Georges Méliès Movies

A conjuror appears to demonstrate a lady with three heads.

Alone in his room at an inn, a lustful old man is haunted by spirits.

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

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...

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...

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...

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

Three burglars invade a house, kill two people, and blind a third person, a woman. The police arrest the wrong man.

The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.

A group of people take roller skating too far.

The Merchant, the Farrier, and the Roman accompany a mysterious woman into a magical cave full of terrors and wonders.

A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.

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...

An actor tries to get to a show on time. Many mishaps along the way.

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

The entire story of Christmastide is here depicted. The scene opens in a large boudoir of an apparently wealthy man's home. His children, assisted by...

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

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

Doctors blow to pieces a patient in a hydrotherapy machine and re-assemble him.

A photographer has an accident which not only screws up his lab but dumps a great deal of debris into the street below, causing general chaos.