Georges Méliès Movies

A good shepherdess is persecuted by an evil, tantrum-throwing princess. A good fairy decides to intervene, and dishes out quite a bit of retribution.

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 peddler of "the best glue" sets up his outdoor stall. A crowd gathers for a demonstration. As he gives his pitch, two observant cops decide drive...

A magician transforms a woman into a portrait of herself, then restores her to life.

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

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

A movie fragment depicting an archaeological explorer entering a standing sarcophagus.

In a room filled with jugglers' properties of enormous size a prestidigitateur dressed in eccentric costume enters with his assistant. The servant,...

Two cooks fight, one pushing the other into a barrel and pouring a saucepan of liquid over his head. 10 second fragment available in flipbook format,...

A magician blows some big bubbles and makes heads of women appear inside them.

A crazy, rude musician gets some supernatural comeuppance.

1897, directed by Georges Melies.

Short film about a magician.

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

An adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy.

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

The German legend of a scholar's unholy pact with the Devil would have been very familiar to most moviegoers (at least European ones), so Georges...

The Flicker Alley DVD "Georges Méliès: Encore New Discoveries (1896-1911)" misidentified a partial hand-colored print of the 1906 film...

A man attempts to engender a transformation of a giant worm into a butterfly.

A kickboxing movie. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu...