Keyword: 18th century

Casanova

5

1987

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TV Movie version of the story of Giacomo Casanova, the famous eighteenth century womanizer.

Plunkett & MacLeane

6.4

1999

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Two robbers are persecuted by the law, whose servants are not much better and even worse.

H.M.S. Defiant

7.4

1962

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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.

The Scandalous Lady W

6.5

2015

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An 18th-century drama details the scandalous life of Lady Seymour Worsley.

That Hamilton Woman

7.3

1941

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The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.

1776

7.6

1972

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A musical retelling of the American Revolutions political struggle in the Continental Congress to declare independence.

Ridicule

7.5

1996

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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.

The Scarlet Empress

7.7

1934

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A German noblewoman enters into a loveless marriage with the dim-witted, unstable heir to the Russian throne, then plots to oust him from power.

Longitude

7.7

2000

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In two parallel stories, the clockmaker John Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea in the 18th Century and the horologist Rupert Gould becomes obsessed with restoring it in the 20th Century.

Drums Along the Mohawk

7.1

1939

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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.

The Crimson Pirate

7.3

1952

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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.

Revolution

5.3

1985

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HD

A trapper and his young son get pulled into the American revolution early as unwilling participants and remain involved through to the end.