Georges Méliès Movies

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

A walk through the life and work of the brilliant French filmmaker Georges Méliès (1861-1938), pioneer of special and visual effects.

A documentary that details the process of restoring 270 of the 520 lost films of pioneering director Georges Méliès, all orchestrated...

The extraordinary life of cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón.

On a city street, a number of men take advantage of an old drunken bum.

A woman climbs out of bed and lifts her nightdress to search for a flea. Reconstructed from a late 1800s flip book

Pluto, having seen the earth, comes back home amazed at the success of that well-known dance, the "cake-walk." He has brought back with him two noted...

The German legend of a scholar's unholy pact with the Devil would have been very familiar to most moviegoers (at least European ones), so Georges...

The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.

In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies...

An adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy.

A woman arrives home after the ball. Her servant helps her undress and bathe.

Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War), surrounded by...

Two crooks throw a lady off a roof, and a hapless policeman tries to capture them.

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...

A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.

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...

A poor but honest man wins great wealth, and the hand of a beautiful princess, after facing a series of exciting trials in the tunnels and catacombs...

1897, directed by Georges Melies.

An actor tries to get to a show on time. Many mishaps along the way.