Georges Méliès Movies

Very much a slapstick chase in the mode of the period, as Victorine's boyfriend escapes from the kitchen and is pursued on rooftop by his...

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...

A medieval magician performs a magic show involving a long ornate trunk in which he makes his assistants appear, disappear, and transform into other...

French short about King Francis I and his jester Triboulet, who form the basis for Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse (and Verdi's opera Rigoletto).

A drunkard has taken off his overcoat and wishes to put in on again, but as he is not able to succeed in it. He asks aid of two bystanders, who hold...

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

A man gets cajoled into working as a sideshow wrestler.

Another magic short of Méliès.

An actor tries to get to a show on time. Many mishaps along the way.

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...

One of the last films Georges Méliès made. By now, he was under contract for his former rival Pathé, where he made a few of his...

A magician stuffs eight of his lovely assistants into a barrel.

Here we have an old scholar/alchemist brooding over a book, challenged by the devil, and going through the familiar sorcery to create a woman by...

Georges Melies' film has a new guy showing up in a store on his first day and he obviously just doesn't fit in as he makes one mistake after another.

A witch curses a town's well.

Into a photography studio full of large fantastic machines steps an elderly couple. The bearded proprietor explains the equipment and gives them a...

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

Only 8 surviving seconds of a man getting great pleasure from smoking a cigar.

A man pulls a rabbit out of a hat. Available in a fragment in flipbook version only.

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