Movies about the 18th century

Movies about the 18th century
List of the best movies about the 18th century, selected by visitors to our site: Beaumarchais the Scoundrel, The Palace, Plunkett & MacLeane, Dangerous Liaisons, Russian Ark, The Marquis of Grillo, The Black Tulip, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Liberator, Brotherhood of the Wolf.

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Country
Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, adventure, history
CountryFrance
Duration01:55

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genremelodrama, drama, history
CountryChina
Duration01:55

In Qing Dynasty, Chen Xiang and Liuli became maids and friends in the imperial palace. Liuli wanted to be famous whereas Chen Xiang just wanted to live a normal life. Liuli attempted to change her life by knowing the prince, even at the cost of betraying Chen Xiang.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genreaction, comedy, drama, adventure, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:39

Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th-century England, enter a gentlemen's agreement: They decide to rid the aristocrats of their belongings. With Plunkett's criminal know-how and Macleane's social connections, they team up to be soon known as "The Gentlemen Highwaymen". But when one day these gentlemen hold up Lord Chief Justice Gibson's coach, Macleane instantly falls in love with his beautiful and cunning niece, Lady Rebecca Gibson. Unfortunately, Thief Taker General Chance, who also is quite fond of Rebecca, is getting closer and closer to getting both.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryFrance, Italy
Duration01:45

Juliette Merteuil and Valmont is a sophisticated couple, always looking for fun and excitement. Both have sexual affairs with others and share their experiences with one another. But there is one rule: never fall in love. But this time Valmont falls madly in love with a girl he meets at a ski resort, Marianne.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrefantasy, drama, detective, history
CountryRussia, Germany, Japan, Canada, Finland, Denmark
Duration01:36

A French marquis wanders through a vast labyrinth of corridors, theaters and ballrooms at a reception for a Persian ambassador.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, history
CountryItaly, France

The marquess of Grillo is a good-natured, clever and women-loving man who is always inventing stories and cracking all types of jokes. The film tells the story of his life.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genreaction, comedy, adventure
CountryFrance, Italy, Spain
Duration01:55

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 revolutioner but Count Guillaume de Saint Preux "plays" this benefactor.

Markimdb: 5
Genremelodrama, drama, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, France
Duration02:00

The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge.[ A friar who has witnessed the tragic accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama, military, biography, history
CountryVenezuela, Spain
Duration01:58

Bolívar was instrumental in Latin America’s struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire, and is today considered one of the most influential politicians and emancipators in American history. Libertador is told from the viewpoint of Bolívar, portrayed by Ramírez, about his quests and epic military campaigns, which covered twice the territory Alexander the Great conquered, and his vision to unify South America.

Markimdb: 7
Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryFrance
Duration02:22

    In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany
    Duration02:04

    A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France into a sexual frenzy, until a fiercely conservative doctor tries to put an end to the fun.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrefantasy, melodrama, musical, adventure, family
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:07

    In the tiny kingdom of Euphrania, the King and his court are most anxious to get Prince Edward wed. But Edward wants to marry for love. Meanwhile, young Cinderella finds life drastically altered with her father's death as she's forced to be a servant in her own house. But a cheery fairy godmother helps her with her impossible tasks, and even gets her to take an evening out at the King's bride-fin

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrehorror, adventure
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:20

    What secret lay behind the dreaded Marsh Phantoms, the ghostly riders whose silent approach in the darkness of the bleak, unwelcoming Romney Marshes causes men to die of fright? Are they a genuine manifestation or a cover for illegal smuggling activities. Perhaps Dr. Blyss, the benign vicar of the quiet village of Dymchurch, knows the truth about the ruthless pirate and smuggler who lies buried in the village graveyard and can unravel the phenomenon of the curse of Captain Clegg.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryChina, Hong Kong

    Wang is a gloomy, cunning and avaricious noodle shop owner in a desert town in China. His neglected, sharp-tongued wife is involved in a secret affair with Li, one of Wang’s employees. A timid man, Li reluctantly keeps the gun his lover has bought to kill her husband. But Wang is watching their every move. He bribes patrol officer Zhang to murder the illicit couple. It seems like a perfect plan: the affair will come to a cruel, bloody but satisfying end… or so he thinks. The equally wicked Zhang has an agenda of his own. As the plot twists, more blood will flow, and ever greater violence will erupt…

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama, adventure, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:03

    Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genremelodrama, biography, history
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:48

    Born to a family of established court painters, a woman is forced to carry on her family name and take over her brother's life after he commits suicide.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genreaction, drama, military, history
    CountryIndia

    During 18th century India, the Marathas emerged as the most powerful empire in the nation until the Afghan King Ahmad Shah Abdali plans to take over India. Sadashiv Rao Bhau is brought in to save the empire from the king which then leads to the third battle of Panipat.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance

    In eighteenth-century France, a girl is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Russia, Italy, France, Netherlands
    Duration01:34

    England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to satisfy a very particular request.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, history
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:42

    To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryFrance
    Duration05:13

    A massive 5 1/2 hour biopic of Napoleon, tracing his career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign), his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797 (the film stops there because it was intended to be part one of six, but director Abel Gance never raised the money to make the other five). The film's legendary reputation is due to the astonishing range of techniques that Gance uses to tell his story, culminating in the final twenty-minute triptych sequence, which alternates widescreen panoramas with complex multiple- image montages projected simultaneously on three screens.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy
    CountryFrance, Belgium, Czech Republic
    Duration01:24

    Stuck in the corridors of time, Godefroy de Montmirail and his faithful servant Jacquouille are projected to a time of profound political and social upheavals: the French Revolution... specifically, The Terror, time of great dangers, during which the descendants of Godefroy and Jacquouille had their castle and all their property confiscated by arrogant aristocrats, fleeing and lifes hanging by a thread.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama, biography
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:19

    Outside time and reality, the experiences of a poet. The judgement of the young poet by Heurtebise and the Princess, the Gypsies, the palace of Pallas Athena, the spear of the Goddess which pierces the poet's heart, the temptation of the Sphinx, the flight of Oedipus and the final Assumption. This film is the third part of Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy, which consists of The Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1950) and Testament of Orpheus (1960).

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, history
    CountryGermany, Austria, Luxembourg

    A love triangle forms between post-Enlightenment writer Friedrich Schiller and two sisters -- one who became his wife, and the other, his biographer.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:37

    The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration01:45

    New York detective Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of mysterious deaths in which the victims are found beheaded. But the locals believe the culprit to be none other than the ghost of the legendary Headless Horseman.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration02:32

    After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, adventure, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

    As the British and French soldiers battle for control of the American colonies in the 18th century, the settlers and native Americans are forced to take sides. Cora and her sister Alice unwittingly walk into trouble but are reluctantly saved by Hawkeye, an orphaned settler adopted by the last of the Mohicans.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure, detective
    CountryUSA, Czech Republic, United Kingdom
    Duration01:58

      Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. However, they are put to the test when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requiring genuine courage.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrethriller, fantasy, adventure
      CountryRussia, China, Ukraine, Germany, United Kingdom, Czech Republic
      Duration02:08

      Early 18th century. Cartographer Jonathan Green undertakes a scientific voyage from Europe to the East. Having passed through Transylvania and crossed the Carpathian Mountains, he finds himself in a small village lost in impassible woods. Nothing but chance and heavy fog could bring him to this cursed place. People who live here do not resemble any other people which the traveler saw before that. The villagers, having dug a deep moat to fend themselves from the rest of the world, share a naive belief that they could save themselves from evil, failing to understand that evil has made its nest in their souls and is waiting for an opportunity to gush out upon the world.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genredrama, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:58

      In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrecomedy, adventure, family, cartoon
      CountryFrance, Belgium
      Duration02:26

      On a tiny exotic island, Tuesday, an outgoing parrot lives with his quirky animal friends in paradise. However, Tuesday can't stop dreaming about discovering the world. After a violent storm, Tuesday and his friends wake up to find a strange creature on the beach: Robinson Crusoe. Tuesday immediately views Crusoe as his ticket off the island to explore new lands. Likewise, Crusoe soon realizes that the key to surviving on the island is through the help of Tuesday and the other animals. It isn't always easy at first, as the animals don't speak "human." Slowly but surely, they all start living together in harmony, until one day, when their comfortable life is overturned by two savage cats, who wish to take control of the island. A battle ensues between the cats and the group of friends but Crusoe and the animals soon discover the true power of friendship up against all odds (even savage cats).

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryFrance, Spain, Portugal

      August 1715. After going for a walk, Louis XIV feels a pain in his leg. The next days, the king keeps fulfilling his duties and obligations, but his sleep is troubled and he has a serious fever. He barely eats and weakens increasingly. This is the start of the slow agony of the greatest king of France, surrounded by his relatives and doctors.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:35

      In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams also becomes an ally.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland
      Duration02:00

      A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genremelodrama, drama, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:30

      France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel to Paris in search of a cure, but they separate when a lustful aristocrat crosses their path.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:01

      The life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven. Beside all the work he is known for, the composer once wrote a famous love letter to a nameless beloved and the movie tries to find out who this beloved was. Not easy as Beethoven has had many women in his life.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Canada, Soviet Union, Germany, Italy
      Duration03:07

      A German princess is chosen to marry the heir to the Russian Throne, but faces plots and intrigues against her.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrecomedy, adventure, crime
      CountryFrance, Mexico, Malta
      Duration01:31

      When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genremelodrama, adventure, history
      CountrySoviet Union
      Duration02:20

      In the second movie the Naval Cadets are guarding the princess coming from Germany to marry a Russian prince.

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