Georges Méliès Movies

Alone in his room at an inn, a lustful old man is haunted by spirits.

Showing the interior view of the hut in which Dreyfus is confined. The scene takes place at night, showing the moon through the window of the cell....

A magician stuffs eight of his lovely assistants into a barrel.

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 painter boards a train and puts his paintings in the windows so that they look like passengers.

A magician performs tricks involving three women, who are sometimes merged together into one corpulent female.

Georges Méliès adaptation of Robinson Crusoe, the first film adaptation of the story. Filmed in black & white, Méliès...

A decapitated cook wreaks havoc on the restaurant proprietor.

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

In a square room, two men and two women, in white body-hugging clothes, try on wrestling holds, each with a partner of the same sex.

A box of valued jewels is placed inside the tomb of Delphi. A thief breaks into the tomb and steals it, but soon the ghost of Delphi appears and puts...

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...

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...

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 colonel in the military receives an unorthodox shower, an unorthodox shower indeed!

Explores the complex relationship between the spirit, body, and mind. The film is a nightmare with closed eyes because it counts among the most...

A reenactment of a scene inside Devil's Island prison.

A Jew who mocked Jesus on the cross is visited by a devil and an angel.

Shows the interior of the cell of the Prison Militaire du Cherche-Midi, Paris, where Colonel Henry is confined. He is seated at a table writing a...

A magician transforms a woman into a portrait of herself, then restores her to life.