The best movies 1905

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

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...

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...

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

Splendid views of Edwardian Rochdale from the front of a tram after a recent dusting of snow.

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...

'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...

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.

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

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

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?

Two men get into a knife fight, in a Corsican tavern, and one of them kills another and escapes. He takes refuge in his house but escapes when the...

It was the first film version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

A trick film using the reverse effect.

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...

Polin performs a song.

A group of men with a broken down auto get an assist from a man who can’t walk.

A woman performs the tango.

An elephantine spectacle, likely part of the celebrations for the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to India.

Short film by Pathé Frères released in 1905 with a racist plot.

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

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

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.

Spanish lost film about the 30 August 1905 solar eclipse.

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

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