Trick Film Movies

Pluto, having seen the earth, comes back home amazed at the success of that well-known dance, the "cake-walk." He has brought back with him two noted...

A re-telling of the classic tale of Faust in all of two minutes by French filmmaker Alice Guy.

The setting of this fantastic scene represents the hall of an old chateau in which a miser has locked up seven large bags containing his wealth....

A magician shows tricks with money.

The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal. A clown appears and sticks a clay arm and...

The scene opens on a theatrical stage. The magician enters from the wings, and making a bow to the audience, removes his coat and hat and they...

A cheeky female jester uses the smoke of her cigarette to make things appear and disappear. After showing her talents by playing with a chair or a...

Pickpock is behind bars. But more elusive than Arsène Lupin, no chain resists him and he plays with policemen like a cat with mice. After...

A man in a suit and cap stops in front of the display of a bookseller, finds and flips… "Invisible Man" by H. G. Wells! Fascinated by the...

A series of trick film hallucinations and scary doubling effects result when Patachon smokes an opium cigarette.

The background of this picture represents a scene along the beautiful river Seine in Paris. A gentleman enters, and taking a blackboard from the side...

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air. There is no credited director for this film, although three different persons get attributed,...

A basket of flowers appears and moves by itself to the middle of a decorative arch. From the basket, a woman magician appears. From a cylinder, the...

This is a new adventure in which our friend, Mr. Hooligan, appears in an entirely new capacity. On a stage a professor of magic is performing some...

Pierrot goes to the house of his love to serenade her, but her father kicks him out. Soon the moon and its goddess Diana come towards the man and...

A modern reimagining of the trick film, combining the love of spectacle, the artist's process and the dark state of today's politics.

A little flower film by Gaston Velle.

A magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air.

A magician performs tricks involving three women, who are sometimes merged together into one corpulent female.

A boy breaks his sister's doll and it mends, grows, tears him up and eats him.