The best movies 1909 Pagina 4

During the reign of Oliver Cromwell, Catholic worship is forbidden on pain of death. Three soldiers are arrested as Catholics and condemned to die....

A snakedancer wiggles and whips an anaconda around on stage

Soon after their engagement, Bill goes to sea, and Emily vows to stay true until his return. Unknown to her, Bill marries another woman from a...

An old and learned doctor discovers the secret of spontaneous generation and makes a microscopic germ which in its growth gives birth to the...

During the American Revolution, a young soldier carrying a crucial message to General Washington is spotted and pursued by a group of enemy soldiers....

The fates of two people align as a beggar tries to steal money from a sleeping newspaper boy. Instead of reporting the crook to the police, the...

In Renaissance Rome, young Beatrice Cenci dares to defy her tyrannical father. Imprisoned, abused, and betrayed, she plots her father's murder with...

As Poe's lover is slowly dying, he struggles to make money to care for her.

Nellie is a struggling artist whose paintings lie unsold. Billy, a successful painter, loves her, but she tells him that she cannot marry until she...

Invited by Duke Alfonso II to the court of Ferrara to read his poems, the poet Torquato Tasso finds himself at the center of court intrigue because...

A son leaves to seek his fortune in the city. Many years later he returns and checks into his parents' inn. They don't recognize him, but noticing...

An adaptation of Balzac's La Grande Bretêche

Early special effects film in which a woman throws a basket of flowers in the air, upon which the flowers create different shapes and figures and...

A man leaves his wife and two daughters for work in a carpentry shop. At work, he initially refuses a beer with lunch, then gives in. After work, two...

Directed by either Louis Feuillade (atributed) or by Etienne Arnaud (atributed), according to the Gaumont archives.

Harry's jealous former mistress puts poison in some candy intended for his new fiancée. Harry discovers what she has done, and races to save...

When Troy has fallen and Ulysses sets sail for home, his ships are driven to different lands, where his adventures are numerous, keeping him away...

Period piece debuting Matsunosuke Onoe

Set in antiquity, the drama follows a woman who helps another woman escape from captivity and is condemned to crucifixion, staging themes of...

Cretinetti meddles with things and lands into trouble every time, having his head forged on an anvil and falling into a pit on a construction site.

The great men of letters and military conquest pose on subsequent pages of a very special history book.

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.