1909 Movies

An adaptation of Balzac's La Grande Bretêche

A poor, elderly couple with many children is tempted when the husband's brother offers to pay to adopt one of the children himself. However, when forc...

The Count of Féredia, ex-officer of the Spanish army and prisoner of war, gains the favors of a young woman whose jealous husband spies relentlessly o...

A jewel thief eludes a detective by changing clothes with a Negress at a public bath.

A short film starring a young Curt Bois.

A girl from the New York slums falls in with crooks. After her love is arrested following a barfight turned deadly, her life seems directionless-- tha...

The manufacture of a new weapon in the pre-WWI naval arms race.

The bank guard and the director hear mysterious sounds coming from the basement vault, where all the gold is kept, and call in Master detective Pat Co...

Silent documentary about the Caracas Carnival.

This Max Linder short opens with him and his girl blissfully rowing in a canoe before skipping ahead two years later.

The great men of letters and military conquest pose on subsequent pages of a very special history book.

A contest is being held in Cremona for the best violin, with Giannina's hand in marriage as the prize. Filippo is secretly in love with her, but is al...

Out for a stroll, the short-sighted governess is more absorbed in her paper than in governing, leading to a series of unfortunate events, not least re...

A country boy and a city boy are both courting the same girl. The girl sees the country boy's tender treatment of a wounded bird and chooses him.

A story of ancient Rome. The scene of this story is laid in Rome in the days of Nero. Rome has recently suffered conflagrations and other disasters, a...

It's Bob Allen's twenty-first birthday. His mother and his brother Jack, a policeman present him with a cap, personalized with his initals in the lini...

A Greek woman marries a struggling sculptor. When he can't support her and their baby, she offers to sell herself as a slave to allow them to buy food...

A neighbor visits her friend, taking with her her child, a little girl about the same age as the friend's little girl. Both children being full of mis...