Georges Méliès Movies

The Bogie Man's cave is one of the many triumphs of set design for Georges Méliès. More unusual for the pioneering French director is...

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

Robert Macaire (Chevalier Macaire) was a noted criminal and assassin who appears in French plays. His name is renowned in French culture as that of...

A combination gambling den and bawdy house is set up so that croupiers, patrons, prostitutes, and the owner can quickly change it all into a...

A soldier is talking to a woman while sitting on a bench, a man sits on it, and the soldier stands up, causing the bench to tip over and the man...

Short comedy about a man who dreams that he runs over everyone with his skates. A man falls asleep on the sidewalk and dreams that he gets into...

Not much of a plot. A couple is menaced by some sort of bizarre religious cult. Then they're saved.

The clown and his automobile enters with great puffs of smoke

The film, of which only fragments are known to survive, features Méliès as a magician making playing-card figures come to life in...

A movie fragment depicting an archaeological explorer entering a standing sarcophagus.

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...

1908 French short silent Christmas film by Georges Méliès, which is now presumed lost. The film, combining American ideas about Santa...

A fisherman has taken a comfortable position on the bank of a river; he has thrown his line into the water to see what good fortune awaits him. But...

A Chinese conjurer stands next to a table, it becomes two tables. A fan becomes a parasol, lanterns appear and disappear. The conjurer spins the open...

Noted for the first use of time-lapse in a motion picture.

Reconstructed from a late 1800s flip book. The given date is approximate

Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War), surrounded by...

Two couples, one old and one young, have blind dates at the same meeting place. The arrival of the wrong people at different times makes a fun...

By designs of St. Hubert, patron saint of the hunt, a humble woodcutter is brought to a sumptuous palace and offered riches, which he despises.

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