The best movies 1906

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

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...

With contraband strapped to the backs of their dogs, smugglers set off to cross the Spanish-French border. Having been spied upon and betrayed to...

An Italian movie about Othello.

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...

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

This is an excellent and spirited picture of fine quality depicting the international curling contests in Switzerland, showing the Scotch champion...

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...

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

A young woman becomes pregnant and attempts to provide for her child after the father leaves her.

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...

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...

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

Among the Sami people.

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...

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

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

Just as Galeen and Wegener's Der Golem (1915) can be seen as a testament to early German film artistry, The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)...

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

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).