Georges Méliès Movies

A boy is led into the frame by two nursemaids who give him a big ball to play with. For the remainder of the film heads appear and disappear, stage...

French short about King Francis I and his jester Triboulet, who form the basis for Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse (and Verdi's opera Rigoletto).

The opium fiend is seen in a den, puffing on this terrible narcotic. He then falls fast asleep and dreams that he is at home with his wife. He asks...

A traveller is shown to a room in an inn. After a brief dispute with the hostess and a porter, he is left to himself. But strange things begin to...

A high nobleman finds himself in the Temple of the Sun, where he meets Mascarille, who proposes himself as a juggler. After extracting from the...

A man needs to get to Monte Carlo from Paris, but finds out that a train will take 17 hours to get there. He decides to go with a man with a special...

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

The setting of this fantastic scene represents the hall of an old chateau in which a miser has locked up seven large bags containing his wealth....

A juggler enters upon the scene, picks up a skull, throws it into the air, catches it in his hands, where it is transformed into a handkerchief. The...

The extraordinary life of cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón.

A section of the port Haliquen (Quiberon) Bretagne, at night where Dreyfus was landed by French marines, and officers after his transport from...

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

A short French fantasy film.

A group of people take roller skating too far.

A very simple gag film as a young lady substitutes herself for a dummy in order to play a practical joke on an artist.

A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.

A woman slips into her bed with the help of her servant. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook...

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...

During an interval in the proceedings of the court martial, the journalists enter into an animated discussion, resulting in a dispute between Arthur...

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