Georges Méliès Movies

The extraordinary life of cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón.

King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.

With godly entrapments, Zeus appears on the horizon, engages Hermes as an audience, and tries to throw some thunderbolts. They fizzle. Hephaestus...

A weary clock-maker dozes off in a chair. While he is asleep, three women suddenly appear in the midst of his shop. They proceed to show the sleeping...

Showing the rolling sea, upon which gradually appears a cloud of mist. From this evolves the figure of Christ, who proceeds to walk on the waves. The...

A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.

A magician performs tricks involving three women, who are sometimes merged together into one corpulent female.

In this film, we show the interior of a doctor's office. A patient enters, and judging from the expression on his face, he is in great pain. The...

An inquisitor and two of his henchmen burn a woman at the stake. An angel intervenes.

A Serpentine dance performance, possibly featuring Loie Fuller (though the record is unclear). While the film is lost, there is a new digital version...

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 square room, two men and two women, in white body-hugging clothes, try on wrestling holds, each with a partner of the same sex.

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

John, who loves the bottle a little too much, is one of a group of sightseers. Too drunk to follow the party, the reeling drunkard remains on the...

A crazy, rude musician gets some supernatural comeuppance.

A cook has his hands full with three mischievous devils, who pop in and out of his kitchen.

During an orgy, Emperor Justinian orders three people to be torched alive.

A wizard sleeps at a table in his well-appointed sitting room. From a drawer in the table, a snake appears.

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

Lucifers fall from grace