Georges Méliès Movies

A human skeleton is placed upon a table by an attendant. When the attendant leaves the room the skeleton begins kicking his legs and throwing his...

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

A group of people take roller skating too far.

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

A knight performs several magic tricks with a disembodied head materialized from a chalkboard drawing.

A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the...

The setting of this fantastic scene represents the hall of an old chateau in which a miser has locked up seven large bags containing his wealth....

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...

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

An adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy.

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...

Shows hobbies of people who do an ordinary job in the day. Made for New York Fair.

A wizard sleeps at a table in his well-appointed sitting room. From a drawer in the table, a snake appears.

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

Noted for the first use of time-lapse in a motion picture.

A good shepherdess is persecuted by an evil, tantrum-throwing princess. A good fairy decides to intervene, and dishes out quite a bit of retribution.

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...

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

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...

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