Trick Film Movies

A very enthusiastic magician performs several tricks.

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

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...

Showing the interior of a dining room of a modest cottage, whereto enter a young couple to partake in their meal, which is being served up by the...

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...

Four prisoners, in convicts' stripes, march backwards down stairs and, under the watchful eyes of guards, hop backwards into their cells. Later, one...

A talented youth has compounded a wonderful fluid, a little of which he applies to the mirror in his room, and when he looks into it his image comes...

A man misses his train due to his clothes turning into other types of clothes.

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

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...

“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...

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...

The picture opens with the Sultan lying down to rest on his luxurious cushioned couch. The scene changes to the grounds around the palace.

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

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...

A family sits down to enjoy a meal that ends up being fraught with complications.

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

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