Georges Méliès Movies

A fraudster is at work in his laboratory, where he pretends to make synthetic diamonds.

A medieval magician performs a magic show involving a long ornate trunk in which he makes his assistants appear, disappear, and transform into other...

A bearded man hangs up a wreath and, like any good magician, waves his hands inside of it and under it to show us it's only a wreath…

Very much a slapstick chase in the mode of the period, as Victorine's boyfriend escapes from the kitchen and is pursued on rooftop by his...

A man pulls a rabbit out of a hat. Available in a fragment in flipbook version only.

A colonel in the military receives an unorthodox shower, an unorthodox shower indeed!

A woman arrives home after the ball. Her servant helps her undress and bathe.

A young boy's adventure takes him to the domain of the Genie of the Cathedral Bell, where he finds a fortune to enrich his family. The film is...

Lost short film by Georges Méliès.

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

A performing magician divides into two people. The doubles then take turns doing tricks before merging back into one man.

In a corner of the garden we see an ornamental fountain. An old professor comes along, looking for a nice spot where he can teach his pupils. Finding...

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

The Count de Cagliostro, who occupies his spare time in working magic, has invited one of his friends to be present at an exhibition which has for...

In this scene is shown a magician behind an ordinary table, upon which he suddenly and mysteriously causes to appear a large box, into which he...

An actor tries to get to a show on time. Many mishaps along the way.

Before going to war with his neighbors, the King reviews his men. The Queen's Musketeer's, who number only young men, are proclaimed the best drilled...

It is the proceedings of a spiritualist séance. A table whirls around, spirits appear and disappear, and other marvelous feats savoring of the...

A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.

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...