Restored 4K
Metropolis
Lang’s great city symphony, rebuilt from the complete Buenos Aires restoration — 25 minutes of footage lost for eight decades, returned to the cut.
Watch the restorationThe golden age · restored
Cinema as it was
meant to be seen.
The great films of 1920–1975, back on the screen — restored frame by frame, presented in their true theatrical cut, with original scores and honest program notes. No ads. No AI upscaling. Just the film.
Tonight at the Grand Hall
The Third Man · 21:00
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New this week
Tonight’s features
Three restorations our projectionists are proudest of — each with the source and the treatment documented, nothing hidden.
Technicolor regrade
Black Narcissus
Technicolor at its most intoxicating, regraded from the original three-strip negatives.
Venice 1951 premiere cut
Rashomon
The film that taught cinema to doubt. Grain intact, silences preserved.
From nitrate to 4K
Restoration is a form of respect.
Every film in our catalogue passes through the same four rooms of our lab. The work is manual, slow, and deliberately invisible.
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Scan
Negatives and fine-grain masters are scanned at 4K and 8K, frame by frame, on wet-gate scanners that read through surface damage.
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Restore
Tears, dirt and flicker are repaired by hand. Where material is lost, the program note says so. No invented detail. No AI.
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Grade
Colour is graded against period references — Technicolor charts, release prints, the chemists’ own notes. Never a modern look.
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Project
We present the theatrical cut with the original score and silence intact. The film you watch is the film that premiered.
Read the restoration diaries
A new diary every Friday — with stills, sources and mistakes.
Choose your seat
Membership that behaves like a cinema.
Three tiers, no contracts, no ads. Cancel at any time — your seat is yours until the end of the billing month.
Balcony
€9/ month
For the curious — the full catalogue, beautifully presented.
- Catalogue access in HD
- One stream at a time
- Watchlist & personal notes
Stalls
€15/ month
For the devoted — the true theatrical experience, in 4K.
- All 4K restorations
- Three streams, family friendly
- Film Club access
- Original scores & program notes
Loge
€25/ month
For the connoisseur — everything, plus the projection booth.
- Everything in Stalls
- Early premieres
- Quarterly 35mm screening nights
- The projectionist’s letters
- Guest curator evenings
Small print
Asked at the box office
Never. Every restoration is manual frame-by-frame work from the best surviving elements. Where material is missing, we say so in the program notes — we do not invent detail.
The original theatrical soundtrack whenever it survives, plus stereo remixes where the original is lost. The source is listed for every film.
Any modern browser, plus apps for TV, tablet and phone. Up to three concurrent streams on Stalls and Loge.
Yes. No contracts, no lock-in — your seat is yours until the end of the billing month, then you walk out clean.
The Film Club
See it together.
Every Friday we screen one film in the Grand Hall online room. Watch together, then talk it through with our curators and the rest of the club.
21
August
Black Narcissus · Friday 21:00
Grand Hall online room — open to all Stalls and Loge members.
Noticeboard
What they say
The only streaming house that treats film as film — restored with reverence, presented without clutter.Revue Lumière
MÉLIES doesn’t sell content. It curates a century of cinema like a projectionist who has seen everything.The Reel Review
Frame-by-frame restoration, honest program notes, zero autoplay. A love letter to the movie theatre.Projection Quarterly
The Marquee Letter
One essential film every Friday, chosen by our projectionists — with program notes, rare stills, and the week’s restoration diary. No trailers, no noise.