18th Century Movies

A parody of the French Revolution, on Arabian Nights background. Bagdad Calif is in Paris in 1789, where he decides to visit the Executionner...

Englishman Sir Ronald Burton enters the castle of Austrian nobleman Count von Bruno, complete with torture chamber and moat, while investigating the...

A period film, set around an English country house whose owners want to arrange a marriage of convenience between their elder daughter and an...

A drama based on the life of 18th century Italian lyricist Lorenzo da Ponte, who collaborated with Mozart on his "Don Giovanni" opera.

Stéphane Bern tells the story of King Louis XVI, deposed by the revolution and guillotined on January 21st, 1793. He was a cultured man,...

Based on the story of the start of Australia's colonisation. An American medical student is falsely convicted of robbery, with his sentence involving...

Le Petit-Maître corrigé is a three-act romantic comedy by French playwright Marivaux. It was first performed on November 6, 1734, by the...

Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.

Siamese twins separated at birth retain a psychic link; each feels the other's pain and happiness.

The Count of Maravillas receives an unusual proposal from a masked woman: to kidnap the valido of King Carlos IV.

Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph...

A father and his four sons during the 18th century have their lives thrown into turmoil with the arrival of a woman at their villa. She quickly takes...

A young boy betrays his family who hides a refugee and tells the pursuer where the hiding-place is - just because he wants a valuable telescope for...

In 18th-century Rome, a young man in a choir of castrati falls for the beautiful wife of a powerful aristocrat.

Nobleman Jean-Francois de la Plaine is exiled to serve as governor of a West African colony.

A family setting out for a new life across the sea is shipwrecked on a deserted island. The family members collaborate to create a home for...