19th Century Movies

This is a romantic biographical film about Franz Liszt. In a distinguished saloon of Paris, the unknown composer, Liszt, defeats the renown Thalberg...

Vlasta Burian appears in a town of Czarist Russia impersonating an Inspector General, and he is entertained lavishly by the local political-hacks and...

Adventure film based on the life of the legendary bandit Manuel García, the king of the Cuban fields, who in the last decades of the 19th...

Follows French writer Arthur Rimbaud from his schoolboy days in Charleville to his final years in Africa.

From the BFI Collection, this film is actually two films spliced together into one. The first is Birt Acres' work 'A Corner of Barnet Fair' which is...

In mid-19th century Finland, Klaus von Rapp marries young Anette Erling. The marriage is full of happiness until Klaus’s deception is exposed...

The story, set in 19th century Calcutta during British rule, sees a female prostitute embark on an unheard-of killing spree.

The history of the potato through the ages—with a focus on European history and a twinkle in its eye