Georges Méliès Movies

A reenactment of a dirigible explosion in Paris.

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

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

A man tries to get a good night's sleep, but is disturbed by a giant spider that leaps onto his bed, and a battle ensues in hilarious comic fashion.

A compellation of many silent films from all over the world, given music and sound design.

The plot follows King Edward VII and President Armand Fallières dreaming of building a tunnel under the English Channel.

After numerous exhibitions of the black art by the magician, he causes a handsome young woman to appear suspended in the air. She slowly turns until...

"The picture shows the Devil working at a fire. Two cavaliers appear, and the Devil takes the form of a seer, old, bent and wrinkled. Then he...

A magic show.

A sorcerer turns a small egg into a bigger one and keeps repeating this trick until the egg is large enough to do other things including delivering...

Here we have an old scholar/alchemist brooding over a book, challenged by the devil, and going through the familiar sorcery to create a woman by...

Melies second attempt at telling the story of Faust. This time out Faust and his love Marguerite are sentenced to Hell where they are showed the...

Fun film from French master Georges Melies has a couple burglar's breaking into a man's home and having to hide when that man returns. Instead of a...

An early horror treatment of the hero's encounter with the one-eyed man-eating Cyclops.

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

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

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

An actor tries to get to a show on time. Many mishaps along the way.

This is a moving picture that moves. Positively the greatest magical picture ever offered. A Hindoo magician appears and dances for the entertainment...

An officer calls his sailors to the deck. They assemble around the canon while the officer scans the horizon. They all turn in the direction of the...