The best movies 1908

Prospero and his daughter Miranda must take refuge on an enchanted island. There Prospero, who himself has magical powers, releases the spirit Ariel...

Our picture relates to a crime committed by a Gorilla who escapes from his cage and through circumstantial evidence a young man, whom we will call in...

A man steals a sheep and is chased by the shepherds and the police.

Everyman Coupeau's attempts to stop drinking are routinely thwarted by the wicked and vengeful Virginie. Based on Zola's novel, Capellani's film is...

Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

A small village in Aragón, Spain, at the end of the 19th century. After being caught by her father fooling around with Melchor, an...

A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's...

The film portrays the events on the day King Henri III of France arranged for Duke Henri de Guise to be murdered.

Dr Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that changes him into the animalistic Mr Hyde. Modern...

If a violin was actually broken here we don't get to see it. Sadly this is one of many Georges Melies films that are only available in a fragment....

The first scene shows part of Flint's old pirate crew, with one-legged John Silver in the lead. They have discovered the hiding place of Billy Bones,...

About an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel, set during the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians, the forced...

This film with a highly offensive and racist title tells the story of Jose, a handsome young Mexican, who leaves his home in the Sierra Madre...

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

María Rosa is a Spanish silent film directed by Juan María Codina.

"The Scarlet Letter" is a story of early Puritan days in New England. Hester, a beautiful young Englishwoman, is sent to America by her husband, with...

Mr. Jones at the Ball is a 1908 American silent short comedy film, part of the once-popular Biograph series centered around the titular Jones and his...

An animated film by French auteur Émile Cohl, one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn film animation. Drawing inspiration from J. Stuart...

Adaptation of a poem written by Thomas Hood.

A woman enters a room with a man. She creates a duplicate of him and changes his personality by throwing his clothes from one man to the next.

A group of collegiates decide to go for a splash. A lunatic, having escaped from a nearby asylum, heads for the surf, brandishing a knife. Innocent...

Mrs. Wharton, a dashing widow, gives a party at her beautiful villa in honor of the presentation to her of a handsome diamond necklace by her...

A small village in Aragón, Spain, at the end of the 19th century. After being caught by her father fooling around with Melchor, an...

María Rosa is a Spanish silent film directed by Juan María Codina.

A tour of the city of Camagüey divided into three segments - "A visit to Camagüey", "Typical scenes", and "Farewell Camagüey".

An enthusiastic young couple is astounded with modern technology's giant leaps in the fascinating field of electricity.

In this simple melodrama, a boy loses his beloved girl, hence dying of a broken heart. The film presents advanced techniques in several fields.

Very early footage of the streets of Barcelona, filmed from a tram.

The silent Spanish version of the story of Don Juan Tenorio.

The director Mario Gallo made the first film with an argument from Argentina, although the opinions of scholars are not coincident as to their...