Georges Méliès Movies

A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.

A lost film. A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it. This film is presumably lost.

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

The plot follows King Edward VII and President Armand Fallières dreaming of building a tunnel under the English Channel.

Three friends are playing cards in a beer garden. One of them orders drinks. The waitress comes back with a bottle of wine and three glasses on a...

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

An adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy.

Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.

In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the...

A bearded man hangs up a wreath and, like any good magician, waves his hands inside of it and under it to show us it's only a wreath…

Lost in the streets of Paris, Georges Méliès is looking everywhere for the Salle Pleyel. On the wall he sees an enormous Gala poster...

A man tries to get a good night's sleep, but is disturbed by a giant spider that leaps onto his bed, and a battle ensues in hilarious comic fashion.

Segundo de Chomón's remake of Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon.

A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the...

One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and...

A science fantasy film that deals with an extraordinary race to the north pole by rival parties of balloonists. Based on the novel "The Adventures of...

A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.

Faust and his love Marguerite are sentenced to Hell where they are showed the torture that awaits.

The extraordinary life of cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón.

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...