The best movies 1905

A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.

Ferdinand Zecca's remake of his own film "Plongeur fantastique" (The Fantastic Plunger, 1901) with the same premise, showing a diver with reverse...

A woman confessing her sins to a priest who gets more and more excited.

An adaptation of an episode in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, where Jean Valjean is welcomed into the Bishop of Digne's home, and steals his...

On Christmas Eve, Santa feeds his reindeer and loads his sleigh, before going on his journey to deliver toys to the children of the world.

'Zandvoort in an uproar! On Saturday morning at roughly 10 o’clock, with beautiful weather and calm seas, a Frenchman sat in a beach chair to...

A tramp who unwittingly starts a fire is chased by a mob of peasants.

A well-dressed woman leaves her home and takes a carriage to a department store. While she is in the store, she steals several items, and is caught...

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

Felix Mayol performs Théodore Botrel's 'Lilas-blanc'.

A servant kills his miser master and buries his corpse. The murderer is haunted by the ghost of his victim....or is it his own conscience?

Monsieur Beaucaire, a French nobleman & relative of the King, engages in a sword fight with the jealous Duke of Winterset over a card game, leading...

Early Balkan footage.

Two members of a vigilante group known as 'The White Caps' post a warning sign on a man's home. When the man comes home, he tears down the sign, and...

This is another short, simple dance number. It’s quite stunning and unusual though with a bat turning into a woman who proceeds to give us a...

The millionaire's child is kidnapped. Sherlock Holmes after many thrilling adventures and narrow escapes rescues the child.

The film recreates the final events leading to Italian unification in September 1870.

In order to photograph this film, the cameraman placed his equipment on a broad sidewalk in the business district of a large city, probably New York....

A short drama featuring three fictitious scenes of the Spanish War of Independence (1808-1814).

A millionaire girl publishes a personal ad wishing to marry a young, gallant man, using the Park's Swiss Cowshop as the meeting point.

Short documentary about this Valencian tradition directed by Ángel García Cardona.

Spanish lost film about the 30 August 1905 solar eclipse.

Lost film in which we see the football basque team Athletic Club of Bilbao.