12 Years a Slave (2013), The Heiress (1949), The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), 13 Assassins (2010), Gangs of New York (2002), Jane Eyre (1944), Jane Eyre (2011), The Young Victoria (2009) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best 1840s movies.
Storyline: In 1821 Old California--after humiliating once more the evil Spanish governor, Don Rafael Montero--the mysterious black-caped masked avenger of the oppressed, Don Diego de la Vega, or Zorro, finds himself incarcerated. With his only daughter raised by Don Rafael as his own, the grizzled swordsman makes a daring escape nearly two decades later, and takes under his wing the unrefined outlaw, Alejandro Murietta, to teach him the ropes and, hopefully, become the next Zorro. Now, the stage seems set for a ferocious final confrontation, as the new young rapier-wielder prepares to thwart the despicable governor's sinister plans. Can Alejandro live up to legendary Zorro's name?
Plot Keywords: california, superhero, bare butt, love triangle, kidnapping, child kidnapping, robbery ...
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: typhoon, reprisal, treachery, despair, grief, greed, turmoil ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnaping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boomtown. Along the way there is plenty of drinking, gambling, and singing. They even find time to do some creative gold mining.
Plot Keywords: polyamory, marriage, band, singer, song, dancer, dancing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Rosita, a peasant singer in Seville, captures the attention of the King.
Plot Keywords: sword fight, prison, palace, marriage ceremony, blindfold, execution, 1840s ...
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: cowardice, rescue, kidnapping, sex scene, sensuality, sword fight, castle ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 19th Century Paris, the maniacal Dr. Mirakle abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship. He constantly meets failure as the abducted women die. Medical student Pierre Dupin discovers what Mirakle is doing too late to prevent the abduction of his girlfriend Camille. Now he desperately tries to enlist the help of the police to get her back.—Gary Jackson <garyjack5@cogeco.ca>
Plot Keywords: falling from height, heresy, candle, loneliness, cage, translation, german ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Louisiana wedding of debutante Phoebe Ann Naylor to Don Andrea de Baldasar, El Duce de la Casala is stopped by the Cavalry over a matter of honor. Don Andrea flees across the river to Texas, where he meets up with Sam Hollis and his Indian sidekick, Kronk, who are carrying rifles to the town of Moccasin Flats. Don Andrea rescues an Indian maiden, Lonetta, tames some longhorns, competes with Sam for Phoebe's affections, eludes a Comanche war party and the cavalry (who have come to Moccasin Flats to celebrate Texas' statehood) and ultimately saves the town and gets his girl.—Robin Richmond
Plot Keywords: texas, slapstick comedy, comanche indian, duel, u.s. cavalry, wild west, indian war ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In rural 1840's Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new "little minister" of Thrums's Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy girl in the dens and to his horror Babbie draws him into her escape from the soldiers after she incites a Luddite riot. But unknown to Gavin, Babbie is more than she seems. And they must overcome her secret, the villagers' fears of her, and worst of all, Gavin's devotion to his mother's sensibilities, before they can openly declare their love.—Kathy Li
Plot Keywords: scotland, fired from the job, engagement, false accusation, father son relationship, flirtation, forest ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.
Plot Keywords: massacre, loyalty, louisiana, indian chief, heritage, governor, mexico ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the mid nineteenth century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western U.S. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on himself as he is on those who have joined his wagon train. He clashes with one of the new settlers, Lije Evans, who doesn't quite appreciate Tadlock's ways. Along the way, the families must face death and heartbreak and a sampling of frontier justice when one of them accidentally kills a young Indian boy.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: based on novel, shotgun, buffalo, bagpipes, seduction, pregnancy, child murder ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the 1840s, trappers with government backing push the Yellow Hands Sioux off their sacred land; they retreat into an apocalyptic spirituality, passively waiting for supernatural wrath to descend on their usurpers. Meanwhile, in England, Lord John Morgan feels his spirit weaken, so he returns to America to live again with the Yellow Hand. Finding them dispirited, he invigorates them as well as himself through self-imposed torture and other rituals. Once he convinces the clan to take direct action, Horse must devise a strategy to take the trappers' fort. The clan's women and boys take on special assignments to aid the assault to regain the sacred land.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: sequel, opening action scene, flintlock pistol, flintlock rifle, musket, gunfight, shootout ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 1648. French people are relieved: the Thirty Years War is over and they will be able to live in peace. This feeling is shared by General Cadeau, the hero of the war, and his loyal aide, Lieutenant David Picard. But not at all by Marshall of France Mordore, who plans to plunder Spain. Cadeau decides to try to dissuade Mordore from implementing his plan but before meeting him he presents David with his sword dubbed "the gallant blade". This wonderful arm as well as David's talent as a swordsman will come handy as Mordore not only will not hear of peace but will prove treacherous as well.—Guy Bellinger
Plot Keywords: costume, dagger, damsel in distress, deception, defeat, deserter, desertion ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1848, a New York bank wants to put a railroad across Mexico, so it buys up small banks around Santa Rita, Durango, and evicts farmers on the proposed rail line who owe money. The bank's henchman is the murderous Jackson. He runs afoul of two women, María, the tough but uneducated daughter of a farmer, and Sara, the European-educated daughter of the owner of one of these banks. To feed the now landless people and to seek revenge, María and Sara become bank robbers, veritable Robin Hoods. But Jackson and his hired guns are after them. What are the women's options?
Plot Keywords: seduction, cleavage, latina, female gunfighter, bank robbery, corruption, dog ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young female landowner in 1840s Jamaica marries a just-arrived Englishman to avoid losing her property. All seems to be perfect, love arises, and happiness is on the way, but she is hiding an old secret regarding her childhood and her mother. Slowly, this secret begins to erode this perfect relationship and, perhaps, her mother's story will begin again...with her.—Luis Carvacho <lcarvach@lascar.puc.cl>
Plot Keywords: lust, male nudity, male full frontal nudity, adultery, infidelity, madness, erotica ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious 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: based on novel, raid, feud, southern belle, impostor, gunfight, faked death ...
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