Georges Méliès Movies

Surviving fragment of a longer film. A magician makes a butterfly woman appear, and a woman in a star. Exhausted, the magician falls asleep and the...

A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.

At the royal court, a prince is presenting the princess whom he is pledged to marry when a witch suddenly appears. Though driven off, the witch soon...

Alone in his room at an inn, a lustful old man is haunted by spirits.

Explores the complex relationship between the spirit, body, and mind. The film is a nightmare with closed eyes because it counts among the most...

An adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy.

Watering the Flowers (French: L'Arroseur) was an 1896 French short comedy film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by...

St. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!

A green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron.

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…

Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War), surrounded by...

A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair,...

A man has an encounter with several spooky apparitions in a castle that is evidently owned by the Devil.

The Jewish ex-officer Alfred Dreyfus's degradation. He stands in a military quadrant and the Adjutant proceeds to tear off his medals; Dreyfus is...

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...

A derelict discovers that a surgeon performing unnatural experiments has replaced his body.

A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.

This Georges Melies film is only available in a five-minute fragment. The film starts off with a title card setting up the events. An elderly miser...

The setting of this fantastic scene represents the hall of an old chateau in which a miser has locked up seven large bags containing his wealth....

A magician performs a series of magic tricks involving a boy and a box.