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...

An Italian movie about Othello.

All the fun of the Whitsuntide Fair in Edwardian Preston.

A young woman becomes pregnant and attempts to provide for her child after the father leaves her.

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

An artist watches as musical instruments come to life and St. Cecile appears. Segundo de Chomón's as director is speculative.

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...

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

Two statues come to live and start to sing.

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

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

An early short about fox hunting

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

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)...

A young peasant leaves his cottage after a quarrel with his wife, and meets a witch. She takes him to a cavern, where after a series of encounters...

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

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...

Andre Deed is moving out, so he has hired some guys with a cart to move his stuff...... and they have a drink to seal the deal. They load his...

A magician performs a magic show involving women turning into bouquets of roses. Later the roses are festooned together in a fancy way to decorate...

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...

One of the earliest Mexican feature-length documentary

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

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).