Georges Méliès Movies

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

Showing Pygmalion at work in his studio on the statue of Galatea, who, on being completed, comes to life. He attempts to clasp her to his arms, when...

The film reproduces a magic act Méliès performed at his Paris theater-of-illusions, the Théâtre Robert-Houdin. Conjuring...

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...

Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.

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

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

With godly entrapments, Zeus appears on the horizon, engages Hermes as an audience, and tries to throw some thunderbolts. They fizzle. Hephaestus...

A monkey wreaks havoc on a doctor.

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

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...

Characters from a large magic book come to life.

An episodic narrative displaying examples of humankind's brutality, from the story of Cain and Abel through the Hague Convention of 1907.

A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.

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

Mephistopheles demands that Faust kill Marguerite.

A bum accidentally gets himself sewn up inside a mattress.

Lost comedy film from Georges Méliès.

Short film about a magician.

A decapitated cook wreaks havoc on the restaurant proprietor.