1909 Movies

A showman invites patrons to step up to his Kinetoscope-style magic box and glimpse the answers to their most burning questions.

In front of a portico, a music teacher teaches music theory to a group of young women, including Julienne Mathieu. A piano stands on the right side. A...

Film adaptation of excerpts from Nikolai Gogol's novel of the same name. Only two episodes are recreated faithfully: Chichikov's visit to Sobakevich a...

Nellie is a struggling artist whose paintings lie unsold. Billy, a successful painter, loves her, but she tells him that she cannot marry until she se...

A young couple must endure a tedious visit from their aunt until their friend offers to find a way to make her leave.

A young man sentenced to death manages to postpone his execution because of the impending wedding of his poor sister, who is to be married off. His be...

Two lovers elope and expect to be pursued by her father. But the clever father has tricked them into running off, and celebrates their wedding when th...

Scientist Galileo Galilei was engaged in his studies, but a servant of his attempts to seduce his daughter, and denounces Galilei to the Holy Office.

Early special effects film in which a woman throws a basket of flowers in the air, upon which the flowers create different shapes and figures and even...

An old and learned doctor discovers the secret of spontaneous generation and makes a microscopic germ which in its growth gives birth to the following...

Tom and Ethel separately decide to go bathing in a river. Pranksters switch their clothes and they each have to dress up as the opposite sex.

After her mother's heart got stolen by the Devil himself Elsie must travel to his castle in hope of regaining the heart he stole and bringing life to...

In Renaissance Rome, young Beatrice Cenci dares to defy her tyrannical father. Imprisoned, abused, and betrayed, she plots her father's murder with th...

An Italian movie.

French adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum”.

A bored Lady Helen goes slumming as a domestic in a boarding house. There she falls in love with a sensitive young musician. The other women in the ho...

Jack Thornton, an American traveler, while touring Europe meets the daughter of an old French nobleman and falls in love with her. He is persistent in...

Aristocrat Armand Duval meets the courtesan Marguerite Gauthier, after which he never stops thinking about her. The young man’s family is adamantly op...