Georges Méliès Movies

The film, of which only fragments are known to survive, features Méliès as a magician making playing-card figures come to life in...

Two comic characters, Jack Jags and Dum Dum, perform slapstick comedy on stage.

A sorcerer turns a small egg into a bigger one and keeps repeating this trick until the egg is large enough to do other things including delivering...

Lost comedy short film by Georges Méliès.

Showing the rolling sea, upon which gradually appears a cloud of mist. From this evolves the figure of Christ, who proceeds to walk on the waves. The...

Fun film from French master Georges Melies has a couple burglar's breaking into a man's home and having to hide when that man returns. Instead of a...

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 man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it. This film is presumably lost.

French short about King Francis I and his jester Triboulet, who form the basis for Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse (and Verdi's opera Rigoletto).

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

Mephistopheles demands that Faust kill Marguerite.

A look back at the life, style and influences of the famed filmmaker Georges Méliès and an examination of his role in the story of...

A good shepherdess is persecuted by an evil, tantrum-throwing princess. A good fairy decides to intervene, and dishes out quite a bit of retribution.

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

In a bakery in the French countryside, Father Latourte, his wife, and their staff are busy with customers, pastries, and baked goods of all kinds....

Partially lost film. One of the kings of ancient Thebes enters the abode of an astrologer and demands that he be told his future. The former utterly...

A woman dances - preserved in flipbook form.

A magician blows some big bubbles and makes heads of women appear inside them.

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

A soldier is talking to a woman while sitting on a bench, a man sits on it, and the soldier stands up, causing the bench to tip over and the man...