Films and TV Shows from the 1910s

poster Calino's Baptism
Calino's Baptism
4mn - Comedy
A short Calino film.
poster A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities
30mn - Drama, History
An early film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and its subsequent Reign of Terror.
poster Tweedledum as Aviator
Tweedledum as Aviator
(2.9/5)
6mn - Comedy
Robinet, the lead in this Italian slapstick comedy, wants to be an aviator in the worst way, and this being an Italian slapstick, that's how he does it. Italian slapstick in this period was absolutely bon…
poster What Shall We Do with Our Old?
What Shall We Do with Our Old?
(3.1/5)
14mn - Drama
An elderly carpenter is told by a doctor that his wife is seriously ill. Soon afterwards, an insensitive shop foreman lays him off from his job because of his age. Unable to find work, and with his wife's…
poster Faust
Faust
18mn - Drama, Fantasy
Dr Faust is continually obsessed with his quest for knowledge and absolute pleasure. One day, the demon Mephistopheles appears to him in his study in human guise and offers him a deal: a lifetime of total…
poster Cursed Money
Cursed Money
22mn -
Snuders, an avaricious boat-owner, insures his boat The Joanna against accident very much above its value, and then conspires with Verhoff, a notorious drunkard and unprincipled scoundrel, to lose it at s…
poster Max Takes a Bath
Max Takes a Bath
(3.2/5)
7mn - Comedy
On doctor's orders Max buys a new bathtub, but Max struggles to fill it, and when he does, he can't bathe in peace!
poster Jean Rescues
Jean Rescues
12mn -
Alice is in an unhappy relationship with her fiance. She falls for a new man, but he goes swimming and starts to drown. Can Jean save the day?
poster Only in the Way
Only in the Way
12mn - Drama
A crippled little girl lives at home with her parents and her grandmother. She loves her grandmother deeply, but her parents can't get along with the old woman, and the girl is torn between both sides.
poster The Dream
The Dream
10mn - Drama
A loutish husband neglects his patient, loving wife to enjoy a night on the town. When he comes home drunk and irritable, he mistreats her. Then he falls asleep, and has a dream that causes him to reconsi…
poster Fate's Turning
Fate's Turning
17mn -
A young girl working as a waitress at a resort for the wealthy is swept off her feet by a rich young gentleman who's there for the summer. However, his impending nuptials with another woman complicate the…
poster Barcelona and Its Park
Barcelona and Its Park
3mn - Documentary
Short movie on Barcelona's "Citadel Park" produced by Segundo de Chomón for Pathé Frères. Directed and filmed by Segundo de Chomón.
poster The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
38mn - Drama
Esmeralda, a beautiful gypsy street dancer, arouses the desire of men, especially of Claude Frollo, the archdeacon of Notre Dame. The latter asks Quasimodo, the deaf and deformed bell-ringer of the cathed…
poster Agrippina
Agrippina
19mn -
In "Agrippina" (1910), Guazzoni recreates the particular and troublesome relationship between Agrippina, the second wife of the Emperor Claudius, and her son Nero.
poster A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
(3/5)
11mn - Fantasy, Drama
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that await…
poster The Greater Call
The Greater Call
(2.9/5)
10mn -
Women’s weepies were a nickelodeon staple in the early years of movies. In these one-reel dramas, women trapped in no-win situations confronted heart-wrenching decisions: Should a young woman wed her penn…
poster Come fu che l'ingordigia rovinò il Natale a Cretinetti
Come fu che l'ingordigia rovinò il Natale a Cretinetti
(2.7/5)
14mn - Comedy
Spoiled little Cretinetti almost destroys Christmas....
poster The Queen of Spades
The Queen of Spades
(2.7/5)
15mn - Horror, Drama
Based on Pushkin's short story: When his friends play faro, Germann always enjoys watching, but he never gambles himself. One day, as he is watching their game, he learns that an elderly countess staying …
poster King Lear
King Lear
16mn - Drama
Hand-tinted Italian verison of the Shakespeare Classic King Lear.
poster His Mother's Thanksgiving
His Mother's Thanksgiving
(3.1/5)
15mn - Drama, Family
This holiday-themed melodrama released by Edison Studios in 1910 concerns Robert, a young man who leaves his mother’s home in New England to forge a career in the big city. When he achieves “fame and fort…