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

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

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.

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 modern reimagining of the trick film, combining the love of spectacle, the artist's process and the dark state of today's politics.

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

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

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

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.

Cretinetti sidesteps his creditors using several amazing tricks.

A man in a suit and cap stops in front of the display of a bookseller, finds and flips… "Invisible Man" by H. G. Wells! Fascinated by the...

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

A little flower film by Gaston Velle.

Pluto, having seen the earth, comes back home amazed at the success of that well-known dance, the "cake-walk." He has brought back with him two noted...