Georges Méliès Movies

A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.

A magician explores two halves of his self: The Dwarf and the Giant.

Two impish clowns construct a magic lantern. They prop it up at an angle, and use it to project pictures onto a wall. When the picture show ends,...

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

The setting of this fantastic scene represents the hall of an old chateau in which a miser has locked up seven large bags containing his wealth....

The film begins with a grandmother reading a story to a small child before tucking them into bed. No sooner has the mite fallen asleep than they...

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...

A reenactment of a scene inside Devil's Island prison.

Méliès appears as a court jester (a “triboulet” in French). He pulls 18th century noblemen out of a trunk and arranges them...

A traveller is shown to a room in an inn. After a brief dispute with the hostess and a porter, he is left to himself. But strange things begin to...

Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.

A magician along with three doppelgangers perform an elaborate balancing act.

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

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

Showing the interior view of the hut in which Dreyfus is confined. The scene takes place at night, showing the moon through the window of the cell....

A man misses his train due to his clothes turning into other types of clothes.

A painter boards a train and puts his paintings in the windows so that they look like passengers.

The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal. A clown appears and sticks a clay arm and...

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 magician produces a living portrait of himself.