Georges Méliès Movies

A monkey wreaks havoc on a doctor.

The opium fiend is seen in a den, puffing on this terrible narcotic. He then falls fast asleep and dreams that he is at home with his wife. He asks...

A man gets cajoled into working as a sideshow wrestler.

A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.

Mephistopheles demands that Faust kill Marguerite.

"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...

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...

A woman climbs out of bed and lifts her nightdress to search for a flea. Reconstructed from a late 1800s flip book

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

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

Two men in a cave perform magic.

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...

John, who loves the bottle a little too much, is one of a group of sightseers. Too drunk to follow the party, the reeling drunkard remains on the...

King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.

An indebted French family flees its creditors in this comic picaresque, one of pioneering French director George Méliès last films.

William Shakespeare, struggling to write the assassination scene for his play Julius Caesar, settles into an armchair and begins to daydream the...

Very much a slapstick chase in the mode of the period, as Victorine's boyfriend escapes from the kitchen and is pursued on rooftop by his...

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

Another magic short of Méliès.

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...