Georges Méliès Movies

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...

As a conjurer awaits an audience, a procession announces the arrival of a royal representative, carried in a sedan chair, to see him. The conjurer...

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

A poor family in a rundown house where snow falls through the broken roof, there's no coal to heat the pathetic little stove, mother is sick, father...

A magician along with three doppelgangers perform an elaborate balancing act.

Pluto, having seen the earth, comes back home amazed at the success of that well-known dance, the "cake-walk." He has brought back with him two noted...

Very much a slapstick chase in the mode of the period, as Victorine's boyfriend escapes from the kitchen and is pursued on rooftop by his...

A young woman stumbles across a cave that is populated by the spirits and skeletons of people who died there under mysterious circumstances.

A sorcerer turns a small egg into a bigger one and keeps repeating this trick until the egg is large enough to do other things including delivering...

A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.

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...

Doctors blow to pieces a patient in a hydrotherapy machine and re-assemble him.

Shows hobbies of people who do an ordinary job in the day. Made for New York Fair.

A painter boards a train and puts his paintings in the windows so that they look like passengers.

A woman arrives home after the ball. Her servant helps her undress and bathe.

Georges Méliès' adaptation of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" is most distinguished, today, for being a color film of the classic...

A decapitated cook wreaks havoc on the restaurant proprietor.

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...

A young boy's adventure takes him to the domain of the Genie of the Cathedral Bell, where he finds a fortune to enrich his family. The film is...