Georges Méliès Movies

A fine magician of the Royal Court materialises an elegant attire from a transparent glass container, and then, a refined dandy appears, as an ornate...

In a public place in Constantinople at the corner of a bazaar, the executioner is seated upon a stone and is resting from his daily labors while...

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...

The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal. A clown appears and sticks a clay arm and...

A man tries to get a good night's sleep, but is disturbed by a giant spider that leaps onto his bed, and a battle ensues in hilarious comic fashion.

An early horror treatment of the hero's encounter with the one-eyed man-eating Cyclops.

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...

A decapitated cook wreaks havoc on the restaurant proprietor.

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

A magic trick is performed with a long plank with two pots built into it, both with holes in the bottom. Pretty girls are part of the magic.

Georges Méliès's first attempt at Cinderella was in 1899. That film was extraordinary then for having multiple scenes and a semblance...

A family sits down to enjoy a meal that ends up being fraught with complications.

A group of people take roller skating too far.

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

Two crooks throw a lady off a roof, and a hapless policeman tries to capture them.

Two travellers are tormented by Satan from inn to inn and eventually experience a buggy ride through the heavens courtesy of the Devil before he...

"The picture shows the Devil working at a fire. Two cavaliers appear, and the Devil takes the form of a seer, old, bent and wrinkled. Then he...

This film from George Melies is sadly one that's only available in fragments. The film starts off with a title card stating that a drunk man has just...

There's a chemistry lab, in which one or two people ingest the wrong drug -- apparently -- and have a seriously bad trip. Then there's this wizard in...

Another magic short of Méliès.