Georges Méliès Movies

St. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!

The extraordinary life of cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón.

Gugusse, a clown, is both astounded and bewildered upon seeing the mechanical movements of an automaton.

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

A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair,...

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...

A lost film. A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it. This film is presumably lost.

Three burglars invade a house, kill two people, and blind a third person, a woman. The police arrest the wrong man.

There's a chemistry lab, in which one or two people ingest the wrong drug -- apparently -- and have a seriously bad trip. Then there's this wizard in...

A weary traveler stops at an inn along the way to get a good night's sleep, but his rest is interrupted by odd happenings when he gets to his...

Georges Méliès's first attempt at Cinderella was in 1899. That film was extraordinary then for having multiple scenes and a semblance...

A man tries to get a good night's sleep, but is disturbed by a giant spider that leaps onto his bed, and a battle ensues in hilarious comic fashion.

Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.

A wizard sleeps at a table in his well-appointed sitting room. From a drawer in the table, a snake appears.

A comprehensive landmark collection celebrating the foundational work of French illusionist and cinema pioneer Georges Méliès....

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

An indebted French family flees its creditors in this comic picaresque, one of pioneering French director George Méliès last films.

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

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

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.