The best movies 1909

On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines...

Soon after their engagement, Bill goes to sea, and Emily vows to stay true until his return. Unknown to her, Bill marries another woman from a...

A bored Lady Helen goes slumming as a domestic in a boarding house. There she falls in love with a sensitive young musician. The other women in the...

During the American Revolution, a young soldier carrying a crucial message to General Washington is spotted and pursued by a group of enemy soldiers....

Antonine, a worthless, good-for-nothing scoundrel, demands money of his cousin Galora, an energetic, provident husband and father. His demands are...

An Indian comforts a dying prospector in his last moments. In exchange, the prospector tells him the location of his gold claim. A group of cowboys...

A confirmed bachelor learns that he will inherit his late uncle's fortune only if he marries, which he does reluctantly. Shortly afterward he returns...

A contest is being held in Cremona for the best violin, with Giannina's hand in marriage as the prize. Filippo is secretly in love with her, but is...

"Fine feathers make fine birds", and handsome gowns make handsome women. Hence it is when Isabelle appears on the scene clad in a gown that is a...

As Poe's lover is slowly dying, he struggles to make money to care for her.

Sisters guarding their house from a burglar set upon stealing their daddy's money.

A disfigured young woman with two beautiful sisters is courted by a blind man. Will he still love her when his sight is restored?

A woman is scarred in an accident and refuses to stand in the way of her lover's marriage to another.

A young couple must endure a tedious visit from their aunt until their friend offers to find a way to make her leave.

Gerolamo Lo Savio's version of William Shakespeare's Othello.

A man arrives home late and drunk as usual. His wife reminds him that he's supposed to take their daughter out to a play. While watching the play,...

Seven years after the death of their first child, a couple has grown apart and decides to divorce. Their second child asks a question about who will...

A son leaves to seek his fortune in the city. Many years later he returns and checks into his parents' inn. They don't recognize him, but noticing...

A haughty politician, on seeing a satirical cartoon in a newspaper, rushes to the paper's offices to shoot the cartoonist. On discovering the...

A smoker falls asleep, and two mischievious fairies play with his pipe. He discovers this, and imprisons them in a cigar box. He removes a flower...

La Revolución de Mayo (in English: May Revolution) is an Argentine silent movie premiered in 1909. As the name denotes, it is focused on the...

Felipe I el Hermoso provokes with his behavior the madness of his wife, Juana de Castilla.

This Spanish short film tells the story of Guzmán el Bueno, a hero of the Reconquista.

The story of Vicente López y Planes writing the national anthem of Argentina.

The first meeting of a U.S. president and a Mexican president took place when William Howard Taft met Porfirio Díaz on 16 October 1909, in El...

Documentary footage of folk-dancers.

Silent documentary about the Caracas Carnival.

Film about this character born in 1818, who was the son of the general Juan José Viamonte and was shot by Rosario troops on September 16, 1940.