Georges Méliès Movies

The comedy generally known as “The Barber of Sevilla” is strongly recommended because it contains nothing offensive nor objectionable,...

A performing magician divides into two people. The doubles then take turns doing tricks before merging back into one man.

A woman dances - preserved in flipbook form.

A young woman stumbles across a cave that is populated by the spirits and skeletons of people who died there under mysterious circumstances.

The Bogie Man's cave is one of the many triumphs of set design for Georges Méliès. More unusual for the pioneering French director is...

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

Short comedy about a man who dreams that he runs over everyone with his skates. A man falls asleep on the sidewalk and dreams that he gets into...

A man pulls a rabbit out of a hat. Available in a fragment in flipbook version only.

One of a few versions of the "arrival of the train" narrative. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a...

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

Lost trick film from George Méliès of unknown plot.

A family sits down to enjoy a meal that ends up being fraught with complications.

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

A knight performs several magic tricks with a disembodied head materialized from a chalkboard drawing.

Lost film by Georges Méliès, released as an "artistic subject."

The film poked fun at phrenology—a highly popular 19th-century pseudoscience that claimed a person's skull shape and "bumps" could determine...

An artist attempts to touch his model who is playing Venus. Later remade in 1900. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on...

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...

A short French fantasy film.

Two cooks fight, one pushing the other into a barrel and pouring a saucepan of liquid over his head. 10 second fragment available in flipbook format,...