Georges Méliès Movies

The Bogie Man's cave is one of the many triumphs of set design for Georges Méliès. More unusual for the pioneering French director is...

If a violin was actually broken here we don't get to see it. Sadly this is one of many Georges Melies films that are only available in a fragment....

During an orgy, Emperor Justinian orders three people to be torched alive.

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.

Magic tricks in a medieval setting.

French short about King Francis I and his jester Triboulet, who form the basis for Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse (and Verdi's opera Rigoletto).

Partially lost film. One of the kings of ancient Thebes enters the abode of an astrologer and demands that he be told his future. The former utterly...

Fun film from French master Georges Melies has a couple burglar's breaking into a man's home and having to hide when that man returns. Instead of a...

A man is murdered and the killer brought to justice by guillotine. This film is partly lost.

A bum accidentally gets himself sewn up inside a mattress.

A group of people watches a guignol (the French version of a Punch and Judy show). Outtake from a longer, now lost, film.

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

An inquisitor and two of his henchmen burn a woman at the stake. An angel intervenes.

A magic trick is performed with a long plank with two pots built into it, both with holes in the bottom. Pretty girls are part of the magic.

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...

A very simple gag film as a young lady substitutes herself for a dummy in order to play a practical joke on an artist.

Méliès appears as a court jester (a “triboulet” in French). He pulls 18th century noblemen out of a trunk and arranges them...

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

A magic show.

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