The best movies 1908 Pagina 6

Adaptation of a poem written by Thomas Hood.

A good shepherdess is persecuted by an evil, tantrum-throwing princess. A good fairy decides to intervene, and dishes out quite a bit of retribution.

Old Ezra Perkins, his wife Matilda, and an English gentleman named Reggie take a "rubberneck" sightseeing tour of New York’s Bowery district....

Based on the play by A.V. Sukhovo-Kobylin.

King Herod is enchanted by Salome's dance and grants her wish for the head of John the Baptist.

Mack Sennett appears as a waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

M. Rasta, a high society con man, is accused of a crime he didn't commit.

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

Women turn into roses in this hand-coloured nitrate short from Gaumont.

Actuality film documenting the state visit of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra to Stockholm on 26–27 April 1908. The footage shows the...

The goddess Minerva is jealous of the young Arachne who is more clever it in weaving. Out of spite, Arachne Minerva rushed into hell, then transforms...

Set during the American Civil War, the film focuses on a group of deserters and renegades who disguise themselves in Confederate uniforms to steal...

A castaway returns home after years lost at sea, to the wife and child he left behind. Has she waited faithfully or has she moved on?

Dr Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that changes him into the animalistic Mr Hyde. Modern...

Who killed this man to rob him of his money in this notorious neighborhood of Paris? The usual local scoundrel such as the one that has almost been...

A Seventeenth Century romance in which an eloping couple try to escape the wrath of the girl's father.

John and Tom Wilkins are brothers and most divergent in natures. John is a clergyman and a noble, upright fellow, while Tom is a scapegrace, wild,...

Francesca, surrounded by ladies-in-waiting at the palace. Her father enters, and together they read a letter from Lanciotto, asking for the hand of...

A husband finishes packing a suitcase, and then says good-bye to his wife. As soon as he is gone, the wife has her maid help her to dress for a...

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

Bachelor Reggie writes his uncle that he has a wife and child, but then must produce them when the uncle visits.

A group of collegiates decide to go for a splash. A lunatic, having escaped from a nearby asylum, heads for the surf, brandishing a knife. Innocent...