Georges Méliès Movies

The opium fiend is seen in a den, puffing on this terrible narcotic. He then falls fast asleep and dreams that he is at home with his wife. He asks...

A magic show.

Here we have an old scholar/alchemist brooding over a book, challenged by the devil, and going through the familiar sorcery to create a woman by...

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...

Georges Melies the magician. Melies removes his own head, puts it in a glass box on a stool, then grows another one. Melies lights up a cigarette and...

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...

There's a scene in a village, then there's a scene out in the wilderness with what appear to be gods, and a giant crab, and a giant frog... then...

With the cameraman atop a moving train car the viewer is given a one minute glimpse of a French urban area.

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

As a conjurer awaits an audience, a procession announces the arrival of a royal representative, carried in a sedan chair, to see him. The conjurer...

A crazy, rude musician gets some supernatural comeuppance.

Georges Méliès's first attempt at Cinderella was in 1899. That film was extraordinary then for having multiple scenes and a semblance...

Du Paty de Clam requests Captain Dreyfus to write as he dictates for the purpose of ascertaining whether his handwriting conforms to that of the...

Showing the interior view of the hut in which Dreyfus is confined. The scene takes place at night, showing the moon through the window of the cell....

Alone in his room at an inn, a lustful old man is haunted by spirits.

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

A trio of prankish boarders wreak havoc on their landlady and an intervening policeman.

The film begins with a grandmother reading a story to a small child before tucking them into bed. No sooner has the mite fallen asleep than they...

In a corner of the garden we see an ornamental fountain. An old professor comes along, looking for a nice spot where he can teach his pupils. Finding...

Two crooks throw a lady off a roof, and a hapless policeman tries to capture them.