Georges Méliès Movies

Silent French short film by Georges Méliès, based on the character from Alphonse Daudet's novel of the same name. The film is presumed...

Silent film from Georges Méliés. It is presumed to be lost.

Work on the wreck of the ship "Maine."

The thief who robbed and killed a shoe dealer is sentenced to death by inhaling the fumes of his own shoes.

A Serpentine dance performance, possibly featuring Loie Fuller (though the record is unclear). While the film is lost, there is a new digital version...

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...

French short silent comedy film by Georges Méliès, which is presumed to be lost. The film was a skit on the popular topic of hypnotism;...

A farmer calls on a juggler to see a few of his best tricks. The juggler has brought a bouquet of flowers, from which he takes out a charming and...

Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor to the King, is thrust into a dungeon because he has offended His Majesty by not being able for some time past to produce...

A Country school room is first seen in this picture in which so many startling changes take place that the Master is bewildered and is driven mad by...

The interior of a trolley car. A menagerie of passengers notices a foul odour, and pinpoint the source of the stench at a cheese saleswoman. The...

The Jewish ex-officer Alfred Dreyfus's degradation. He stands in a military quadrant and the Adjutant proceeds to tear off his medals; Dreyfus is...

Lost film by Georges Méliès, released as an "artistic subject."

A Jew who mocked Jesus on the cross is visited by a devil and an angel.

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

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

The film poked fun at phrenology—a highly popular 19th-century pseudoscience that claimed a person's skull shape and "bumps" could determine...

A Spanish dancer, in front of an inn in the Spanish mountains, is courted by a smuggler, who asks her to marry him. She agrees. Later, in the...

A band of musicians stage a fake murder as a practical joke for their grumpy, curious neighbor.

Magic tricks in a medieval setting.