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1. A Trip to the Moon (1902)
TV-G | 13 min | Short, Action, Adventure
A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Georges Méliès, Victor André, Bleuette Bernon, Brunnet
Votes: 55,946
2. Renoir (2012)
R | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History
Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Jean Renoir -- son of the Impressionist painter, Pierre-Auguste -- returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I. At his ... See full summary »
Director: Gilles Bourdos | Stars: Michel Bouquet, Christa Théret, Vincent Rottiers, Thomas Doret
Votes: 5,997 | Gross: $2.29M
3. Eadweard (2015)
Unrated | 104 min | Biography, Drama
Photographer Eadweard Muybridge launches his pioneering movement studies while attempting to keep his marriage intact and staving off morality forces that view the images he captures as degenerate.
Director: Kyle Rideout | Stars: Michael Eklund, Sara Canning, Christopher Heyerdahl, Charlie Carrick
Votes: 662
4. Pussy's Breakfast (1905)
2 min | Short, Comedy
A young girl is given her breakfast of milk and a biscuit by an elderly woman. When her beribboned cart comes up, she shares the meal with her. Later, the cat sticks her paw into a glass of milk and licks it off
Star: Estelle Roy de Menditte
Votes: 169
5. Making a Living (1914)
G | 11 min | Short, Comedy
An out-of-work swindler takes a job as a reporter. After witnessing a car go over cliff, he grabs a rival reporter's camera and races to the newspaper office to enter the photo as his own. ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Lehrman | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Emma Clifton, Chester Conklin, Alice Davenport
Votes: 2,309
6. Joan of Arc (1900)
Not Rated | 10 min | Short, Drama, History
A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Bleuette Bernon, Jeanne Calvière, Jehanne d'Alcy, Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,446
7. The Consequences of Feminism (1906)
Not Rated | 7 min | Short, Comedy
In a society in which gender roles are switched, will men tolerate being unequal?
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 997
8. 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: 1,833
9. Mabel's Strange Predicament (1914)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Comedy
In a hotel lobby, an inebriated Charlie runs into an elegant lady, gets tied up in her dog's leash, and falls down. He later runs into her in the hotel corridor, locked out of her room. ... See full summary »
Director: Mabel Normand | Stars: Mabel Normand, Charles Chaplin, Chester Conklin, Alice Davenport
Votes: 2,005
10. An Unseen Enemy (1912)
Not Rated | 17 min | Crime, Short, Thriller
A brother and his two younger sisters inherit a modest amount from their father. When the brother is away, their shady housekeeper decides to take it for herself.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Elmer Booth, Robert Harron
Votes: 977
11. Suspense (1913)
Not Rated | 10 min | Short, Drama, Horror
Abandoned by her maidservant in an isolated country house, a mother must protect herself and her baby from an invading tramp while her husband races home in a stolen car to save them.
Directors: Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber | Stars: Lois Weber, Val Paul, Douglas Gerrard, Sam Kaufman
Votes: 2,196
12. Cinderella (1899)
Not Rated | 6 min | Short, Drama, Family
A fairy godmother magically turns Cinderella's rags to a beautiful dress, and a pumpkin into a coach. Cinderella goes to the ball, where she meets the Prince - but will she remember to leave before the magic runs out?
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Mlle Barral, Bleuette Bernon, Carmelli, Jehanne d'Alcy
Votes: 1,817
13. The Lonely Villa (1909)
8 min | Short, Crime, Drama
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 interior room, but the criminals are ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: David Miles, Marion Leonard, Mary Pickford, Gladys Egan
Votes: 1,097
14. The New York Hat (1912)
Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Drama
A dying mother bequeaths money in trust for her teenage daughter to the pastor. When he buys the girl an expensive new hat, scandal breaks out, as local gossips assume something fishy is going on between the pastor and the pretty girl.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Mary Pickford, Charles Hill Mailes, Kate Bruce, Lionel Barrymore
Votes: 936
15. A Christmas Carol (1910)
Not Rated | 11 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Based on the story by Charles Dickens: Ebenezer Scrooge is well known for his harsh, miserly ways, until he is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, and then by three other spirits.
Directors: J. Searle Dawley, Charles Kent, Ashley Miller | Stars: Marc McDermott, Charles Ogle, William Bechtel, Viola Dana
Votes: 830
16. 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: 1,997
17. The Haunted Hotel (1907)
5 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
On a dark and stormy night, a traveler takes a room at a spooky hotel in the forest. As soon as the proprietor leaves, the room comes alive with ghosts and poltergeists who torment the man as he tries to unpack, eat, and go to sleep.
Director: J. Stuart Blackton | Stars: Paul Panzer, William V. Ranous
Votes: 530
18. The Sign of the Cross (1899)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
Satan appears in a convent and takes the guise of a priest. Before long he is causing all manner of perturbation and despair.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,356
19. Le coucher de la mariée (1907)
4 min | Short
On their wedding night, the newlyweds are ready to go to bed with the ceremony of taking off their clothes, the bride, and the groom wanting to see what he has not seen yet.
Director: Albert Kirchner
Votes: 47
20. The Disintegrated Convict (1907)
5 min | Short
A convict morphs into different forms to escape from prison.
Votes: 118
21. Edison Kinetoscope Records: Annie Oakley (1894)
Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short, Western
Annie Oakley, the 'Little Miss Sure Shot' of the 'Wild West' gives an exhibition of rifle shooting at glass balls and clay pigeons in a film from the Edison Catalog.
Director: William K.L. Dickson | Stars: Francis E. Butler, Annie Oakley
Votes: 1,496
22. The Temptation of St. Anthony (1898)
1 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
The pious St. Anthony is tormented by visions of seductive women.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Jehanne d'Alcy, Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,003
23. The Mermaid (1904)
Not Rated | 4 min | Short, Fantasy
A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,283
24. The Little Match Seller (1902)
3 min | Drama, Short
A poor young girl tries to sell matches in a snowstorm. After being robbed by bullies, she lights matches which illuminate visions of a far happier Christmas than the one she faces.
Director: James Williamson
Votes: 534
25. The White Caps (1905)
Not Rated | 12 min | Drama, Short
Two members of a vigilante group known as 'The White Caps' post a warning sign on a man's home. When the man comes home, he tears down the sign, and then proceeds to abuse his wife both ... See full summary »
Directors: Wallace McCutcheon, Edwin S. Porter | Stars: Kate Toncray, John R. Cumpson, Arthur V. Johnson, Lionel Barrymore
Votes: 196
26. Chirurgie fin de siècle (1900)
2 min | Comedy, Short
Surgery is performed at the turn of the century.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 296
27. The Coronation of King Edward VII (1902)
Not Rated | 4 min | Short, History
A re-enactment using actors of the recent coronation of Britain's King Edward VII.
Directors: Georges Méliès, Charles Urban | Star: Paul Méliès
Votes: 427
28. Love and Rubbish (1913)
Comedy, Short
Two groundskeepers at a park expand their rivalry over trash to a romantic rivalry over a pretty park visitor. When a little girl goes missing, who better to find her than the Keystone Cops?
Director: Henry Lehrman | Stars: Ford Sterling, Charles Avery, Virginia Kirtley, Dave Anderson
Votes: 29
29. Le départ d'Arlequin et de Pierrette (1900)
Not Rated | 2 min | Short
Preserved by Filmoteca de Catalunya, Barcelona, PIERRETTE'S ESCAPADES retains the original hand-tinting from the film's release in 1900. Director Alice Guy adapts a brief sequence from the ... See full summary »
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 305
30. The Living Playing Cards (1905)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
With a brand-new deck of playing cards in his hand, an elegantly-attired thaumaturge, by fire and the pure power of illusion, transforms a plain nine of spades card into a full-size Queen of Hearts.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,580
31. The Sick Kitten (1903)
1 min | Short, Comedy, Family
A girl gives a spoonful of medicine to a kitten.
Director: George Albert Smith
Votes: 1,159
32. To Save Her Soul (1909)
11 min | Short, Drama
Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and offers her a job. Over the objections of the curate who loves her, she accepts the offer ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Arthur V. Johnson, Mary Pickford, Caroline Harris, W. Chrystie Miller
Votes: 55
33. La fée aux choux, ou la naissance des enfants (1900)
1 min | Short
#sinopsis A fairy appears on the screen in the middle of a garden, giving birth to a baby of a cabbage.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 276
34. Santa Claus (1898)
1 min | Short, Family, Fantasy
Brother and sister are sent to bed on Christmas Eve, and while they are asleep, Santa Claus comes down the chimney and fills their waiting stockings with toys.
Director: George Albert Smith | Stars: Laura Bayley, Dorothy Smith, Harold Smith
Votes: 1,072
35. The Méliès Mystery (2021 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary, Biography
In 1923, facing bankruptcy, film pioneer Georges Méliès burned all the original negatives of his early masterpieces. Almost a century later, dozens of his negatives were discovered in the Library of Congress. How did he do his final trick?
Director: Eric Lange | Stars: Serge Bromberg, Costa-Gavras, Béatrice de Pastre, Michel Gondry
Votes: 370
36. The Invisible Thief (1909)
6 min | Short, Crime, Fantasy
A man buys the novel The Invisible Man by "G.H. Wells" at a bookshop, and in it finds the recipe for Wells' invisibility potion. Then the opportunity makes the thief.
Directors: Segundo de Chomón, Ferdinand Zecca
Votes: 241
37. The Unwritten Law: A Thrilling Drama Based on the Thaw-White Tragedy (1907)
13 min | Crime, Drama, Short
Dramatization of the real-life shooting of Stanford White by Harry K. Thaw.
Star: Evelyn Nesbit
Votes: 60
38. The Insects' Christmas (1913)
7 min | Animation, Short, Family
A Christmas ornament comes alive and goes to a forest where he creates and decorates a Christmas tree for the forest creatures. He then invites all the insects to come and enjoy the gifts he has prepared and to celebrate Christmas.
Director: Wladyslaw Starewicz
Votes: 845
39. The Christmas Dream (1901)
Not Rated | 4 min | Short, Fantasy
The entire story of Christmastide is here depicted. The scene opens in a large boudoir of an apparently wealthy man's home. His children, assisted by their governess, are about to retire. ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 513
40. 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: 881
41. Peeping Pete (1913)
7 min | Short, Comedy
This early Keystone has Pete spying on his neighbor's wife through one of those little knotholes in a fence. The neighbor (Sterling) notices and chases him all over town with sheriff and ... See full summary »
Director: Mack Sennett | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Mack Sennett, Ford Sterling, Nick Cogley
Votes: 102
42. 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: 224
43. The Aerial Submarine (1910)
12 min | Short, Adventure, Fantasy
Flying pirates torpedo a liner then travel under the sea to salvage bullion.
Director: Walter R. Booth
Votes: 60
44. The Haunted Curiosity Shop (1901)
2 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
An old proprietor is startled by the sudden appearance of a skull. Just as he draws back from the uncanny object, the doors of a mediaeval wardrobe fly back and a hand prods him with a ... See full summary »
Director: Walter R. Booth
Votes: 507
45. That Ragtime Band (1913)
10 min | Short, Comedy
Bandleader Professor Smelts gets into a romantic rivalry with one of his musicians over a pretty girl's affections.
Director: Mack Sennett | Stars: Ford Sterling, Mabel Normand, Nick Cogley, Raymond Hatton
Votes: 75
46. Days of Thrills and Laughter (1961)
Not Rated | 93 min | Adventure, Comedy, Documentary
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s. It starts with a 1905 look at French comedy, goes through the 1910s with ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Youngson | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Charley Chase, Stan Laurel
Votes: 214
47. The Irresistible Piano (1907)
4 min | Short, Comedy
A man starts playing a piano. Neighbors hearing the music begin dancing, and are drawn to the music, dropping what they are doing to join the impromptu dance party.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 219
48. A Child of the Prairie (1915)
63 min | Western
In the wild west, Tom's wife, Nell, yearns to return to big city life. Slippery Jim offers her a way--and she takes the couple's young daughter with her. Will Tom ever see his child again?
Director: Tom Mix | Stars: Tom Mix, Louella Maxam, Norma Maxam, Ed Brady
Votes: 23
49. The School Teacher and the Waif (1912)
17 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Nora, a wild girl who lives with her alcoholic father, is forced to attend school. The untamed girl, who does not know how to socialize, is soon taunted by the other children. She warms ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Edwin August, Mary Pickford, Charles Hill Mailes, Bert Hendler
Votes: 81
50. Those of Our Land (1915)
44 min | Documentary, Short
With family connections to some famous French artists, writers, and musicians of the time, Sacha Guitry decided to film the individuals in action, to celebrate the greatness of his culture, threatened by Germany in the ongoing Great War.
Directors: Sacha Guitry, Frédéric Rossif | Stars: André Antoine, Lysiane Bernhardt, Sarah Bernhardt, Edgar Degas
Votes: 99