1905 Movies

Monsieur Beaucaire, a French nobleman & relative of the King, engages in a sword fight with the jealous Duke of Winterset over a card game, leading to...

The film recreates the final events leading to Italian unification in September 1870.

This is another short, simple dance number. It’s quite stunning and unusual though with a bat turning into a woman who proceeds to give us a skirt dan...

An adaptation of an episode in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, where Jean Valjean is welcomed into the Bishop of Digne's home, and steals his silverware...

Splendid views of Edwardian Rochdale from the front of a tram after a recent dusting of snow.

A tramp who unwittingly starts a fire is chased by a mob of peasants.

'Zandvoort in an uproar! On Saturday morning at roughly 10 o’clock, with beautiful weather and calm seas, a Frenchman sat in a beach chair to gaze upo...

On Christmas Eve, Santa feeds his reindeer and loads his sleigh, before going on his journey to deliver toys to the children of the world.

A short drama featuring three fictitious scenes of the Spanish War of Independence (1808-1814).

A woman performs the tango.

A trick film using the reverse effect.

Two men get into a knife fight, in a Corsican tavern, and one of them kills another and escapes. He takes refuge in his house but escapes when the gua...

Ferdinand Zecca's remake of his own film "Plongeur fantastique" (The Fantastic Plunger, 1901) with the same premise, showing a diver with reverse moti...

It was the first film version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Two members of a vigilante group known as 'The White Caps' post a warning sign on a man's home. When the man comes home, he tears down the sign, and t...

A servant kills his miser master and buries his corpse. The murderer is haunted by the ghost of his victim....or is it his own conscience?

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

A drunken clubman sees visions and reforms.

An elephantine spectacle, likely part of the celebrations for the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to India.

A man needs to get to Monte Carlo from Paris, but finds out that a train will take 17 hours to get there. He decides to go with a man with a special c...