Georges Méliès Movies

A green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron.

A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.

St. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!

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

A man takes off his clothes in preparation for bed, only for new clothes to spontaneously generate, leading to comical consternation.

In this subject a "comique eccentric" enters the drawing room inhabited by spirits. He tries to take off his coat and hat, but these garments return...

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

The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.

A weary traveler stops at an inn along the way to get a good night's sleep, but his rest is interrupted by odd happenings when he gets to his...

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...

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

Georges Méliès' adaptation of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" is most distinguished, today, for being a color film of the classic...

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

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

A magician performs a series of magic tricks involving a boy and a box.

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…

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 poor but honest man wins great wealth, and the hand of a beautiful princess, after facing a series of exciting trials in the tunnels and catacombs...

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...