Georges Méliès Movies

Four black minstrels turn into white clowns and back again when they hit or kick each other.

A man is murdered and the killer brought to justice by guillotine. This film is partly lost.

A fairy godmother magically turns Cinderella's rags to a beautiful dress, and a pumpkin into a coach. Cinderella goes to the ball, where she meets...

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

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

A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.

A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.

A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.

A man gets cajoled into working as a sideshow wrestler.

The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal. A clown appears and sticks a clay arm and...

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

A walk through the life and work of the brilliant French filmmaker Georges Méliès (1861-1938), pioneer of special and visual effects.

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

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...

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

The Merchant, the Farrier, and the Roman accompany a mysterious woman into a magical cave full of terrors and wonders.

The extraordinary life of cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón.

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....

Three friends are playing cards in a beer garden. One of them orders drinks. The waitress comes back with a bottle of wine and three glasses on a...

Two travellers are tormented by Satan from inn to inn and eventually experience a buggy ride through the heavens courtesy of the Devil before he...