Georges Méliès Movies

A group of people watches a guignol (the French version of a Punch and Judy show). Outtake from a longer, now lost, film.

A reenactment of a dirigible explosion in Paris.

A silly-looking composer attempts to compose. He then falls asleep, and dreams of all manner of bizarre nonsense.

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

After numerous exhibitions of the black art by the magician, he causes a handsome young woman to appear suspended in the air. She slowly turns until...

A man pulls a rabbit out of a hat. Available in a fragment in flipbook version only.

"This view represents a grand transformation scene of several tableaux, the more interesting and the more surprising in the order of their...

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

This lost film presumably features a train arriving at Vincennes station, eastern Paris. (Until 2020, was confused with Arrival at Joinville...

Melies short.

An early horror treatment of the hero's encounter with the one-eyed man-eating Cyclops.

A motley quartet of musicians inflicting the torture of their music on a law abiding citizen.

A peddler of "the best glue" sets up his outdoor stall. A crowd gathers for a demonstration. As he gives his pitch, two observant cops decide drive...

A magician makes a woman appear and disappear.

An easel appears, and soon after a canvas "walks" up from the floor of its own accord and takes its place on the easel. Now an artist's portfolio is...

The film, of which only fragments are known to survive, features Méliès as a magician making playing-card figures come to life in...

In this subject a "comique eccentric" enters the drawing room inhabited by spirits. He tries to take off his coat and hat, but these garments return...

Two pranksters, finding out that a couple is about to apply for a marriage license at the town mayor's office, sneak into the office to pull a...

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

In the interior of a small Russian cottage dwells a peasant with the reputation of being able to foretell future events. Alternatively, a Japanese...