1909 Movies

Valse Caprice, a popular pas de deux created by Nikolai Legat.

Calino disrupts the clocks. Shot of him dejected in front of a lowered iron shutter on which is displayed: "Closed on Sundays".

One of the oldest surviving films dramatizing elements of the life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoléon is played by Maximilien (Max) Charlier, but the director for this Pathé Frères production is unknown.

First known Russian film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's work, and reportedly the directorial debut of Pyotr Chardynin.

At the Italian boarding house the male boarders were all smitten with the charms of Minnie, the landlady's pretty daughter, but she was of a poetic turn of mind and her soul soared above plebeianism and her aspirations were romantic. Most persistent among her...

During the French Revolution, a wealthy couple lives safely by professing republican beliefs. When a mob attacks a nearby chateau an aristocrat bursts into the couple's home. They save his life by disguising him as a servant, but he soon forces his attentions...

Mons. Flamant, a typical roué of the French nobility, is surrounded by all the pleasures and pastimes his fabulous wealth can procure. In a quest of diversion he visits the art rooms, just as a young girl enters with a magnificent piece of sculpture and places...

Cupid offer a horseshoe to princess Alice, promising her that the item will bring her the man of her dream. However, she is getting impatient and bored of keeping it...

"Cretinetti sulle Alpi" is a drama about alpinism. It was produced in 1909 by Itala-Film. It features André Deed.

A haughty politician, on seeing a satirical cartoon in a newspaper, rushes to the paper's offices to shoot the cartoonist. On discovering the cartoonist is a pretty woman, he falls instantly in love and wastes no time in trying to woo her.

This picture story is a series of stirring war scenes occurring in 1865, at the homestead of Captain Warren, Confederate officer, near St. Petersburg, Va., at that time headquarters of General Logan.

A short film starring a young Curt Bois.

George Peabody is a young man who has been giving free rein to his inclinations, the principal one being drink. One might have concluded he was lost, but there was the chance which the hand of Providence always bestows in the person of pretty little Ruth King,...

The film, produced by Filoteo Alberini and released in 1909 is a short drama about a young boy who is killed during the Spedizione dei Mille, a military campaign led by revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1860 to defeat the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, an expe...

Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process...

An early adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy Julius Caesar.

A count has decided to marry. When his former lovers hear of this, they decide to kidnap him from the office of the Justice of Peace and bring him to a manson.

In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies played the magician, and the actor Manuel played his assistant.

Charming animated illustration of one of nature's wonders from Britain's most inventive pioneer of wildlife filmmaking.

An inventor uses a wireless controlled flying torpedo to destroy enemy airships.