1909 Movies

On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines an...

A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an interio...

An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very lo...

A pair of young ladies cause trouble at the cinema with their lavish hats.

Mr. Jones, since his last escapade, had made strenuous efforts to amend the reputation he had gained in the eyes of the ladies of the Temperance Leagu...

A man and his wife try to enjoy a picnic, but strange and surreal happenings prevent them from doing so.

At the Italian boarding house the male boarders were all smitten with the charms of Minnie, the landlady's pretty daughter, but she was of a poetic tu...

While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds the neighbor gravely ill, and ignores his wife's pl...

A man rents an apartment and furnishes it in remarkable fashion.

An early film adaptation of the Bard's comic fantasy-- and perhaps the first screen adaptation of a Shakespeare play.

The children of a household attempt to capture Santa, but they catch something else entirely.

In an Indian tribe, a girl escapes from her father and suitor to be with the man she loves.

A boy helps a convict to escape after meeting him at his mother's graveyard. The convict gets rich in Australia and when he returns is arrested again...

A dramatization of a wedding in 16th-century Russia, between members of two prominent boyar families (based on paintings by Konstantin Makovskii): Thr...

A mountain girl is seduced by a traveler from the valley. Her brother tracks the seducer down and kills him. In retaliation, the sheriff captures the...

Two lovers perform a fandango dance. A jealous quarrel follows and the heart-broken swain decides to end it all. He throws himself from the window of...

A music teacher is in love with Helen, one of his students, but she rejects him. In his hurt he joins an anarchist group who plan to blow up a rich ca...

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...

An Indian village is forced to leave its land by white settlers, and must make a long and weary journey to find a new home. The settlers make one youn...

Released in five parts (The Persecution of the Children of Israel by the Egyptians, Forty Years in the Land of Midian, The Plagues of Egypt and the De...