Georges Méliès Movies

A penniless troubadour consults witch Carabosse about his future, but offends her by paying with a bag of sand. He evades the witch's revenge, and...

Lost trick film from Georges Méliès.

A man takes off his clothes in preparation for bed, only for new clothes to spontaneously generate, leading to comical consternation.

A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.

"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...

The film begins with a grandmother reading a story to a small child (played by Georges Méliès's son, André) before tucking him...

Only 8 surviving seconds of a man getting great pleasure from smoking a cigar.

A woman slips into her bed with the help of her servant. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook...

A prince gets the help of a fairy to aid in his conflict with a wizard.

Faust and his love Marguerite are sentenced to Hell where they are showed the torture that awaits.

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

This is a moving picture that moves. Positively the greatest magical picture ever offered. A Hindoo magician appears and dances for the entertainment...

A man tries to get a good night's sleep, but is disturbed by a giant spider that leaps onto his bed, and a battle ensues in hilarious comic fashion.

Fun film from French master Georges Melies has a couple burglar's breaking into a man's home and having to hide when that man returns. Instead of a...

A sleeping apartment of a friend who retires for the night. The rays of the moon are shining upon the bed through the window. He is suddenly awakened...

Lost short film by Georges Méliès.

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

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

The background of this picture represents a scene along the beautiful river Seine in Paris. A gentleman enters, and taking a blackboard from the side...

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.