1909 Movies

A delightfully pleasing and beautifully hand-colored series of panoramic views, giving the history of the fan. A large ostrich feather fan opens and c...

A neglectful woman wants custody of her children in her divorce. The judge rules that he will give her the children only if she can demonstrate her ch...

Théodore (Max Linder) visits a fair/circus and becomes infatuated with a bearded woman in the show. He is so taken with her that he joins the troupe a...

An outlaw is in love with a Mexican painter's daughter.

A pair of young ladies cause trouble at the cinema with their lavish hats.

A new bride has made a batch of biscuits. Her husband pretends to like them, so she delivers the rest to his office. But one bite of these biscuits ma...

Jones's mother-in-law prohibits his smoking and drinking, so he takes her out for the evening and gets her drunk.

The first meeting of a U.S. president and a Mexican president took place when William Howard Taft met Porfirio Díaz on 16 October 1909, in El Paso. Th...

Out for a stroll, the short-sighted governess is more absorbed in her paper than in governing, leading to a series of unfortunate events, not least re...

A snakedancer wiggles and whips an anaconda around on stage

A pack of admirers won't leave a beautiful woman alone at a seaside resort, so she devises a plan. She appears in a leg-revealing swimsuit, but the st...

A tramp tries to get himself arrested so he can sleep in the nice, warm jail, but the police keep ignoring him or arresting the wrong person.

Three men go out on the ocean in a row boat. There, they see dancing fairies. Then manage to catch one and take her aboard the boat--taking her back t...

Rome, June 1800. Floria Tosca is a celebrated opera singer, better known as La Tosca. Her lover is Mario Cavaradossi, a young artist and Bomapartist s...

The fates of two people align as a beggar tries to steal money from a sleeping newspaper boy. Instead of reporting the crook to the police, the benevo...

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,...

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 pl...

A confirmed bachelor learns that he will inherit his late uncle's fortune only if he marries, which he does reluctantly. Shortly afterward he returns...

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

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 milita...