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...

A good shepherdess is persecuted by an evil, tantrum-throwing princess. A good fairy decides to intervene, and dishes out quite a bit of retribution.

Mephistopheles demands that Faust kill Marguerite.

"The picture shows the Devil working at a fire. Two cavaliers appear, and the Devil takes the form of a seer, old, bent and wrinkled. Then he...

A group of people watches a guignol (the French version of a Punch and Judy show). Outtake from a longer, now lost, film.

Magic tricks in a medieval setting.

The magician appears upon the stage with an imp as his assistant. The imp holds a piece of cloth in his hand. At the command of the magician the...

This Georges Melies film is only available in a five-minute fragment. The film starts off with a title card setting up the events. An elderly miser...

This Georges Melies film is one of several to appear in only a fragment form. The film opens up with a title card explaining what happens in the...

Jack is taken on a sea-snail to the lair of a fairy, who magically turns him into a prince. He thoroughly enjoys the dancing and fawning of the...

The staff of an inn play a cruel trick on a guest.

A section of the port Haliquen (Quiberon) Bretagne, at night where Dreyfus was landed by French marines, and officers after his transport from...

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

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...

Melies short.

In a corner of the garden we see an ornamental fountain. An old professor comes along, looking for a nice spot where he can teach his pupils. Finding...

On a city street, a number of men take advantage of an old drunken bum.

A young woman stumbles across a cave that is populated by the spirits and skeletons of people who died there under mysterious circumstances.

Two comic characters, Jack Jags and Dum Dum, perform slapstick comedy on stage.