Movies: Star Film Company

An astronomer has a terrifying dream....

A woman slips into her bed with the help of her servant. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu around the same time...

A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon....

The Secret Kingdom is a 1917 silent action movie serial comprised of 15 chapters: 1. Land of the Intrigue 2. Royalty at Red Wing 3. Sealed Packet 4. Honorable Mr. Oxenham 5. Carriage Call #101 6. Human Flotsam 7. Ghost Ship 8. Rum Cay 9. Swamp Adder ...

A staged Wild West kidnapping goes awry when the cowboys accidentally capture an actress who uses her acting skills to turn the tables on them....

A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head....

A young boy's adventure takes him to the domain of the Genie of the Cathedral Bell, where he finds a fortune to enrich his family. The film is currently presumed lost....

The story was liberally adapted from a short sequence in the popular Chinese folk tale Journey to the West. Princess Iron Fan is a main character. Specifically, the film focused on the duel between the Monkey King and a vengeful princess, whose fan i...

The plot follows King Edward VII and President Armand Fallières dreaming of building a tunnel under the English Channel....

Two men in a cave perform magic....

After being defeated in a fight by a local gang, local official Lu Fengyang sends his weak and sickly son Lu Xiaoqing to study with a master of the Kunlun school of martial arts. Recovered and strong, he comes upon the Red Lotus Temple, and puts up t...

St. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!...

A Chinese conjurer stands next to a table, it becomes two tables. A fan becomes a parasol, lanterns appear and disappear. The conjurer spins the open parasol in front of himself, and a dog leaps out from behind it. The dog becomes a woman, then a mas...

Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act....

A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear....

An Egyptian prince has lost his beloved wife and he has sought a dervish who dwells at the base of the sphinx....

Alone in his room at an inn, a lustful old man is haunted by spirits....

Two guards bring a sorcerer into the hall of a palace of the time of the Middle Ages. The king who follows them orders the sorcerer to be chained and to be condemned to death for his practice of witchcraft. He begs the king to permit him just one hou...

A magician performs a series of magic tricks involving a boy and a box....

A family goes to a photographer. The photographer pushes the boy around, and no one seems to care. The boy gets his revenge....