Georges Méliès Movies

Shows hobbies of people who do an ordinary job in the day. Made for New York Fair.

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

A monkey wreaks havoc on a doctor.

A man is murdered and the killer brought to justice by guillotine. This film is partly lost.

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...

A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.

In this film, we show the interior of a doctor's office. A patient enters, and judging from the expression on his face, he is in great pain. The...

An actor tries to get to a show on time. Many mishaps along the way.

Pierrot goes to the house of his love to serenade her, but her father kicks him out. Soon the moon and its goddess Diana come towards the man and...

This picture depicts the eruption of the volcano by which over 30,000 souls were hurled into eternity. The numerous explosions which took place...

Gugusse, a clown, is both astounded and bewildered upon seeing the mechanical movements of an automaton.

The entire story of Christmastide is here depicted. The scene opens in a large boudoir of an apparently wealthy man's home. His children, assisted by...

There's a scene in a village, then there's a scene out in the wilderness with what appear to be gods, and a giant crab, and a giant frog... then...

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

Very much a slapstick chase in the mode of the period, as Victorine's boyfriend escapes from the kitchen and is pursued on rooftop by his...

Surviving fragment of a longer film. A magician makes a butterfly woman appear, and a woman in a star. Exhausted, the magician falls asleep and the...

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...

Doctors blow to pieces a patient in a hydrotherapy machine and re-assemble him.

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...