Georges Méliès Movies

Georges Méliès's first attempt at Cinderella was in 1899. That film was extraordinary then for having multiple scenes and a semblance...

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

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

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...

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...

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

An actor tries to get to a show on time. Many mishaps along the way.

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

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...

Another magic short of Méliès.

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 series of fantastical wrestling matches.

A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.

A magician produces a living portrait of himself.

A man has an encounter with several spooky apparitions in a castle that is evidently owned by the Devil.

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

This Georges Melies film is one of several to appear in only a fragment form. The film opens up with a title card explaining what happens in the...

An Egyptian prince has lost his beloved wife and he has sought a dervish who dwells at the base of the sphinx.

A walk through the life and work of the brilliant French filmmaker Georges Méliès (1861-1938), pioneer of special and visual effects.

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...