Release Date: 1911-03-11

Overview: The classic tale of Dante's journey through hell, loosely adapted from the Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré. This historically important film stands as the first feature from Italy and the oldest fully-surviving feature in the world, and boasts beautiful sets and special effects that stand above other cinema of the era.

Rating: 6.618 (148 votes)

Release Date: 2006-12-16

Overview: Ai, a self-reliant girl who moves to Animal Village and works at Nook's Cranny, gradually becomes part of the community with guidance from its residents and embarks on a quest to plant pine trees for a Winter Festival miracle after finding a message in a bottle.

Rating: 6.8 (62 votes)

Release Date: 1893-05-08

Overview: Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around. Notable for being the first film in which a scene is being acted out.

Rating: 5.552 (107 votes)

Release Date: 1874-12-09

Overview: Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotographic sequences. In 1873, P.J.C. Janssen, or Pierre Jules César Janssen, invented the Photographic Revolver, which captured a series of images in a row. The device, automatic, produced images in a row without human intervention, being used to serve as photographic evidence of the passage of Venus before the Sun, in 1874.

Rating: 6.4 (126 votes)

Release Date: 1979-09-14

Overview: Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job. While after, he shops for tailored suits and rides his scooter as part of the London Mod scene.

Rating: 7.048 (270 votes)

Release Date: 2008-06-10

Overview: La Maison en Petits Cubes tells the story of a grandfather's memories as he adds more blocks to his house to stem the flooding waters.

Rating: 7.911 (437 votes)

Release Date: 1888-10-15

Overview: A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriages crossing Leeds Bridge.

Rating: 5.949 (127 votes)

Release Date: 1895-12-28

Overview: In the background is a house. In the foreground, a groom holds the reins of a sleek black horse that stands in profile. A tall man, dressed in a black uniform, demonstrates how to mount the horse then encourages and tries to assist a man in white. The man in white keeps falling, and soon it's apparent that he's an putting on a show. His pratfalls become more elaborate and stylish. The horse stands patient. The little groom laughs to see such sport. And finally, the man in white finds a comic accommodation. The story, though brief, has a beginning, middle, and end.

Rating: 5.258 (62 votes)

Release Date: 1894-12-15

Overview: The film consists of a series of animations on a beach containing two beach huts and a diving board. Two characters play at diving into the water from the diving board and then appear on the beach. The woman begins to play with a small dog and is then joined by a gentleman. The two play around on the beach before getting changed into bathing costumes and going into the water. They bob up and down in the water before swimming out of the scene. Once the couple have gone a man sails out in a boat.

Rating: 5.75 (56 votes)

Release Date: 1994-11-03

Overview: A domestic house cat named Francis investigates the grisly feline murders taking place in his new neighborhood.

Rating: 6.6 (134 votes)

Release Date: 1895-08-28

Overview: A short film depicting the execution of Mary, Queen of the Scots. Mary is brought to the execution block and made to kneel down with her neck over it. The executioner lifts his axe ready to bring it down. After that frame Mary has been replaced by a dummy. The axe comes down and severs the head of the dummy from the body. The executioner picks up the head and shows it around for everyone else to see. One of the first camera tricks to be used in a movie.

Rating: 6.241 (116 votes)

Release Date: 1900-01-01

Overview: Columbine resists Pierrette's courting in favour of Harlequin in this hand-coloured short by Alice Guy.

Rating: 5.167 (27 votes)

Release Date: 1894-01-01

Overview: “Interior of Barber Shop. Man comes in, takes off his coat; sits down, smokes; is handed a paper by attendant, who points out a joke; both laugh. Meantime the man in the chair is shaved and has his hair cut. Very funny.” (Edison's Latest Wonders, 1894)

Rating: 4.923 (39 votes)

Release Date: 1892-10-28

Overview: Short film of 300 individually painted images. A lost film.

Rating: 4.7 (11 votes)

Release Date: 1929-09-12

Overview: For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad.

Rating: 5.522 (23 votes)

Release Date: 1994-09-29

Overview: When marauding Romans capture - and catapult - their pal Getafix into lands unknown, the shrewd and cunning Asterix and his able sidekick Obelix spring into action! But their journey leads them to a strange and dangerous new world, where they must face a tribe of Indians, a stampeding herd of buffalo and a medicine man with designs on their magic potion!

Rating: 6.218 (615 votes)

Release Date: 2003-02-13

Overview: Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.

Rating: 7.54 (2479 votes)

Release Date: 2021-10-25

Overview: A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother's new wife and her teen son, until long-hidden secrets come to light.

Rating: 6.765 (2768 votes)

Release Date: 1942-08-14

Overview: Bambi's tale unfolds from season to season as the young prince of the forest learns about life, love, and friends.

Rating: 7.012 (5798 votes)

Release Date: 1958-06-13

Overview: Rescued from the guillotine by his devoted dwarf Fritz, the Baron relocates to Carlsbruck, where he continues his gruesome experiments.

Rating: 6.594 (139 votes)