Movies

This film from George Melies is sadly one that's only available in fragments. The film starts off with a title card stating that a drunk man has just...

A box of valued jewels is placed inside the tomb of Delphi. A thief breaks into the tomb and steals it, but soon the ghost of Delphi appears and puts...

The scene takes place in front of a barrack, where a young soldier is on duty --most laughable and comical

A man gets cajoled into working as a sideshow wrestler.

A group of people watches a guignol (the French version of a Punch and Judy show). Outtake from a longer, now lost, film.

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

A young woman stumbles across a cave that is populated by the spirits and skeletons of people who died there under mysterious circumstances.

After an evening of excessive wining and dining Baron Munchausen must be helped to bed by his servants. Once asleep, he has bizarre and frightening...

A section of the port Haliquen (Quiberon) Bretagne, at night where Dreyfus was landed by French marines, and officers after his transport from...

The Brahmin, Iftikar, who enjoys a great reputation in India, has determined to create something miraculous which will place the seal upon his...

One fine day at a barbershop that has stupid staff and very rude customers.

Two men in a cave perform magic.

The Merchant, the Farrier, and the Roman accompany a mysterious woman into a magical cave full of terrors and wonders.

Melies second attempt at telling the story of Faust. This time out Faust and his love Marguerite are sentenced to Hell where they are showed the...

As scene as pleasing as incomprehensible. A juggler summons two chairs, which come to the stage jumping and twirling around. Across the back of these...

A woman slips into her bed with the help of her servant. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook...

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

This shows a prince entering upon the stage of the King's private theatre. He is about to do a few mystifying tricks for the amusement of the court.

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

An artist attempts to touch his model who is playing Venus. Later remade in 1900. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on...