Trick Film Movies

The first scene presents before the astonished eyes of the spectators a solid piece of marble, which the minute it is placed on a table seems to take...

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

A woman enters a room with a man. She creates a duplicate of him and changes his personality by throwing his clothes from one man to the next.

A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.

A Japanese-set magic show. There is a lot of visual trickery on display, ending with an amazing effect using reverse footage 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.

A scientist concocts a potion that can turn people invisible for short periods of time. Two crooks steal the potion and go on a crime spree.

A magical adventure begins Once upon a time, within a vast and wild forest there was a fantastic Kingdom called Rodencia, a place where wonderful...

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

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...

A series of trick film hallucinations and scary doubling effects result when Patachon smokes an opium cigarette.

This is a mesmerising little short that employs a peculiar bird’s eye view of a mischievous devil who dances around, performing strange tricks...

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...

Two travellers are tormented by Satan from inn to inn and eventually experience a buggy ride through the heavens courtesy of the Devil before he...

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air. There is no credited director for this film, although three different persons get attributed,...

An old proprietor is startled and haunted by the strange happenings inside his curiosity shop.

A magician and some assistants put up a series of posters of music hall acts in a frame. Then the magician brings each poster to life.

A magician shows tricks with money.

Female magicians turn people into origami roosters and vice versa.

A pickpocket manages to escape the police through a series of fantastic tricks. The director in this film is unknown.