Georges Méliès Movies

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

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

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

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).

A young boy's adventure takes him to the domain of the Genie of the Cathedral Bell, where he finds a fortune to enrich his family. The film is...

A magician blows some big bubbles and makes heads of women appear inside them.

Two crooks throw a lady off a roof, and a hapless policeman tries to capture them.

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

A man pulls a rabbit out of a hat. Available in a fragment in flipbook version only.

Melies short.

French silent film by Georges Méliès, considered lost.

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

As scene as pleasing as incomprehensible. A juggler summons two chairs, which come to the stage jumping and twirling around. Across the back of these...

A man needs to get to Monte Carlo from Paris, but finds out that a train will take 17 hours to get there. He decides to go with a man with a special...

Two guards bring a sorcerer into the hall of a palace of the time of the Middle Ages. The king who follows them orders the sorcerer to be chained and...

A man misses his train due to his clothes turning into other types of clothes.

One fine day at a barbershop that has stupid staff and very rude customers.

Du Paty de Clam requests Captain Dreyfus to write as he dictates for the purpose of ascertaining whether his handwriting conforms to that of the...