Georges Méliès Movies

The opening title card explains that a painter has just finished his work when his assistant comes in and accidentally drinks varnish. The film then...

As a conjurer awaits an audience, a procession announces the arrival of a royal representative, carried in a sedan chair, to see him. The conjurer...

The film begins with a grandmother reading a story to a small child (played by Georges Méliès's son, André) before tucking him...

A bum accidentally gets himself sewn up inside a mattress.

Inspired by The X-Rays (1987), is currently presumed lost.

Short comedy about a man who dreams that he runs over everyone with his skates. A man falls asleep on the sidewalk and dreams that he gets into...

Showing room at the military prison at Rennes in which Dreyfus the accused is confined. He is visited by his counsel, Maître Labori and...

Two couples, one old and one young, have blind dates at the same meeting place. The arrival of the wrong people at different times makes a fun...

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

Two guards bring a sorcerer into the hall of a palace of the time of the Middle Ages. The king who follows them orders the sorcerer to be chained and...

One fine day at a barbershop that has stupid staff and very rude customers.

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 green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron.

Du Paty de Clam requests Captain Dreyfus to write as he dictates for the purpose of ascertaining whether his handwriting conforms to that of the...

A very enthusiastic magician performs several tricks.

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.

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

This picture depicts the eruption of the volcano by which over 30,000 souls were hurled into eternity. The numerous explosions which took place...

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...