Georges Méliès Movies

A woman arrives home after the ball. Her servant helps her undress and bathe.

The extraordinary life of cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón.

Lost in the streets of Paris, Georges Méliès is looking everywhere for the Salle Pleyel. On the wall he sees an enormous Gala poster...

A walk through the life and work of the brilliant French filmmaker Georges Méliès (1861-1938), pioneer of special and visual effects.

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

There's a chemistry lab, in which one or two people ingest the wrong drug -- apparently -- and have a seriously bad trip. Then there's this wizard in...

Surviving fragment of a longer film. A magician makes a butterfly woman appear, and a woman in a star. Exhausted, the magician falls asleep and the...

Faust and his love Marguerite are sentenced to Hell where they are showed the torture that awaits.

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

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

Gugusse, a clown, is both astounded and bewildered upon seeing the mechanical movements of an automaton.

As scene as pleasing as incomprehensible. A juggler summons two chairs, which come to the stage jumping and twirling around. Across the back of these...

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...

A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair,...

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

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

Mephistopheles demands that Faust kill Marguerite.

Shows hobbies of people who do an ordinary job in the day. Made for New York Fair.

A science fantasy film that deals with an extraordinary race to the north pole by rival parties of balloonists. Based on the novel "The Adventures of...

Two travellers are tormented by Satan from inn to inn and eventually experience a buggy ride through the heavens courtesy of the Devil before he...