Here we've displayed a list of the best 1890s films : The Prestige(2006), The Gold Rush(1925), Fitzcarraldo(1982), Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India(2001), Letter From an Unknown Woman(1948), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid(1969), Captains Courageous(1937), The Tree of Wooden Clogs(1978), Loving Vincent(2017), Gentleman Jim(1942), When I Grow Up(1951), The First Film(2015) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller, Fantasy, Drama
UK|USA
2006
130 Minutes
Hugh Jackman Christian Bale Michael Caine Scarlett Johansson Piper Perabo Rebecca Hall David Bowie Samantha Mahurin Andy Serkis Rob Arbogast Chris Cleveland
magician friend police officer love interest dark suspenseful stage house street obsession magic infidelity sabotage deception death rivalry transformation 1890s
After a tragic accident, two stage magicians engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion while sacrificing everything they have to outwit each other.
Comedy, Adventure, Drama
USA
1925
82 Minutes
Charles Chaplin Mack Swain Tom Murray Georgia Hale Betty Morrissey Kay Deslys Joan Lowell Malcolm Waite Henry Bergman John Rand Heinie Conklin
tramp fugitive pretty woman prospector amusing witty playful yukon wilderness cabin expedition survival confinement gold rush unrequited love quest discovery adventure love 1890s
A prospector goes to the Klondike in search of gold and finds it and more.
Drama
West Germany|Peru
1982
160 Minutes
Klaus Kinski Claudia Cardinale José Lewgoy Miguel Angel Fuentes Paul Hittscher Grande Otelo Peter Berling David Pérez Espinosa
entrepreneur madam native missionary creative fascinating gripping outlandish peru amazon mountain jungle insanity obsession ambition adventure quest pursuit 1890s
The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.
Drama, Romance, History
India
2001
223 Minutes
Aamir Khan Gracy Singh Rachel Shelley Paul Blackthorne Suhasini Mulay Kulbhushan Kharbanda Raghubir Yadav Rajendra Gupta Rajesh Vivek Vallabh Vyas Javed Khan
young man indian british government official villager cricket player governor inspiring spectacular melodramatic amusing india village estate cricket match woods sports colonialism taxes teamwork wager
The people of a small village in Victorian India stake their future on a game of cricket against their ruthless British rulers.
Romance
USA
1948
90 Minutes
Joan Fontaine Louis Jourdan Mady Christians Marcel Journet Art Smith Carol Yorke Howard Freeman
pianist young woman husband son servant somber moving vienna family home hospital opera house apartment unrequited love betrayal affair dueling letter writing forbidden love discovery quest
A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember, who may hold the key to his downfall.
Action, Western
USA
1969
110 Minutes
Paul Newman Robert Redford Katharine Ross Strother Martin Henry Jones Jeff Corey George Furth Cloris Leachman Ted Cassidy Kenneth Mars Donnelly Rhodes
outlaw gunslinger teacher amusing wild thrilling gutsy wild west train bolivia wyoming brothel saloon butch cassidy the sundance kid robbery adventure escape 1890s
Wyoming, early 1900s. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. After a train robbery goes wrong they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. Their solution - escape to Bolivia.
Adventure
USA
1937
117 Minutes
Spencer Tracy Freddie Bartholomew Lionel Barrymore Melvyn Douglas Charley Grapewin Mickey Rooney John Carradine Oscar O'Shea Jack LaRue Walter Kingsford Sam McDaniel
young boy father fisherman captain friend sailor heartwarming uplifting ship boarding school gloucester, mass. ocean liner troubled youth accident sailors father/son relationship growing up transformation 1890s
A spoiled brat who falls overboard from a steamship gets picked up by a fishing boat, where he's made to earn his keep by joining the crew in their work.
Drama
Italy
1978
175 Minutes
Luigi Ornaghi Francesca Moriggi Omar Brignoli Antonio Ferrari Teresa Brescianini Giuseppe Brignoli Carlo Rota Pasqualina Brolis Massimo Fratus Francesca Villa
farmer wife son priest landlord engaging calm touching italy farm countryside family poverty school religion sacrifice growing up 1890s
Peasant life in a feudal farm in rural Italy at the end of the 19th century.
Animation, Biography, Drama, History
Poland|UK|USA|Switzerland|Netherlands
2017
95 Minutes
Hugh Welchman
postal worker artist son brother daughter painter fascinating moving melancholy old city village inn france painting darkness life story art imitating life following your heart investigation personal tragedy
In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh (Robert Gulaczyk) to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.
Action
USA
1942
104 Minutes
Errol Flynn Alexis Smith Jack Carson Alan Hale John Loder William Frawley Minor Watson Ward Bond Madeleine LeBeau Rhys Williams Arthur Shields
boxer girlfriend club owner friend rival amusing brash melodramatic san francisco boxing ring boxing romance social standing pride competition rise pursuit transformation 1890s
As bareknuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the top of the boxing world.
Drama
USA
1951
80 Minutes
teen boy grandfather father mother troubled youth emotional moving positive house attic coming of age diary family history maturing childhood teen angst discovery growing up transformation 1890s
"When I Grow Up" is an uncharacteristically modest film from producer Sam Spiegel (during his "S. P. Eagle" years). Bobby Driscoll plays a young boy who feels neglected and misunderstood at... See full summary »
Biography
UK
2015
110 Minutes
speaker filmmaker actor artist journalist airy intense inspiring positive charming confident united kingdom cinema informing documentaries filmmaking cinema history disappearance history love
A convicted murderer who has spent 23 years on Death Row tells his story.
Musical, Drama
Australia|USA
2001
126 Minutes
Nicole Kidman Ewan McGregor John Alberto Leguizamo Jim Broadbent Richard Roxburgh Garry McDonald Jacek Koman Matthew Whittet Kerry Walker Caroline O'Connor David Wenham
poet duke courtesan singer dancer creative quirky frenetic hedonistic nightclub theater paris love triangle romance song and dance poetry illness deception forbidden love rivalry
A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets.
Western
USA
1950
92 Minutes
James Stewart Shelley Winters Dan Duryea Stephen McNally Millard Mitchell Charles Drake John McIntire Will Geer Jay C. Flippen Rock Hudson John Alexander
sergeant cowboy sheriff prostitute outlaw tense spirited mountain saloon prairie dodge city, kan. cowboys robbery guns pursuit revenge rivalry 1890s
A cowboy's obsession with a stolen rifle leads to a bullet-ridden odyssey through the American West.
Comedy
UK
1952
95 Minutes
Michael Redgrave Michael Denison Edith Evans Richard Wattis Margaret Rutherford Joan Greenwood Dorothy Tutin Walter Hudd Miles Malleson Aubrey Mather
impostor wealthy man woman governess aunt priest witty hilarious emotional england london country house apartment identity wealth marriage social standing deception family love
When Algernon discovers that his friend, Ernest, has created a fictional brother for whenever he needs a reason to escape dull country life, Algernon poses as the brother, resulting in ever increasing confusion.
Romance
France
1990
135 Minutes
Gérard Depardieu Anne Brochet Vincent Perez Jacques Weber Roland Bertin Philippe Morier-Genoud Philippe Volter Pierre Maguelon Josiane Stoleru Jerome Nicolin Gabriel Monnet
soldier poet cadet young woman cousin love interest engaging disheartening spirited paris theater war zone countryside self-esteem beauty love triangle war poetry cyrano de bergerac love
Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.
Drama
Spain|Italy|France
1970
98 Minutes
Catherine Deneuve Fernando Rey Franco Nero Jesus Fernandez Lola Gaos Vicente Soler
orphan nobleman artist guardian dark emotional household city toledo, spain may-december romance love exploitation illness amputation death love growing up fall revenge 1890s
Shortly after her mother's death, an innocent and youthful woman will find refuge into the household of her middle-aged aristocratic guardian, who will submit her to his sexual advances.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Canada|USA|Brazil
2019
110 Minutes
Robert Pattinson Willem Dafoe Valeriia Karaman Logan Hawkes Shaun R. Clarke Kyla Nicolle Preston Hudson Jeff Cruts
lighthouse keeper man dark disturbing frightening gripping new england lighthouse loneliness isolation isolationism escape metamorphosis rivalry transformation 1890s
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Adventure
UK
1939
115 Minutes
John Clements Ralph Richardson C. Aubrey Smith June Duprez Allan Jeayes Jack Allen Donald Gray Frederick Culley Amid Taftazani Henry Oscar John Laurie
military officer friend girlfriend soldier emotional melodramatic africa desert war zone armed conflict expedition imperialism deception honor redemption quest adventure discovery transformation 1890s
A timid British Army officer has quit and burns his last day summons to a war in Egypt. Calling him a coward, his girl friend and 3 officer friends give him a white feather. In redemption, he shadows his friends in war to save their lives.
Drama
USA
1945
114 Minutes
Bette Davis John Dall Nigel Bruce Joan Lorring Rhys Williams Rosalind Ivan Mildred Dunnock
schoolteacher spinster student coal miner squire pregnant woman moving inspiring village school glansarno, wales education coal mining ambition troubled youth illegitimate child discovery quest sacrifice 1890s
A schoolteacher becomes the mentor of a talented young miner and seeks to get him into a university.
Drama
USA
1942
127 Minutes
Ann Sheridan Ronald Reagan Bob Cummings Betty Field Claude Rains Judith Anderson Nancy Coleman Kaaren Verne Maria Ouspenskaya Henry Davenport Ernest Cossart
doctor daughter orphan wife father melodramatic small town hospital family home railyard family dysfunction forbidden love mental illness accident class distinctions depression love growing up 1890s
The dark side and hypocrisy of provincial American life is seen through the eyes of five children as they grow to adulthood at the turn of the century.
Musical, Comedy
France|Italy
1955
102 Minutes
Jean Gabin Françoise Arnoul María Félix Anna Amendola Jean-Roger Caussimon Dora Doll Giani Esposito Gaston Gabaroche Franco Pastorino
producer star laundress owner mistress lighthearted cheeky engaging paris café cabaret performance infidelity dance jealousy love triangle underdog discovery rivalry rise
This comedy drama from Jean Renoir chronicles the revival of Paris' most notorious dance as it tells the story of a theater producer who turns a humble washerwoman into a star at the Moulin Rouge.
Horror
UK|USA
1992
123 Minutes
Gary Oldman Winona Ryder Anthony Hopkins Keanu Reeves Richard E. Grant Cary Elwes Billy Campbell Sadie Frost Tom Waits Monica Bellucci Michaela Bercu
lawyer vampire friend nun victim fiancée frightening creepy passionate suspenseful dark transylvania garden mental institution cemetery romania estate seduction sex supernatural
The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker's fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.
Crime, Drama
USA
1945
77 Minutes
Laird Cregar Linda Darnell George Sanders Glenn Langan Faye Marlowe Alan Napier Frederick Worlock J.W. Austin Leland Hodgson Clifford Brooke John Goldsworthy
composer friend father doctor singer love interest dark suspenseful london apartment music hall mental illness violence jealousy blackouts music transformation fall 1890s
A promising classical musician finds his life poisoned by a music hall dancer -- and by the strange gaps in his memory.
Comedy, Drama
France|Belgium
2018
110 Minutes
Thomas Solivéres Olivier Gourmet Mathilde Seigner Tom Leeb Lucie Boujenah Alice De Lencquesaing Clémentine Célarié Igor Gotesman Dominique Pinon Simon Abkarian Marc Andréoni
playwright actress wife friend engaging inspiring passionate amusing charming winsome paris theater career aspirations success rise 1890s
December 1897, Paris. Edmond Rostand is not yet thirty but already two children and a lot of anxieties. He has not written anything for two years. In desperation, he offers the great ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA
1925
87 Minutes
Ronald Colman Irene Rich May McAvoy Bert Lytell Edward Martindel Helen Dunbar Carrie Daumery Billie Bennett
lady lord mother duchess woman rival cheeky spirited witty london party household infidelity motherhood nobility society deception jealousy pursuit rivalry
A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.
Horror
UK
1958
82 Minutes
Peter Cushing Christopher Lee Michael Gough Melissa Stribling Carol Marsh John Van Eyssen Miles Malleson Valerie Gaunt Charles Lloyd Pack Janina Faye Olga Dickie
van helsing count dracula christian fiancée woman lawyer creepy suspenseful romania castle crypt vampires religion murder stalking pursuit metamorphosis 1890s
Jonathan Harker begets the ire of Count Dracula after he accepts a job at the vampire's castle under false pretenses, forcing his colleague Dr. Van Helsing to hunt the predatory villain when he targets Harker's loved ones.
Drama
Soviet Union
1971
110 Minutes
Innokenty Smoktunovsky Sergei Bondarchuk Vladimir Zeldin Irina Miroshnichenko Irina Anisimova-Wulf Nikolay Pastukhov
wife mother professor daughter doctor brother-in-law intense gripping dark farm russia garden dining room family adultery sexual tension love triangle obsession marriage love
A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still ... See full summary »
Adventure, Fantasy, Drama, Kids & Family, Romance, Animation, Musical
USA
2013
94 Minutes
Mathias Malzieu
singer lover magician charming emotional incredible spain scotland graveyard star-crossed lovers magic broken heart love growing up 1890s
FEATURING ZACH GALIFIANAKIS, SARAH SILVERMAN, PATTON OSWALT & MANY MORE! Cult-Comic Eddie Pepitone's life is on display in this unhinged portrait of creativity, enlightenment and rage.
Crime, Drama
USA
1946
86 Minutes
Sydney Greenstreet Peter Lorre Joan Lorring George Coulouris Rosalind Ivan Paul Cavanagh Arthur Shields Morton Lowry Holmes Herbert Art Foster Clyde Cook
superintendent successor artist nephew politician crafty engaging thrilling scotland yard london rooming house courtroom wrongful execution murder investigation redemption teamwork police work writing rivalry discovery
After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.