Georges Méliès Movies

The picture opens with the Sultan lying down to rest on his luxurious cushioned couch. The scene changes to the grounds around the palace.

A man rents an apartment and furnishes it in remarkable fashion.

The background of this picture represents a scene along the beautiful river Seine in Paris. A gentleman enters, and taking a blackboard from the side...

A priest is officiating at a convent, when suddenly he is transformed into the devil, who frightens away the nuns and turns the place into...

The film begins with a grandmother reading a story to a small child (played by Georges Méliès's son, André) before tucking him...

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

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

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...

A painter boards a train and puts his paintings in the windows so that they look like passengers.

Jack is taken on a sea-snail to the lair of a fairy, who magically turns him into a prince. He thoroughly enjoys the dancing and fawning of the...

A movie fragment depicting an archaeological explorer entering a standing sarcophagus.

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

John, who loves the bottle a little too much, is one of a group of sightseers. Too drunk to follow the party, the reeling drunkard remains on the...

A man takes off his clothes in preparation for bed, only for new clothes to spontaneously generate, leading to comical consternation.

A cook has his hands full with three mischievous devils, who pop in and out of his kitchen.

A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.

A magician explores two halves of his self: The Dwarf and the Giant.

Mephistopheles demands that Faust kill Marguerite.

The first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to the then contemporaneous Dreyfus affair in which a Jewish military officer...

The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.