Movies Set in the 1800s

Kinora's catalogue lists 23 films set in the 1800s, spanning 1922–2023. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.

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• 2013

  12 Years a Slave

  New York City · Louisiana — 1800s
  Rural · Urbandir. Steve McQueen
• 1964

  A Fistful of Dollars

  1800s
  Rural · Desertdir. Sergio Leone
• 1984

  Amadeus

  Vienna — 1800s · 1700s
  Urbandir. Miloš Forman
• 1975

  Barry Lyndon

  Ireland · London — 1700s · 1800s
  Rural · Urbandir. Stanley Kubrick
• 1964

  Charulata

  Calcutta — 1800s
  Urbandir. Satyajit Ray
• 1941

  Citizen Kane

  Florida · New York City · Colorado — 1800s · 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Orson Welles
• 1972

  Cries and Whispers

  Sweden — 1800s
  Ruraldir. Ingmar Bergman
• 2012

  Django Unchained

  Mississippi · Texas — 1800s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Quentin Tarantino
• 1952

  High Noon

  1800s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Fred Zinnemann
• 2001

  Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India

  India — 1800s
  Ruraldir. Ashutosh Gowariker
• 2003

  Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

  Galápagos Islands — 1800s
  Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Peter Weir
• 2011

  Midnight in Paris

  Paris — 2000s · 1920s · 1800s
  Urbandir. Woody Allen
• 1922

  Nosferatu

  Germany — 1800s
  Urban · Rural · Mountain · Coastal Seadir. F. W. Murnau
• 1968

  Once Upon a Time in the West

  Arizona — 1800s
  Rural · Desertdir. Sergio Leone
• 2023

  Poor Things

  London · Lisbon · Paris · Alexandria — 1800s
  Urban · Coastal Seadir. Yorgos Lanthimos
• 2019

  Portrait of a Lady on Fire

  France — 1800s · 1700s
  Island · Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Céline Sciamma
• 1939

  Stagecoach

  Arizona · New Mexico — 1800s
  Desert · Ruraldir. John Ford
• 1993

  The Piano

  New Zealand — 1800s
  Wilderness · Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Jane Campion
• 2006

  The Prestige

  London — 1800s
  Urbandir. Christopher Nolan
• 2015

  The Revenant

  1800s
  Wilderness · Mountain · Ruraldir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
• 2010

  True Grit

  Arkansas — 1800s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Joel Coen
• 1992

  Unforgiven

  Japan — 1800s
  Rural · Wilderness · Urbandir. Clint Eastwood
• 1961

  Yojimbo

  Japan — 1800s
  Rural · Urbandir. Akira Kurosawa