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/2406/
78
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4.0
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100
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90
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A Trip to the Moon (1902)
Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once on the lunar surface, the bold explorers face the many perils hidden in the caves of the mysterious planet.
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72
66
7.4
/5271/
71
/240/
69
/226/
3.7
/22808/

The Astronomer's Dream (1900)
An astronomer has a terrifying dream.
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66
60
6.8
/8225/
63
/204/
66
/360/
3.5
/21825/

Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895)
Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on 22 March 1895, it is often referred to as the first real motion picture ever made, although Louis Le Prince's 1888 Roundhay Garden Scene pre-dated it by seven years. Three separate versions of this film exist, which differ from one another in numerous ways. The first version features a carriage drawn by one horse, while in the second version the carriage is drawn by two horses, and there is no carriage at all in the third version. The clothing style is also different between the three versions, demonstrating the different seasons in which each was filmed. This film was made in the 35 mm format with an aspect ratio of 1.33:1, and at a speed of 16 frames per second. At that rate, the 17 meters of film length provided a duration of 46 seconds, holding a total of 800 frames.
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60
7.1
/6353/
64
/175/
67
/267/
3.5
/14859/

The Sprinkler Sprinkled (1895)
A gardener is watering his flowers, when a mischievous boy sneaks up behind his back, and puts a foot on the water hose. The gardener is surprised and looks into the nozzle to find out why the water has stopped coming. The boy then lifts his foot from the hose, whereby the water squirts up in the gardener's face. The gardener chases the boy, grips his ear and slaps him in his buttocks. The boy then runs away and the gardener continues his watering. Three separate versions of this film exist, this is the original, filmed by Louis Lumière.
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59
6.5
/33079/
69
/2181/
67
/1131/
3.1
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The Current War (2018)
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.
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66
58
6.7
/4513/
66
/174/
64
/202/
3.4
/18297/

Le manoir du diable (1896)
In a medieval castle, a dark magician thought to be Mephistopheles conjures up a series of bizarre creatures and events in order to torment a pair of interloping cavaliers.
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58
6.5
/6193/
66
/143/
63
/140/
3.2
/4369/
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/68/
54
/102/
64
/23/

Renoir (2012)
In the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Jean Renoir, son of the Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste, returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I. At his side is Andrée, a young woman who rejuvenates, enchants, and inspires both father and son.
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55
6.4
/5261/
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/194/
60
/223/
3.2
/15085/
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/67/

Frankenstein (1910)
Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done, Frankenstein is comforted by his fiancée; but on his wedding night he is visited by the monster.
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52
7.3
/2058/
71
/88/
69
/88/
3.9
/7956/

The Kingdom of the Fairies (1903)
At the royal court, a prince is presenting the princess whom he is pledged to marry when a witch suddenly appears. Though driven off, the witch soon returns, summons some of her servants, and carries off the princess. A rescue party is quickly organized, but the unfortunate captive has been taken to a strange, forbidding realm, from where it will be impossible to rescue her without some special help.
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52
6.2
/3890/
55
/52/
61
/80/
3.0
/1884/
90
/10/
42
/48/

Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.
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50
6.7
/2140/
58
/57/
63
/81/
3.5
/3129/
65
/77/

Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906)
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 established theme: the “Rarebit Fiend” gorges himself on rarebit and thus suffers spectacular hallucinatory dreams.
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49
7.4
/2607/
71
/103/
70
/102/
3.8
/13120/
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/10/

Suspense. (1913)
Abandoned by her maidservant in an isolated country house, a mother must protect herself and her baby from an invading tramp while her husband races home in a stolen car to save them.
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48
6.7
/2178/
65
/53/
65
/79/
3.7
/5865/

Snowball Fight (1897)
Wintertime in Lyon. About a dozen people, men and women, are having a snowball fight in the middle of a tree-lined street. The cyclist coming along the road becomes the target of opportunity. He falls off his bicycle. He's not hurt, but he rides back the way he came, as the fight continues.
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47
6.5
/2029/
67
/92/
62
/123/
3.5
/6399/

Cinderella (1899)
A fairy godmother magically turns Cinderella's rags to a beautiful dress, and a pumpkin into a coach. Cinderella goes to the ball, where she meets the Prince - but will she remember to leave before the magic runs out? Méliès based the art direction on engravings by Gustave Doré. First known example of a fairy-tale adapted to film, and the first film to use dissolves to go from one scene to another.
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46
7.0
/1800/
65
/59/
65
/73/
3.6
/6573/

The Bewitched House (1906)
A group of travellers go into a house for protection. Little do they know, it is filled with ghosts who make unusual things happen to them.
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45
6.6
/1686/
65
/58/
69
/64/
3.5
/6145/

Joan of Arc (1900)
A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.
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42
6.4
/1501/
63
/53/
63
/74/
3.5
/5324/

The Devil in a Convent (1899)
A priest is officiating at a convent, when suddenly he is transformed into the devil, who frightens away the nuns and turns the place into pandemonium.
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42
6.5
/1679/
60
/46/
64
/54/
3.4
/2017/

The Living Playing Cards (1905)
A bearded magician holds up a large playing card and makes it larger. He tears up a card of a queen, burns the torn bits, and a life-size Queen of Hearts card appears; then, it becomes alive. The magician puts her back into the card. The same thing happens with the King of Clubs: the card becomes alive. The king removes his costume, and there's something very familiar about him. (IMDb)
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41
6.0
/1568/
61
/41/
62
/81/
3.4
/5069/

Grandma's Reading Glass (1900)
A child borrows his grandmother's magnifying glass to look at a newspaper ad for Bovril, at a watch, and then at a bird. The child shows grandma what he is doing. The child looks next at grandma's eye, then at a kitten.
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40
6.3
/1671/
59
/41/
58
/61/
3.3
/3227/

Annie Oakley (1894)
A short Edison Black Maria studio film featuring famed sharpshooter Annie Oakley, known as “Little Sure Shot.” Born Phoebe Ann Oakley Mozee in Ohio in 1860, she rose to global fame performing with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. Accompanied (likely) by her husband and fellow marksman Frank Butler, Oakley’s diminutive stature belied her legendary marksmanship.
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6.2
/1660/
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/55/
57
/74/
3.1
/4263/

Le château hanté (1897)
A man has an encounter with several spooky apparitions in a castle that is evidently owned by the Devil.
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39
6.4
/1234/
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/41/
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/59/
3.2
/3269/

Santa Claus (1898)
Santa arrives at a house on Christmas Eve to deliver his presents for the children.
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39
6.1
/1447/
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/45/
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/63/
3.3
/5706/

The Mermaid (1904)
A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.
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38
6.2
/1247/
57
/33/
60
/66/
3.2
/3998/

The Lonely Villa (1909)
A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an interior room, but the criminals are well-equipped for breaking in. When the father finds out what is happening, he must race against time to get back home.
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38
6.4
/1165/
57
/30/
58
/55/
3.4
/2441/

Mary Jane's Mishap (1903)
Mary Jane tries to light the oven. When she's unsuccessful, she plays around, getting black boot polish on her face. She mugs before a mirror. Then, it's back to work. When the stove still won't light, she pours in paraffin, winks at the camera, and lights a match. Kaboom! Is there any rest for the foolish, even in the grave?
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38
5.8
/1263/
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/38/
56
/69/
3.5
/4536/

The Sick Kitten (1903)
A simple scene of two rather flamboyantly-dressed Edwardian children attempting to feed a spoonful of medicine to a sick kitten. The film is important for being one of the earliest films to cut to a close-up, then back again to the same medium shot as before.
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5.5
/2510/
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/80/
56
/98/
2.9
/2724/
22
/242/

Making a Living (1914)
A swindler scams a newspaper reporter-photographer and then, not realizing where the man is employed, applies for a job at his newspaper.
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37
6.4
/868/
55
/24/
62
/39/
3.6
/2064/

The Country Doctor (1909)
While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds the neighbor gravely ill, and ignores his wife's pleas to come home and care for his own daughter, who has taken a turn for the worse.
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36
6.7
/932/
65
/25/
65
/32/
3.6
/2559/

The Insects' Christmas (1913)
A Father Christmas ornament climbs down from a decorated tree, and goes to the forest. There he creates and decorates a Christmas tree for the forest creatures. He then invites all the insects, along with a friendly frog, to come and enjoy the gifts he has prepared, and to celebrate Christmas.
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36
5.9
/1117/
62
/33/
57
/58/
3.2
/2398/

The Temptation of St. Anthony (1898)
St. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!
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35
6.2
/1131/
59
/31/
60
/56/
3.3
/1576/

Leaving Jerusalem by Railway (1897)
Lasting for roughly 50 seconds, it shows the goodbyes of many passersby - first Europeans, then Palestinian Arabs, then Palestinian Jews - as a train leaves Jerusalem.
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34
5.8
/902/
53
/32/
57
/55/
3.1
/2335/

Let Me Dream Again (1900)
Possibly the first film to utilize the technique of focus pulling. A man kisses a beautiful and lively woman, then the image blurs and dissolves into a clear image of the man waking up to his nagging wife.
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5.6
/2163/
51
/76/
53
/90/
2.8
/3183/
34
/10/

Mabel's Strange Predicament (1914)
A tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel, two hotel guests across the hall from her room, and Mabel's visiting sweetheart.
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32
6.5
/618/
58
/25/
57
/33/
3.4
/2183/

The Haunted Hotel (1907)
A traveler stays the night at a rural inn, but gets no rest as he is tormented by various spectres and mysterious happenings.
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32
5.6
/989/
54
/25/
53
/45/
3.0
/1922/

As Seen Through a Telescope (1900)
An elderly gentleman in a silk hat sits on a stool in front of a store on the main street of town. He has a telescope that focuses on the ankle of a young woman who is a short distance away. Her husband catches the gent looking. What will the two men do now?
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31
6.7
/637/
57
/25/
61
/30/
3.6
/1610/

The Little Match Seller (1902)
A short melodrama based on Hans Christian Andersen's harrowing tale. A poor little girl tries to sell matchsticks in the freezing December cold. She lights matches for some light and warmth. There are visions: a fireplace, dinner, a Christmas tree. She sees her dead mother, welcoming her.
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30
5.4
/880/
53
/30/
55
/47/
3.0
/1448/

Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show (1902)
Country rube thinks what he sees on the movie screen is real. He jumps out of his seat to try to stop a kissing scene.
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30
5.7
/834/
57
/30/
54
/44/
3.0
/1505/

The Countryman and the Cinematograph (1901)
A satire on the way that audiences unaccustomed to the cinema didn't know how to react to the moving images on a screen - in this film, an unsophisticated (and stereotypical) country yokel is alternately baffled and terrified, in the latter case by the apparent approach of a steam train.
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29
5.7
/347/
64
/25/
52
/27/
3.4
/2388/

Pierrette's Escapades (1900)
"Les Fredaines de Pierrette" is the collective name of four short films of 20 meters each ("Arrivée de Pierrette et de Pierrot", "Arrivée d'Arlequin", "Suite de la danse", and "Départ d'Arlequin et de Pierrette"), attributed to Alice Guy (although not confirmed in any primary source), in which Columbine resists Pierrette's courting in favor of Harlequin. From July 1901, the series were made available hand-colored.
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29
6.4
/1049/
57
/19/
56
/29/
3.2
/1466/
29

An Unseen Enemy (1912)
The physician's death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert some of the doctor's small estate to cash. But it is late in the day, and with the banks closed he stores the money in his father's household safe. The slatternly housekeeper, aware of the money, enlists a criminal acquaintance to crack the safe. She attempts to get into the adjacent room where the sisters tremble in fear, but finds that the door is locked. The drunken housekeeper menaces them by brandishing a gun through a hole in the wall.
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28
7.0
/894/
53
/8/
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/19/
3.6
/385/
71
/7/
81
/13/

And Now My Love (1974)
The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a whole century and several continents.
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27
5.8
/770/
55
/22/
58
/38/
3.1
/1048/

A Chess Dispute (1903)
A stationary camera looks on as two dapper gents play a game of chess. One drinks and smokes, and when he looks away, his opponent moves two pieces. A fight ensues, first with the squirting of a seltzer bottle, then with fisticuffs. The combatants wrestle each other to the floor and continue the fight out of the camera's view, hidden by the table. The waiter arrives to haul both of them out.
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27
6.3
/985/
53
/16/
55
/32/
3.2
/1126/

The New York Hat (1912)
To fulfill a dying mother's bequest for her daughter, the town pastor purchases the daughter a stylish hat, and gossip spreads through the town.
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54
27
5.5
/770/
53
/23/
50
/32/
3.0
/1653/

Attack on a China Mission (1900)
The titles tell us this film is based on an incident in the Boxer Rebellion. A man tries to defend a woman and a large house against Chinese attackers. They attack with swords, guns, and paddles. He's over-matched. What will become of the mission, its defenders, and its occupants?
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55
25
5.9
/670/
49
/17/
52
/29/
3.1
/1469/

What Happened to the Inquisitive Janitor (1901)
Pathé film number 380, released as "What Happened to the Inquisitive Janitor" in the US and as "Peeping Tom" in the UK. The title "What is Seen Through a Keyhole" was given 'a posteriori' and should not be regarded as its original. As a janitor is cleaning a hotel, he decides to peek through the keyholes to observe some of the guests in their rooms. In room 8, a woman is busy making herself look more attractive, and the janitor enjoys watching her. There are also some interesting things going on in the other rooms on the floor.
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58
25
5.8
/584/
57
/23/
55
/33/
3.1
/1292/

The Christmas Dream (1900)
The entire story of Christmastide is here depicted. The scene opens in a large boudoir of an apparently wealthy man's home. His children, assisted by their governess, are about to retire. Before lying down they hang up their stockings on the edge of the bed. The picture changes and night appears. We see the housetops of the town and angels are flying about depositing packages in each of the chimneys. (Edison Catalog)
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61
24
6.2
/754/
60
/13/
61
/28/
3.2
/934/

The Night Before Christmas (1905)
On Christmas Eve, Santa feeds his reindeer and loads his sleigh, before going on his journey to deliver toys to the children of the world.
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57
23
5.8
/579/
59
/21/
53
/26/
2.9
/1283/

The Haunted Curiosity Shop (1901)
An old proprietor is startled and haunted by the strange happenings inside his curiosity shop.


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