Nøgleord 18th Century

Den frygtede sørøver Barbossa kidnapper den smukke guvernørdatter Elizabeth. Hendes ven og hemmelige beundrer Will, beslutter sig for at prøve at redde hende. Men for at starte redningsaktionen tvinges Will til at bede om hjælp fra den ukendte pirat Jack Sparrow, som også har en høne at plukke med Barbossa. Hvad Will ikke ved, er, at der hviler en forbandelse over Barbossa og hans sørøvere. En forbandelse, som skal hæves inden de kan besejres...

En hovmodig prins forvandles til et uhyre og hans tjenere til talende møbler og husgeråd. Forbandelsen kan dog brydes, hvis han lærer at elske en kvinde - som elsker ham tilbage! Det er ikke nemt at finde en date, når man aldrig forlader sit skumle slot. Men da uhyret tager en opfinder til fange, tilbyder hans datter, Belle, at indtage sin fars plads. Og Belle skuer heldigvis ikke udyret på pelsen.

I 'Pirates of the Caribbean: I ukendt farvand' vender Johnny Depp tilbage til sin helterolle som Kaptajn Jack Sparrow.Jack er ikke sikker på om det er kærlighed, da han møder den gådefulde Angelica (Penélope Cruz), eller om hun er en ubarmhjertig fup-kunstner, der udnytter ham til at finde den sagnopspundne Ungdommens Kilde.Da Angelica tvinger Jack ombord på det legendariske skib Queen Anne's Revenge, kommanderet af piraten Sortskæg (Ian McShane), befinder Jack sig på et uventet eventyr, hvor han ikke længere ved, hvem han skal frygte, Blackbeard eller Angelica.Geoffrey Rush er også tilbage i 'Pirates of the Caribbean: I ukendt farvand' som den hævngerrige Kaptajn Hector Barbossa.

Med fem døtre og ingen nævneværdig formue er hr. og fru Bennet på konstant udkig efter et passende parti. Fru Bennett går således straks i gang med at slibe giftekniven, da den rige ungkarl Charles Bingley og hans ungkarleven Darcy flytter ind på et gods i nærheden. Dermed lyder startskuddet til et kompliceret spil, hvor kærlighed, intriger og forviklinger hører til dagens orden.

Handlingen strækker sig over 200 år og starter i vor tid på et hotel i San Francisco, hvor vampyren Louis fortæller den unge reporter om sit liv som vampyr. Louis levede for en tid af rotteblod for at slippe for skyldfølelsen ved at tage menneskeliv – men da en lille pige en aften kaster sig i hans arme – kan han ikke længere styre sin blodtørst. Den beregnende Lestat opdager det og gør pigen til vampyr uden at vide, hvilke katastrofale konsekvenser det vil få for ham selv. En ypperlig billedfortælling, som underholder og forfører sin tilskuer i to timer, er denne forrygende flotte filmatisering af kultforfatteren Anne Rices succesroman "En Vampyrs Bekendelser".

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille har en lugtesans så exceptionelt veludviklet, at den efterhånden overtager styringen af hans liv. Han kommer i lære i et parfumeri og skaber den ene utrolige parfume efter den anden. Men det er ikke nok for Grenouille, der sætter sig for at fange den ultimative duft - duften af kærlighed. Desværre kræver jagten på duften sine ofre i form af unge uskyldige kvinder.

Bretagne, 1760. Kunstneren Marianne skal male et portræt af den unge Héloïse. Maleriet skal sendes til Milano til Héloïse's kommende brudgom. Men hun vil ikke giftes, og Marianne må male hende i smug om natten, efter de har gået ture om dagen. Langsomt udvikler forholdet sig i en uventet retning, der ændrer alt for de to kvinder.

Året er 1757, og i kolonierne i Nordamerika raser krigen mellem franskmændene og englænderne. Søstrene Cora og Alice er netop ankommet til det nye land. På vej til deres far, oberst Munro, bliver de overfaldet, men bliver reddet af Falkeøje - en ung, hvid mand, der er vokset op blandt indianere.

Mel Gibson er Benjamin Martin, som ændrer sig fra at være omsorgsfuld familiefar til at være en fuldblods soldat i den amerikanske frihedskrig i 1770'erne. Han bliver leder af en guerillaagtig milits, der med stor kløgt og brutalitet gør livet surt for den engelske hær.

Vampyren Barnabas Collins ligger begravet i to århundreder, indtil han graves op til en meget anderledes verden i 1972. Han er fast besluttet på at genvinde sit hjems og slægtsnavns tidligere glorværdighed, selvom han bliver modarbejdet af sin tidligere elskerinde - den forførende heks Angelique - i dette "vildt fantasifulde" eventyr.

I 1755 drager den fattige kaptajn Ludvig Kahlen ud for at erobre den ubeboelige danske hede i kongens navn. Men områdets enehersker, den nådesløse Frederik de Schinkel, der mener, at jorden tilhører ham, sværger hævn, da tjenestepigen Ann Barbara og hendes livegne mand flygter for at søge tilflugt hos Kahlen.

I 1708 er England i krig med Frankrig. Den småskøre dronning Anne sidder på tronen, men hader at regere og vil hellere spise kage og lege med sine 17 kaniner. Landet er reelt styret af hendes hemmelige elskerinde, hertuginden Sarah Churchill. Da Sarah's fattige kusine Abigail Hill bliver kammerpige, begynder en skamløs, bitter og grotesk strid mellem dem.

Hvordan bliver en irsk knægt uden fremtidsmuligheder en del af 1700-tallets engelske adel? For Barry Lyndon er svaret: Ved hjælp af alle kneb. Han er på ingen måde tilfreds med sin ydmyge herkomst og opvækst, så han er fast besluttet på at søge lykke, magt og penge ved at drage ud i verden. Gennem held, handlekraft og romantiske eskapader lykkes det Barry at blive en holden mand i det krigshærgede Europa i 1700-tallet. Men i processen er han også blevet kold og beregnende, og prisen for succes viser sig at være høj.

Den smukke Lady Cho overtaler den landskendte playboy Lord Jo-Won til at forføre den unge jomfru, der er udset til at være konkubine for Lady Cho's mand. Hun vil hævne sig på sin mand: det er nemlig yderst pinligt, hvis en konkubine møder op uden at være jomfru - for ikke at tale om, at hun møder gravid på arbejde. Jo-Won påtager sig villigt den følsomme opgave, samtidig med at han indleder jagten på et mere eftertragtet og langt vanskeligere bytte: Lady Cho i egen tillokkende, men kyske skikkelse.

Den unge komponist Mozart elsker at provokere sine omgivelser. Ingen kan tåle ham - men alle falder for hans musik. Også den veletablerede komponist Salieri, der er ude af sig selv af skinsyge over Mozart's succes. Der var Oscars i lange baner til Milos Forman's usædvanlige portræt af et geni.

Den legendariske kriger Li Mu Bai har besluttet sig for at opgive sin gerning, blot ønsker han at hævne mordet på sin lærermester, før han vender tilbage til et almindeligt liv. Derfor overdager han sit gamle sværd til embedsmanden Hr. Te. Kort efter bliver sværdet stjålet, og det bliver startsskudet på det episke drama, hvor kampsport og kærlighed går op i en højere enhed.

I slutningen af 1700-tallets Frankrig er hundredvis af mennesker brutalt blevet myrdet i regionen Gevaudan. For at opklare mysteriet sender Kong Louis d. XV videnskabsmanden Gregoire de Fronsac, der med sig tager sin blodbror, indianeren Mani. Efter sin ankomst til Gevaudan må en nyforelsket Gregoire de Fronsac dog sande, at det ikke kun er et uhyre han skal bekæmpe, men i lige så høj grad en dyster sammensværgelse...

Fra tidernes morgen og indtil en fjern fremtid følger vi verdenshistoriens gakkede udvikling ifølge Mel Brooks. Vi opdager sandheden om Cæsar, hvad der virkelig skete under den sidste nadver, omstændighederne omkring den franske revolution, hvordan man tester eunukker og hvilke sko de spanske inkvisitorer bar.

The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

Zhen Huan, a 17-year-old innocent introduced into the imperial court as the latest concubine of Emperor Yong Zheng. Her dreams of a new life of love and prosperity are swiftly dashed as she enters a dog-eat-dog world of treachery and corruption.

1745. The reigning Empress Elizabeth Petrovna is infertile. The only heir is her feeble-minded nephew Peter III. Elizabeth cannot allow Peter to ascend to the throne, so she decides to marry the tsarevich, wait for the birth of her son, and then take the boy and raise him as a real Russian emperor herself. Brides are coming to St. Petersburg. Among them is the lovely Fike - the young Princess Sofia Frederica from the impoverished branch of the Prussian kings.

Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.

A genre-bending, anti-historical ride through 18th century Russia following the rise of Catherine the Nothing to Catherine the Great and her explosive relationship with husband Peter, the emperor of Russia.

Set in England in the early 19th century, Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters after the rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, have moved into their neighbourhood. While Bingley takes an immediate liking to the eldest Bennet daughter, Jane, Darcy has difficulty adapting to local society and repeatedly clashes with the second-eldest Bennet daughter, Elizabeth.

Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ruins: his father dead, the family mine long since closed, his house wrecked and his sweetheart pledged to marry his cousin. But Ross finds that hope and love can be found when you are least expecting it in the wild but beautiful Cornish landscape.

Northwest Passage is a 26-episode half-hour adventure television series produced by Metro Goldwyn Mayer about Major Robert Rogers during the time of the French and Indian War. The show derived its title and the main characters Rogers, Towne, and Marriner from the 1937 novel of the same name by Kenneth Roberts, and from the 1940 MGM feature film based on the novel. The scope of the novel was much broader than that of the series, and the second half of the book included an historically based attempt by Rogers to find a water route through North America as a "passage" to the Pacific Ocean. This attempt, lending its name to the novel and used by Roberts as a metaphor for the questing human spirit, is referenced in the first episode. One of the earlier series telecast in color, Northwest Passage aired new episodes on NBC from September 14, 1958, to March 13, 1959. Keith Larsen played the lead role; Buddy Ebsen, later the star of CBS's The Beverly Hillbillies and Barnaby Jones, appeared as Sergeant Hunk Marriner, and Don Burnett co-starred as Ensign Langdon Towne.

The chaotic and violent struggle to control wealth and power in the North American fur trade in late 18th century Canada. Told from multiple perspectives, Frontier takes place in a world where business negotiations might be resolved with close-quarter hatchet fights, and where delicate relations between native tribes and Europeans can spark bloody conflicts.

After trading in the seemingly charmed life of a gentleman for one of a swashbuckling buccaneer, Stede Bonnet becomes captain of the pirate ship Revenge. Struggling to earn the respect of his potentially mutinous crew, Stede’s fortunes change after a fateful run-in with the infamous Captain Blackbeard. Stede and crew attempt to get their ship together and survive life on the high seas.

Brothel owner, Margaret Wells, struggles to raise her daughters in London during the 18th century.

Adapted from David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, this lavish seven-part miniseries chronicles the life of Founding Father John Adams, starting with the Boston Massacre of 1770 through his years as an ambassador in Europe, then his terms as vice president and president of the United States, up to his death on July 4, 1826.

England, 1705: Framed for murder and on the run with her sisters, Nell Jackson turns her hand to highway robbery to survive. Aided by her superpowered sidekick, a plucky little sprite called Billy Blind, Nell realizes that fate has put her on the wrong side of the law for a reason. A reason much bigger than she could have ever imagined: to defeat a magical plot against the Queen of England.

The story of New York farmer, Abe Woodhull, who bands together with a group of childhood friends to form The Culper Ring, an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America’s fight for independence.

This four-part historical drama follows the end of Catherine the Great's reign and her affair with Russian military leader Grigory Potemkin that helped shape the future of Russian politics.

Set in early 18th-century Madrid, the plot follows the love story between an agoraphobic cook and a widowed nobleman.

The true tale of pioneering 18th century barrister William Garrow, who acted as counsel for the accused, introducing the concept of 'innocent until proved guilty' at London's Old Bailey.

An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African slave, Kunta Kinte sold to America and his descendants.

In December 1776, Benjamin Franklin is world-famous for his electrical experiments. But his passion and power are put to the test when he embarks on a secret mission to France—with the fate of American independence hanging in the balance.

The drama is about the assassination attempts on Emperor Jeong Jo's life during the 8 day period when he left the palace for a ceremony to honor his father who was killed by his grandfather.