Children of Paradise (1945), Dances with Wolves (1990), 13 Assassins (2010), The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941), Jane Eyre (1944), All This and Heaven Too (1940), Cloud Atlas (2012), The Young Victoria (2009) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best 1840s movies.
Storyline: Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves dealing with the Comanches known as Comancheros.
Plot Keywords: texas ranger, native american, outlaw, gun runner, gambler, prisoner, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1840's Buenos Aires, Argentina, a beautiful young socialite named Camila falls in love with Ladislao, a Jesuit priest. After several failed attempts at fighting his own feelings, he ultimately succumbs to her. The two later escape to a far off, secluded village where they assume new identities as husband and wife and begin running a children's school. After several months of relative happiness, the couple's identity is discovered by a local priest. Under moralistic pressure from both Camila's family and the Catholic church the authorities apprehend the lovers, and imprison them for sacrilege.—<alexjoannebubbajeanbillybob@yahoo.com>
Plot Keywords: socialite, father, priest, military officer, politician, police officer, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set in Ireland during the Great Famine, the drama follows an Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, as he abandons his post to reunite with his family. Despite experiencing the horrors of war, he is shocked by the famine's destruction of his homeland and the brutalization of his people and his family.—BritishFilms1
Plot Keywords: british soldier, landowner, translator, private, family member, gripping, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. Accompanying him is Jim, a slave running away from being sold. Together the two strike a bond of friendship that takes them through harrowing events and thrilling adventures.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: huckleberry finn, runaway, slave, alcoholic, friend, con artist, playful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifelong friend, composer Johannes Brahms.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: composer, pianist, wife, child, love interest, melodramatic, somber ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The operators of 'Silver Haven', a cultish group bilking gullible rich people out of money, is set to inherit a large sum after the deceased woman's heir also dies. Leader Joesph Jones decides to hurry the process along and kidnaps Wally Benton, his fiance and a friend to further this goal. Wally is "The Fox", a radio sleuth who solves murders on the air. Jones wants him to devise a perfect murder and isn't above killing others sloppily along the way to get his foolproof murder plot.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: actor, cult member, thug, amusing, madcap, plane, radio station ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Professor Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. At a recital in a duke's home Chopin insults the new Russian-installed governor, and must flee the country. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: composer, soldier, musician, doctor, writer, creative, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
Plot Keywords: storekeeper, granddaughter, money lender, solicitor, sister, uneasy, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1848, a young Frenchwoman, Madeline Minot, goes to New York City to see Thevenet, the grandfather of her fiance. Thevenet had been with Napoleon and may be sympathetic to the political aims of his grandson. She finds the old man in very bad spirits, living in a large house with a housekeeper and a butler who are just waiting for him to die (and perhaps helping him along a bit) so they can inherit his fortune. They see Madeline as a threat to their plans. She is aided in her dealings with these strange people by a mysterious man in a cloak.—John Oswalt <jao@jao.com>
Plot Keywords: woman, wealthy man, poet, servant, butler, revolutionary, uneasy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Clipper ships taking the shortest route between the Mississippi and the Atlantic often end up on the shoals of Key West in the 1840s. Salvaging the ships' cargos has become a lucrative business for two companies -- one headed by a feisty young woman. Then she falls in love with the captain of a wrecked ship while he recuperates at her home. She travels to Charleston and is charming to the man most likely to be head of the captain's company, thinking she will be able to get the captain the position he wants on the company's first steam ship.—Dale O'Connor <daleoc@interaccess.com>
Plot Keywords: ship captain, shipwreck survivor, lawyer, villain, spirited, atlantic ocean, north carolina ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The year is 1845, the earliest days of the Oregon Trail, and a wagon team of three families has hired the mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a short cut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert, only to become lost in the dry rock and sage. Over the coming days, the emigrants must face the scourges of hunger, thirst and their own lack of faith in each other's instincts for survival. When a Native American wanderer crosses their path, the emigrants are torn between their trust in a guide who has proven himself unreliable and a man who has always been seen as the natural enemy.
Plot Keywords: guide, settler, native american, wife, racist, husband, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Captain Harry Flashman (Malcolm McDowell) of the British Army is a cad, a coward, and a lecher who always seems to come off inadvertently heroic. While romancing renowned courtesan Lola Montez (Florinda Bolkan), Harry is recruited against his will by Otto Von Bismarck (Oliver Reed) to substitute for a look-a-like Prussian Prince ostensibly in order to help Bismarck enlarge his hold over German duchies. But Bismarck has something more sinister in mind for Harry and the Prince.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: captain, count, courtesan, duchess, politician, amusing, unrestrained ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Navy Lieutenant Tufts accompanies scout Quincy Wyatt into the Everglades to rout the Seminole Indians who are threatening the early settlers in Florida. When the command is forced to run, Wyatt and Seminole Chief Oscala square off in an exciting climax.—Buxx Banner <buxx572@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: american soldier, native american, native american chief, settler, enemy, lieutenant, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Rosita, a peasant singer in Seville, captures the attention of the King.
Plot Keywords: young woman, singer, king, spanish woman, boyfriend, mother, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This movie is set in the mid 1800s and involves poet Edgar Allan Poe. A serial killer is on the loose and murdering people using Poe's descriptions from his published stories and poems. Poe teams up with Detective Fields, a Baltimore policeman to try and catch the killer by using his knowledge of the descriptions. Even though the stories are fictional, they start to become reality and the killer is a step ahead of them. Then it takes on a personal note as Poe's lover becomes a target. Will they stop the killer in time?
Plot Keywords: writer, police detective, girlfriend, dark, suspenseful, baltimore, house ...
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