Georges Méliès Movies

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

At the beginning of the scene Romeo in his gondola sings to Juliet a sentimental song, then goes away. Hardly has he departed when the colonnade...

This Georges Melies film is one of several to appear in only a fragment form. The film opens up with a title card explaining what happens in the...

The German legend of a scholar's unholy pact with the Devil would have been very familiar to most moviegoers (at least European ones), so Georges...

The title is vital, since the bulk of the action consists of a well-dressed man magically producing a series of items to furnish a bare room,...

A poor family in a rundown house where snow falls through the broken roof, there's no coal to heat the pathetic little stove, mother is sick, father...

The entire story of Christmastide is here depicted. The scene opens in a large boudoir of an apparently wealthy man's home. His children, assisted by...

A magician explores two halves of his self: The Dwarf and the Giant.

Maître Labori is seen approaching the bridge of Rennes in company with Colonel Picquart and M. Gast, Mayor of Rennes. They notice that they are...

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...

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

Watering the Flowers (French: L'Arroseur) was an 1896 French short comedy film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by...

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

With the cameraman atop a moving train car the viewer is given a one minute glimpse of a French urban area.

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

The background of this picture represents a scene along the beautiful river Seine in Paris. A gentleman enters, and taking a blackboard from the side...

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

An inquisitor and two of his henchmen burn a woman at the stake. An angel intervenes.

This shows a prince entering upon the stage of the King's private theatre. He is about to do a few mystifying tricks for the amusement of the court.

A bum accidentally gets himself sewn up inside a mattress.