Georges Méliès Movies

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...

Inspired by The X-Rays (1987), is currently presumed lost.

A band of musicians stage a fake murder as a practical joke for their grumpy, curious neighbor.

Beelzebub, making fire on the tips of his fingers, develops a large blaze, from which three girls emerge, who commence a dance in the heart of the...

There's a chemistry lab, in which one or two people ingest the wrong drug -- apparently -- and have a seriously bad trip. Then there's this wizard in...

An Innkeeper introduces his young and pretty daughter to a wealthy old man who is in quest of a wife, but she being already in love spurns his...

In a corner of the garden we see an ornamental fountain. An old professor comes along, looking for a nice spot where he can teach his pupils. Finding...

The opening title card explains that a painter has just finished his work when his assistant comes in and accidentally drinks varnish. The film then...

In this film, we show the interior of a doctor's office. A patient enters, and judging from the expression on his face, he is in great pain. The...

A bearded man hangs up a wreath and, like any good magician, waves his hands inside of it and under it to show us it's only a wreath…

"The Bath" is a flip book remake of After the Ball (Après le Bal) made in the late 1800s.

A colonel in the military receives an unorthodox shower, an unorthodox shower indeed!

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

The Simple Simons have determined to give a dinner to their friends in honor of the birthday of the Madam. They call their chef who, just as he is on...

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

A man needs to get to Monte Carlo from Paris, but finds out that a train will take 17 hours to get there. He decides to go with a man with a special...

Lost in the streets of Paris, Georges Méliès is looking everywhere for the Salle Pleyel. On the wall he sees an enormous Gala poster...

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

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

In a bakery in the French countryside, Father Latourte, his wife, and their staff are busy with customers, pastries, and baked goods of all kinds....