The best movies 1906

A pulp writer dozes off at his desk and dreams himself into a melodrama of love and rivalry. What begins as a familiar tale soon veers into...

The legend of Aladdin and his magic lamp: Aladdin finds a magic lamp which brings him wealth, luxury, and marriage to a princess. But his rival, an...

An Italian movie about Othello.

An old general is married to a young woman. She meets a young man and makes plans for a rendezvous. The general receives an anonymous letter about...

All the fun of the Whitsuntide Fair in Edwardian Preston.

Just as Galeen and Wegener's Der Golem (1915) can be seen as a testament to early German film artistry, The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)...

The stations of Christ's life are segmented into a series of performative tableaux.

An early short about fox hunting

A short film documenting the wedding ceremony of Princess Ena to King Alfonso XIII of Spain. Showing the royal carriage, the royal procession through...

A cartoonist draws faces and figures on a blackboard - and they come to life.

A magical glowing white motorcar ignores policemen, drives up buildings, flies through outer space, and can transform into a horse and carriage.

A father shoots his son dead because, lured by the offer of a watch, he revealed to the police where his father had hidden smugglers who had come to...

Young lovers separate, she to a career on the stage and he to remain in the small village in which they grew up. Years pass and he is hired to be a...

A penniless troubadour consults witch Carabosse about his future, but offends her by paying with a bag of sand. He evades the witch's revenge, and...

The pursuit of a highwayman taking a message to a knight (First British one-reel feature).

Two groups of young women get into a pair of horse-drawn carts, and go off for a straw ride through the snowy streets. As they pass by a group of...

A woman loses her only child. She turns to drink and begins to hallucinate an image of her beloved child.

It's a society in which gender roles are switched. Will men stand to be unequal?

A magician charms a caterpillar and turns it into a butterfly woman. This film is a blatant remake of Georges Méliès's "La Chrysalide...

Depicts the exit of the President of the Republic Tomás Estrada Palma from the Presidential Palace, after giving the government to the...

One of the earliest Mexican feature-length documentary

The activities of a recently opened amusement park in Havana, Cuba, similar to New York's Coney Island.

Spanish short documentary about King Alfonso XII's return from his voyage to La Abufera (Valencia).

Spanish short documentary about King Alfonso XII's visit to La Albufera (Valencia).