The Monster

Frenchman Count Hardup advertises for a wife. He gets more than he bargained for when women start chasing him. He's caught by an old maid.

A magician and some assistants put up a series of posters of music hall acts in a frame. Then the magician brings each poster to life.

A drunk staggers into his apartment and falls asleep. He dreams he climbs to the top of a building and flies to the moon, then falls back to earth....

Made in 1905 when short films were still being done in just one shot (for the Kinetoscope peep-show machines) and lasted about 2 minutes, this...

A couple steals food from a grocery store. To stop them from repeating their crime, the cunning salesman electrifies his shop.

A scientist concocts a potion that can turn people invisible for short periods of time. Two crooks steal the potion and go on a crime spree.

A patient at a private clinic for sufferers of sexual dysfunction begins a tentative affair with one of the other patients while a killer stalks the...

Aankhijal is a 1932 silent Bengali movie directed by Kalipada Das.

The mysterious Count Orlok summons Thomas Hutter to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near...

Two boxers climb into barrels and proceed to pummel each other in this novelty film from the Lumières.

A hypnotism scene from the Lumière Brothers.

Upon receiving an inheritance from her late uncle, a woman starts a fortune-telling business designed to make her dreams come true.