Query: Films set in 1853 or 1857
Domain: films
Relevant documents:
The Invisible Woman (2013 film)
Walker (film)
Madeleine (1950 film)
12 Years a Slave (film)
Best Man Wins
Jezebel (1938 film)
The King Steps Out
Quanto è bello lu murire acciso
September Dawn
Conquest of Cochise
Mountains of the Moon (film)
Evidence from documents: The Invisible Woman (2013 film): In 1857, eighteen-year-old English actress Ellen "Nelly" Ternan (Felicity Jones) is noticed by the forty-five-year-old Charles Dickens (Ralph Fiennes) while she is performing at London's Haymarket Theatre.
Walker (film): In 1853, soldier-of-fortune William Walker flees Mexico, after a failed attempt to incite an armed insurrection.
Madeleine (1950 film): ''''Madeleine''''' is a 1950 British film noir directed by David Lean, based on a true story of Madeleine Smith, a young Glasgow woman from a wealthy family who was tried in 1857 for the murder of her lover, Emile L'Angelier.
12 Years a Slave (film): '''''12 Years a Slave''''' is a 2013 biographical drama film directed by Steve McQueen from a screenplay by John Ridley, based on the 1853 slave memoir ''Twelve Years a Slave'' by David Wilson, about a New York State-born free African-American man named Solomon Northup, who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery.
Best Man Wins: The year is 1853 when inveterate gambler Jim Smiley (Edgar Buchanan) returns to his hometown of Dawson's Landing in Missouri after being away for a decade from his wife and son.
Jezebel (1938 film): The film tells the story of a headstrong young Southern woman during the antebellum period whose actions cost her the man she loves.
The King Steps Out: The film is based around Elisabeth's young years 1852–1854 (portrait of the young empress shortly after her wedding, by Amanda Bergstedt)
'''''The King Steps Out''''' is a 1936 American light comedy film directed by Josef von Sternberg based on the early years of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known as "Sisi" or "Sissi", and her courtship and marriage to Franz Joseph I of Austria, after he was initially engaged to her older sister Duchess Helene in Bavaria. The film is set from 1852 to 1854.
Quanto è bello lu murire acciso: It depicts the failed expedition organized by Carlo Pisacane in 1857 to provoke a rising in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
September Dawn: a 2007 Canadian-American Western film directed by Christopher Cain, telling a fictional love story against a controversial historical interpretation of the 1857 Mountain Meadows massacre.
Conquest of Cochise: '''''Conquest of Cochise''''' is a 1953 American Western film set in 1853 at the time of the Gadsen Purchase.
Mountains of the Moon (film): '''''Mountains of the Moon''''' is a 1990 biographical film depicting the 1857–1858 journey of Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke in their expedition to Central Africa