Georges Méliès Movies

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...

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...

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

A clown performs various feats of magic based on his ability to detach and reattach different parts of his body.

Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.

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

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.

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

At the royal court, a prince is presenting the princess whom he is pledged to marry when a witch suddenly appears. Though driven off, the witch soon...

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

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

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

A comprehensive landmark collection celebrating the foundational work of French illusionist and cinema pioneer Georges Méliès....

Segundo de Chomón's remake of Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon.

A bearded man hangs up a wreath and, like any good magician, waves his hands inside of it and under it to show us it's only a wreath…

St. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!

The extraordinary life of cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón.

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...

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

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...