The best movies 1906

The pursuit of a highwayman taking a message to a knight (First British one-reel feature).

A pulp writer dozes off at his desk and dreams himself into a melodrama of love and rivalry. What begins as a familiar tale soon veers into...

A magical glowing white motorcar ignores policemen, drives up buildings, flies through outer space, and can transform into a horse and carriage.

The legend of Aladdin and his magic lamp: Aladdin finds a magic lamp which brings him wealth, luxury, and marriage to a princess. But his rival, an...

The stations of Christ's life are segmented into a series of performative tableaux.

A cartoonist draws faces and figures on a blackboard - and they come to life.

A penniless troubadour consults witch Carabosse about his future, but offends her by paying with a bag of sand. He evades the witch's revenge, and...

A magician charms a caterpillar and turns it into a butterfly woman. This film is a blatant remake of Georges Méliès's "La Chrysalide...

It's a society in which gender roles are switched. Will men stand to be unequal?

A bunch of people run an obstacle course all around town.

An Italian movie about Othello.

Two groups of young women get into a pair of horse-drawn carts, and go off for a straw ride through the snowy streets. As they pass by a group of...

Vera, daughter of a Cossack loves a young tartar who is the enemy of her father. She betrays her father to save the life of her lover, but loses her...

Depicts the exit of the President of the Republic Tomás Estrada Palma from the Presidential Palace, after giving the government to the...

An early short about fox hunting

A short film documenting the wedding ceremony of Princess Ena to King Alfonso XIII of Spain. Showing the royal carriage, the royal procession through...

Two travellers are tormented by Satan from inn to inn and eventually experience a buggy ride through the heavens courtesy of the Devil before he...

A poor boy is mistreated by his stepmother when his father isn't present.

A live-action film adaptation of the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. This silent short film follows the...

A young peasant leaves his cottage after a quarrel with his wife, and meets a witch. She takes him to a cavern, where after a series of encounters...

All the fun of the Whitsuntide Fair in Edwardian Preston.

In all likeliness an inspiration for Griffith's The Lonely Villa (1909), Terrible Anguish tells the brief and tragic tale of a family being torn...

Depicts the exit of the President of the Republic Tomás Estrada Palma from the Presidential Palace, after giving the government to the...

One of the earliest Mexican feature-length documentary

The activities of a recently opened amusement park in Havana, Cuba, similar to New York's Coney Island.

Spanish short documentary about King Alfonso XII's visit to La Albufera (Valencia).

Spanish short documentary about King Alfonso XII's return from his voyage to La Abufera (Valencia).