19th Century Movies

One of the first animated short films. A wanderer enters a cabaret in the countryside and asks a waitress for a beer. She comes back with a pint, as...

Follows French writer Arthur Rimbaud from his schoolboy days in Charleville to his final years in Africa.

Hyde Park Corner (also known as Leisurely Pedestrians, Open Topped Buses and Hansom Cabs with Trotting Horses) depicts life at Hyde Park Corner in...

Ken Russell revisits the life of Elgar, with musical background provided by the composer's works.

Two toddlers sit for the camera in their best clothing. One is determined to take toys and objects from the other until the other toddler starts to...

The film is liberally inspired by the period when Eça de Queiroz was Portuguese Consul in Cuba, when still a Spanish colony. Eça de...

A 19th century wire-walker performs his stage act on a woman's clothesline. An early comedy by pioneer director Robert W. Paul.

A bored princess' flights of fancy cause troubles for the entire household, especially her husband.

A man is found dead under mysterious circumstances by a group of children playing in the deep forest, although the grotesque sight evokes as much...

Normandy, 1905. The picnic is finished. A group of middle-class people in their Sunday best, get ready to go home. There is one last photo to be...