Georges Méliès Movies

AN UNEXPECTED BATH" shows the astronomer watching women rain down from the heavens.

An elderly actor, once an audience favorite, goes to a talent agency for work, but is told he is too old to be hired. Going home, he tells the bad...

A man surprises a woman. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu...

In a corner of the garden we see an ornamental fountain. An old professor comes along, looking for a nice spot where he can teach his pupils. Finding...

French silent film by Georges Méliès, considered lost.

A witch curses a town's well.

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

Two pranksters, finding out that a couple is about to apply for a marriage license at the town mayor's office, sneak into the office to pull a...

Only 8 surviving seconds of a man getting great pleasure from smoking a cigar.

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,...

Fun film from French master Georges Melies has a couple burglar's breaking into a man's home and having to hide when that man returns. Instead of a...

"Scene opens showing interior of woods in India. In the centre is displayed a native altar of worship. The high priest enters, and at his command...

Work on the wreck of the ship "Maine."

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

The first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to the then contemporaneous Dreyfus affair in which a Jewish military officer...

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).

Lost short film from Georges Méliès.

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

Magic tricks in a medieval setting.

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