Georges Méliès Movies

An indebted French family flees its creditors in this comic picaresque, one of pioneering French director George Méliès last films.

An actor tries to get to a show on time. Many mishaps along the way.

A mischievous duke comes across a drunkard in a town square, and decides to pull a practical joke. He has the drunkard carried to the ducal palace...

An actor tries to get to a show on time. Many mishaps along the way.

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

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 band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair,...

Two comic characters, Jack Jags and Dum Dum, perform slapstick comedy on stage.

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

1908 French short silent Christmas film by Georges Méliès, which is now presumed lost. The film, combining American ideas about Santa...

Two couples, one old and one young, have blind dates at the same meeting place. The arrival of the wrong people at different times makes a fun...

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...

A magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air.

Very much a slapstick chase in the mode of the period, as Victorine's boyfriend escapes from the kitchen and is pursued on rooftop by his...

Mr. Dauber, a painter very favorably known, receives a visit Mr. Pierrot, a white clown enjoying a popularity as wide-spread as that of the painter...

A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.

A poor but honest man wins great wealth, and the hand of a beautiful princess, after facing a series of exciting trials in the tunnels and catacombs...

Showing the interior view of the hut in which Dreyfus is confined. The scene takes place at night, showing the moon through the window of the cell....

An officer calls his sailors to the deck. They assemble around the canon while the officer scans the horizon. They all turn in the direction of the...

Four black minstrels turn into white clowns and back again when they hit or kick each other.