Georges Méliès Movies

A painter boards a train and puts his paintings in the windows so that they look like passengers.

After numerous exhibitions of the black art by the magician, he causes a handsome young woman to appear suspended in the air. She slowly turns until...

Three military men, seen inside a fortification, are firing on an unseen enemy force. The call for reinforcements but ladders appear signalling the...

Short film about a magician.

A motley quartet of musicians inflicting the torture of their music on a law abiding citizen.

This lost film presumably features a train arriving at Vincennes station, eastern Paris. (Until 2020, was confused with Arrival at Joinville...

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...

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...

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

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

A woman dances - preserved in flipbook form.

Not much of a plot. A couple is menaced by some sort of bizarre religious cult. Then they're saved.

A very enthusiastic magician performs several tricks.

Lost trick film

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

Georges Méliès' adaptation of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" is most distinguished, today, for being a color film of the classic...

A magician along with three doppelgangers perform an elaborate balancing act.

A Spanish dancer, in front of an inn in the Spanish mountains, is courted by a smuggler, who asks her to marry him. She agrees. Later, in the...

The staff of an inn play a cruel trick on a guest.