Genres
147 films in this collection
Collection no. #13153 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Refused a gift, a witch places a spell on the village well. An everyday meeting place becomes the source of magical disturbances, testing the people…
Collection no. #13162 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A thief attempts to steal bags of money from Satan's chest, only to discover that the treasure and its container have lives of their own.…
Collection no. #13232 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An alchemist falls asleep beside his apparatus and encounters a succession of disturbing transformations. A serpent, a mocking figure and monstrous…
Collection no. #13261 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A flute-playing man attracts a giant caterpillar and watches it emerge from a cocoon as a butterfly woman. His attempt to possess the figure brings…
Collection no. #13272 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A sleeping ruler is disturbed by a butterfly and drawn into a world of shifting scenery. Moving furniture, threatening creatures and dancing figures…
Collection no. #13292 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An accused woman and her executioner become the central figures of a supernatural spectacle set during the Inquisition. The historical setting…
Collection no. #135611 minPercy Stow
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Exiled with his daughter, Prospero uses magic to control life on an island and summon the people who wronged him. A shipwreck brings Ferdinand into…
Collection no. #13582 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician produces rabbits and assistants from a large trunk, then uses it to exchange people and identities. The container repeatedly changes what…
Collection no. #13592 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An executioner's display becomes a trick-film spectacle in which severed heads remain disturbingly active. Méliès plays the central role, combining a…
Collection no. #13806 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Faust and Mephistopheles advance through an infernal world of demons and changing scenery. Their journey unfolds as a succession of theatrical…
Collection no. #13832 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician transforms a skeleton into a woman, then reverses the illusion as his surroundings begin to move. Levitating furniture and multiplying…
Collection no. #13843 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Méliès appears as a magician in a spectacle of transformations, fire and flowing water. Human figures and an enlarged head become elements in an…
Collection no. #13853 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A musketeer becomes the centre of a display in which a circular opening frames an enlarged face. Magical appearances and transformations turn the…
Collection no. #13872 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An inventor celebrates his design for a new airship, then falls asleep beneath the plans. His dream sends the craft into a fantastic sky, where…
Collection no. #13893 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A fan maker presents an impossible creation whose decoration becomes a group of living women. The expanding display combines human figures and…
Collection no. #13902 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A traveller tries to read at an inn, but his candle begins moving and growing beyond control. An attractive apparition emerges from the resulting…
Collection no. #13912 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An artist draws a succession of faces and transforms himself to match them. Wigs, whiskers and costumes create a rapid sequence of characters before…
Collection no. #13923 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A king orders an elderly sorcerer to be tortured. The prisoner tries to win mercy with a magical performance, but when the monarch remains unmoved,…