Georges Méliès Movies

A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.

Shows hobbies of people who do an ordinary job in the day. Made for New York Fair.

An inquisitor and two of his henchmen burn a woman at the stake. An angel intervenes.

Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.

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

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...

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

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).

Lost in the streets of Paris, Georges Méliès is looking everywhere for the Salle Pleyel. On the wall he sees an enormous Gala poster...

Lost comedy film from Georges Méliès.

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

A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair,...

Georges Melies the magician. Melies removes his own head, puts it in a glass box on a stool, then grows another one. Melies lights up a cigarette and...

A man takes off his clothes in preparation for bed, only for new clothes to spontaneously generate, leading to comical consternation.

As scene as pleasing as incomprehensible. A juggler summons two chairs, which come to the stage jumping and twirling around. Across the back of these...

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

An impoverished fisherman, not earning enough to support his wife and daughter, prays for help before an icon of the Virgin Mary. After trying to...

Shows the interior of the cell of the Prison Militaire du Cherche-Midi, Paris, where Colonel Henry is confined. He is seated at a table writing a...

Another magic short of Méliès.

A dispute takes place between some traveling musicians while they are giving a concert in a courtyard. The Janitor of the house. who mixes himself up...