1. Blacksmithing Scene (Blacksmithing Scene)
Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around. Notable for being the first film in which a scene is being acted out.
It has an average vote of 5.532 on TMDB.
2. The X-Ray Fiend
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 1895, and Georges Méliès' accidental realisation of the special-effects potential of the jump-cut in 1896.
It has an average vote of 5.455 on TMDB.
3. The Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship (Le dirigeable fantastique)
An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.
It has an average vote of 5.635 on TMDB.
4. Daisy Diamond (Daisy Diamond)
A tragic story about Anna who dreams of one thing only: making it as an actress. She moves from Sweden to Copenhagen to pursue her dream. But fate has something else in store for her. Though she struggles to give her 4-month-old daughter a good start in life, she ultimately fails to unite her dream of acting with a safe and loving environment for her child, culminating in a desperate act that has fatal consequences for Anna and her daughter.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
5. Serpentine Dance (Danse serpentine)
Angelic and demonic serpentine dance from dawn of cinema. Hand-colored frame by frame. Lumière no. 765 or 765.1 .
It has an average vote of 6.485 on TMDB.
6. Dare
A teenager is dared to enter a haunted house, reach the attic and count to 100. However, she hadn't banked on what she might find along the way, and the terrifying realization of what waits for her at the end. On October 31st Bloody Cuts launched their first ever short film challenge at www.bchorrorchallenge.com. This film is for benchmark and example purposes, made under the same restrictions as the competition.
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
7. Traffic in Souls
A woman, with the aid of her police officer sweetheart, endeavors to uncover the prostitution ring that has kidnapped her sister, and the philanthropist who secretly runs it.
It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.
8. A Midsummer Night's Dream
An early film adaptation of the Beard's comic fantasy-- and perhaps the first screen adaptation of a Shakespeare play.
It has an average vote of 4.9 on TMDB.
9. Flamenco (Flamenco)
The film presents thirteen rhythms of flamenco, each with song, guitar, and dance: the up-tempo bularías, a brooding farruca, an anguished martinete, and a satiric fandango de huelva. There are tangos, a taranta, alegrías, siguiriyas, soleás, a guajira of patrician women, a petenera about a sentence to death, villancicos, and a final rumba.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
10. David
The true story of David Rothenberg whose disturbed father set him on fire.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
11. Rescued from an Eagle's Nest
A woodsman leaves a hut followed by a woman with their baby. Nearby some men chop down a tree. The baby is left outside the hut, but an eagle flies away with it.
It has an average vote of 5.6 on TMDB.
12. Aral, Fishing in an Invisible Sea (Aral, Fishing in an Invisible Sea)
A documentary film about the three remaining generations of fishermen in the Aral Sea-- Their everyday struggle to survive in one of the most dire and inhospitable places on the planet.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
13. Mabel's Strange Predicament
A tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel, two hotel guests across the hall from her room, and Mabel's visiting sweetheart.
It has an average vote of 5.388 on TMDB.
14. Cabiria (Cabiria)
Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrificed to Moloch, Cabiria is rescued by Fulvius Axilla, a good-hearted Roman spy, and his powerful slave, Maciste. The trio are broken up as Cabiria is entrusted to a woman of noble birth. With Cabiria's fate unknown, Maciste punished for his heroism, and Fulvius sent away to fight for Rome, is there any hope of our heroes reuniting?
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
15. Low Tide
In the long days of summer in a beach town on the New Jersey shore, high schooler Alan and his friends Red and Smitty break into vacation homes to steal valuables, funding dates at the boardwalk and lunches at the burger stand. When Alan and his younger brother Peter find a bag of gold coins, they try to hide them from the others — but Red, suspicious and violently unpredictable, seems willing to do anything to get the money.
It has an average vote of 6.16 on TMDB.
16. Hell Comes to Frogtown
'Hell' is the name of the hero of the story. He's a prisoner of the women who now run the USA after a nuclear/biological war. Results of the war are that mutants have evolved, and the human race is in danger of extinction due to infertility. Hell is given the task of helping in the rescue of a group of fertile women from the harem of the mutant leader . Hell cannot escape since he has a bomb attached to his private parts which will detonate if he strays more than a few hundred yards from his guard.
It has an average vote of 5.562 on TMDB.
17. Baron Blood (Gli orrori del castello di Norimberga)
A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom the Baron had burned at the stake. Peter reads aloud the incantation that causes Baron Blood to return and continue his murderous tortures.
It has an average vote of 6.171 on TMDB.
18. La Grande Bouffe (La Grande Bouffe)
Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.
It has an average vote of 7.181 on TMDB.
19. The Front Page
A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.
It has an average vote of 7.252 on TMDB.
20. Pickpocket (Pickpocket)
Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his mother's neighbor Jeanne, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in order to improve his craft. With a police inspector keeping an eye on him, Michel also tries to get a straight job, but the temptation to steal is hard to resist.
It has an average vote of 7.31 on TMDB.
