Georges Méliès Movies

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...

A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.

The film, a parody of the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, follows a fisherman, Yves, who dreams of traveling by submarine...

Two crooks throw a lady off a roof, and a hapless policeman tries to capture them.

In this scene is shown a magician behind an ordinary table, upon which he suddenly and mysteriously causes to appear a large box, into which he...

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

Characters from a large magic book come to life.

A soldier stands guard at a sentry box and leaves it unprotected for a moment, a moment that two men take advantage of to put up posters where it is...

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

In a public place in Constantinople at the corner of a bazaar, the executioner is seated upon a stone and is resting from his daily labors while...

A weary clock-maker dozes off in a chair. While he is asleep, three women suddenly appear in the midst of his shop. They proceed to show the sleeping...

An Egyptian prince has lost his beloved wife and he has sought a dervish who dwells at the base of the sphinx.

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...

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...

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

A bum accidentally gets himself sewn up inside a mattress.

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

The scene is similar to that seen at Coney Island, where a number of shows are constantly going on.

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

An officer calls his sailors to the deck. They assemble around the canon while the officer scans the horizon. They all turn in the direction of the...