Trick Film Movies

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

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

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

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

A magician transforms a woman into a portrait of herself, then restores her to life.

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

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

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...

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 magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air.

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...

Cretinetti sidesteps his creditors using several amazing tricks.

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

This is a new adventure in which our friend, Mr. Hooligan, appears in an entirely new capacity. On a stage a professor of magic is performing some...

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 juggler enters upon the scene, picks up a skull, throws it into the air, catches it in his hands, where it is transformed into a handkerchief. The...

The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal. A clown appears and sticks a clay arm and...

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...