Georges Méliès Movies

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

An Egyptian prince has lost his beloved wife and he has sought a dervish who dwells at the base of the sphinx.

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

A magician stuffs eight of his lovely assistants into a barrel.

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.

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...

King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

William Shakespeare, struggling to write the assassination scene for his play Julius Caesar, settles into an armchair and begins to daydream the...

It is the birthday of Uncle Rube, a foxy old peasant who has gathered at his table his family and his help, among whom is a sleepy farmhand, a boy...

One of eleven installments of The Dreyfus Affair (L'affaire Dreyfus), a docudrama reconstructing the historical Dreyfus Affair, which was still...

It's late in the evening, and the ballet master's bed has been prepared for him. But he cannot take his mind off of his work, and instead of going to...

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

Before going to war with his neighbors, the King reviews his men. The Queen's Musketeer's, who number only young men, are proclaimed the best drilled...

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

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

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...

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

The staff of an inn play a cruel trick on a guest.

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