Georges Méliès Movies

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

Into a photography studio full of large fantastic machines steps an elderly couple. The bearded proprietor explains the equipment and gives them a...

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

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

In order to photograph this film, the cameraman placed his equipment on a broad sidewalk in the business district of a large city, probably New York....

This 10 second fragment is available in flipbook format, otherwise lost.

An adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy.

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...

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

Two guards bring a sorcerer into the hall of a palace of the time of the Middle Ages. The king who follows them orders the sorcerer to be chained and...

In a medieval castle, a dark magician thought to be Mephistopheles conjures up a series of bizarre creatures and events in order to torment a pair of...

A man is murdered and the killer brought to justice by guillotine. This film is partly lost.

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...

In this subject a "comique eccentric" enters the drawing room inhabited by spirits. He tries to take off his coat and hat, but these garments return...

Melies short.

One fine day at a barbershop that has stupid staff and very rude customers.

An Egyptian prince has lost his beloved wife and he has sought a dervish who dwells at the base of the sphinx.

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

A Chinese conjurer stands next to a table, it becomes two tables. A fan becomes a parasol, lanterns appear and disappear. The conjurer spins the open...