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.

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...

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.

Amusing characters board an unsteady trolley at each stop, and then abandon the streetcar in order to chase a man who brought on board a basket full...

'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...

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...

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

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

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

A woman receives her lover at home but the husband arrives having to hide him in a trunk. They go on a trip and the porters do not treat the trunk...

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?

In this parody of 1903's "Great Train Robbery", also made by Edwin S. Porter, young bandits rob the passengers of a kiddie train and are chased by...

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

Also showing Cortina mountain and general surroundings.

Félix Mayol performs The Trottins Polka (La Polka des Trottins, by A. Trebitsch and H. Christine) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early...

An early horror treatment of the hero's encounter with the one-eyed man-eating Cyclops.

A trick film using the reverse effect.

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

A panorama of Coney Island, taken at night: the camera sweeps across the scene from a vantage point well above the area. It then moves in for closer...

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

An elephantine spectacle, likely part of the celebrations for the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to India.