Most Viewed Year 1908 - 10

A housemaid is cleaning a studio. When she sees a sculpture of a nude woman in life-size, lying on a couch, she starts to compare this idealized body...

Danish adaptation of Trilby. Presumed lost, though a single still apparently depicting the novel's climax survives.

Two pranksters, finding out that a couple is about to apply for a marriage license at the town mayor's office, sneak into the office to pull a...

A Seventeenth Century romance in which an eloping couple try to escape the wrath of the girl's father.

M. Rasta, a high society con man, is accused of a crime he didn't commit.

A mischievous duke comes across a drunkard in a town square, and decides to pull a practical joke. He has the drunkard carried to the ducal palace...

An impoverished father, with his young son and daughter, begs for food in a marketplace. When a merchant angrily turns them away, their plight...

1908 French silent comedy film directed by Georges Méliès, which is currently presumed lost.

1908 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès, which is currently presumed lost

A Spanish dancer, in front of an inn in the Spanish mountains, is courted by a smuggler, who asks her to marry him. She agrees. Later, in the...

An emaciated youth calls upon a physician who pumps air into his lungs until his chest is abnormal in size. With the power of the compressed air...

In the lonely wilds of Southern California there stands a rural tavern, kept by an old trapper, who had been widowed years ago; his wife leaving him...

A Segundo de Chomón trick film.

A good shepherdess is persecuted by an evil, tantrum-throwing princess. A good fairy decides to intervene, and dishes out quite a bit of retribution.

In this simple melodrama, a boy loses his beloved girl, hence dying of a broken heart. The film presents advanced techniques in several fields.

The film is quite sophisticated for it's time with a relatively large number of scene changes as we follow Max's misadventures. It also features a...

Nell, the boss's daughter, uses Sherlock Holmes' detective work, to choose between the two suitors at her dad's broker's office.

1908 French short silent film by Georges Méliès, which is presumed lost. No English-language release is known for this film,[1] but the...

Who killed this man to rob him of his money in this notorious neighborhood of Paris? The usual local scoundrel such as the one that has almost been...