The only movies that matter (to 1912)
by egmeinder | created - 29 Jun 2013 | updated - 29 Jun 2013 | PublicHere's a list of films I will be writing about. I'm publishing it so that I can play around with it on IMDb's Advanced Title Search.
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101. The Conjuring of a Woman at the House of Robert Houdin (1896)
1 min | Short, Horror
As an elegant maestro of mirage and delusion drapes his beautiful female assistant with a gauzy textile, much to our amazement, the lady vanishes into thin air.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Jehanne d'Alcy, Georges Méliès
Votes: 2,057
102. À la conquête du pôle (1912)
Not Rated | 33 min | Short, Adventure, Horror
Aboard the futuristic flying machine of his own invention, Professor Mabouloff and his team of intercultural explorers set off on yet another impossible expedition to North Pole's vast landscapes. What wonders await the bold adventurers?
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Georges Méliès, Fernande Albany
Votes: 1,203
103. Wintergartenprogramm (1895)
7 min | Short
The first cinema screening, consisting of the shorts "Italienischer Bauerntanz (1895)", "Komisches Reck (1895)", "Das boxende Känguruh (1895)", "Der Jongleur (1895)", "Akrobatisches Potpourri (1895)", "Kamarinskaja (1895)", "Die Serpentintänzerin (1895)", "Ringkämpfer (1895)" and "Apotheose (1895)".
Director: Max Skladanowsky | Stars: Emil Skladanowsky, Max Skladanowsky
Votes: 425
104. Le coq dressé de Cook et Rilly (1905)
2 min | Short
A rooster sits on its perch, crows, and flaps its wings.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 159
105. The Cook in Trouble (1904)
Not Rated | 4 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
A cook has his hands full with three mischievous devils, who pop in and out of his kitchen.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 879
106. The Cook's Revenge (1900)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Comedy
To escape the manager's wrath, a naughty cook who caused a small disaster with his amorous advances to a delicious waitress, hides in a wooden cupboard and suffers an immediate and unforeseen punishment. But, is this truly the end?
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 450
107. Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph (1894)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Sport
James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney meet in a boxing exhibition.
Directors: William K.L. Dickson, William Heise | Stars: James J. Corbett, Peter Courtney
Votes: 859
108. The Cord of Life (1909)
9 min | Short, Crime, Drama
Antonine, a worthless, good-for-nothing scoundrel, demands money of his cousin Galora, an energetic, provident husband and father. His demands are met with a positive rebuff, and when he ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Charles Inslee, Marion Leonard, George Gebhardt, Linda Arvidson
Votes: 141
109. Cordeliers' Square in Lyon (1895)
1 min | Documentary, Short
A stationary camera looks across the boulevard at a diagonal toward one corner of Lyon's Cordeliers' Square. It's a long shot, with a great deal of depth of focus. We can see the sky and ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Lumière
Votes: 1,210
110. A Country Cupid (1911)
18 min | Short, Romance
Schoolteacher Edith breaks off her engagement after an argument with her fiancé. She writes him a note of reconciliation but throws it away. Without her knowledge, one of her students ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Edwin August, Edna Foster, Joseph Graybill
Votes: 117
111. A Corner in Wheat (1909)
G | 14 min | Short, Crime, Drama
An unscrupulous and greedy capitalist speculator decides to corner the wheat market for his own profit, establishing complete control over the markets.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Frank Powell, Grace Henderson, James Kirkwood, Linda Arvidson
Votes: 2,748
112. The Country Doctor (1909)
Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Drama
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 pleas to come home and care for his own daughter, who has taken a turn for the worse.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Frank Powell, Florence Lawrence, Gladys Egan, Kate Bruce
Votes: 764
113. The Countryman's First Sight of the Animated Pictures (1901)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Comedy
A satire on the way that audiences unaccustomed to the cinema didn't know how to react to the moving images on a screen - in this film, an unsophisticated (and stereotypical) country yokel ... See full summary »
Director: Robert W. Paul
Votes: 780
114. A Crazy Composer (1906)
Not Rated | 5 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
A composer alone in his music room has a better imagination while asleep than awake.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 307
115. The Cricket on the Hearth (1909)
10 min | Short
After three years at sea, Edward returns home to find his sweetheart forced into an engagement with a much older man.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Owen Moore, Violet Mersereau, Linda Arvidson, Dorothy West
Votes: 163
116. The Cry of the Children (1912)
Not Rated | 29 min | Short, Drama
An indictment of the evils of child labor, the film was controversial in its time for its use of actual footage of children employed in a working mill.
Director: George Nichols | Stars: Marie Eline, Ethel Wright, James Cruze, Lila Chester
Votes: 330
117. The Crystal Casket (1905)
2 min | Short
In this 1-minute fragment of a 4-minute original, a magician does some tricks with a die, including making it grow, spin and open up to reveal a giant bower of flowers, which in turn fall back to reveal a beautiful fairy.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 190
118. A Cure for Pokeritis (1912)
13 min | Comedy, Short
Wife plots to cure her husband of his inveterate poker playing.
Director: Laurence Trimble | Stars: John Bunny, Flora Finch, Leah Baird, Charles Eldridge
Votes: 396
119. Maudite soit la guerre (1910)
6 min | Short
Director: Louis Feuillade | Star: Renée Carl
Votes: 11
120. The Curtain Pole (1909)
Not Rated | 13 min | Short, Comedy
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 long pole, and causes havoc everywhere he... See full summary »
Directors: D.W. Griffith, Mack Sennett | Stars: Mack Sennett, Harry Solter, Florence Lawrence, Linda Arvidson
Votes: 361
121. The Dainaid's Barrel (1900)
1 min | Short, Fantasy
Dainaid demonstrates that he can fit 8 women into a magic barrel.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 325
122. The Dancing Pig (1907)
Not Rated | 4 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
A humongous and obese anthropomorphic swine dressed like a fine gentleman in a fancy dinner attire tries to make a pass at a solitary lady having a picnic.
Director: Millard Mercury | Stars: Ewing Tordella, Edith Trublanchet
Votes: 1,406
123. Dante's Inferno (1911)
71 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Loosely adapted from Dante's Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré the original silent film has been restored and has a new score by Tangerine Dream.
Directors: Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, Giuseppe de Liguoro | Stars: Salvatore Papa, Arturo Pirovano, Giuseppe de Liguoro, Pier Delle Vigne
Votes: 3,461
124. A Dash Through the Clouds (1912)
Not Rated | 12 min | Crime, Short, Comedy
Aviation enthusiast Josephine rescues her suitor, Chubby, from an angry mob with the help of Slim and his airplane.
Director: Mack Sennett | Stars: Fred Mace, Mabel Normand, Phillip Orin Parmelee, Sylvia Ashton
Votes: 223
125. Daylight Burglary (1903)
5 min | Short, Crime, Drama
A thief jumps a fence and removes the shutter from a house. He enters, but a lad who's witnessed the crime runs off to hail the coppers.
Director: Frank S. Mottershaw
Votes: 449
126. The Death of Poor Joe (1901)
1 min | Short, Drama
A child-crossing sweeper dies in the snow.
Director: George Albert Smith | Stars: Laura Bayley, Tom Green
Votes: 209
127. Decapitation in Turkey (1904)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
In a public place in Constantinople at the corner of a bazaar, the executioner is seated upon a stone and is resting from his daily labors while eating a crust of bread. Suddenly there come... See full summary »
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 510
128. La tare (1911)
Not Rated | 41 min | Short, Drama
THE DEFECT is considerably longer than Feuillade's shorter works and significantly shorter that his better-known achievements, but quite enjoyable nonetheless. The director's efforts at ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Jean Aymé, Renée Carl, Henri Collen, Max Dhartigny
Votes: 138
129. The Delights of Automobiling (1900)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Comedy
As two couples enjoy their evening promenade in a nice but rickety open motor car, without notice, an explosion blows the vehicle to smithereens.
Director: Cecil M. Hepworth | Stars: Cecil M. Hepworth, Henry Lawley
Votes: 1,009
130. Delirium in a Studio (1907)
Not Rated | 2 min | Short
A painter completes his portrait of a woman and falls asleep only to awaken and find his apprentice has destroyed his efforts.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Manuel, Georges Méliès
Votes: 304
131. Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre (1901)
Unrated | 2 min | Documentary, Short
Time-lapse photography is used to show the manual dismantling and demolition of New York's Star Theatre over a period of about 30 days.
Director: Frederick S. Armitage
Votes: 1,095
132. Demolition of a Wall (1896)
Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short
Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards with a jackscrew, while another is pushing it with a ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Lumière | Star: Auguste Lumière
Votes: 2,771
133. A Desperate Crime (1906)
Not Rated | 7 min | Short, Crime, Drama
A gang of cutthroats set ablaze a farmhouse after killing the farmer and stealing the proceeds of his sales. Captured and tried for his crimes, the pitiless plunderer faces death by guillotine, but first, a night of pure agony awaits.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Manuel, Georges Méliès
Votes: 301
134. The Gigantic Devil (1901)
Not Rated | 2 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
A magnificent Venetian oratory. On the left a large bay window through which may be seen the Grand Canal of the city of Venice. In the centre a colonnade and a hemicycle; to the right is a ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 728
135. The Devilish Plank (1904)
Not Rated | 2 min | Short
A magic trick is performed with a long plank with two pots built into it, both with holes in the bottom. Pretty girls are part of the magic.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 244
136. The Devilish Tenant (1909)
6 min | Short, Comedy
A man rents an apartment and furnishes it in remarkable fashion.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Charles Claudel, Octavie Huvier, François Lallement, André Méliès
Votes: 1,979
137. The House of the Devil (1896)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Horror
With the help of a magic cauldron, Mephistopheles conjures up a variety of supernatural characters.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Jehanne d'Alcy, Jules-Eugène Legris, Georges Méliès
Votes: 3,988
138. The Devil's Castle (1897)
3 min | Short, Horror
A man dressed in red is ushered into an antechamber in a Castle and offered a seat. When he tried to sit down the chair moves to the other side of the room causing the man to fall on the ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,431
139. Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Music
The earliest extant sound film. William K.L. Dickson stands in the background next to a huge sound pickup horn connected to a Thomas Edison phonograph recorder. As he plays a violin, two ... See full summary »
Director: William K.L. Dickson | Star: William K.L. Dickson
Votes: 2,564
140. Dickson Greeting (1891)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short
The very first American film shown to public audiences and the press. It depicts William K.L. Dickson taking off his hat and greeting the audience.
Director: William K.L. Dickson | Star: William K.L. Dickson
Votes: 1,569
141. The Doctor and the Monkey (1900)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Comedy
A doctor's monkey escapes from its cage, and causes mayhem about the office.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 382
142. The Dog and His Various Merits (1908)
Not Rated | 2 min | Short, Documentary
We see a working dog, a beggar's dog, a shepherd's dog, and a milkman's dog. The working dog is locked inside a large wire wheel; the dog runs inside the wheel, turning it to run a machine.... See full summary »
Votes: 463
143. The Downward Path (1900)
Short, Drama
A country girl is seduced by a city book agent. She elopes with him, but once in the city she is forced to become a prostitute. He deserts her, and finally she takes poison.
Director: Arthur Marvin
144. Dragoons Crossing the Sâone (2016)
Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short
A stationary camera looks across Burgundy's River Sâone toward a small military encampment. Four horsemen enter the water in the foreground, each riding his horse as it swims across toward ... See full summary »
Votes: 624
145. The Drawing Lesson (1903)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Fantasy
In a corner of the garden we see an ornamental fountain. An old professor comes along, looking for a nice spot where he can teach his pupils. Finding the fountain to his liking he goes ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Jehanne d'Alcy
Votes: 285
146. Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906)
Not Rated | 7 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
The fiend faces the spectacular mind-bending consequences of his free-wheeling rarebit binge.
Directors: Wallace McCutcheon, Edwin S. Porter | Star: Jack Brawn
Votes: 1,993
147. The Dream of an Opium Fiend (1908)
Not Rated | 4 min | Short
The opium fiend is seen in a den, puffing on this terrible narcotic. He then falls fast asleep and dreams that he is at home with his wife. He asks for something to drink and he is given ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Mlle. Bodson, Georges Méliès
Votes: 226
148. Rêve et réalité (1901)
1 min | Comedy, Short
A well-dressed middle-aged man is enjoying a drink at a table with a pretty young woman. He flirts with her, and she seems not to mind his attentions. But is it all too good to be true?
Director: Ferdinand Zecca
Votes: 508
149. L'affaire Dreyfus (1899)
13 min | Short, Biography, Drama
Dramatized re-enactments of the events of the Dreyfus-affair from 1894 to 1899.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 707
150. Hallucinations pharmaceutiques ou Le truc de potard (1908)
Not Rated | 13 min | Short
An alchemist owns a pharmacy for the rich. His assistants play a trick on him and put a drug in his medicine, leading to ghostly visions experienced by the alchemist, who goes to a wizard ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Méliès
Votes: 184
151. A Drunkard's Reformation (1909)
13 min | Drama, Short
A drinking man arrives home, late and sozzled as usual. His wife reminds him that he promised to take their child to a play. The play proves to be a morality tale about the evils of drink; ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Arthur V. Johnson, Linda Arvidson, Adele DeGarde, Charles Avery
Votes: 273
152. Duel Scene from Macbeth (1905)
Short, Drama
Based on a scene from Shakespeare's play: Macbeth, king of Scotland, is challenged by his rival Macduff.
Votes: 59
153. Le nain (1912)
14 min | Drama, Short
A manuscript is mysteriously delivered to a playhouse where it is eventually turned into a major hit with critics calling it a masterpiece. The only problem is that no one knows who wrote ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Delphin, Renée Carl, Suzanne Grandais, Marthe Vinot
Votes: 147
154. The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon (1907)
Not Rated | 9 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
As the clock strikes twelve, a weary astronomer attempts to answer the impertinent enquiries of his young students by scrutinising an impending lunar eclipse, as an effeminate and delicate moon caresses the mighty sun's hungry cosmic rays.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Mlle. Bodson, Manuel, Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,411
155. Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894)
1 min | Documentary, Short
A man (Thomas Edison's assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Thomas Edison films and was the first motion picture to be copyrighted in the United States.
Director: William K.L. Dickson | Star: Fred Ott
Votes: 2,194
156. The Electric Hotel (1908)
8 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
An enthusiastic young couple is astounded with modern technology's giant leaps in the fascinating field of electricity.
Director: Segundo de Chomón | Stars: Segundo de Chomón, Julienne Mathieu
Votes: 1,134
157. Electrocuting an Elephant (1903)
Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short, Horror
The execution of Topsy, a female elephant, in a publicity stunt advertising the opening of Luna Park on Coney Island. Topsy was originally owned by Forepaugh Circus where she killed a ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin S. Porter | Stars: Carl Goliath, Topsy
Votes: 1,930
158. Elopement on Horseback (1898)
1 min | Drama, Short
As a woman waits outside of a window, a man rides up on horseback, and she jumps on behind him. As the two of them ride off to elope, one of the man's friends stays behind, in case anyone ... See full summary »
Votes: 74
159. Leaving the Factory (1895)
Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short
Workers leaving the Lumière factory for lunch in Lyon, France in 1895; a place of great photographic innovation and one of the birth places of cinema.
Director: Louis Lumière
Votes: 7,556
160. The Enchanted Box (1903)
1 min | Short, Fantasy
As scene as pleasing as incomprehensible. A juggler summons two chairs, which come to the stage jumping and twirling around. Across the back of these chairs the operator places a sheet of ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 257
161. The Enchanted Drawing (1900)
2 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.
Director: J. Stuart Blackton | Star: J. Stuart Blackton
Votes: 1,417
162. The Enchanted Well (1903)
Not Rated | 4 min | Fantasy, Drama, Short
Denied a handout, a witch exacts vengeance by cursing the village well.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 483
163. Enoch Arden: Part I (1911)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Drama
Enoch Arden, a humble fisherman, marries Annie Lee. He signs on as a sailor to make more money to support their growing family. A storm wrecks his ship, but Enoch swims to a deserted island. Annie waits vainly for his return.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Wilfred Lucas, Linda Arvidson, Francis J. Grandon, George Nichols
Votes: 407
164. European Rest Cure (1904)
Not Rated | 17 min | Comedy, Short
An American tourist has a terrible ordeal on his European vacation.
Director: Edwin S. Porter
Votes: 235
165. The Ex-Convict (1904)
Not Rated | 8 min | Drama, Short
A recently released prisoner struggles to support his family.
Director: Edwin S. Porter
Votes: 232
166. Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison (1901)
4 min | Short, Drama, History
This early docudrama shows Auburn Prison and recreates the electrocution of Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley of the United States. Some versions offer additional footage at... See full summary »
Director: Edwin S. Porter
Votes: 386
167. The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, History
This short film, one of the first to use camera tricks, depicts the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Director: Alfred Clark | Stars: Robert Thomae, Mrs. Robert L. Thomas
Votes: 2,558
168. Exit of Rip and the Dwarf (1896)
Not Rated | 1 min | Drama, Short
The third of eight short black and white films from director William K.L. Dickson in which he chronicles the story of Rip Van Winkle. In this film, Rip helps the dwarf carrying the barrel into the mountains.
Director: William K.L. Dickson | Star: Joseph Jefferson
Votes: 554
169. Les infortunes d'un explorateur (1900)
1 min | Short
A movie fragment depicting an archaeological explorer entering a standing sarcophagus.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 283
170. An Extraordinary Cab Accident (1903)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Comedy
A man and a woman talk beside a street near a corner where a cop stands. Just as a horse-drawn cart rounds the corner, the man backs off the sidewalk saying good-by to his companion. The ... See full summary »
Directors: Walter R. Booth, Robert W. Paul
Votes: 554
171. The Clown with the Portable Body (1901)
2 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
The funniest of all mystical pictures yet produced. Several body parts of a dancing clown float away from his body and come back again.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: André Deed
Votes: 517
172. Extraordinary Illusions (1903)
Not Rated | 2 min | Short, Comedy
Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 416
173. Grandmother's Story (1908)
Not Rated | 5 min | Short, Fantasy
The old granny reads to a little girl from a book, and between paragraphs she tells the child of the wonders of Fairyland. Then, the child tiring, she places it affectionately in bed, and ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: André Méliès
Votes: 274
174. La fée des grèves (1909)
7 min | Short, Fantasy
A prince captures a sea fairy. He falls in love with her and wants to marry her. The fairy wants to return to the sea. The prince allows her to return and then decides to follow her. They live happily ever after.
Director: Louis Feuillade
Votes: 171
175. The Kingdom of the Fairies (1903)
Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Adventure, Fantasy
In this spectacular free adaptation of the popular theatre play "La Biche au Bois", the valiant Prince Bel-Azor pursues a baleful old witch to her impregnable castle, to save the beautiful young Princess Azurine.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Georges Méliès, Marguerite Thévenard, Bleuette Bernon, André Deed
Votes: 1,824
176. Faithful (1910)
17 min | Short, Drama
John Dobbs, a young man in good circumstances, goes a-courting, and returning from the home of his lady fair, his auto runs down Zeke, the vacuum-pated roustabout of the town. Although Zeke... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Arthur V. Johnson, Mack Sennett, Florence Barker, Kate Bruce
Votes: 149
177. A Fall from Five Floors (1906)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Comedy
All it takes is a tumble from a photographer's assistant, and his backdrop and equipment crashes out the window onto the street. Confusion ensues.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Charles Claudel, Théophile Michault, Georges Méliès
Votes: 253
178. Falling Leaves (1912)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short, Drama
Trixie believe the only way she can save her older sister from dying of tuberculosis is by preventing the autumn leaves from falling, so one night she steals into the garden in her nightie and fastens fallen leaves to branches with twine.
Director: Alice Guy | Stars: Mace Greenleaf, Blanche Cornwall, Marian Swayne, Magda Foy
Votes: 1,653
179. The Famous Box Trick (1898)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Fantasy
From the depths of a plain wooden box, a skilful conjurer materializes a lively boy in a clown suit. Next, he takes a heavy battle-axe. What are his intentions?
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 660
180. A Fantastical Meal (1900)
Not Rated | 2 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
A man and two women sit down to eat dinner, but several unexpected surprises prevent them from their repast: the legs of the table grow, the table disappears into the floor, and a ghostly spirit appears and takes possession of the man.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 420
181. A Fantasy (1908)
2 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The first all-animated film in history, a series of scenes without much narrative structure, but morphing into each other.
Director: Émile Cohl
Votes: 2,836
182. The Puppet's Nightmare (1908)
Not Rated | 2 min | Animation, Short
The nightmare of Émile Cohl's chalk animation is one of unreliable appearances. Fishermen catch fish which eat them whole. Ladders transform into coils which just as suddenly take the form ... See full summary »
Director: Émile Cohl
Votes: 290
183. The Fat and the Lean Wrestling Match (1901)
Not Rated | 2 min | Short, Comedy
Right in front of our very eyes, two attractive and feminine women metamorphose into two professional wrestlers who begin a no-holds-barred wrestling match.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Jehanne d'Alcy, Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,166
184. Father Gets in the Game (1908)
10 min | Short, Comedy
After a makeover transforms him, a man flirts with his wife, his daughter and his son's girlfriend, none of whom recognize him in this early one-reel comedy of errors.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Mack Sennett, Harry Solter, George Gebhardt, Linda Arvidson
Votes: 130
185. Faust and Marguerite (1904)
4 min | Short, Fantasy
Old and burdened Faust sells his soul to the Devil for the exchange of youth and pleasures. He seduces Marguerite and is finally condemned to hell.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Jeanne Calvière, Georges Méliès
Votes: 272
186. The Damnation of Faust (1903)
6 min | Short, Fantasy
Scenes. 1. The Route to the Depths of Perdition (a Dazzingly Sensational New Effect.) 2. The Fantastical Ride. 3. The Gloomy Pass. 4. The Stream. 5. The Entrance to the Lower Regions. 6. ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 465
187. Feeding the Doves (1896)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Documentary
A woman and a young girl each carry containers of bird feed, and they toss occasional handfuls to the chickens and doves in the farmyard. Most of the chickens stay nearby, but the doves occasionally fly off and then return to eat more.
Director: James H. White
Votes: 910
188. The Female of the Species (1912)
17 min | Short, Drama
Four survivors from an abandoned mining town - a married couple, the wife's sister, and a younger woman - are making a desperate trip to safety across the desert. The wife suspects the ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Charles West, Claire McDowell, Mary Pickford, Dorothy Bernard
Votes: 329
189. The Fickle Spaniard (1912)
8 min | Comedy, Short
To Marcel, the little Spanish senorita, he swears eternal love, only to fall, later, a victim to the charms of Margot. Marcel sees their meeting while she is shaving her father, an ... See full summary »
Directors: Dell Henderson, Mack Sennett | Stars: Mabel Normand, Fred Mace, Claire McDowell, William J. Butler
Votes: 41
190. Fire! (1901)
5 min | Short, Action, Drama
Firefighters ring for help, and here comes the ladder cart; they hitch a horse to it. A second horse-drawn truck joins the first, and they head down the street to a house fire. Inside a man... See full summary »
Director: James Williamson
Votes: 790
191. The Firefall (1904)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short
A short film from Georges Méliès in which two servants are arguing when suddenly the devil makes an appearance.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 339
192. Pompiers à Lyon (1896)
1 min | Documentary, Short
In the foreground, smoke billows. Four horse-drawn fire wagons approach and pass in front of a stationary camera. Two horses draw each wagon, and each wagon carries from two to eight ... See full summary »
Votes: 483
193. A Flash of Light (1910)
11 min | Short, Romance
John Rogers, a young chemist, is sincerely loved by the eldest of two sisters, but in a state of infatuation prefers the younger girl, fascinated by what he would call vivacity, but which ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Charles West, Vivian Prescott, Stephanie Longfellow, Verner Clarges
Votes: 115
194. Au bal de Flore (1900)
3 min | Short
Hand-tinted film of a couple dance on a stage.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 195
195. Fools of Fate (1909)
11 min | Short, Drama
Fanny is the wife of Ben Webster, a trapper, and while he is an affectionate and dutiful husband, she yearns for something which appears better than her lot. She reasons: "Have I not youth ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: James Kirkwood, Marion Leonard, Frank Powell, Henry B. Walthall
Votes: 123
196. For His Son (1912)
Not Rated | 15 min | Short, Drama
A father, anxious for his son's financial well being, develops a special soda pop called Dopokoke which is laced with cocaine. Dopokoke is advertised as relief "for that tired feeling." The... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Charles Hill Mailes, Charles West, Blanche Sweet, Dorothy Bernard
Votes: 424
197. Pour l'étoile S.V.P. (1908)
Not Rated | 2 min | Short, Comedy
A typical "chorus girl's meal ticket" prevails upon a stage hand to take a bouquet to her mon amour. The stage hand takes the bouquet with a wink; but once out of sight of the Johnnie, he ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Fernande Albany
Votes: 149
198. Four Heads Are Better Than One (1898)
TV-PG | 1 min | Short, Comedy
Much to our amazement, an elegant and masterful illusionist detaches his own head effortlessly from his shoulders for a once-in-a-lifetime performance.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 4,021
199. The 400 Tricks of the Devil (1906)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
Two travelers are tormented by Satan from inn to inn and eventually experience a buggy ride through the heavens courtesy of the Devil.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,368
200. Frankenstein (1910)
Unrated | 16 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
The first filmed version of Frankenstein. The young doctor discovers the secret of life, which he uses to create a perfect human. Things do not go according to plan.
Director: J. Searle Dawley | Stars: Mary Fuller, Charles Ogle, Augustus Phillips
Votes: 4,745
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