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Movies: Popular Movies of 1909

Movies in chronological context: 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1909th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 909th year of the 2nd millennium, the 9th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1909, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. ()

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A Corner in Wheat(1909)

14min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 40 votes)

On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines and others further into poverty. The film contrasts the differences between the lives of those who work to grow the wheat and the life of the man who dabbles in its sale for profit.

The Diabolic Tenant(1909)

7min | Fantasy, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 28 votes)

A man rents an apartment and furnishes it in remarkable fashion.

The Lonely Villa(1909)

3.1/5 (with 26 votes)

A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an interior room, but the criminals are well-equipped for breaking in. When the father finds out what is happening, he must race against time to get back home.

Those Awful Hats(1909)

2min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 23 votes)

A pair of young ladies cause trouble at the cinema with their lavish hats.

Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy(1909)

5min | Comedy, Fantasy
3.0/5 (with 19 votes)

A smoker falls asleep, and two mischievious fairies play with his pipe. He discovers this, and imprisons them in a cigar box. He removes a flower from the box, which contains a fairy smoking a cigarette. Next, he leaves briefly while his smoking paraphenalia clears itself from the table and the flower reassembles itself into a cigar. He lights the cigar, then breaks a bottle containing the fairy, who interacts with him in various ways reeling from his cigar smoke, building a bonfire that he extinguishes, etc.

The Country Doctor(1909)

14min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 16 votes)

While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds the neighbor gravely ill, and ignores his wife's pleas to come home and care for his own daughter, who has taken a turn for the worse.

The Spider and the Butterfly(1909)

2min | Horror, Fantasy
2.9/5 (with 12 votes)

Surviving fragment of a longer film. A magician makes a butterfly woman appear, and a woman in a star. Exhausted, the magician falls asleep and the star woman turns into a spider, dragging the butterfly into her web.

The Sealed Room(1909)

2.6/5 (with 12 votes)

The Count sets out to make a private room for him and his Countess, built in such a way no one can see, hear, and most importantly, disturb them. But unbeknownst to the Count, his wife has set her eyes on the court minstrel. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's “The Cask of Amontillado” and Honoré de Balzac's “La Grande Breteche”.

Edgar Allan Poe(1909)

7min | Drama
2.6/5 (with 12 votes)

As Poe's lover is slowly dying, he struggles to make money to care for her.

Nero, or The Fall of Rome(1909)

14min | History, Drama
2.8/5 (with 11 votes)

Roman emperor Nero is used to getting what he wants. He has grown tired of his wife Octavia, and has become infatuated with Poppea. He succeeds in making Poppea the new empress, but soon he faces opposition from an outraged populace. Informed of the danger of an imminent popular uprising, Nero orders to set fire to the city, which he watches from a terrace, rejoicing and playing his lyra.

Whimsical Illusions(1909)

5min | Comedy, Fantasy
3.1/5 (with 10 votes)

In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies played the magician, and the actor Manuel played his assistant.

Directed by Georges Méliès

Moscow Clad in Snow(1909)

3.3/5 (with 9 votes)

The film is in four parts. First, the camera pans the Kremlin and Marshal's Bridge. Sleds are parked in rows. Horse-drawn sleighs run up and down a busy street. Next, we visit the mushroom and fish market where common people work and shop. In Petrovsky Park are the well-to-do. Men are in great coats. A file of six or seven women ski past on a narrow lane. Last, there's a general view of Moscow. A slow pan takes us to a view above the riverfront where the film began.

Directed by Georges Meyer
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The Airship Destroyer(1909)

3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

An inventor uses a wireless controlled flying torpedo to destroy enemy airships.

Directed by Walter R. Booth

A Trap for Santa Claus(1909)

16min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 9 votes)

The children of a household attempt to capture Santa, but they catch something else entirely.

The Mended Lute(1909)

11min | Western
2.3/5 (with 9 votes)

In an Indian tribe, a girl escapes from her father and suitor to be with the man she loves.

The Dentures(1909)

3min | Comedy
2.5/5 (with 8 votes)

Mother in law gets a new set of dentures. Despite being initially happy, the family soon discovers the teeth have a life of their own and jump from their owner's mouth and bite everyone who comes near--from ladies to gentlemen to policemen.

Le Voleur invisible(1909)

7min | Crime, Fantasy
3.2/5 (with 7 votes)

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 subject, he buys the book and goes home with the intention to test the invisibility formula described by the author….

Directed by Segundo de Chomón

Spring: Episode 1 - The Awakening of the Source / The Awakening of Nests(1909)

7min
2.7/5 (with 6 votes)

Nymphs and cupids dance in celebration of the arrival of Spring.

The Mill(1909)

11min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 6 votes)

Johanna loves poor farmer Joachim, yet marries the wealthy miller. One day, Joachim visits Johanna when he is away. When the miller finds out, he takes revenge.

Directed by Alfred Machin

The Redman's View(1909)

14min | Western
2.6/5 (with 6 votes)

An Indian village is forced to leave its land by white settlers, and must make a long and weary journey to find a new home. The settlers make one young Indian woman stay behind. This woman is thus separated from her sweetheart, whose elderly father needs his help on the journey ahead.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Owen Moore, James Kirkwood, Kate Bruce, Charles Craig, Frank Evans, Edith Haldeman, ...

What Drink Did(1909)

12min | Drama
2.4/5 (with 6 votes)

A man leaves his wife and two daughters for work in a carpentry shop. At work, he initially refuses a beer with lunch, then gives in. After work, two friends take a little while to convince him to go for a refreshing malt beverage, then to have another and another....

The Happy Microbes(1909)

2.5/5 (with 6 votes)

A scientist has acquired a microscope and is showing it off to his friend. He takes various body samples - hair, phlegm, etc. - and puts them under the microscope. The "microbes" coalesce and form different shapes, creating caricatures of various people, such as mothers-in-law and drunks. These animated characters goof around in traditional cartoon fashion.

Custody of the Child(1909)

10min | Drama
2.4/5 (with 6 votes)

Melodrama about a rich father who gains custody of his child while the mother goes off in tears. Of course, the child is miserable even though he has everything in the world but after a weekend trip at his poor mother's house, the child realizes that money isn't everything and he has to convince the father that his money is evil.

A Midsummer Night's Dream(1909)

11min | Fantasy, Comedy
2.6/5 (with 6 votes)

The worlds first screen adaptation of a Shakespeare play.

A Trip to Jupiter(1909)

3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

The King and his official astronomer are alone in the study viewing the heavenly bodies through the monstrous telescope. They go out on the balcony and the gay old ruler is much absorbed in the phenomenon, and spends some time in studying the stars and planets. The evening has been well spent with the many mysteries which have made such a deep impression upon the King's mind that they are still with him in his dreams. (Moving Picture World synopsis)

Directed by Segundo de Chomón

Spanish Clair de Lune(1909)

2.9/5 (with 6 votes)

Two lovers perform a fandango dance. A jealous quarrel follows and the heart-broken swain decides to end it all. He throws himself from the window of his room, but instead of falling to his death, the anchor of a passing balloon intercepts his flight and he is taken high into the clouds. Laughing at his plight, the moon arouses the anger of the desperate lover and a battle between the two ensues.

A Drunkard's Reformation(1909)

13min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

A man arrives home late and drunk as usual. His wife reminds him that he's supposed to take their daughter out to a play. While watching the play, he's faced with his own drinking evils and how his life would be without them.

The Cricket on the Hearth(1909)

10min | Drama
2.0/5 (with 5 votes)

After three years at sea, Edward returns home to find his sweetheart forced into an engagement with a much older man.

The Fairy of the Surf(1909)

2.7/5 (with 5 votes)

Three men go out on the ocean in a row boat. There, they see dancing fairies. Then manage to catch one and take her aboard the boat--taking her back to the castle with them. Then, one of the men asks the fairy to marry him and they do so--though something strange occurs right after the ceremony.

Directed by Louis Feuillade

The Curtain Pole(1909)

13min | Comedy
2.3/5 (with 4 votes)

An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very long pole, and causes havoc everywhere he passes, accumulating an ever-growing entourage chasing him, until he escapes them through a bit of movie magic, only to discover that the pole has already been replaced.

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