Georges Méliès Movies

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

This 10 second fragment is available in flipbook format, otherwise lost.

The Simple Simons have determined to give a dinner to their friends in honor of the birthday of the Madam. They call their chef who, just as he is on...

A conjurer (along with two duplicates) conjure up (and then cause to vanish) a beautiful woman head-first.

A lost film. Georges Méliès also directed a film entitled Faust aux enfers in 1903 that is frequently confused with this one, but it...

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

A movie fragment depicting an archaeological explorer entering a standing sarcophagus.

A crazy, rude musician gets some supernatural comeuppance.

Partially lost film. One of the kings of ancient Thebes enters the abode of an astrologer and demands that he be told his future. The former utterly...

A fraudster is at work in his laboratory, where he pretends to make synthetic diamonds.

Lucifers fall from grace

Beelzebub, making fire on the tips of his fingers, develops a large blaze, from which three girls emerge, who commence a dance in the heart of the...

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

Shows a drunkard in a road man's cell, raving. He sleeps and dreams that he has a huge flask before him; this he attempts to grasp, but awakens,...

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...

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...

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

A colonel in the military receives an unorthodox shower, an unorthodox shower indeed!

A magic show.