Georges Méliès Movies

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

A respectable fellow has quietly taken a seat upon a bench in a park, and worn out from the excessive heat of the day, has fallen asleep. Two...

Reconstruction, with models, of the explosion of the battleship Maine in Havana. Samir Benhalilou contacted Méliès' granddaughter and...

The scene takes place in front of a barrack, where a young soldier is on duty --most laughable and comical

Du Paty de Clam requests Captain Dreyfus to write as he dictates for the purpose of ascertaining whether his handwriting conforms to that of the...

This 10 second fragment is available in flipbook format, otherwise lost.

A fencing match. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu around...

Melies short.

Here we have an old scholar/alchemist brooding over a book, challenged by the devil, and going through the familiar sorcery to create a woman by...

A magician's hat offers many surprises.

1908 French short silent comedy film by Georges Méliès, which is presumed to be lost. The film was a skit on the popular topic of...

1908 French silent comedy film directed by Georges Méliès, which is currently presumed lost.

By designs of St. Hubert, patron saint of the hunt, a humble woodcutter is brought to a sumptuous palace and offered riches, which he despises.

The thief who robbed and killed a shoe dealer is sentenced to death by inhaling the fumes of his own shoes.

The setting of this view is a series of underground grottoes, a part of the marvelous realm of Satan, through which the latter escorts a gentleman...

Beelzebub, making fire on the tips of his fingers, develops a large blaze, from which three girls emerge, who commence a dance in the heart of the...

Comedy short film by Georges Méliès.

Short film about a magician.

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

A bearded man hangs up a wreath and, like any good magician, waves his hands inside of it and under it to show us it's only a wreath…