The best movies 1909

A young shepherd and servant girl are separated when she is sold into slavery and taken to Alexandria. Far from home, she struggles with the loss of...

A smoker falls asleep, and two mischievious fairies play with his pipe. He discovers this, and imprisons them in a cigar box. He removes a flower...

After being jilted for another, a woman sends her lover's old letters to the new fiancée and looks forward to the reaction. But when she spots...

Surviving fragment of a longer film. A magician makes a butterfly woman appear, and a woman in a star. Exhausted, the magician falls asleep and the...

Scientist Galileo Galilei was engaged in his studies, but a servant of his attempts to seduce his daughter, and denounces Galilei to the Holy Office.

A group of foreign invaders occupy the house of a girl because it is in a strategic position but she sends a pigeon with a message to the...

A man is obsessed by the 'Salome' dance.

Gerolamo Lo Savio's version of William Shakespeare's Othello.

Forced to renounce the woman he loves because she is to marry another, a young sailor sets sail for a distant fishing voyage. While the wedding in...

Based on the celebrated novel by Alessandro Manzoni, "The Betrothed", the film tells the passage of Lucia being sent on an errand by the Nun of...

William is drawn to Edward's wife, Helen. Sensing his feelings might lead him into an affair, he decides to go away. As he says goodbye to Helen,...

Two miners are fighting over a woman, and one is about to murder the other in his sleep. At the critical moment, the woman introduces her...

A dramatization of a wedding in 16th-century Russia, between members of two prominent boyar families (based on paintings by Konstantin Makovskii):...

Ruy Blas, one of Don Salluste's lackeys, falls in love with the young Queen of Spain, Maria de Neubourg. Spurned by the Queen, Don Salluste takes...

Many of the scenes of this split-reel short about a bizarre group of tramp musicians who disappear into and out of drums, beach umbrellas and...

Film about this character born in 1818, who was the son of the general Juan José Viamonte and was shot by Rosario troops on September 16, 1940.

A man goes out on New Year's Day and is greeted by everyone with "Happy New Year", in the hope of getting a tip. The fellow is so annoyed that he...

Flower petals in the background create different shapes while actress Mary Cleo Tarlarini salutes the audience.

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Faust, an aged philosopher and magician who has grown weary of life and has sought in vain for the secret of eternal youth, decides, after a night's...

Film about this character born in 1818, who was the son of the general Juan José Viamonte and was shot by Rosario troops on September 16, 1940.

Felipe I el Hermoso provokes with his behavior the madness of his wife, Juana de Castilla.

The story of Vicente López y Planes writing the national anthem of Argentina.

La Revolución de Mayo (in English: May Revolution) is an Argentine silent movie premiered in 1909. As the name denotes, it is focused on the...

The first meeting of a U.S. president and a Mexican president took place when William Howard Taft met Porfirio Díaz on 16 October 1909, in El...

Documentary footage of folk-dancers.

This Spanish short film tells the story of Guzmán el Bueno, a hero of the Reconquista.

Silent documentary about the Caracas Carnival.