Trick Film Movies

A magician shows tricks with money.

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

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

A little flower film by Gaston Velle.

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

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

A cheeky female jester uses the smoke of her cigarette to make things appear and disappear. After showing her talents by playing with a chair or a...

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

Cretinetti sidesteps his creditors using several amazing tricks.

A magician performs tricks involving three women, who are sometimes merged together into one corpulent female.

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 boy breaks his sister's doll and it mends, grows, tears him up and eats him.

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 romantic couple are transformed into skeletons via X-Rays. The film combines two very recent innovations: Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of X-rays in...

A diver jumps into a body of water-- and then comes right back out! This film should not be confused with Ferdinand Zecca's own remake of the same...

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 magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air.

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 magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

The background of this picture represents a scene along the beautiful river Seine in Paris. A gentleman enters, and taking a blackboard from the side...