Georges Méliès Movies

A family sits down to enjoy a meal that ends up being fraught with complications.

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...

A combination gambling den and bawdy house is set up so that croupiers, patrons, prostitutes, and the owner can quickly change it all into a...

With godly entrapments, Zeus appears on the horizon, engages Hermes as an audience, and tries to throw some thunderbolts. They fizzle. Hephaestus...

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

The opening title card explains that a painter has just finished his work when his assistant comes in and accidentally drinks varnish. The film then...

In this subject a "comique eccentric" enters the drawing room inhabited by spirits. He tries to take off his coat and hat, but these garments return...

A conjurer (along with two duplicates) conjure up (and then cause to vanish) a beautiful woman head-first.

Characters from a large magic book come to life.

In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the...

The opium fiend is seen in a den, puffing on this terrible narcotic. He then falls fast asleep and dreams that he is at home with his wife. He asks...

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...

Georges Melies the magician. Melies removes his own head, puts it in a glass box on a stool, then grows another one. Melies lights up a cigarette and...

A decapitated cook wreaks havoc on the restaurant proprietor.

Showing the interior view of the hut in which Dreyfus is confined. The scene takes place at night, showing the moon through the window of the cell....

A Jew who mocked Jesus on the cross is visited by a devil and an angel.

An artist attempts to touch his model who is playing Venus. Later remade in 1900. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on...

Two crooks throw a lady off a roof, and a hapless policeman tries to capture them.

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

A man needs to get to Monte Carlo from Paris, but finds out that a train will take 17 hours to get there. He decides to go with a man with a special...