Georges Méliès Movies

The first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to the then contemporaneous Dreyfus affair in which a Jewish military officer...

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

A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.

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.

Two men in a cave perform magic.

A weary traveler stops at an inn along the way to get a good night's sleep, but his rest is interrupted by odd happenings when he gets to his...

In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies...

In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the...

A juggler enters upon the scene, picks up a skull, throws it into the air, catches it in his hands, where it is transformed into a handkerchief. The...

A man takes off his clothes in preparation for bed, only for new clothes to spontaneously generate, leading to comical consternation.

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…

The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.

A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the...

Showing Pygmalion at work in his studio on the statue of Galatea, who, on being completed, comes to life. He attempts to clasp her to his arms, when...

A man rents an apartment and furnishes it in remarkable fashion.

A Jew who mocked Jesus on the cross is visited by a devil and an angel.

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

A poor family in a rundown house where snow falls through the broken roof, there's no coal to heat the pathetic little stove, mother is sick, father...

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

A man makes twenty complete changes in two minutes, combining with them dances. The changes are made in full sight of the audience. Biondi, Fregoli...