Georges Méliès Movies

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...

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

As scene as pleasing as incomprehensible. A juggler summons two chairs, which come to the stage jumping and twirling around. Across the back of these...

A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.

A juggler enters upon the scene, picks up a skull, throws it into the air, catches it in his hands, where it is transformed into a handkerchief. The...

Three burglars invade a house, kill two people, and blind a third person, a woman. The police arrest the wrong man.

Jack is taken on a sea-snail to the lair of a fairy, who magically turns him into a prince. He thoroughly enjoys the dancing and fawning of the...

A fine magician of the Royal Court materialises an elegant attire from a transparent glass container, and then, a refined dandy appears, as an ornate...

The interior of a trolley car. A menagerie of passengers notices a foul odour, and pinpoint the source of the stench at a cheese saleswoman. The...

A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.

A compilation of three short trick films by Georges Méliès: El melómano (1903) (The Melomaniac aka The Music Lover)(1903), El...

A magician stuffs eight of his lovely assistants into a barrel.

The entire story of Christmastide is here depicted. The scene opens in a large boudoir of an apparently wealthy man's home. His children, assisted by...

Showing the rolling sea, upon which gradually appears a cloud of mist. From this evolves the figure of Christ, who proceeds to walk on the waves. The...

A man attempts to engender a transformation of a giant worm into a butterfly.

A man rents an apartment and furnishes it in remarkable fashion.

The first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to the then contemporaneous Dreyfus affair in which a Jewish military officer...

A conjuror appears to demonstrate a lady with three heads.

One of the last films Georges Méliès made. By now, he was under contract for his former rival Pathé, where he made a few of his...

A cook has his hands full with three mischievous devils, who pop in and out of his kitchen.