Georges Méliès Movies

A very simple gag film as a young lady substitutes herself for a dummy in order to play a practical joke on an artist.

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

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...

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

The Count de Cagliostro, who occupies his spare time in working magic, has invited one of his friends to be present at an exhibition which has for...

Not much of a plot. A couple is menaced by some sort of bizarre religious cult. Then they're saved.

The fairest maiden is crowned queen of the May Day festival and the dignitaries of the town, surrounded by the cheering populace, music and...

During an interval in the proceedings of the court martial, the journalists enter into an animated discussion, resulting in a dispute between Arthur...

Lost short comedy film by Georges Méliès

French silent film directed by Georges Méliès, considered lost.

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

A magic cabinet turns two young girls into hideous beasts.

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).

One fine day at a barbershop that has stupid staff and very rude customers.

Shows a drunkard in a road man's cell, raving. He sleeps and dreams that he has a huge flask before him; this he attempts to grasp, but awakens,...

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...

A bum accidentally gets himself sewn up inside a mattress.

1897, directed by Georges Melies.

Pierrot goes to the house of his love to serenade her, but her father kicks him out. Soon the moon and its goddess Diana come towards the man and...

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...