Georges Méliès Movies

Lucifers fall from grace

This Georges Melies film is only available in a five-minute fragment. The film starts off with a title card setting up the events. An elderly miser...

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....

French silent film directed by Georges Méliès, considered lost.

Partially lost film. One of the kings of ancient Thebes enters the abode of an astrologer and demands that he be told his future. The former utterly...

Méliès appears as a court jester (a “triboulet” in French). He pulls 18th century noblemen out of a trunk and arranges them...

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...

A very enthusiastic magician performs several tricks.

A short film screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato 2020 and believed to have been directed by Georges Méliès.

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

Showing the interior view of the hut in which Dreyfus is confined. The scene takes place at night, showing the moon through the window of the cell....

A magic trick is performed with a long plank with two pots built into it, both with holes in the bottom. Pretty girls are part of the magic.

This Georges Melies film is one of several to appear in only a fragment form. The film opens up with a title card explaining what happens in the...

A crazy, rude musician gets some supernatural comeuppance.

There's a scene in a village, then there's a scene out in the wilderness with what appear to be gods, and a giant crab, and a giant frog... then...

Noted for the first use of time-lapse in a motion picture.

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.

In a corner of the garden we see an ornamental fountain. An old professor comes along, looking for a nice spot where he can teach his pupils. Finding...

Two comic characters, Jack Jags and Dum Dum, perform slapstick comedy on stage.

Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.