Release Date: 1898-11-30

Overview: One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and throwing it in the air, it appears on the table opposite another head, and both detached heads sing in unison. The conjurer then removes it a third time. You then see all three of his heads, which are exact duplicates, upon the table at one time, while the conjurer again stands before the audience with his head perfectly intact, singing in unison with the three heads upon the table. He closes the picture by bowing himself from the stage.

Rating: 7.179 (173 votes)

Release Date: 1903-07-25

Overview: 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.

Rating: 6.9 (85 votes)

Release Date: 1888-10-14

Overview: The earliest surviving celluloid film, and believed to be the second moving picture ever created, was shot by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince using the LPCCP Type-1 MkII single-lens camera. It was taken in the garden of Oakwood Grange, the Whitley family house in Roundhay, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire (UK), possibly on 14 October 1888. The film shows Adolphe Le Prince (Le Prince's son), Mrs. Sarah Whitley (Le Prince's mother-in-law), Joseph Whitley, and Miss Harriet Hartley walking around in circles, laughing to themselves, and staying within the area framed by the camera. The Roundhay Garden Scene was recorded at 12 frames per second and runs for 2.11 seconds.

Rating: 6.31 (224 votes)

Release Date: 2013-06-21

Overview: Somm takes the viewer on a humorous, emotional and illuminating look into the mysterious world of the Court of Master Sommeliers and their massively intimidating Master Sommelier Exam.

Rating: 7.006 (78 votes)

Release Date: 2011-04-13

Overview: A legendary and friendly creature named Nessie lives happily in a small pond with her friend MacQuack, a rubber duck. When a rich developer takes the pond and land surrounding it to build a miniature golf course, Nessie is forced to search for a new home.

Rating: 6.651 (116 votes)

Release Date: 1901-12-01

Overview: A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.

Rating: 7.152 (161 votes)

Release Date: 1896-12-25

Overview: A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.

Rating: 6.023 (107 votes)

Release Date: 1982-07-07

Overview: A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that’s been raised to kill black people.

Rating: 6.644 (275 votes)

Release Date: 1905-01-27

Overview: A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.

Rating: 6.422 (77 votes)

Release Date: 1898-12-02

Overview: The Lumière catalog sold this title as 13 individual, one-scene films, allowing exhibitors to choose which films they wanted to purchase and how to arrange them in their programs. Lumière catalog no. 933 through 945.

Rating: 5.7 (20 votes)

Release Date: 1907-04-28

Overview: A pig dressed in fancy clothes flirts with a pretty girl, but she humiliates him and tears off his suit; she then makes him dance for her affections. It is a filmed version of a vaudeville act called "Le cochon mondain" by Odéo, who play the pig himself, in the suit he designed.

Rating: 6.189 (82 votes)

Release Date: 1899-10-01

Overview: 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.

Rating: 6.174 (115 votes)

Release Date: 1899-01-01

Overview: 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.

Rating: 6.232 (71 votes)

Release Date: 1907-12-21

Overview: 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.

Rating: 6.5 (69 votes)

Release Date: 1915-10-09

Overview: A man is increasingly unnerved by a mysterious portrait. Based on a story by Nikolai Gogol, the film is thought to have run about 45 minutes long, but only an 8 minute fragment is known to have survived.

Rating: 6.3 (13 votes)

Release Date: 1896-12-24

Overview: 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.

Rating: 6.4 (196 votes)

Release Date: 1902-06-15

Overview: 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.

Rating: 7.913 (1862 votes)

Release Date: 1896-06-30

Overview: A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.

Rating: 7.089 (497 votes)

Release Date: 2019-06-27

Overview: In a short musical film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, Thom Yorke of Radiohead stars in a mind-bending visual piece. Best played loud.

Rating: 7.277 (447 votes)