Georges Méliès Filmes

Mr. Peter Jones has vowed to get married. In his efforts to secure a desirable wife he has inserted some advertisements in the newspapers. So we find...

The first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to the then contemporaneous Dreyfus affair in which a Jewish military officer...

A priest is officiating at a convent, when suddenly he is transformed into the devil, who frightens away the nuns and turns the place into...

A man does tricks by forming hats and then putting them on. Fragment available in flipbook format, otherwise lost.

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

The extraordinary life of cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón.

A walk through the life and work of the brilliant French filmmaker Georges Méliès (1861-1938), pioneer of special and visual effects.

The film, a parody of the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, follows a fisherman, Yves, who dreams of traveling by submarine...

A magic show.

An episodic narrative displaying examples of humankind's brutality, from the story of Cain and Abel through the Hague Convention of 1907.

Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor to the King, is thrust into a dungeon because he has offended His Majesty by not being able for some time past to produce...

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

A man attempts to engender a transformation of a giant worm into a butterfly.

In a medieval castle, a dark magician thought to be Mephistopheles conjures up a series of bizarre creatures and events in order to torment a pair of...

A wizard sleeps at a table in his well-appointed sitting room. From a drawer in the table, a snake appears.

A lost film. A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it. This film is presumably lost.

A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.