Georges Méliès Movies

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....

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

As a conjurer awaits an audience, a procession announces the arrival of a royal representative, carried in a sedan chair, to see him. The conjurer...

Two pranksters, finding out that a couple is about to apply for a marriage license at the town mayor's office, sneak into the office to pull a...

The magician appears upon the stage with an imp as his assistant. The imp holds a piece of cloth in his hand. At the command of the magician the...

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

One of the last films Georges Méliès made. By now, he was under contract for his former rival Pathé, where he made a few of 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...

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...

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...

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

The film reproduces a magic act Méliès performed at his Paris theater-of-illusions, the Théâtre Robert-Houdin. Conjuring...

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

A conjurer (along with two duplicates) conjure up (and then cause to vanish) a beautiful woman head-first.

A magician blows some big bubbles and makes heads of women appear inside them.

Mr. Dauber, a painter very favorably known, receives a visit Mr. Pierrot, a white clown enjoying a popularity as wide-spread as that of the painter...

An elderly actor, once an audience favorite, goes to a talent agency for work, but is told he is too old to be hired. Going home, he tells the bad...

French short silent comedy film by Georges Méliès, which is presumed to be lost. The film was a skit on the popular topic of hypnotism;...

A magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air.

A man does tricks by forming hats and then putting them on. Fragment available in flipbook format, otherwise lost.