The best movies 1912

A silent comedy in which a sick young boy gets healthy after a regime of hard work, and does not complain that the housekeeper makes him work so hard.

The devil performs his magical powers.

The life of Jesus is played out in tableaux shot in the Holy Land.

A female magician presents several impressive metamorphoses, combining stop-motion animation and camera tricks.

Billie is the "little mother" of the family and cares for the two smaller children. Her father has fallen under the spell of drink. Billie has become...

Percival, a master-mind in the army of the deliberately unemployed, visits a fashionable restaurant and piles up a large meal by impertinent orders,...

The new maid and her mistress devise a plan to foil the men in the house. ...[The mistress of the house finds her chambermaid using her...

A short western about a cowardly sheriff who leaves it up to his wife to catch a murderer, and then takes the credit himself.

Colonel de Valpeau lives alone with his negro servant, Zeno. Being pressed for funds, the Colonel is refused a loan on the hereditary estate, and is...

A short film about the friendship between a little girl and a stray dog.

A country girl is persuaded to elope with the minister's nephew but she discovers that he is worthless. After he is killed in a brawl, her former...

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky,...

A woman imagines the revenge of a gypsy that she sent away. This piece is told in multiple scenes, in an increasingly artificial world, as the venue...

A beautiful but eccentric countess amuses herself by subjecting her numerous suitors to silly tests. Most men turn into frenzied dogs in the company...

Composer Edvard Björkman suffers amnesia during an accident at sea, but finds a new identity and career in Paris. Meanwhile, back in Sweden, his...

Directed by Albert Capellani.

A Lord weds a Lady despite knowledge of her lowly birth.

A jilted husband takes his revenge by filming his wife and her lover and showing the result at the local cinema.

A hobo takes revenge to a miller who didn't give him something to eat.