Nøkkelord 19th Century

Tim Burton's Corpse Bride bygger videre på den mørke, romantiske tradisjonen fra hans tidligere klassikere Edward Saksehånd og Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. Handlingen foregår i en europeisk landsby på 1800-tallet og følger Victor (Johnny Depp), en ung mann som forsvinner ned i underverdenen og gifter seg med en mystisk dødsbrud (Helena Bonham Carter), mens hans egentlige brud,Victoria (Emily Watson) venter forsmådd i de levendes verden. Selv om Dødens rike viser seg å være mer fargerikt enn hans egen, strenge oppdragelse, finner Victor ut at ingenting i denne verdenen – eller den neste – kan holde ham borte fra hans store kjærlighet. Dette er en fortelling om optimisme, romantikk og et temmelig livaktig liv etter døden, fortalt på klassisk Burton-vis.

Inspirert av sanne hendelser, forteller The Revenant en storslagen historie om overlevelse og gjengjeldelse. Satt til 1820-tallet. Dypt i uutforsket villmark blir jegeren Hugh Glass brutalt skamfert av en bjørn, og deretter forlatt av medlemmer av hans eget jaktlag. Glass må prøve å kjempe seg tilbake til livet, så han kan ta hevn på de some etterlot ham for å dø.

Sherlock Holmes og hans trofaste støttespiller Dr. John Watson må bruke sine små grå med mer kløkt enn noensinne for å avsløre et komplott som er en trussel mot hele England. En kvinnelig skjønnhet fra Holmes' fortid gjør oppdraget enda farligere.

John Carter er en krigstrøtt eks-militær som på uforklarlig vis blir transportert til den mystiske og eksotiske planeten Barsoom, for oss bedre kjent som Mars. Der blir han dratt inn i en enorm konflikt mellom planetens innbyggere, deriblant Tars Tarkas og den betagende prinsessen Dejah Thoris. I en ukjent verden på randen av kollaps, oppdager Carter at overlevelsen til Barsoom og planetens innbyggere hviler i hans hender.

Fire søstre blir eldre i Amerika i kjølvannet av borgerkrigen.

Tiden er 1860-tallets New York og stedet er Five Points - et mørkt myldrende hjørne av byen kjent som sentrum for prostitusjon og kaos. Her, mens nasjonen sliter med den pågående borgerkrigen, blir en stor og farlig underverden født i gatene - gjengene i New York, hvis bråk, smugling, svindling, gambling og drap etter hvert vil bli legendarisk. Som liten gutt ser Amsterdam Vallon sin far, den irske gjenglederen "Priest", bli bestialsk myrdet av den rivaliserende gjengens leder "Bill the Butcher". Amsterdam blir sendt på oppfostringsanstalt og 16 år senere vender han tilbake til Five Points for å ta sin hevn over farens morder.

Finnes det en hemmelighet du kunne ha drept for å få høre? To unge tryllekunstnere i Victoriatidens England utkjemper en vennskapelig konkurranse som utarter til bitter rivalisering etter at et dristig triks ender i tragedie. De setter eget og andres liv i fare for å flytte magiske grenser og knuse hverandre.

En ekte og personlig vinkling på Napoleons spede begynnelse, samt hans raske og hensynsløse vei til Keiser, sett gjennom prismen til hans vanedannende og ofte flyktige forhold til sin kone og store kjærlighet, Josephine. Filmen omfavner Napoleons berømte slag, nådeløse ambisjoner og hans overraskende strategiske tankegang som militær leder og krigsvisjonær.

Denne “Tidenes western” (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times) red av sted med fire Oscar®-statuetter i 1992, inkludert Beste film.* Regissør og hovedrolleinnehaver Clint Eastwood og Morgan Freeman spiller to pensjonerte lovløse som plukker opp våpnene en siste gang for å innkassere en dusør. Richard Harris spiller leiemorder. Og Gene Hackman spiller en sjarmerende, men brutal lovens mann.

En fremmed snubler inn i ørkenbyen Absolution med noe minne om hans fortid og en futuristisk armbånd rundt håndleddet hans. Med hjelp av den mystiske skjønnheten Ella og jernhånden Colonel Dolarhyde, leder han en usannsynlig gjeng med cowboyer, lovløse og Apache krigere mot en felles fiende fra utenfor denne verden i en episk showdown for å overleve.

Tom Cruise spiller borgerkrigshelten kaptein Nathan Algren, som kommer til Japan for å slåss mot samuraiene og ender opp med å kjempe for deres sak. Ken Watanabe spiller Kat Katsumoto, en samuraileder som står ovenfor en utdøende livsstil, og hvis skjebne flettes sammen med den amerikanske kapteinens. Edward Zwick regisserer denne dramatiske og følelsesladde episke fortellingen om det moderne Japans fødsel.

Tombstone, Arizona, 26.11.1881. Den brutale Clayon banden venter ved OK Corral. De tre Earp brødrene og Doc Holliday nærmer seg sammenbidte, skulder ved skulder til den ultimate mann mot mann duellen i den mest klassiske av alle klassiske western filmer.

En stridserfaren general på 1820-tallet trener en ny generasjon kvinnelige krigere for å beskytte kongeriket mot en mektig fiende. Inspirert av virkelige hendelser.

En frigjort slave, med hjelp fra en tysk dusørjeger, forsøker å redde sin kone fra en brutal plantasjeeier i Mississippi.

Et egoistisk postbud og en tilbaketrukket leketøymaker starter et uventet vennskap når de bringer glede til en kald og mørk by som virkelig trenger det.

A Victorian-era Toronto detective uses then-cutting edge forensic techniques to solve crimes, with the assistance of a female coroner who is also struggling for recognition in the face of tradition, based on the books by Maureen Jennings.

The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.

Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s.

Dr. Michaela Quinn journeys to Colorado Springs to be the town's physician after her father's death in 1868.

In 19th-century Paris, young vampire Noé finds the Book of Vanitas in human hands. Calling himself Vanitas, this doctor wields its power and tempts Noé with a plan to “cure” all vampires. Allying with him may be dangerous, but does he have a choice?

The epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town that travels with and services the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, an engineering feat unprecedented for its time.

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.

The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.

A gritty, action-packed crime drama set during the brutal Tong Wars of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the second half of the 19th century. The series follows Ah Sahm, a martial arts prodigy who immigrates from China to San Francisco under mysterious circumstances, and becomes a hatchet man for one of Chinatown’s most powerful tongs.

A coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and numerous challenges, fights for love and acceptance and for her place in the world. The series centers on a young orphaned girl in the late 1890’s, who, after an abusive childhood spent in orphanages and the homes of strangers, is mistakenly sent to live with an elderly woman and her aging brother. Over time, 13-year-old Anne will transform their lives and eventually the small town in which they live with her unique spirit, fierce intellect and brilliant imagination.

In late 19th-century Turin, the young Lidia Poët, fights against everything and everyone to get what is rightfully hers: to be enrolled in the official register of lawyers. A profession, at the time, reserved exclusively for men. Nevertheless, nothing could stop her dream of becoming the first female lawyer in Italy.

The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969. The show stars Barbara Stanwyck, as the widow of a wealthy nineteenth century California rancher. It was created by A.I. Bezzerides and Louis F. Edelman, and produced by Levy-Gardner-Laven for Four Star Television.

Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.

A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division – the police precinct from hell – which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic streets of Whitechapel. Ripper Street explores the lives of characters trying to recover from the Ripper's legacy, from crimes that have not only irretrievably altered their lives, but the very fabric of their city. At the drama's heart our detectives try to bring a little light into the dark world they inhabit.

The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless wild-west community into an organized wild-west civilized town. The story focuses on the real-life characters Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen.

The High Chaparral is an American Western-themed television series starring Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell which aired on NBC from 1967 to 1971. The series, made by Xanadu Productions in association with NBC Productions, was created by David Dortort, who had previously created the hit Bonanza for the network. The theme song was also written and conducted by Bonanza scorer David Rose, who also scored the two-hour pilot.

Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three seasons from 1958–61. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a March 1958 episode of Trackdown, a 1957–59 western series starring Robert Culp. Both series were produced by Four Star Television in association with CBS Television. The series launched McQueen into becoming the first television star to cross over into comparable status on the big screen.

Follow the Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. A stark retelling of Western expansion, and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America’s promised land — Montana.

Based on the life of Empress Myeongseong (1851 - 1895), the first official wife of King Gojong, the 26th king of the Joseon dynasty. She was killed on October 8, 1895 by Japanese assassins.

Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. Penny Dreadful is a frightening psychological thriller that weaves together these classic horror origin stories into a new adult drama.