Georges Méliès Movies

The title is vital, since the bulk of the action consists of a well-dressed man magically producing a series of items to furnish a bare room,...

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...

A crazy, rude musician gets some supernatural comeuppance.

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

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...

Only 8 surviving seconds of a man getting great pleasure from smoking a cigar.

A boy is led into the frame by two nursemaids who give him a big ball to play with. For the remainder of the film heads appear and disappear, stage...

A bearded man hangs up a wreath and, like any good magician, waves his hands inside of it and under it to show us it's only a wreath…

One of the last films Georges Méliès made. By now, he was under contract for his former rival Pathé, where he made a few of his...

A juggler enters upon the scene, picks up a skull, throws it into the air, catches it in his hands, where it is transformed into a handkerchief. The...

Another magic short of Méliès.

In a public place in Constantinople at the corner of a bazaar, the executioner is seated upon a stone and is resting from his daily labors while...

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

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...

Georges Méliès adaptation of Robinson Crusoe, the first film adaptation of the story. Filmed in black & white, Méliès...

Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.

The plot follows King Edward VII and President Armand Fallières dreaming of building a tunnel under the English Channel.

This is a moving picture that moves. Positively the greatest magical picture ever offered. A Hindoo magician appears and dances for the entertainment...

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....

A colonel in the military receives an unorthodox shower, an unorthodox shower indeed!