Georges Méliès Movies

A fencing match. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu around...

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

Work on the wreck of the ship "Maine."

A short film screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato 2020 and believed to have been directed by Georges Méliès.

The film, of which only fragments are known to survive, features Méliès as a magician making playing-card figures come to life in...

An impoverished father, with his young son and daughter, begs for food in a marketplace. When a merchant angrily turns them away, their plight...

Two impish clowns construct a magic lantern. They prop it up at an angle, and use it to project pictures onto a wall. When the picture show ends,...

A motley quartet of musicians inflicting the torture of their music on a law abiding citizen.

A lost film directed by Georges Melies

French short about King Francis I and his jester Triboulet, who form the basis for Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse (and Verdi's opera Rigoletto).

French silent film by Georges Méliès, considered lost.

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

Silent film from Georges Méliès, presumed to be lost.

Mr. Peter Jones has vowed to get married. In his efforts to secure a desirable wife he has inserted some advertisements in the newspapers. So we find...

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

Another magic short of Méliès.

A traveller is shown to a room in an inn. After a brief dispute with the hostess and a porter, he is left to himself. But strange things begin to...

Only 8 surviving seconds of a man getting great pleasure from smoking a cigar.

A man gets cajoled into working as a sideshow wrestler.

A prestidigitator orders his assistant to bring a cabinet, which is displayed piece by piece to the audience. Two gentlemen are then introduced; they...