Georges Méliès Movies

A cook has his hands full with three mischievous devils, who pop in and out of his kitchen.

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

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

Two men in a cave perform magic.

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...

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

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

A conjuror appears to demonstrate a lady with three heads.

A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.

A magician performs a series of magic tricks involving a boy and a box.

A group of people watches a guignol (the French version of a Punch and Judy show). Outtake from a longer, now lost, film.

An adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy.

"The Bath" is a flip book remake of After the Ball (Après le Bal) made in the late 1800s.

A magician presents a circular piece of paper from which he removes the flags of the allies. Then from each flag he produces a soldier from the...

A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the...

A man gets cajoled into working as a sideshow wrestler.

The Bogie Man's cave is one of the many triumphs of set design for Georges Méliès. More unusual for the pioneering French director is...

Faust and his love Marguerite are sentenced to Hell where they are showed the torture that awaits.

One of eleven installments of The Dreyfus Affair (L'affaire Dreyfus), a docudrama reconstructing the historical Dreyfus Affair, which was still...

Two crooks throw a lady off a roof, and a hapless policeman tries to capture them.