Georges Méliès Movies

A magician blows some big bubbles and makes heads of women appear inside them.

Noted for the first use of time-lapse in a motion picture.

Maître Labori is seen approaching the bridge of Rennes in company with Colonel Picquart and M. Gast, Mayor of Rennes. They notice that they are...

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

In this film, we show the interior of a doctor's office. A patient enters, and judging from the expression on his face, he is in great pain. The...

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

A group of people take roller skating too far.

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

The German legend of a scholar's unholy pact with the Devil would have been very familiar to most moviegoers (at least European ones), so Georges...

A young boy's adventure takes him to the domain of the Genie of the Cathedral Bell, where he finds a fortune to enrich his family. The film is...

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.

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

“This is an absolutely new and extraordinary subject. A juggler takes in succession about a dozen eggs out of his servant's mouth. He breaks...

At the beginning of the scene Romeo in his gondola sings to Juliet a sentimental song, then goes away. Hardly has he departed when the colonnade...

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

A knight performs several magic tricks with a disembodied head materialized from a chalkboard drawing.

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

King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.

Three military men, seen inside a fortification, are firing on an unseen enemy force. The call for reinforcements but ladders appear signalling the...

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...