Georges Méliès Movies

The scene represents the shop that rents garments for masquerades, A young student presents himself for the purpose of selecting a costume for a...

A magic show.

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

A silly-looking composer attempts to compose. He then falls asleep, and dreams of all manner of bizarre nonsense.

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

The setting of this view is a series of underground grottoes, a part of the marvelous realm of Satan, through which the latter escorts a gentleman...

In a wizard's cavern, a series of magic tricks are performed..

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...

Lost comedy short film by Georges Méliès.

A trio of prankish boarders wreak havoc on their landlady and an intervening policeman.

A street scene.

Two cooks fight, one pushing the other into a barrel and pouring a saucepan of liquid over his head. 10 second fragment available in flipbook format,...

In a room filled with jugglers' properties of enormous size a prestidigitateur dressed in eccentric costume enters with his assistant. The servant,...

An artist attempts to touch his model who is playing Venus. Later remade in 1900. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on...

The scene is similar to that seen at Coney Island, where a number of shows are constantly going on.

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...

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

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

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