Georges Méliès Movies

Doctors blow to pieces a patient in a hydrotherapy machine and re-assemble him.

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 inquisitor and two of his henchmen burn a woman at the stake. An angel intervenes.

The background of this picture represents a scene along the beautiful river Seine in Paris. A gentleman enters, and taking a blackboard from the side...

With the cameraman atop a moving train car the viewer is given a one minute glimpse of a French urban area.

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...

A reenactment of a dirigible explosion in Paris.

A clown performs various feats of magic based on his ability to detach and reattach different parts of his body.

A soldier is talking to a woman while sitting on a bench, a man sits on it, and the soldier stands up, causing the bench to tip over and the man...

An incident of the Franco-Prussian War. It shows the bombardment of a house at Bazeille. It is the animated reproduction of de Neuville's celebrated...

A combination gambling den and bawdy house is set up so that croupiers, patrons, prostitutes, and the owner can quickly change it all into a...

A Jew who mocked Jesus on the cross is visited by a devil and an angel.

The plot follows King Edward VII and President Armand Fallières dreaming of building a tunnel under the English Channel.

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...

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...

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

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

A sorceress conjures up a bevy of beauties for a bachelor to peruse.

Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.

An early horror treatment of the hero's encounter with the one-eyed man-eating Cyclops.