepina, Vladimir Dorofeyev
Votes: 125
77. King on Horseback (1958)
82 min | Adventure, Drama
Henri La Tour, a strolling player, is also a daring adventurer. So, when, after accomplishing a brilliant feat, he is awarded a title by King Louis XV, the Duke of Saint-Sever takes offense... See full summary »
Director: Georges Lampin | Stars: Jean Marais, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Nadja Tiller, Cathia Caro
Votes: 255
78. Tempest (1958)
Approved | 120 min | Adventure, History
In 18th century Russia, Imperial officer Piotr Grinov is dispatched to a faraway isolated outpost where his loyalties are tested during the Pugachev Rebellion against the Empress Catherine II.
Director: Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Silvana Mangano, Van Heflin, Viveca Lindfors, Geoffrey Horne
Votes: 263
79. The Naked Maja (1958)
111 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Love takes precedence over art and politics as Spanish painter Goya pines for an aloof duchess.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Ava Gardner, Anthony Franciosa, Amedeo Nazzari, Gino Cervi
Votes: 442
XVIII c. - XIX c.
80. Diego Corrientes (1959)
98 min | Adventure, Drama, Musical
At the end of the eighteenth century, the young Diego Corrientes quarrels with the tyrannical count of Albanes, who, after arresting Diego, orders him to be spanked. Accused of murder and ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi | Stars: José Suárez, Marisa de Leza, Eulália del Pino, Milo Quesada
Votes: 29
81. The Devil's Disciple (1959)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy, History, Romance
The black sheep of a family and the local minister discover their true vocations during the Revolutionary War.
Directors: Guy Hamilton, Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Janette Scott
Votes: 2,872
82. John Paul Jones (1959)
126 min | Action, Biography, History
The career of Revolutionary War naval hero from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Robert Stack, Marisa Pavan, Charles Coburn, Erin O'Brien
Votes: 1,435
83. Le secret du Chevalier d'Éon (1959)
96 min | Comedy
Burgundy 1728. Old count Antoine d'Eon is overjoyed. His daughter-in-law has finally given birth to a boy and he will at long last be able to transmit his inheritance to his son Pascal. At ... See full summary »
Director: Jacqueline Audry | Stars: Andrée Debar, Isa Miranda, Gabriele Ferzetti, Bernard Blier
Votes: 112
84. Le Bossu (1959)
105 min | Action, Adventure
Prince Philippe de Gonzague decides to get rid of his cousin Duke de Nevers, having wished for long his properties and wealth.
Director: André Hunebelle | Stars: Jean Marais, Bourvil, Sabine Sesselmann, Jean Le Poulain
Votes: 1,499
85. Kabale und Liebe (1959)
111 min | Drama, Romance
Ferdinand is an army major and son of President von Walter; Luise Miller is the daughter of a middle-class musician. When they fall in love, their fathers urge them to end their relationship.
Director: Martin Hellberg | Stars: Wolf Kaiser, Otto Mellies, Marion van de Kamp, Willi Schwabe
Votes: 36
86. Kidnapped (1960)
Approved | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scottish Highlands, dodging the redcoats.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Peter Finch, James MacArthur, Bernard Lee, John Laurie
Votes: 1,609
87. Le dialogue des Carmélites (1960)
112 min | Drama, History
This is about the execution of 21 carmelite nuns in the latter stages of the terror during the French Revolution.
Directors: Philippe Agostini, Raymond Leopold Bruckberger | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Alida Valli, Madeleine Renaud, Pascale Audret
Votes: 303
88. Das Glas Wasser (1960)
81 min | Comedy, History, Musical
In early-18th-century London, Queen Anne, the last of the House of Stuart, is a weak ruler. She is committed to peace in the War of Spanish Succession. The Duchess of Marlborough, whose ... See full summary »
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Gustaf Gründgens, Liselotte Pulver, Sabine Sinjen, Hilde Krahl
Votes: 110
89. Fury at Smugglers' Bay (1961)
82 min | Adventure
Pirate wreckers ravage a small seaside community while the ineffectual local squire tries to discourage his son's romance with a smuggler's pretty daughter.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Peter Cushing, John Fraser, Bernard Lee, Michèle Mercier
Votes: 282
90. The Night Before Christmas (1961)
68 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Surreal Soviet-era Christmas fantasy movie.
Director: Aleksandr Rou | Stars: Aleksandr Khvylya, Lyudmila Myznikova, Yuri Tavrov, Lyudmila Khityaeva
Votes: 2,063
91. Cartouche (1962)
Not Rated | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The story of a kid from the back streets who wants to become king of Paris. Brought up among petty thieves, he becomes their leader through an audacious and elegant coup which wins him the love of the beautiful Venus.
Director: Philippe de Broca | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claudia Cardinale, Jess Hahn, Marcel Dalio
Votes: 2,931
92. Billy Budd (1962)
Approved | 123 min | Adventure, Drama, War
When a kind-hearted sailor is made to join an English vessel at war, he finds himself caught between devotion to his crew mates and obedience to their hated, cruel master-at-arms.
Director: Peter Ustinov | Stars: Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Douglas, Paul Rogers
Votes: 4,883
93. Night Creatures (1962)
Unrated | 82 min | Adventure, Drama
In 18th-century England, the Royal Crown sends Royal Navy Captain Collier and his crew to investigate reports of illegal smuggling and bootlegging in a coastal town where locals believe in Marsh Phantoms.
Director: Peter Graham Scott | Stars: Peter Cushing, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Allen, Oliver Reed
Votes: 3,604
94. Damn the Defiant! (1962)
Approved | 101 min | Action, Drama, History
On the H.M.S. Defiant, during the French Revolutionary War, fair Captain Crawford is locked in a battle of wills against his cruel second-in-command Lieutenant Scott-Padget, whose heavy-handed command style pushes the crew to mutiny.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Maurice Denham, Nigel Stock
Votes: 3,031
95. Lafayette (1962)
Not Rated | 158 min | Biography, Drama, History
During the American War of Independence, French officer and nobleman La Fayette comes to America's aid with men, money and weapons and becomes a Major-General under George Washington's command.
Director: Jean Dréville | Stars: Pascale Audret, Jack Hawkins, Michel Le Royer, Folco Lulli
Votes: 186
96. Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
Not Rated | 178 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by officer Fletcher Christian.
Directors: Lewis Milestone, Carol Reed, George Seaton | Stars: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris, Hugh Griffith
Votes: 17,877 | Gross: $13.68M
97. Catherine of Russia (1963)
105 min | Drama, History
Caterina finds out that her husband Peter Tzar of Russia, is plotting to kill her. She sets Count Orlov free from prison, Peter's sworn enemy, becomes empress of Russia and leads the Cossacks army against him.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Hildegard Knef, Sergio Fantoni, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Angela Cavo
Votes: 131
98. Tom Jones (1963)
Not Rated | 129 min | Adventure, Comedy, History
The romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th-century England.
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Albert Finney, Susannah York, George Devine, Rachel Kempson
Votes: 14,249 | Gross: $37.60M
99. Mir nach, Canaillen (1964)
103 min | Adventure, Comedy
Preußen, 1730. Leutnant von Übbenau (Fred Düren) macht sich auf ins Hannöversche, um Rekruten zu pressen. Sein König, kriegerisch veranlagt, braucht mächtig viele Kerls, "die er in die ... See full summary »
Director: Ralf Kirsten | Stars: Manfred Krug, Monika Woytowicz, Fred Düren, Carola Braunbock
Votes: 70
100. The Black Tulip (1964)
115 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
In 1789, when the Revolution went on, a bandit named "Black Tulip" held the surroundings of village Roussillon in fear. The poor people respected him as Robin Hood, who declare himself a ... See full summary »
Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Alain Delon, Virna Lisi, Dawn Addams, Adolfo Marsillach
Votes: 2,719
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