Georges Méliès Movies

Magic tricks in a medieval setting.

Shows hobbies of people who do an ordinary job in the day. Made for New York Fair.

Another magic short of Méliès.

A man gets cajoled into working as a sideshow wrestler.

Very much a slapstick chase in the mode of the period, as Victorine's boyfriend escapes from the kitchen and is pursued on rooftop by his...

Two comic characters, Jack Jags and Dum Dum, perform slapstick comedy on stage.

If a violin was actually broken here we don't get to see it. Sadly this is one of many Georges Melies films that are only available in a fragment....

Robert Macaire (Chevalier Macaire) was a noted criminal and assassin who appears in French plays. His name is renowned in French culture as that of...

This Georges Melies film is one of several to appear in only a fragment form. The film opens up with a title card explaining what happens in the...

The clown and his automobile enters with great puffs of smoke

Two guards bring a sorcerer into the hall of a palace of the time of the Middle Ages. The king who follows them orders the sorcerer to be chained and...

An indebted French family flees its creditors in this comic picaresque, one of pioneering French director George Méliès last films.

A bum accidentally gets himself sewn up inside a mattress.

Lost short film from Georges Méliès.

Melies short.

The film reproduces a magic act Méliès performed at his Paris theater-of-illusions, the Théâtre Robert-Houdin. Conjuring...

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

"The picture shows the Devil working at a fire. Two cavaliers appear, and the Devil takes the form of a seer, old, bent and wrinkled. Then he...

Lost comedy film from Georges Méliès.

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