The best movies 1905

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 drunken clubman sees visions and reforms.

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...

It was the first film version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Splendid views of Edwardian Rochdale from the front of a tram after a recent dusting of snow.

'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...

The film recreates the final events leading to Italian unification in September 1870.

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

A man needs to get to Monte Carlo from Paris, but finds out that a train will take 17 hours to get there. He decides to go with a man with a special...

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...

A woman performs the tango.

A portrait of the Dam family.

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...

A group of men with a broken down auto get an assist from a man who can’t walk.

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

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.

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

A young man leers through a peephole in the wall separating two dressing rooms, but he is caught, and is humiliated by his victims, two pretty ladies.

Short film by Pathé Frères released in 1905 with a racist plot.

A poor but honest man wins great wealth, and the hand of a beautiful princess, after facing a series of exciting trials in the tunnels and catacombs...

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

A basket of flowers appears and moves by itself to the middle of a decorative arch. From the basket, a woman magician appears. From a cylinder, the...

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

A millionaire girl publishes a personal ad wishing to marry a young, gallant man, using the Park's Swiss Cowshop as the meeting point.

Spanish lost film about the 30 August 1905 solar eclipse.

Short documentary about this Valencian tradition directed by Ángel García Cardona.

Lost film in which we see the football basque team Athletic Club of Bilbao.