The best movies 1908 Pagina 10

Old Ezra Perkins, his wife Matilda, and an English gentleman named Reggie take a "rubberneck" sightseeing tour of New York’s Bowery district....

Set during the American Civil War, the film focuses on a group of deserters and renegades who disguise themselves in Confederate uniforms to steal...

The poet Bellman enjoys life in 18th Century Stockholm, while a conspiracy to murder King Gustaf III is taking form.

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

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...

The first successful motion picture in natural color, filmed with Kinemacolor. It is an 8 minute short film directed by George Albert Smith of...

Manuella, a wealthy Mexican girl, rejects the honest cowboy Renaldo to marry Gonzales, a dashing but greedy musician. Upon finding her marriage-box...

A pumpkin vendor returns with her loaded car. Two pranksters overturn the car, and what follows is a truly hilarious and eventful pumpkin hunt. ...

Max, a young man about town, splits his trousers while getting ready to go out one night. After applying some rather risky repairs without taking the...

The film begins with a grandmother reading a story to a small child (played by Georges Méliès's son, André) before tucking him...

After a judge (Harry Solter) does his job and sentences a man, a gypsy woman (Marion Leonard) erupts in vehement protests and has to be taken...

After his wife receives an extravagant dress, a man find himself the victim of an attempted burglary; He hides in his fireplace, which is then fired....

A thug accosts a girl as she leaves her workplace but a man rescues her. The thug vows revenge and, with the help of two friends, attacks the girl...

The goddess Minerva is jealous of the young Arachne who is more clever it in weaving. Out of spite, Arachne Minerva rushed into hell, then transforms...

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

An episodic narrative displaying examples of humankind's brutality, from the story of Cain and Abel through the Hague Convention of 1907.

Early Balkan footage.

Filmed visit in Peru, at the Tent of San Juan de Dios.

A tramp tricks a cook into leaving her wealthy employer's house. While the clubman's house is empty the tramp makes himself at home, starting by...

A dancer enchants a leacherous king but rebuffs his advances, resulting in his vengeful anger.

Caught off-guard by Indian mutineers, a British soldier saves his last bullet for his daughter, lest she be taken.