The best movies 1912

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

With The Old Curiosity Shop and David Copperfield, both released in 1911, and Nicholas Nickleby in 1912, Thanhouser established itself as producer of...

End of the 19th century. In a mansion, Miss Julie lives with her father. She has just broken her engagement but is attracted to a valet, Jean. They...

A manuscript delivered to a playhouse is eventually turned into a major hit with critics and audience alike. The only problem is that no one knows...

Short melodrama about a young woman who is executed because she shot at an army patrol. Her fiance turns out to be the leader of this army unit, but...

The story of a free-spirited Bohemian. Capellani would remake the film in the U.S. in 1916 with a longer runtime.

The struggles of Marcella, a modest model harassed by the owner of the fashion house where she works.

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

A Polish film by Abraham Izaak Kaminski.

On his way to visit his mistress, a man has a serious car accident. His wife cares for him with such devotion that he rediscovers his love for her.

Charles Prince is an inept butler, so he is fired. He goes and gets a job at a restaurant, where he discovers his former employer in a tryst with a...

Robin Hood is a 1912 film made by Eclair Studios when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in...

Directed by Albert Capellani.

Onésime needs to take care of an infant and does everything he can to avoid that responsibility.

Based on the dutch paintings of lacemakers of the same time - the film depicts a poor woman's strive for money to be able to marry her beloved; doing...

When a wayward nun, Megildis, deserts her convent with a knight, a statue of the Virgin Mary comes to life and takes place of Megildis, who makes her...

A short from Feuillade's Bébé series

A fantasy film about the knight Parsifal, who has to protect the Holy Grail from wizards.

Not having enough money to pay his drink bill, Onésime sells his soul to the Devil.

Young Ruth goes against her father's will and leaves to live with engineer Edvin Holm. Their life together will prove difficult.

Scenes from a lavish pageant held during the royal visit to India, celebrating King George V’s coronation.

Pyrenees mountain range, 17th century. Before dying, Diego de Robles, leader of a ruthless gang of highwaymen, has his daughter Carmen, a beautiful...

Fascinating views of Toledo: Bridges, elaborately decorated halls and other architectural highlights that appear to date from as early as the 8th...

Paco, a jealous and bitter man who is in love with Rosario, conspires in the shadows to bring about the downfall of Manuel, her husband.

Film based on the assassination of the Spanish politician José Canalejas at Manuel Pardiñas's hands on 12 November of 1912. It has two...

A trip to Kabilye.

A trip to Mallorca.

A house filled with spirits.

A portrait of the cities of Lisbon and Oporto.

First Puerto Rican non-documentary film.

Pascual Orozco's revolutionary struggle in northern Mexico.

Spanish short documentary film by Antonio de Padua Tramullas.

Spanish short documentary film by Antonio de Padua Tramullas.

A short documentary about life in the basque city of Irun.

French silent short from 1912