Georges Méliès Movies

Pluto, having seen the earth, comes back home amazed at the success of that well-known dance, the "cake-walk." He has brought back with him two noted...

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

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

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...

A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.

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

A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.

Three friends are playing cards in a beer garden. One of them orders drinks. The waitress comes back with a bottle of wine and three glasses on a...

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

The Flicker Alley DVD "Georges Méliès: Encore New Discoveries (1896-1911)" misidentified a partial hand-colored print of the 1906 film...

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 soldier stands guard at a sentry box and leaves it unprotected for a moment, a moment that two men take advantage of to put up posters where it is...

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

A traveller is shown to a room in an inn. After a brief dispute with the hostess and a porter, he is left to himself. But strange things begin to...

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...

Surviving fragment of a longer film. A magician makes a butterfly woman appear, and a woman in a star. Exhausted, the magician falls asleep and the...

A magician does tricks with the aid of his assistant, the Human Pump.

King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.

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 film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.