Georges Méliès Movies

  • 1908
    French Cops Learning English

    French Cops Learning English

    French Cops Learning English

    5.11908HD

    The seven-minute film takes place inside a classroom where some cops are learning English.

    French Cops Learning English
  • 1904
    The Fugitive Apparitions

    The Fugitive Apparitions

    The Fugitive Apparitions

    5.11904HD

    A magician makes a woman appear and disappear.

    The Fugitive Apparitions
  • 1897
    D. Devant, Conjurer

    D. Devant, Conjurer

    D. Devant, Conjurer

    4.81897HD

    A man pulls a rabbit out of a hat. Available in a fragment in flipbook version only.

    D. Devant, Conjurer
  • 1901
    The Elastic Battalion

    The Elastic Battalion

    The Elastic Battalion

    01901HD

    A lost film.

    The Elastic Battalion
  • 1899
    The Mysterious Portrait

    The Mysterious Portrait

    The Mysterious Portrait

    6.11899HD

    A magician produces a living portrait of himself.

    The Mysterious Portrait
  • 1896
    Miss de Vère - English Jig

    Miss de Vère - English Jig

    Miss de Vère - English Jig

    4.11896HD

    A woman dances - preserved in flipbook form.

    Miss de Vère - English Jig
  • 1900
    Cooks fight

    Cooks fight

    Cooks fight

    61900HD

    Two cooks fight, one pushing the other into a barrel and pouring a saucepan of liquid over his head. 10 second fragment available in flipbook format,...

    Cooks fight
  • 1903
    Comical Conjuring

    Comical Conjuring

    Comical Conjuring

    5.31903HD

    In a room filled with jugglers' properties of enormous size a prestidigitateur dressed in eccentric costume enters with his assistant. The servant,...

    Comical Conjuring
  • 1896
    A Serpentine Dance

    A Serpentine Dance

    A Serpentine Dance

    4.51896HD

    A Serpentine dance performance, possibly featuring Loie Fuller (though the record is unclear). While the film is lost, there is a new digital version...

    A Serpentine Dance
  • 1900
    A Fantastical Meal

    A Fantastical Meal

    A Fantastical Meal

    6.31900HD

    A family sits down to enjoy a meal that ends up being fraught with complications.

    A Fantastical Meal
  • 1903
    Ten Ladies in an Umbrella

    Ten Ladies in an Umbrella

    Ten Ladies in an Umbrella

    6.11903HD

    The scene is similar to that seen at Coney Island, where a number of shows are constantly going on.

    Ten Ladies in an Umbrella
  • 1908
    Oriental Black Art

    Oriental Black Art

    Oriental Black Art

    101908HD

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

    Oriental Black Art
  • 1901
    The Trials of a Schoolmaster

    The Trials of a Schoolmaster

    The Trials of a Schoolmaster

    01901HD

    A Country school room is first seen in this picture in which so many startling changes take place that the Master is bewildered and is driven mad by...

    The Trials of a Schoolmaster
  • 1896
    Conjuring

    Conjuring

    Conjuring

    5.21896HD

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

    Conjuring
  • 1904
    A Wager Between Two Magicians, or, Jealous of Myself

    A Wager Between Two Magicians, or, Jealous of Myself

    A Wager Between Two Magicians, or, Jealous of Myself

    81904HD

    A performing magician divides into two people. The doubles then take turns doing tricks before merging back into one man.

    A Wager Between Two Magicians, or, Jealous of Myself
  • 1901
    The Triple Headed Lady

    The Triple Headed Lady

    The Triple Headed Lady

    5.81901HD

    A conjuror appears to demonstrate a lady with three heads.

    The Triple Headed Lady
  • 1900
    Crying and Laughing

    Crying and Laughing

    Crying and Laughing

    01900HD

    A short film screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato 2020 and believed to have been directed by Georges Méliès.

    Crying and Laughing
  • 1899
    The Mysterious Knight

    The Mysterious Knight

    The Mysterious Knight

    6.31899HD

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

    The Mysterious Knight
  • 1901
    A Phrenological Burlesque

    A Phrenological Burlesque

    A Phrenological Burlesque

    01901HD

    The film poked fun at phrenology—a highly popular 19th-century pseudoscience that claimed a person's skull shape and "bumps" could determine...

    A Phrenological Burlesque
  • 1899
    Le conférencier distrait

    Le conférencier distrait

    Le conférencier distrait

    4.51899HD

    A short French fantasy film.

    Le conférencier distrait