Georges Méliès Movies

Before going to war with his neighbors, the King reviews his men. The Queen's Musketeer's, who number only young men, are proclaimed the best drilled...

Comedy short film by Georges Méliès.

The Simple Simons have determined to give a dinner to their friends in honor of the birthday of the Madam. They call their chef who, just as he is on...

Méliès appears as a court jester (a “triboulet” in French). He pulls 18th century noblemen out of a trunk and arranges them...

A magic cabinet turns two young girls into hideous beasts.

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

The first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to the then contemporaneous Dreyfus affair in which a Jewish military officer...

A traveller is shown to a room in an inn. After a brief dispute with the hostess and a porter, he is left to himself. But strange things begin to...

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

A very simple gag film as a young lady substitutes herself for a dummy in order to play a practical joke on an artist.

Pierrot goes to the house of his love to serenade her, but her father kicks him out. Soon the moon and its goddess Diana come towards the man and...

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...

Lost short film from Georges Méliès.

Characters from a large magic book come to life.

Henry the Eighth, King of England, had six wives, and it is well known that he had several of them put to death, some by the axe, some by poison, and...

An impoverished fisherman, not earning enough to support his wife and daughter, prays for help before an icon of the Virgin Mary. After trying to...

A prestidigitator orders his assistant to bring a cabinet, which is displayed piece by piece to the audience. Two gentlemen are then introduced; they...

Showing room at the military prison at Rennes in which Dreyfus the accused is confined. He is visited by his counsel, Maître Labori and...

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