Trick Film Movies

Sherlock Holmes enters his drawing room to find it being burgled, but on confronting the villain is surprised when the latter disappears.

In an effort to secure a promised inheritance, Onésime invents a time machine that speeds up activity on earth, hyper-animates men and...

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.

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

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

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 talented youth has compounded a wonderful fluid, a little of which he applies to the mirror in his room, and when he looks into it his image comes...

A chef comes into the kitchen and throws a lot of rags on the floor: he then casts a spell over them, and immediately they take the form of human...

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

A magician shows tricks with money.

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...

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

Female magicians turn people into origami roosters and vice versa.

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...

A little flower film by Gaston Velle.

Cretinetti sidesteps his creditors using several amazing tricks.