The best movies 1908

A small village in Aragón, Spain, at the end of the 19th century. After being caught by her father fooling around with Melchor, an...

Two rag-pickers enter their hovel with their bags of scraps. After a little preliminary comedy they set up a white sheet. One of the rag-pickers now...

A woman enters a room with a man. She creates a duplicate of him and changes his personality by throwing his clothes from one man to the next.

A frog hops around a magic fountain.

The first scene presents before the astonished eyes of the spectators a solid piece of marble, which the minute it is placed on a table seems to take...

A Segundo de Chomón trick film.

De Chomon film from 1908. Existing film is incomplete in length.

A chef comes into the kitchen and throws a lot of rags on the floor: he then casts a spell over them, and immediately they take the form of human...

Steampunk fantasia of interplanetary travel and submarine life.

Short film about a magic ride

Everyman Coupeau's attempts to stop drinking are routinely thwarted by the wicked and vengeful Virginie. Based on Zola's novel, Capellani's film is...

An Italian adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

The film portrays the events on the day King Henri III of France arranged for Duke Henri de Guise to be murdered.

An animated film by French auteur Émile Cohl, one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn film animation. Drawing inspiration from J. Stuart...

A young woman passing through a cemetery at night is suddenly startled by a voice coming from one of the graves. She wishes to rush away, but the...

A young Roman soldier and his sweetheart are embracing each other fondly and making their vows. The next scene shows the public square, where it is...

An enthusiastic young couple is astounded with modern technology's giant leaps in the fascinating field of electricity.

This film with a highly offensive and racist title tells the story of Jose, a handsome young Mexican, who leaves his home in the Sierra Madre...

A mythological scene with the most beautiful effect.

Albert Capellani's retelling of the biblical passage, previously taken to the screen by Ferdinand Zecca in 1902.

At the beginning of this film two women come onstage dressed in Oriental fashion. They present a shadow play theatre.

A traveler is welcomed into a fully automated hotel, where no human intervention is required. But the machines malfunction, giving the guest a...

A small village in Aragón, Spain, at the end of the 19th century. After being caught by her father fooling around with Melchor, an...

An enthusiastic young couple is astounded with modern technology's giant leaps in the fascinating field of electricity.

María Rosa is a Spanish silent film directed by Juan María Codina.

The silent Spanish version of the story of Don Juan Tenorio.

In this simple melodrama, a boy loses his beloved girl, hence dying of a broken heart. The film presents advanced techniques in several fields.

Very early footage of the streets of Barcelona, filmed from a tram.

A tour of the city of Camagüey divided into three segments - "A visit to Camagüey", "Typical scenes", and "Farewell Camagüey".

The director Mario Gallo made the first film with an argument from Argentina, although the opinions of scholars are not coincident as to their...