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Public Domain Movies
84
8.1
/60185/
77
/2406/
78
/1935/
4.0
/268875/
100
/14/
90
/650/

A Trip to the Moon (1902)
Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once on the lunar surface, the bold explorers face the many perils hidden in the caves of the mysterious planet.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
76
67
7.4
/4352/
69
/131/
72
/199/
3.7
/10130/
91
/328/

The Impossible Voyage (1904)
Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.
poster
HBO Max
73
62
7.5
/4461/
72
/141/
72
/177/
3.8
/17051/

The Four Troublesome Heads (1898)
One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and throwing it in the air, it appears on the table opposite another head, and both detached heads sing in unison. The conjurer then removes it a third time. You then see all three of his heads, which are exact duplicates, upon the table at one time, while the conjurer again stands before the audience with his head perfectly intact, singing in unison with the three heads upon the table. He closes the picture by bowing himself from the stage.
poster
68
53
6.8
/2066/
61
/56/
63
/67/
3.4
/2836/
85
/79/

Bluebeard (1901)
A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.
poster
72
52
7.3
/2057/
71
/88/
69
/88/
3.9
/7956/

The Kingdom of the Fairies (1903)
At the royal court, a prince is presenting the princess whom he is pledged to marry when a witch suddenly appears. Though driven off, the witch soon returns, summons some of her servants, and carries off the princess. A rescue party is quickly organized, but the unfortunate captive has been taken to a strange, forbidding realm, from where it will be impossible to rescue her without some special help.
poster
68
48
7.2
/2127/
63
/56/
67
/67/
3.6
/3091/

The Diabolic Tenant (1909)
A man rents an apartment and furnishes it in remarkable fashion.
poster
71
47
6.7
/946/
63
/34/
64
/52/
3.5
/1770/
91
/328/

Going to Bed Under Difficulties (1900)
A man takes off his clothes in preparation for bed, only for new clothes to spontaneously generate, leading to comical consternation.
poster
65
46
6.7
/2048/
59
/68/
66
/88/
3.5
/2796/

The Melomaniac (1903)
The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.
poster
67
45
6.6
/1685/
65
/58/
69
/64/
3.5
/6145/

Joan of Arc (1900)
A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.
poster
64
42
6.4
/1499/
63
/53/
63
/74/
3.5
/5324/

The Devil in a Convent (1899)
A priest is officiating at a convent, when suddenly he is transformed into the devil, who frightens away the nuns and turns the place into pandemonium.
poster
61
41
6.4
/1567/
52
/40/
59
/52/
3.4
/2669/

The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon (1907)
In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the workings of an unstable and inscrutable universe. At a medieval school, an old astronomer begins to teach a class of young men, all armed with telescopes, about the art of scrutinising an imminent eclipse. When a mechanical clock strikes twelve, all the young men rush to the windows and fix their telescopes on the heavens.
poster
65
39
6.8
/1357/
62
/33/
61
/51/
3.5
/1985/

The Conquest of the Pole (1912)
A science fantasy film that deals with an extraordinary race to the north pole by rival parties of balloonists. Based on the novel "The Adventures of Captain Hatteras" by Jules Verne.
poster
HBO Max
64
38
6.4
/964/
62
/41/
62
/41/
3.4
/5438/

The Witch (1906)
A penniless troubadour consults witch Carabosse about his future, but offends her by paying with a bag of sand. He evades the witch's revenge, and saves the beautiful princess.
poster
HBO Max
61
38
6.2
/1379/
59
/41/
60
/39/
3.3
/3569/

The Hilarious Posters (1906)
A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.
poster
62
38
6.2
/1152/
60
/47/
58
/58/
3.3
/4474/

The Pillar of Fire (1899)
A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the pot. After the devil works the fire with bellows, an angelic woman emerges from the pot. The devil and the pot vanish as the woman performs a dance, waving about her diaphanous sleeves until she conjures forth another fire, then she rises amongst the smoke into the air.
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Public Domain Movies
69
35
7.0
/1007/
65
/15/
65
/26/
3.6
/1346/
75
/25/

Street Angel (1937)
In old Shanghai, two sisters, a prostitute and a singer, try to escape from the local scoundrels with the help of a trumpet player and a newspaper seller.
poster
52
34
5.3
/1599/
49
/55/
51
/84/
2.7
/3387/

After the Ball (1897)
A woman arrives home after the ball. Her servant helps her undress and bathe.
poster
HBO Max
63
34
6.3
/718/
60
/44/
62
/30/
3.4
/4498/

Whimsical Illusions (1909)
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 assistant.
poster
59
31
5.9
/543/
55
/32/
57
/30/
3.3
/2449/

The Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship (1905)
An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.
poster
60
29
5.9
/812/
62
/14/
54
/46/
3.2
/1602/

The Dreyfus Affair (1899)
The first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to the then contemporaneous Dreyfus affair in which a Jewish military officer was falsely convicted of treason, and it was alleged that he was framed due to anti-semitism.
poster
61
24
6.1
/525/
52
/17/
57
/28/
3.3
/1149/

The Spider and the Butterfly (1909)
Surviving fragment of a longer film. A magician makes a butterfly woman appear, and a woman in a star. Exhausted, the magician falls asleep and the star woman turns into a spider, dragging the butterfly into her web.
poster
57
24
5.7
/549/
54
/25/
55
/22/
3.2
/1444/

Robinson Crusoe (1902)
Georges Méliès adaptation of Robinson Crusoe, the first film adaptation of the story. Filmed in black & white, Méliès would then paint the film by hand to colour it. Originally a 15 minute film, twelve and a half minutes of painted film have been found and have been restored.
poster
64
22
6.6
/570/
66
/15/
61
/27/
3.3
/779/

The Terrible Turkish Executioner (1903)
In a public place in Constantinople at the corner of a bazaar, the executioner is seated upon a stone and is resting from his daily labors while eating a crust of bread. Suddenly there come running into the place a lot of Turkish men and women preceding some Turkish policemen, who drag along four prisoners in chains. The policemen shut up the four prisoners in the pillory. Their four heads stick up through the huge plank, which is provided with four openings. One of the policemen urges the executioner to decapitate the prisoners. He accordingly seizes a mighty sabre and cuts off by a single stroke the four heads, which roll upon the ground.
poster
55
21
5.7
/551/
49
/17/
52
/27/
3.1
/1065/

Summoning the Spirits (1899)
A bearded man hangs up a wreath and, like any good magician, waves his hands inside of it and under it to show us it's only a wreath…
poster
61
21
6.3
/620/
58
/16/
59
/20/
3.3
/984/

The Hallucinations of Baron Munchausen (1911)
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 dreams.
poster
62
21
6.2
/529/
61
/16/
57
/22/
3.4
/994/

Faust in the Underworld (1903)
The German legend of a scholar's unholy pact with the Devil would have been very familiar to most moviegoers (at least European ones), so Georges Méliès' early cinematic treatment likely got away with simply offering a fancifully illustrated late episode without the earlier narrative context (however, spoken narration provides some of the latter in this restored print). Tempted by Mephistopheles with all kinds of dancing and ethereal babes, Faust is at first excited and then terrified by the sight of various demons and monsters. The painted-set designers really went hog wild on this one, depicting the (sometimes sexy) torments of subterranean Hell with in bold terms (even when ballerinas prance in the foreground). (Dennis Harvey, Fandor)
poster
60
21
5.9
/454/
57
/19/
58
/18/
3.2
/1184/

Rip's Dream (1905)
The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.
poster
58
21
5.8
/760/
57
/19/
55
/25/
3.2
/885/

The Mysterious Retort (1906)
A wizard sleeps at a table in his well-appointed sitting room. From a drawer in the table, a snake appears.
poster
53
20
5.1
/468/
51
/18/
50
/30/
2.8
/1119/

On the Roof (1897)
Two crooks throw a lady off a roof, and a hapless policeman tries to capture them.
poster
53
19
5.2
/470/
48
/16/
52
/27/
2.9
/1000/

Naval Combat in Greece (1897)
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 camera to look in the distance. At the same time the ship is hit! This scene is a filmed reconstruction of the 1897 Greek-Turkish war.
poster
58
18
5.6
/458/
55
/21/
58
/26/
3.2
/533/

A Spiritualist Photographer (1903)
A magician transforms a woman into a portrait of herself, then restores her to life.
poster
59
16
5.7
/329/
58
/13/
60
/15/
3.2
/792/

The Prolific Magical Egg (1902)
A human skeleton is placed upon a table by an attendant. When the attendant leaves the room the skeleton begins kicking his legs and throwing his arms about and suddenly turns into a magician. The magician produces an egg, performing several sleight-of-hand tricks, and places it upon the table with the small end downward. He then crudely draws a human face upon the shell, and the egg immediately begins growing larger and larger until it reaches the size of a normal head.
poster
61
16
6.2
/421/
60
/11/
58
/22/
3.3
/525/

The Inn Where No Man Rests (1903)
A traveller is shown to a room in an inn. After a brief dispute with the hostess and a porter, he is left to himself. But strange things begin to happen in his room, and before long he has created a disturbance that has everyone running to his room to find out what is going on.
poster
60
15
6.3
/393/
53
/8/
56
/20/
3.4
/516/

An Adventurous Automobile Trip (1905)
A man needs to get to Monte Carlo from Paris, but finds out that a train will take 17 hours to get there. He decides to go with a man with a special car, who claims that he can get there in just two hours. Complications ensue.
poster
55
14
5.5
/303/
46
/10/
55
/18/
3.2
/652/

Ulysses and the Giant Polyphemus (1905)
An early horror treatment of the hero's encounter with the one-eyed man-eating Cyclops.
poster
46
13
4.7
/264/
44
/9/
40
/15/
2.7
/1008/

Arrival of a Train at Vincennes Station (1896)
This lost film presumably features a train arriving at Vincennes station, eastern Paris. (Until 2020, was confused with Arrival at Joinville flipbook.)
poster
61
13
6.4
/342/
50
/6/
64
/15/
3.4
/402/

A Desperate Crime (1906)
A man is murdered and the killer brought to justice by guillotine. This film is partly lost.
poster
55
13
5.3
/355/
53
/10/
54
/19/
3.1
/505/

The Oracle of Delphi (1903)
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 a curse on him.
poster
55
13
5.5
/343/
51
/9/
55
/17/
3.1
/510/

The Microscopic Dancer (1902)
“This is an absolutely new and extraordinary subject. A juggler takes in succession about a dozen eggs out of his servant's mouth. He breaks all the eggs into a hat, and after having beaten them up after the manner of a cook, he extracts an egg as large as the hat itself. As soon as he sets this egg on the table there appears a tiny dancing girl, full of life, as big as a baby's doll, and who performs on the table some beautiful stage dances. All of a sudden she increases to the size of a ordinary woman, and jumping on the floor she delights the audience with her turns. The juggler and the dancing girl disappear in the most extraordinary way.” (Méliès Catalog)
poster
57
12
5.9
/325/
50
/10/
55
/16/
3.2
/463/

Satan in Prison (1907)
The title is vital, since the bulk of the action consists of a well-dressed man magically producing a series of items to furnish a bare room, culminating in his summoning up a charming lady to share his meal. Hearing the guards approaching, the man reverses the process, ending with a bare room when the two men enter.
poster
55
12
5.5
/310/
51
/10/
52
/14/
3.3
/569/

A Moonlight Serenade (1903)
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 offers him something better.
poster
54
12
5.5
/317/
50
/14/
52
/21/
3.1
/338/

The Doctor's Secret (1909)
Doctors blow to pieces a patient in a hydrotherapy machine and re-assemble him.
poster
58
11
5.7
/290/
55
/6/
56
/16/
3.3
/329/

Cinderella or The Glass Slipper (1912)
Georges Méliès's first attempt at Cinderella was in 1899. That film was extraordinary then for having multiple scenes and a semblance of a narrative; additionally, the use of dissolves as transitions in it influenced other filmmakers for years to do the same. Méliès was the cinema world's preeminent leader then. By 1912, however, that was no longer the case; frankly, as evidenced by this feature, his style had become dated. Moreover, Méliès had begun to adopt techniques from other filmmakers, such as direct cuts instead of dissolves, and there's even a match on action shot during the slipper trying-on scene.
poster
53
11
5.2
/315/
49
/12/
51
/20/
3.0
/273/

Sightseeing Through Whisky (1907)
John, who loves the bottle a little too much, is one of a group of sightseers. Too drunk to follow the party, the reeling drunkard remains on the site of a ruin where he starts having hallucinations.
poster
52
11
5.3
/280/
47
/11/
47
/19/
3.1
/355/

The Marvellous Wreath (1903)
A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.
poster
52
10
5.4
/247/
45
/8/
48
/13/
3.1
/529/

In the Bogie Man's Cave (1907)
The Bogie Man's cave is one of the many triumphs of set design for Georges Méliès. More unusual for the pioneering French director is the grisly turn when the monster chops up his servant for a steaming pot of stew. But the Bogie Man’s guilty conscience weighs on him, plaguing his sleep with even more fantastic visions of just deserts. (Max Goldberg, Fandor)
poster
53
9
5.3
/243/
48
/8/
51
/13/
3.1
/352/

A Mesmerian Experiment (1905)
A magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air.
poster
55
9
5.3
/253/
53
/8/
50
/12/
3.2
/326/

The Tramp and the Mattress Makers (1906)
A bum accidentally gets himself sewn up inside a mattress.


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