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poster Sin Takes a Holiday

Sin Takes a Holiday

81mn - Romance, Comedy

Dowdy Sylvia accepts her boss' marriage proposal, even though he only asked her to avoid marriage to another woman. As a wealthy wife, Sylvia changes from ugly duckling to uninhibited swan and even contem…

poster Is Spiritualism a Fraud?: The Medium Exposed

Is Spiritualism a Fraud?: The Medium Exposed

Men expose a fake medium's tricks and take revenge.

poster Hypocrites

Hypocrites

The story of St. Gabriel, who was killed by an ignorant mob for making a nude statue representing Purity, who is also represented by a ghostly naked girl that flits through the film.

poster Chicot the Jester

Chicot the Jester

The film based on the novel of the same name by Alexandre Duma, is concerned with fraternal royal strife at the court of Henri III. Tragically caught between the millstones of history are the gallant Coun…

poster Whimsical Illusions

Whimsical Illusions

5mn - Comedy, Fantasy

In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies played the magician, and the actor Manuel played his assis…

poster Tih Minh

Tih Minh

418mn - Adventure, Crime

Jacques d'Athys, a French adventurer, returns to his home in Nice after an expedition to Indochina where he has picked up a Eurasian fiancée and a book that, unbeknownst to him, contains a coded message r…

poster Tit for Tat

Tit for Tat

Georges Melies the magician. Melies removes his own head, puts it in a glass box on a stool, then grows another one. Melies lights up a cigarette and blows smoke at his old head. The head gets payback by …

poster Vows of Deception

Vows of Deception

94mn - Short, Drama, Thriller

When a prominent lawyer is found murdered, his wife is promptly arrested and charged with the crime. She swiftly accuses her stepson, with whom she claims to be having an affair. This sheds enough reaso…

poster A Mesmerian Experiment

A Mesmerian Experiment

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

poster The Marvellous Wreath

The Marvellous Wreath

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

poster Betrayed by a Handprint

Betrayed by a Handprint

Mrs. Wharton, a dashing widow, gives a party at her beautiful villa in honor of the presentation to her of a handsome diamond necklace by her fiancé. During the evening bridge participated in by a number …

poster Le Voleur invisible

Le Voleur invisible

7mn - Crime, Fantasy

A man in a suit and cap stops in front of the display of a bookseller, finds and flips… "Invisible Man" by H. G. Wells! Fascinated by the subject, he buys the book and goes home with the intention to test…

poster Four Around the Woman

Four Around the Woman

Harry Yquem buys his beloved wife some jewelry in a place where underworld middlemen trade in fake and stolen goods. By chance, he spots a man with whom his wife had an affair in the past.

The Lie

64mn - Short, Drama, Mystery

A man who owns a diamond importing business goes out for a night on the town with his girlfriend, her brother and her brother’s fiancé. The group stops by a circus to see the act of a trapeze artist who’s…

poster The Miser

The Miser

This Georges Melies film is only available in a five-minute fragment. The film starts off with a title card setting up the events. An elderly miser keep all of his money to himself and refuses to help peo…

poster Me and Marlborough

Me and Marlborough

84mn - Comedy, Romance

A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.

poster Mademoiselle de La Seiglière

Mademoiselle de La Seiglière

87mn - Family, Drama

The Marquis de la Seiglière returns to France once the Revolution is over. His possessions, which had been sold as material properties, had been purchased by Stamply, a farmer. The latter restores them to…

poster The Lilliputian Minuet

The Lilliputian Minuet

1mn - Comedy, Fantasy

The film, of which only fragments are known to survive, features Méliès as a magician making playing-card figures come to life in miniature.

poster Buncoed Stage Johnnie

Buncoed Stage Johnnie

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 missing parts of the movie. Basically a man wants to give s…

poster Rogues' Tricks

Rogues' Tricks

4mn - Comedy, Action

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 trick film or something that he's known for, the directo…

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