Georges Méliès Movies

A juggler enters upon the scene, picks up a skull, throws it into the air, catches it in his hands, where it is transformed into a handkerchief. The h...

A magician makes a woman appear and disappear.

Lost in the streets of Paris, Georges Méliès is looking everywhere for the Salle Pleyel. On the wall he sees an enormous Gala poster bearing his pictu...

At the royal court, a prince is presenting the princess whom he is pledged to marry when a witch suddenly appears. Though driven off, the witch soon r...

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

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

A high nobleman finds himself in the Temple of the Sun, where he meets Mascarille, who proposes himself as a juggler. After extracting from the noblem...

In a wizard's cavern, a series of magic tricks are performed..

The staff of an inn play a cruel trick on a guest.

"The Knight of the Snow" is one of the last films Georges Méliès made. By now, he was under contract for his former rival Pathé, where he made a few o...

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, 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...

Showing Pygmalion at work in his studio on the statue of Galatea, who, on being completed, comes to life. He attempts to clasp her to his arms, when t...

Two men in a cave perform magic.

A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.

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

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 ca...

Shows hobbies of people who do an ordinary job in the day. Made for New York Fair.

Méliès' granddaughter presents an exploration of his work, showcasing 15 of his best known films.

An account of the extraordinary life of film pioneer Georges Méliès (1861-1938) and the amazing story of the copy in color of his masterpiece “A Trip...