Georges Méliès Movies

Not much of a plot. A couple is menaced by some sort of bizarre religious cult. Then they're saved.

A magician makes a woman appear and disappear.

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

Robert Macaire (Chevalier Macaire) was a noted criminal and assassin who appears in French plays. His name is renowned in French culture as that of...

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

Pierrot goes to the house of his love to serenade her, but her father kicks him out. Soon the moon and its goddess Diana come towards the man and...

A woman dances - preserved in flipbook form.

A magician produces a living portrait of himself.

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...

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...

The staff of an inn play a cruel trick on a guest.

"The picture shows the Devil working at a fire. Two cavaliers appear, and the Devil takes the form of a seer, old, bent and wrinkled. Then he...

At the beginning of the scene Romeo in his gondola sings to Juliet a sentimental song, then goes away. Hardly has he departed when the colonnade...

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

The scene takes place in front of a barrack, where a young soldier is on duty --most laughable and comical

This picture depicts the eruption of the volcano by which over 30,000 souls were hurled into eternity. The numerous explosions which took place...

Two men in a cave perform magic.

An incident of the Franco-Prussian War. It shows the bombardment of a house at Bazeille. It is the animated reproduction of de Neuville's celebrated...

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...