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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: 55,804
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: 5,994 | Gross: $2.29M
3. 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: 167
4. 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: 659
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: 2,301
6. 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: 45
7. 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: 973
8. 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: 2,189
9. 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: 1,808
10. 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: 2,001
11. 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: 1,438
12. 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
13. 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: 1,351
14. 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: 1,492
15. 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: 992
16. 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: 1,093
17. 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
18. 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: 528
19. 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
20. 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: 1,576
21. Mr. Flip (1909)
4 min | Comedy, Short
Mr. Flip flirts with every woman he sees, and ends up with a pie, shaving cream, and seltzer in his face.
Director: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson | Star: Ben Turpin
Votes: 241
22. The Kleptomaniac (1905)
Not Rated | 8 min | Crime, Drama, Short
A well-dressed woman steals several items from a department store. Meanwhile, a poor woman with two small children steals a loaf of bread out of desperation, and she is quickly caught and arrested. In court, what penalty will each face?
Director: Edwin S. Porter | Stars: Aline Boyd, Phineas Nairs, Jane Stewart, George Voijere
Votes: 417
23. 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: 842
24. 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: 933
25. 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: 997
26. The Burglar's Dilemma (1912)
15 min | Short, Drama
In this latter-day Cain and Abel story, a jealous brother strikes down his sibling just as a young burglar is about to enter the house. The jealous brother summons police, who then charge ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Henry B. Walthall, Robert Harron, Harry Carey
Votes: 422
27. 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: 828
28. 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
29. The Sick Kitten (1903)
1 min | Short, Comedy, Family
A girl gives a spoonful of medicine to a kitten.
Director: George Albert Smith
Votes: 1,155
30. 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: 98
31. 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: 1,067
32. The Doll's Revenge (1907)
3 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
A boy breaks his sister's doll and it mends, grows, tears him up and eats him.
Director: Cecil M. Hepworth | Stars: Gertie Potter, Bertie Potter
Votes: 134
33. Sage-femme de première classe (1902)
4 min | Short, Comedy
A young couple go shopping for a baby.
Director: Alice Guy | Stars: Alice Guy, Germaine Serand, Yvonne Serand
Votes: 275
34. 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: 531
35. 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: 195
36. Lena and the Geese (1912)
17 min | Romance, Short, Fantasy
A royal girl is placed in the care of a peasant woman who has a child the same age and raises them as sisters. On her deathbed, the noble lady sends for her child. Gretchen instead sends her own daughter Lena, who takes her place at court.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Mary Pickford, J. Jiquel Lanoe, Kate Bruce, Mae Marsh
Votes: 64
37. 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
38. What's Your Hurry? (1909)
4 min | Short, Comedy
Mary's beau arrives for a visit and she is anxious to introduce him to Papa. When Harry sees Papa walk in with a shotgun he panics and runs off in terror. Harry continues to encounter Papa everywhere and runs away, baffling the old man.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Mary Pickford, George Nichols, Kate Bruce, Billy Quirk
Votes: 57
39. The Mermaid (1904)
Not Rated | 4 min | Short, Fantasy
A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,276
40. What Is Seen Through a Keyhole (1901)
2 min | Short, Comedy
A hotel porter tries in his spare time to find out the secrets of the guests in looking through the keyholes of the different rooms. He must see very funny things, judging from his facial expressions.
Director: Ferdinand Zecca
Votes: 598
41. 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: 274
42. A Trap for Santa Claus (1909)
Not Rated | 16 min | Drama, Short
The children set a trap for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, knowing he has to come through the window because their estate has no chimney. Their father, who abandoned them and his wife before... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Henry B. Walthall, Marion Leonard, Gladys Egan, John Tansey
Votes: 402
43. 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
44. The Suburbanite (1904)
9 min | Comedy, Short
A family moves out to the 'peaceful' suburbs where everything goes wrong, including the mother-in-law moving in.
Votes: 260
45. 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: 878
46. 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
47. L'enfant de la barricade (1907)
Not Rated | 6 min | Short, Drama
A tumultuous time in French history affects the life of one particular man, an innocent bystander swept up in the confusion around him.
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 345
48. Iola's Promise (1912)
18 min | Short, Romance, Western
Iola, the little Indian girl, is held captive by a gang of cutthroats, from whose clutches and abuse she is rescued by Jack Harper, a prospector. She is truly grateful to Jack, for she ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Mary Pickford, Alfred Paget, Frank Evans, Dorothy Bernard
Votes: 56
49. The Light That Came (1909)
11 min | Short, Drama
A disfigured young woman with two beautiful sisters is courted by a blind man. Will he still love her when his sight is restored?
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Marion Leonard, Mary Pickford, Ruth Hart, Kate Bruce
Votes: 116
50. The Mountaineer's Honor (1909)
11 min | Short, Drama
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 brother and prepares to lynch him. ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Mary Pickford, Owen Moore, James Kirkwood, Kate Bruce
Votes: 102