Georges Méliès Movies

A man does tricks by forming hats and then putting them on. Fragment available in flipbook format, otherwise lost.

There's a scene in a village, then there's a scene out in the wilderness with what appear to be gods, and a giant crab, and a giant frog... then...

An impoverished father, with his young son and daughter, begs for food in a marketplace. When a merchant angrily turns them away, their plight...

Two pranksters, finding out that a couple is about to apply for a marriage license at the town mayor's office, sneak into the office to pull a...

A green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron.

As a conjurer awaits an audience, a procession announces the arrival of a royal representative, carried in a sedan chair, to see him. The conjurer...

A fine magician of the Royal Court materialises an elegant attire from a transparent glass container, and then, a refined dandy appears, as an ornate...

1908 French short silent film by Georges Méliès, which is currently presumed lost. Though the plot of the film is unknown, it may have...

During an orgy, Emperor Justinian orders three people to be torched alive.

Lost comedy film from Georges Méliès.

In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the...

AN UNEXPECTED BATH" shows the astronomer watching women rain down from the heavens.

With godly entrapments, Zeus appears on the horizon, engages Hermes as an audience, and tries to throw some thunderbolts. They fizzle. Hephaestus...

An indebted French family flees its creditors in this comic picaresque, one of pioneering French director George Méliès last films.

On a city street, a number of men take advantage of an old drunken bum.

Georges Méliès's first attempt at Cinderella was in 1899. That film was extraordinary then for having multiple scenes and a semblance...

In this subject a "comique eccentric" enters the drawing room inhabited by spirits. He tries to take off his coat and hat, but these garments return...

A wizard sleeps at a table in his well-appointed sitting room. From a drawer in the table, a snake appears.

A man gets cajoled into working as a sideshow wrestler.

The film reproduces a magic act Méliès performed at his Paris theater-of-illusions, the Théâtre Robert-Houdin. Conjuring...