Georges Méliès Movies

Two couples, one old and one young, have blind dates at the same meeting place. The arrival of the wrong people at different times makes a fun...

In the interior of a small Russian cottage dwells a peasant with the reputation of being able to foretell future events. Alternatively, a Japanese...

Another magic short of Méliès.

Showing the interior of a dining room of a modest cottage, whereto enter a young couple to partake in their meal, which is being served up by the...

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...

Three burglars invade a house, kill two people, and blind a third person, a woman. The police arrest the wrong man.

King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.

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

"The Bath" is a flip book remake of After the Ball (Après le Bal) made in the late 1800s.

Two bakers enjoy a break from work by drinking wine and playing cards. Soon enough, they're intoxicated and enter into a brawl with messy and fun...

A sorceress conjures up a bevy of beauties for a bachelor to peruse.

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

A colonel in the military receives an unorthodox shower, an unorthodox shower indeed!

The entire story of Christmastide is here depicted. The scene opens in a large boudoir of an apparently wealthy man's home. His children, assisted by...

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

"The picture shows the Devil working at a fire. Two cavaliers appear, and the Devil takes the form of a seer, old, bent and wrinkled. Then he...

Shows a drunkard in a road man's cell, raving. He sleeps and dreams that he has a huge flask before him; this he attempts to grasp, but awakens,...

It is the birthday of Uncle Rube, a foxy old peasant who has gathered at his table his family and his help, among whom is a sleepy farmhand, a boy...

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...

A soldier is talking to a woman while sitting on a bench, a man sits on it, and the soldier stands up, causing the bench to tip over and the man...