Georges Méliès Movies

A science fantasy film that deals with an extraordinary race to the north pole by rival parties of balloonists. Based on the novel "The Adventures of...

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

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

A documentary that details the process of restoring 270 of the 520 lost films of pioneering director Georges Méliès, all orchestrated...

The Flicker Alley DVD "Georges Méliès: Encore New Discoveries (1896-1911)" misidentified a partial hand-colored print of the 1906 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...

A monkey wreaks havoc on a doctor.

In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the...

At the beginning of the scene Romeo in his gondola sings to Juliet a sentimental song, then goes away. Hardly has he departed when the colonnade...

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...

In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies...

A conjurer (along with two duplicates) conjure up (and then cause to vanish) a beautiful woman head-first.

Two men in a cave perform magic.

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...

Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.

The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal. A clown appears and sticks a clay arm and...

A soldier stands guard at a sentry box and leaves it unprotected for a moment, a moment that two men take advantage of to put up posters where it is...

The plot follows King Edward VII and President Armand Fallières dreaming of building a tunnel under the English Channel.