Georges Méliès Movies

Georges Méliès' adaptation of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" is most distinguished, today, for being a color film of the classic...

A bearded man hangs up a wreath and, like any good magician, waves his hands inside of it and under it to show us it's only a wreath…

A look back at the life, style and influences of the famed filmmaker Georges Méliès and an examination of his role in the story of...

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

An adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy.

A priest is officiating at a convent, when suddenly he is transformed into the devil, who frightens away the nuns and turns the place into...

King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.

An officer calls his sailors to the deck. They assemble around the canon while the officer scans the horizon. They all turn in the direction of the...

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

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

A documentary that details the process of restoring 270 of the 520 lost films of pioneering director Georges Méliès, all orchestrated...

A poor but honest man wins great wealth, and the hand of a beautiful princess, after facing a series of exciting trials in the tunnels and catacombs...

A man has an encounter with several spooky apparitions in a castle that is evidently owned by the Devil.

A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the...

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

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.

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

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...

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

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...