Georges Méliès Movies

A knight performs several magic tricks with a disembodied head materialized from a chalkboard drawing.

1908 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès, which is currently presumed lost

Magic tricks in a medieval setting.

A prince gets the help of a fairy to aid in his conflict with a wizard.

Georges Melies the magician. Melies removes his own head, puts it in a glass box on a stool, then grows another one. Melies lights up a cigarette and...

French silent film by Georges Méliès, considered lost.

Jack is taken on a sea-snail to the lair of a fairy, who magically turns him into a prince. He thoroughly enjoys the dancing and fawning of the...

A man gets cajoled into working as a sideshow wrestler.

A young woman stumbles across a cave that is populated by the spirits and skeletons of people who died there under mysterious circumstances.

A respectable fellow has quietly taken a seat upon a bench in a park, and worn out from the excessive heat of the day, has fallen asleep. Two...

One of a few versions of the "arrival of the train" narrative. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a...

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

Lost short film from Georges Méliès.

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....

The film begins with a grandmother reading a story to a small child (played by Georges Méliès's son, André) before tucking him...

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...

A magician explores two halves of his self: The Dwarf and the Giant.

An episodic narrative displaying examples of humankind's brutality, from the story of Cain and Abel through the Hague Convention of 1907.

French silent film directed by Georges Méliès, considered lost.