Georges Méliès Movies

"Scene opens showing interior of woods in India. In the centre is displayed a native altar of worship. The high priest enters, and at his command...

Lost short comedy film by Georges Méliès

Mr. Peter Jones has vowed to get married. In his efforts to secure a desirable wife he has inserted some advertisements in the newspapers. So we find...

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

A magician transforms a woman into a portrait of herself, then restores her to life.

A man surprises a woman. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu...

This shows a prince entering upon the stage of the King's private theatre. He is about to do a few mystifying tricks for the amusement of the court.

A movie fragment depicting an archaeological explorer entering a standing sarcophagus.

A magician makes a woman appear and disappear.

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

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

A lost film directed by Georges Melies

A magic show.

A weary clock-maker dozes off in a chair. While he is asleep, three women suddenly appear in the midst of his shop. They proceed to show the sleeping...

A film, very amusing, showing a countryman with a most tempting dinner before him, which he is unable to touch. The table, the dishes and the chairs...

“This is an absolutely new and extraordinary subject. A juggler takes in succession about a dozen eggs out of his servant's mouth. He breaks...

Henry the Eighth, King of England, had six wives, and it is well known that he had several of them put to death, some by the axe, some by poison, and...

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

Lost trick film from George Méliès of unknown plot.

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...