Trick Film Movies

The Waif and the Wizard features the same young man who appeared in Undressing Extraordinary (and who might be early filmmaker Walter Booth). It's ano...

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

Pickpock is behind bars. But more elusive than Arsène Lupin, no chain resists him and he plays with policemen like a cat with mice. After having maste...

A little flower film by Gaston Velle.

“Mr. and Mrs. Hayseed have heard of this wonderful Professor, and come to his office. They waken him from a trance, give him a fee and he hypnotizes t...

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

A very enthusiastic magician performs several tricks.

A magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air.

An artist draws the head of a pretty girl, takes the drawing off the paper and places it on a small table, turning the image into the head of a real w...

A sorcerer draws signs on the sand making charming young women.

The scene takes place in a fashionable cafe. A well dressed couple enter, and after a careful perusal of the menu, conclude on an order of boiled eggs...

A mischievous witch uses her dark magic on an innocent cyclist until he is all confused. He is forced to pedal backwards and at the same time, his bik...

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

Female magicians turn people into origami roosters and vice versa.

Cretinetti sidesteps his creditors using several amazing tricks.

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

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

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 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.