Trick Film Movies

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

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...

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 very enthusiastic magician performs several tricks.

A magician shows tricks with money.

Cretinetti sidesteps his creditors using several amazing tricks.

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...

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

Innovative early 'trick' film showing the popular 'flying the foam' stunt performed on - or rather off - Brighton's West Pier.

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

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...

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...

A sorcerer draws signs on the sand making charming young women.

Poor Uncle Josh is trying to get to sleep, but being constantly bedevilled by a fellow in red long underwear with horns. A short early trick editing...

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

Many of the scenes of this split-reel short about a bizarre group of tramp musicians who disappear into and out of drums, beach umbrellas and...

Female magicians turn people into origami roosters and vice versa.

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