Filmmaking

Melies

AI-powered filmmaking suite — generate coherent movies with scripts, visuals, sound, and consistent characters.

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Quick facts
What is it	AI-powered filmmaking suite — generate coherent movies with scripts, visuals, sound, and consistent characters.
Pricing	Paid — from $29/mo
Free tier	No
Platform	Web Application
API	Yes
Best for	creating short films and documentaries, producing social media video content
Domain registered	2023

Data updated Aug. 1, 2026

What does Melies do?

Melies is an all-in-one AI filmmaking platform designed to transform your ideas into complete videos. It handles the entire creative pipeline, generating not just video clips, but full scripts, character designs, sound effects, and music. You can create short films, documentaries, reels, and more, all from a single prompt or idea. It’s like having a full production studio powered by AI.

The tool stands out by integrating a suite of best-in-class AI models into one coherent workflow. It uses OpenAI (GPT) and Anthropic (Claude) for scriptwriting and story development, Luma Dream Machine and Runway for image-to-video generation, ElevenLabs for voice synthesis, and Meta Music Gen for scoring. A key feature is its focus on character consistency, allowing you to create AI actors with unique faces and voices that remain uniform across all your generated scenes.

This is a dream tool for indie filmmakers, content creators, and storytellers who lack a massive budget or a full production team. It’s perfect for quickly prototyping film ideas, creating engaging short-form content for social media, or producing animated shorts without needing expertise in animation, cinematography, or sound design.

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Key features

What makes it stand out

Generates complete movie assets including script, video, music, and sound effects

Maintains character consistency with unique AI-generated faces and voices

Integrates top AI models like GPT, Claude, Luma, Runway, and ElevenLabs

AI-assisted story writing to help craft compelling narratives

All-in-one editor to manage your entire AI filmmaking project

Who is Melies for?

Who benefits most from this tool

creating short films and documentaries

producing social media video content

prototyping video concepts before production

Pricing

Indie

$29.0/month

2,500 credits
≈ 1 short film estimated films
5 film duration minutes
Character Bible
AI Screenwriting
AI Images, Videos and Sounds
AI Video Editing

Filmmaker

$99.0/month

10,000 credits
≈ 3 short films or 1 long film estimated films
15 film duration minutes
Character Bible
AI Screenwriting
AI Images, Videos and Sounds
AI Video Editing

Studio

$390.0/month

50,000 credits
≈ 10+ short/long films estimated films
180 film duration minutes
Character Bible
AI Screenwriting
AI Images, Videos and Sounds
AI Video Editing

Trust & presence

Domain Domain registered 2023

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