The best movies 1905

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...

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

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

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...

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

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.

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

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?

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...

'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...

A trick film using the reverse effect.

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...

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

Felix Mayol performs Théodore Botrel's 'Lilas-blanc'.

A magician shows tricks with money.

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...

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

Starring 'Les Omers' as a bunch of bricklayers causing trouble for the local cops.

A film adaptation of the play by E. W. Hornung and Eugene Wiley Presbrey.

A group of men with a broken down auto get an assist from a man who can’t walk.

In order to photograph this film, the cameraman placed his equipment on a broad sidewalk in the business district of a large city, probably New York....

'From Siberia to Moscow' (1876) was August Bournonville’s last long ballet. It was inspired by an 1874 trip to Russia, where Bournonville met...