#Movies set in late 1800s or early 1900s?

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grim flax
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Hello this is deliberately quite open ended, are there any good movies youd recommend that give a really good early 1900s vibe? Preferably not romance

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fierce chasm
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I watched The Kid recently which was filmed in that time period; not sure if that's what you're going for, though

muted valley
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Maurice

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even though its a romance

toxic gulch
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https://boxd.it/20Z2

There Will Be Blood (2007)

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning f...

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https://boxd.it/948A

The Handmaiden (2016)

1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a young woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering uncle. But, the maid has a secret: she is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese count to help him seduce the heiress to elope with him, ro...

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Handmaiden is romance but it’s still super good

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blazing cove
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The Prestige!

rigid storm
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The Wild Bunch is a very interesting western, about the transition into the 20th century as the "wild west" was beginning to die.

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Also, I'll absolutely drop this bad boy here, it's about two "irish" immigrants coming to america and tryna make their dang way.

https://letterboxd.com/film/far-and-away/

Far and Away (1992)

A young man leaves Ireland with his landlord's daughter after some trouble with her father, and they dream of owning land at the big giveaway in Oklahoma ca. 1893. When they get to the new land, they find jobs and begin saving money. The man becomes a local barehands boxer, and rides in glory until he is beaten, then his employers steal all the ...

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I put "irish" in quotes because tom cruise and nicole kidman do not excel at their accents

grim flax
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Really really enjoyed it, thanks for the recommendation

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