Movies Set in the 1800s
Kinora's catalogue lists 170 films set in the 1800s, spanning 1922–2023. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.
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- 2013
12 Years a Slave
Ruraldir. Steve McQueen - 1954
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Richard Fleischer - 2007
3:10 to Yuma
Desert · Wildernessdir. James Mangold - 1957
3:10 to Yuma
Desert · Ruraldir. Delmer Daves - 1964
A Fistful of Dollars
Urban · Wildernessdir. Sergio Leone - 1997
Amistad
Coastal Sea · Urbandir. Steven Spielberg - 1986
An American Tail
Urban · Ruraldir. Don Bluth - 1956
Around the World in 80 Days
dir. Michael Anderson - 1987
Babette's Feast
Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Gabriel Axel - 1990
Back to the Future Part III
Rural · Desertdir. Robert Zemeckis - 1952
Bend of the River
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Anthony Mann - 1989
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Suburbandir. Stephen Herek - 1960
Black Sunday
Ruraldir. Mario Bava - 1974
Blazing Saddles
Desert · Ruraldir. Mel Brooks - 1992
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Urban · Ruraldir. Francis Ford Coppola - 1969
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Rural · Wildernessdir. George Roy Hill - 1953
Calamity Jane
Rural · Urbandir. David Butler - 1986
Castle in the Sky
Underground · Island · Ruraldir. Hayao Miyazaki - 1965
Cat Ballou
Ruraldir. Elliot Silverstein - 1964
Charulata
Urbandir. Satyajit Ray - 1945
Children of Paradise
Urbandir. Marcel Carné - 1950
Cinderella
Ruraldir. Clyde Geronimi - 2012
Cloud Atlas
Urban · Island · Coastal Sea · Off Worlddir. Lilly Wachowski - 2003
Cold Mountain
Rural · Mountaindir. Anthony Minghella - 1972
Cries and Whispers
Ruraldir. Ingmar Bergman - 2015
Crimson Peak
Rural · Urbandir. Guillermo del Toro - 1992
Daens
Urbandir. Stijn Coninx - 1990
Dances with Wolves
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Kevin Costner - 1995
Dead Man
Wildernessdir. Jim Jarmusch - 1966
Django
Ruraldir. Sergio Corbucci - 2012
Django Unchained
Ruraldir. Quentin Tarantino - 1990
Dreams
Rural · Mountain · Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Akira Kurosawa - 1966
El Dorado
Ruraldir. Howard Hawks - 1992
Far and Away
Rural · Urbandir. Ron Howard - 2020
First Cow
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Kelly Reichardt - 1965
For a Few Dollars More
Desert · Ruraldir. Sergio Leone - 1948
Fort Apache
Desertdir. John Ford - 2016
Free State of Jones
Ruraldir. Gary Ross - 2002
Gangs of New York
Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 1944
Gaslight
Urbandir. George Cukor - 1993
Germinal
Rural · Undergrounddir. Claude Berri - 1993
Gettysburg
Ruraldir. Ronald F. Maxwell - 1989
Glory
Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Edward Zwick - 1957
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Rural · Desertdir. John Sturges - 1968
Hang 'em High
Ruraldir. Ted Post - 1943
Heaven Can Wait
Urbandir. Ernst Lubitsch - 1980
Heaven's Gate
Ruraldir. Michael Cimino - 1969
Hello, Dolly!
Urbandir. Gene Kelly - 1952
High Noon
Ruraldir. Fred Zinnemann - 1973
High Plains Drifter
Desert · Ruraldir. Clint Eastwood - 1967
Hombre
Desert · Mountaindir. Martin Ritt - 2017
Hostiles
Wildernessdir. Scott Cooper - 1967
Hour of the Gun
Rural · Desertdir. John Sturges - 1941
How Green Was My Valley
Ruraldir. John Ford - 1962
How the West Was Won
Wilderness · Rural · Mountaindir. John Ford - 1966
Hunger
Urbandir. Henning Carlsen - 1994
Interview with the Vampire
Urbandir. Neil Jordan - 1972
Jeremiah Johnson
Wilderness · Mountaindir. Sydney Pollack - 1954
Johnny Guitar
Ruraldir. Nicholas Ray - 1959
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Underground · Mountaindir. Henry Levin - 2019
Klaus
Island · Coastal Seadir. Sergio Pablos - 1973
Lady Snowblood
Urban · Ruraldir. Toshiya Fujita - 2001
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
Ruraldir. Ashutosh Gowariker - 1959
Last Train from Gun Hill
Ruraldir. John Sturges - 1948
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Urbandir. Max Ophüls - 1970
Little Big Man
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Arthur Penn - 2019
Little Women
Rural · Urbandir. Greta Gerwig - 1994
Little Women
Suburbandir. Gillian Armstrong - 1949
Little Women
Ruraldir. Mervyn LeRoy - 1975
Love and Death
Rural · Urbandir. Woody Allen - 1973
Ludwig
dir. Luchino Visconti - 1956
Lust for Life
Rural · Urbandir. Vincente Minnelli - 2003
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Coastal Seadir. Peter Weir - 2011
Meek's Cutoff
Desert · Wildernessdir. Kelly Reichardt - 1956
Moby Dick
Coastal Seadir. John Huston - 1946
My Darling Clementine
Desert · Ruraldir. John Ford - 1973
My Name Is Nobody
Ruraldir. Tonino Valerii - 1922
Nosferatu
Mountain · Ruraldir. F. W. Murnau - 1979
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Urban · Mountaindir. Werner Herzog - 1957
Old Yeller
Rural · Wildernessdir. Robert Stevenson - 1991
Once Upon a Time in China
Urbandir. Tsui Hark - 1968
Once Upon a Time in the West
Desert · Ruraldir. Sergio Leone - 1961
One-Eyed Jacks
Coastal Sea · Desertdir. Marlon Brando - 1985
Pale Rider
Mountain · Ruraldir. Clint Eastwood - 1973
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Desert · Ruraldir. Sam Peckinpah - 1987
Pelle the Conqueror
Rural · Islanddir. Bille August - 2023
Poor Things
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Yorgos Lanthimos - 1983
Project A
Coastal Sea · Urbandir. Jackie Chan - 1965
Red Beard
Ruraldir. Akira Kurosawa - 1948
Red River
Rural · Wildernessdir. Howard Hawks - 1959
Rio Bravo
Ruraldir. Howard Hawks - 1950
Rio Grande
Ruraldir. John Ford - 1954
River of No Return
Wildernessdir. Otto Preminger - 2002
Russian Ark
Urbandir. Aleksandr Sokurov - 1962
Sanjuro
Ruraldir. Akira Kurosawa - 1995
Sense and Sensibility
Rural · Urbandir. Ang Lee - 1954
Senso
Urbandir. Luchino Visconti - 1954
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Mountain · Ruraldir. Stanley Donen - 1953
Shane
Ruraldir. George Stevens - 1949
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Desertdir. John Ford - 1985
Silverado
Desert · Ruraldir. Lawrence Kasdan - 1955
Sissi
Rural · Mountain · Urbandir. Ernst Marischka - 1939
Stagecoach
Desert · Wildernessdir. John Ford - 1960
Swiss Family Robinson
Island · Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Ken Annakin - 1999
Tarzan
Wildernessdir. Chris Buck - 1993
The Age of Innocence
Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 1960
The Alamo
dir. John Wayne - 2007
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Ruraldir. Andrew Dominik - 2018
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Joel Coen - 1983
The Ballad of Narayama
Rural · Mountaindir. Shōhei Imamura - 1988
The Bear
Wilderness · Mountaindir. Jean-Jacques Annaud - 1971
The Beguiled
Ruraldir. Don Siegel - 1958
The Big Country
Ruraldir. William Wyler - 1972
The Cowboys
Rural · Wildernessdir. Mark Rydell - 1953
The Earrings of Madame de...
Urbandir. Max Ophüls - 1980
The Elephant Man
Urbandir. David Lynch - 1974
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Urbandir. Werner Herzog - 1954
The Far Country
Wildernessdir. Anthony Mann - 1926
The General
Ruraldir. Clyde Bruckman - 1996
The Ghost and the Darkness
Wildernessdir. Stephen Hopkins - 1966
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Desert · Wildernessdir. Sergio Leone - 1968
The Great Silence
Mountain · Ruraldir. Sergio Corbucci - 1950
The Gunfighter
Ruraldir. Henry King - 2015
The Hateful Eight
Mountain · Ruraldir. Quentin Tarantino - 1949
The Heiress
Urbandir. William Wyler - 1959
The Horse Soldiers
Ruraldir. John Ford - 1961
The Innocents
Ruraldir. Jack Clayton - 1956
The King and I
Urbandir. Walter Lang - 1963
The Leopard
Urban · Ruraldir. Luchino Visconti - 2019
The Lighthouse
Island · Coastal Seadir. Robert Eggers - 1980
The Long Riders
Ruraldir. Walter Hill - 1958
The Magician
Ruraldir. Ingmar Bergman - 1942
The Magnificent Ambersons
Urbandir. Orson Welles - 1955
The Man from Laramie
Desert · Ruraldir. Anthony Mann - 1962
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Ruraldir. John Ford - 1975
The Man Who Would Be King
Mountain · Ruraldir. John Huston - 1940
The Mark of Zorro
Ruraldir. Rouben Mamoulian - 1981
The Marquis of Grillo
Urbandir. Mario Monicelli - 1998
The Mask of Zorro
Rural · Wildernessdir. Martin Campbell - 1955
The Miracle of Marcelino
Ruraldir. Ladislao Vajda - 1962
The Miracle Worker
dir. Arthur Penn - 1976
The Missouri Breaks
Rural · Wildernessdir. Arthur Penn - 1953
The Naked Spur
Mountain · Wildernessdir. Anthony Mann - 1976
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Ruraldir. Clint Eastwood - 1943
The Ox-Bow Incident
Rural · Wildernessdir. William A. Wellman - 1974
The Phantom of Liberty
Urbandir. Luis Buñuel - 1993
The Piano
Coastal Sea · Wilderness · Ruraldir. Jane Campion - 1945
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Urbandir. Albert Lewin - 2005
The Proposition
Desert · Wildernessdir. John Hillcoat - 1998
The Red Violin
Urbandir. François Girard - 2015
The Revenant
Wilderness · Mountaindir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu - 1956
The Searchers
Wilderness · Desertdir. John Ford - 1943
The Song of Bernadette
Ruraldir. Henry King - 1965
The Sons of Katie Elder
Ruraldir. Henry Hathaway - 1966
The Sword of Doom
Rural · Urbandir. Kihachi Okamoto - 1940
The Westerner
Ruraldir. William Wyler - 1970
They Call Me Trinity
Ruraldir. Enzo Barboni - 1979
Time After Time
Urbandir. Nicholas Meyer - 1993
Tombstone
Desert · Ruraldir. George P. Cosmatos - 2010
True Grit
Wilderness · Mountaindir. Ethan Coen - 1969
True Grit
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Henry Hathaway - 1970
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Desert · Wildernessdir. Don Siegel - 1992
Unforgiven
Rural · Wildernessdir. Clint Eastwood - 1954
Vera Cruz
Desert · Wildernessdir. Robert Aldrich - 1950
Wagon Master
Desert · Wildernessdir. John Ford - 1959
Warlock
Ruraldir. Edward Dmytryk - 1950
Winchester '73
Ruraldir. Anthony Mann - 1994
Wyatt Earp
Rural · Desertdir. Lawrence Kasdan - 1961
Yojimbo
Ruraldir. Akira Kurosawa - 1964
Zulu
Ruraldir. Cy Endfield
Frequently asked
How many movies are set in the 1800s?
Kinora's catalogue lists 170 films set in the 1800s, spanning 1922–2023.
What are some movies set in the 1800s?
Films set in the 1800s in our catalogue include 12 Years a Slave (2013), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), 3:10 to Yuma (2007), 3:10 to Yuma (1957), and A Fistful of Dollars (1964).
What is the oldest movie set in the 1800s?
Nosferatu (1922) is the earliest film set in the 1800s in our catalogue; the most recent is Poor Things (2023).