Trick Film Movies

The scene takes place in a fashionable cafe. A well dressed couple enter, and after a careful perusal of the menu, conclude on an order of boiled...

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

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...

The picture opens with the Sultan lying down to rest on his luxurious cushioned couch. The scene changes to the grounds around the palace.

A family sits down to enjoy a meal that ends up being fraught with complications.

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

A moon-woman shakes a Pierot costume and manifests a Pierot clown. She does this four more until there are five Pierots crowded on the ledge of the...

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

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

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...

Female magicians turn people into origami roosters and vice versa.

A magician shows tricks with money.

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 sorcerer draws signs on the sand making charming young women.

An old proprietor is startled and haunted by the strange happenings inside his curiosity shop.

The Waif and the Wizard features the same young man who appeared in Undressing Extraordinary (and who might be early filmmaker Walter Booth). It's...

A little flower film by Gaston Velle.

A demonic magician attempts to perform his act in a strange grotto, but is confronted by a Good Spirit who opposes him.

A mischievous witch uses her dark magic on an innocent cyclist until he is all confused. He is forced to pedal backwards and at the same time, his...

As the above title indicates, the scene does not take place in an ordinary restaurant, but one in which all natural rules of order and gravitation...