Georges Méliès Movies

Two men in a cave perform magic.

Two travellers are tormented by Satan from inn to inn and eventually experience a buggy ride through the heavens courtesy of the Devil before he...

A magician transforms a woman into a portrait of herself, then restores her to life.

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

Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War), surrounded by...

There's a scene in a village, then there's a scene out in the wilderness with what appear to be gods, and a giant crab, and a giant frog... then...

Into a photography studio full of large fantastic machines steps an elderly couple. The bearded proprietor explains the equipment and gives them a...

"The Bath" is a flip book remake of After the Ball (Après le Bal) made in the late 1800s.

An indebted French family flees its creditors in this comic picaresque, one of pioneering French director George Méliès last films.

An episodic narrative displaying examples of humankind's brutality, from the story of Cain and Abel through the Hague Convention of 1907.

Four black minstrels turn into white clowns and back again when they hit or kick each other.

A magician produces a living portrait of himself.

This 10 second fragment is available in flipbook format, otherwise lost.

The Merchant, the Farrier, and the Roman accompany a mysterious woman into a magical cave full of terrors and wonders.

The Jewish ex-officer Alfred Dreyfus's degradation. He stands in a military quadrant and the Adjutant proceeds to tear off his medals; Dreyfus is...

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

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

Two guards bring a sorcerer into the hall of a palace of the time of the Middle Ages. The king who follows them orders the sorcerer to be chained and...

Two couples, one old and one young, have blind dates at the same meeting place. The arrival of the wrong people at different times makes a fun...

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...