Georges Méliès Movies

Du Paty de Clam requests Captain Dreyfus to write as he dictates for the purpose of ascertaining whether his handwriting conforms to that of the...

In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies...

With the cameraman atop a moving train car the viewer is given a one minute glimpse of a French urban area.

Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.

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

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

Mephistopheles demands that Faust kill Marguerite.

If a violin was actually broken here we don't get to see it. Sadly this is one of many Georges Melies films that are only available in a fragment....

This is a moving picture that moves. Positively the greatest magical picture ever offered. A Hindoo magician appears and dances for the entertainment...

The opening title card explains that a painter has just finished his work when his assistant comes in and accidentally drinks varnish. The film then...

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

The Bogie Man's cave is one of the many triumphs of set design for Georges Méliès. More unusual for the pioneering French director is...

The Merchant, the Farrier, and the Roman accompany a mysterious woman into a magical cave full of terrors and wonders.

Four black minstrels turn into white clowns and back again when they hit or kick each other.

A soldier stands guard at a sentry box and leaves it unprotected for a moment, a moment that two men take advantage of to put up posters where it is...

A human skeleton is placed upon a table by an attendant. When the attendant leaves the room the skeleton begins kicking his legs and throwing his...

The clown and his automobile enters with great puffs of smoke

A magician does tricks with the aid of his assistant, the Human Pump.

On a city street, a number of men take advantage of an old drunken bum.

Georges Melies' film has a new guy showing up in a store on his first day and he obviously just doesn't fit in as he makes one mistake after another.