Georges Méliès Movies

A sorceress conjures up a bevy of beauties for a bachelor to peruse.

A poor family in a rundown house where snow falls through the broken roof, there's no coal to heat the pathetic little stove, mother is sick, father...

The German legend of a scholar's unholy pact with the Devil would have been very familiar to most moviegoers (at least European ones), so Georges...

The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal. A clown appears and sticks a clay arm and...

A magician blows some big bubbles and makes heads of women appear inside them.

The comedy generally known as “The Barber of Sevilla” is strongly recommended because it contains nothing offensive nor objectionable,...

Very much a slapstick chase in the mode of the period, as Victorine's boyfriend escapes from the kitchen and is pursued on rooftop by his...

Three military men, seen inside a fortification, are firing on an unseen enemy force. The call for reinforcements but ladders appear signalling the...

An episodic narrative displaying examples of humankind's brutality, from the story of Cain and Abel through the Hague Convention of 1907.

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

A woman arrives home after the ball. Her servant helps her undress and bathe.

Only 8 surviving seconds of a man getting great pleasure from smoking a cigar.

A good shepherdess is persecuted by an evil, tantrum-throwing princess. A good fairy decides to intervene, and dishes out quite a bit of retribution.

A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it. This film is presumably lost.

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

Pierrot goes to the house of his love to serenade her, but her father kicks him out. Soon the moon and its goddess Diana come towards the man and...

Melies short.

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...

Not much of a plot. A couple is menaced by some sort of bizarre religious cult. Then they're saved.

An incident of the Franco-Prussian War. It shows the bombardment of a house at Bazeille. It is the animated reproduction of de Neuville's celebrated...