1909 Movies

Set in antiquity, the drama follows a woman who helps another woman escape from captivity and is condemned to crucifixion, staging themes of coercion,...

It's the oldest Brazilian movie that survived and the film that captured the first car race in Brazil.

The manufacture of a new weapon in the pre-WWI naval arms race.

Extremely condensed version of the Mark Twain story of a royal heir and his poor doppelganger trading places.

House painter Jim Brooks thinks his wife is cheating on him with his best friend John West. The intrigue is in fact a birthday surprise.

Two thieves, Ned and Mike, scheme to rob a pawnbroker, Mr. Einstein. Ned seduces Einstein's daughter Rachel to aid their plan, but during the attempte...

Cupid offer a horseshoe to princess Alice, promising her that the item will bring her the man of her dream. However, she is getting impatient and bore...

Silent documentary about the Caracas Carnival.

Picture shows how much good may be found "In the Heart of a Race Tout."

In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies play...

In August 1803, Napoleon’s police uncovered a British-backed Bourbon restoration plot implicating the Prince of Condé. Although his son, the Duke of E...

Jones's mother-in-law prohibits his smoking and drinking, so he takes her out for the evening and gets her drunk.

This might be termed a comedy of errors, for the overzealousness of a lot of good-hearted simple folks places them in a rather embarrassing position....

A haughty politician, on seeing a satirical cartoon in a newspaper, rushes to the paper's offices to shoot the cartoonist. On discovering the cartooni...

Mrs. Jones leaves her baby with the maid and goes shopping for a new hat. Meanwhile, the maid invites a band of gypsies into the house for a palm read...

The forest ranger's daughter catches a spouse by hoodwinking Papa who brings in a minister.

An early adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy Julius Caesar.

A new bride has made a batch of biscuits. Her husband pretends to like them, so she delivers the rest to his office. But one bite of these biscuits ma...

A man gets revenge on his cheating wife by killing her and her lover. He thinks he has killed his daughter as well, but she survives and is adopted by...

This film recounts an episode in Eugène François Vidocq's life and the events that led him to escape from the Brest penal colony disguised in a unifor...