Movies

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...

Pierrot goes to the house of his love to serenade her, but her father kicks him out. Soon the moon and its goddess Diana come towards the man and...

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).

A magician blows some big bubbles and makes heads of women appear inside them.

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

Another short of Georges.

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

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.

A lost film directed by Georges Melies

A medieval magician performs a magic show involving a long ornate trunk in which he makes his assistants appear, disappear, and transform into other...

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...

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...

Another magic short of Méliès.

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

This Georges Melies film is one of several to appear in only a fragment form. The film opens up with a title card explaining what happens in the...

Georges Melies' film has a new guy showing up in a store on his first day and he obviously just doesn't fit in as he makes one mistake after another.

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

Here we have an old scholar/alchemist brooding over a book, challenged by the devil, and going through the familiar sorcery to create a woman by...

There's a scene in a village, then there's a scene out in the wilderness with what appear to be gods, and a giant crab, and a giant frog... then...