The best movies 1905

A poor but honest man wins great wealth, and the hand of a beautiful princess, after facing a series of exciting trials in the tunnels and catacombs...

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

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

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

'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...

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

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...

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

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

Early Balkan footage.

Another magic short of Méliès.

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.

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

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...

A poor woodcutter abandons his 7 children in the woods.

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?

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...

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....

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 magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air.

A man needs to get to Monte Carlo from Paris, but finds out that a train will take 17 hours to get there. He decides to go with a man with a special...

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

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

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.