Georges Méliès Movies

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

The extraordinary life of cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón.

In this film, we show the interior of a doctor's office. A patient enters, and judging from the expression on his face, he is in great pain. The...

A man rents an apartment and furnishes it in remarkable fashion.

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

A painter boards a train and puts his paintings in the windows so that they look like passengers.

In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the...

Partially lost film. One of the kings of ancient Thebes enters the abode of an astrologer and demands that he be told his future. The former utterly...

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).

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

This Georges Melies film is only available in a five-minute fragment. The film starts off with a title card setting up the events. An elderly miser...

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

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

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.

During an orgy, Emperor Justinian orders three people to be torched alive.

The plot follows King Edward VII and President Armand Fallières dreaming of building a tunnel under the English Channel.

If a violin was actually broken here we don't get to see it. Sadly this is one of many Georges Melies films that are only available in a fragment....

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.

William Shakespeare, struggling to write the assassination scene for his play Julius Caesar, settles into an armchair and begins to daydream the...

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...