Georges Méliès Movies

1897, directed by Georges Melies.

A box of valued jewels is placed inside the tomb of Delphi. A thief breaks into the tomb and steals it, but soon the ghost of Delphi appears and puts...

A photographer has an accident which not only screws up his lab but dumps a great deal of debris into the street below, causing general chaos.

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

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...

Reconstruction, with models, of the explosion of the battleship Maine in Havana. Samir Benhalilou contacted Méliès' granddaughter and...

During an interval in the proceedings of the court martial, the journalists enter into an animated discussion, resulting in a dispute between Arthur...

A bum accidentally gets himself sewn up inside a mattress.

Dancing in a Harem was an 1897 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and...

The clown and his automobile enters with great puffs of smoke

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 lost film directed by Georges Melies

An early horror treatment of the hero's encounter with the one-eyed man-eating Cyclops.

Noted for the first use of time-lapse in a motion picture.

French short about King Francis I and his jester Triboulet, who form the basis for Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse (and Verdi's opera Rigoletto).

With godly entrapments, Zeus appears on the horizon, engages Hermes as an audience, and tries to throw some thunderbolts. They fizzle. Hephaestus...

In this subject a "comique eccentric" enters the drawing room inhabited by spirits. He tries to take off his coat and hat, but these garments return...

A street scene.

A magician's hat offers many surprises.

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