Georges Méliès Movies

An inquisitor and two of his henchmen burn a woman at the stake. An angel intervenes.

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

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....

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....

William Shakespeare, struggling to write the assassination scene for his play Julius Caesar, settles into an armchair and begins to daydream the...

This film from George Melies is sadly one that's only available in fragments. The film starts off with a title card stating that a drunk man has just...

Comedy short film by Georges Méliès.

King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.

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 staff of an inn play a cruel trick on a guest.

One of the last films Georges Méliès made. By now, he was under contract for his former rival Pathé, where he made a few of his...

French silent short film by Georges Méliès, presumed to be lost.

Two couples, one old and one young, have blind dates at the same meeting place. The arrival of the wrong people at different times makes a fun...

An indebted French family flees its creditors in this comic picaresque, one of pioneering French director George Méliès last films.

Lost in the streets of Paris, Georges Méliès is looking everywhere for the Salle Pleyel. On the wall he sees an enormous Gala poster...

Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War), surrounded by...

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

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

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...