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...

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 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...

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

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,...

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

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

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...

Adaptation of the novel by Alexandre Dumas

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....

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

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...

A woman falls asleep on a park bench. The Devil appears and summons an imp who takes the woman to his fantastic lair. After a nightmarish episode,...

The widowed elderly mother of three adult children, two sons and a daughter, wishing to relieve herself of the burden of care of her property,...

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

"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...

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...

The film depicts the main events in the life of Mary, Queen of Scots. She married Francis II, King of France. After her husband's death in 1560, Mary...

A thug accosts a girl as she leaves her workplace but a man rescues her. The thug vows revenge and, with the help of two friends, attacks the girl...

A one-armed street peddler notices that a well-to-do man has dropped his ring. He returns it to him. The wealthy man is very grateful and, to show...

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

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