1909 Movies

A Nick Carter serial

Roman emperor Nero is used to getting what he wants. He has grown tired of his wife Octavia, and has become infatuated with Poppea. He succeeds in mak...

In the beautifully coloured Phèdre, we witness how the Greek queen Fedra takes revenge on her stepson Hippolytus after he rejects her advances. The le...

Extremely condensed version of the Mark Twain story of a royal heir and his poor doppelganger trading places.

An Italian movie.

Gertrude chooses Jim over Jack, which makes Jack very jealous. Later Jim dies, and Jack marries Gertrude. He finds himself once again very jealous of...

The story opens just before the Boer War at the farm house of Jobe De Larey, just outside Kimberly, S.A. Jobe's family are Boers with all the strange...

A scientist's reckless experiment turns a man into a half-ape creature, whose monkey-like antics bring confusion and alarm to his surroundings. After...

An adaptation of Ivan Nikitin's poem 'Ukhar-kupets' for Pathé.

Harry's jealous former mistress puts poison in some candy intended for his new fiancée. Harry discovers what she has done, and races to save his fianc...

Howard Norris, a wealthy young man from the city makes the acquaintance of a lovely young daughter of a farmer. By promising marriage, he entices her...

Seven years after the death of their first child, a couple has grown apart and decides to divorce. Their second child asks a question about who will k...

A king grows suspicious of his favored woman's affection for an Italian troubadour. After confirming their secret romance, he takes a cruel revenge by...

A biographical two-reel series starring Joseph Kilgour as Washington. The first part, "Washington Under the British Flag" (released June 29),focused...

This subject presents a remarkably clever series of illusions in which a Japanese lantern, several dolls, chickens, mice and grasshoppers play a very...

Released in five parts (The Persecution of the Children of Israel by the Egyptians, Forty Years in the Land of Midian, The Plagues of Egypt and the De...

An item in the 24 Jul 1909 Moving Picture World called this film “a series of magic drawing executed by the fountain pen….[It] is interesting and amus...

Nellie is a struggling artist whose paintings lie unsold. Billy, a successful painter, loves her, but she tells him that she cannot marry until she se...

An early film adaptation of the Bard's comic fantasy.